The free scheduling poll for volunteer shifts
Timespree is a free volunteer scheduling tool that shows when your volunteers are actually available before you assign shifts. Share one link, everyone marks their free times, and the heatmap reveals where you have coverage and where you are short.
No account required to respond. Your poll link is ready in under a minute.
Food drive coverage
Sat – Sun · 8 AM – 6 PM
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Why scheduling this is hard
Volunteers have jobs and lives, so their availability is scattered and always changing.
Building a roster by guessing who is free leads to no-shows and gaps.
Chasing dozens of people by text or email for their availability eats an afternoon.
How the poll works
Create your poll
Pick the dates and time range you want to offer. Your shareable link is ready in under a minute.
Share one link
Send it wherever your group already talks. Nobody needs an account to respond, on any device.
Read the heatmap
Every response shades the grid. The darkest slot is your time. Done.
Why Timespree fits
Coverage at a glance
The heatmap shows exactly which hours have enough volunteers and which are thin, so you staff shifts from real data.
No account for volunteers
Volunteers open the link and mark when they can help, on any phone, with nothing to sign up for.
No limit on volunteers
A ten-person team or a two-hundred-person event, there is no participant cap and nothing to pay.
Time zones handled
For a remote or multi-site volunteer group, everyone marks availability in their own local time automatically.
A real example
A food-bank coordinator needs weekend coverage for a two-day drive. She shares a Timespree poll for Saturday and Sunday, 8 AM to 6 PM, with 60 volunteers. Each marks the hours they can help; the heatmap shows Saturday morning is well covered but Sunday afternoon is thin, so she sends one targeted ask to fill the gap instead of guessing.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I collect volunteer availability without a spreadsheet?
- Share a Timespree poll for the shift window and have each volunteer mark when they can help. The heatmap aggregates everyone's availability into a coverage map, so you can see your strong and weak hours at a glance and build the roster from real data.
- Do volunteers need to create an account?
- No. Volunteers just open the link and mark their availability on any device. No sign-up is required to respond.
- Can hundreds of volunteers respond to one poll?
- Yes. There is no participant limit, so a small team or a large event roster all fit on a single free poll.
Find your time in under a minute
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