DOFOTT vs Add Travel Time
Published 21 September 2026
Add Travel Time and DOFOTT do the same job: you put a place on a meeting, and the drive to it shows up in your calendar as a block, timed by Google Maps. The feature lists rhyme. Even the price tags say the same thing — $5 a month, $36 a year. So this page is about the two or three places where they really differ, and one of them decides which is cheaper for you by a wide margin.
Everything here was checked on their site in September 2026. If something has changed since, tell me and I will fix this page rather than leave it flattering.
The short version
- Same job, same headline price. $5 monthly or $36 yearly, both of us.
- Different shape. Theirs is a subscription you pay every month. Ours is a ceiling: twelve meetings with a place are free every month, and the $5 only appears in a month where you go past twelve. A quiet month costs nothing and does not have to be cancelled.
- They have Outlook. DOFOTT is Google Calendar only. If your work lives in Outlook, stop reading — they are your answer, and this is not a close call.
- They ask for no card up front (a 14-day trial), and then there is no free tier. We ask for a card at sign-up and then have a free tier that never runs out.
What they both do
Both write a block before and after an event that has a location, using Google Maps for the time of day. Both support driving, transit, cycling and walking. Both can add a buffer. Both handle a repeating meeting, and both are clever about the way back — checking whether going straight to your next meeting beats returning to where you started. Both let you override a single event: a different mode, a different starting point, or no blocks at all. Both keep out of your own events.
If that were the whole story, there would be nothing to choose between us and you should pick the one whose settings page you like better. It isn't, quite.
Where Add Travel Time is better
- Outlook. They support Google Calendar and Outlook. We support Google Calendar and intend to keep doing one calendar well before we do two badly.
- No card to look around. Their trial takes fourteen days and no payment details. We take a card when you sign up, which is a real cost of the way we price, and we say so on the pricing page rather than hiding it.
Where DOFOTT is better
- Months you don't travel cost nothing. Twelve meetings with a place a month are free, every month, for as long as you keep the account. A week of holiday, a quiet January, a stretch of working from home — no charge, and nothing to cancel and set up again later.
- The busy month has a ceiling, not a meter. Pass twelve and that month is $5 + tax, whether the thirteenth meeting is your last or your fortieth.
- You are told before you are charged. The day you cross the line, an email goes out saying so. The charge is never the first you hear about it, and the blocks themselves carry a line about it too.
- Where the trip starts is not one fixed address. Home, work during your work hours, or straight from the meeting before when there is no time to go home. The drive it writes is the drive you are actually making.
- The month you sign up in is never billed — however busy it turns out to be. You get a real month of the real thing, not fourteen days of it.
So which is cheaper?
If you are on the road every week of the year, exactly the same: $36 + tax a year, both of us, and you should pick on features rather than price. If your year has heavy months and light ones — most people's does — the arithmetic separates. Six busy months with DOFOTT is $30 + tax; six busy months with a monthly subscription is $60, because you pay in the quiet ones too. The yearly plans are level at $36, so the difference only shows up when you pay by the month.
Put less arithmetically: they charge you for having the tool, we charge you for using it.
Which should you pick
Outlook, or you want to try something without handing over a card first: Add Travel Time. It is a good product and the overlap with ours is not an accident — this is a small problem with a right answer, and we have both mostly found it.
Google Calendar, and a year with uneven months: DOFOTT. You will pay in the months you were actually driving, and nothing in the rest.
Is DOFOTT cheaper than Add Travel Time?
On the yearly plan they are level: $36 + tax for both. Paying monthly they separate, because DOFOTT only charges in a month you go past twelve meetings with a place — a quiet month costs nothing — while Add Travel Time is $5 every month.
Does DOFOTT work with Outlook?
No. DOFOTT is Google Calendar only. Add Travel Time supports Outlook as well, so for an Outlook calendar it is the one to use.
What does Add Travel Time cost?
Checked in September 2026: $5 a month or $36 a year, after a 14-day free trial that needs no card. There is no free tier after the trial.
Can I use DOFOTT without paying?
Yes. Twelve meetings with a place a month are free for as long as you keep the account, and the calendar month you sign up in is never billed. A card is taken at sign-up.