As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates anny 3/5 and Skedda 3/5 in Desk Booking & Hybrid Workplace. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 5 of the 6 judges pick anny and 0 pick Skedda, 1 calls it a tie. anny scores higher on 5 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty, Hybrid work coordination, Pricing transparency, plus 2 more). Skedda scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (Check-in, auto-release & booking rules). Provenance — anny: EU-Made; Skedda: Rest of world, United States. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
On the computed table, anny leads booking and floorplans 7.2 to 6.7, hybrid coordination 4.5 to 3.8, integration and administration 7.3 to 7.0, pricing transparency 6.3 to 5.7, and sovereignty 7.0 to 4.0, where 6 judges lean anny and 0 lean Skedda. Skedda's clear lead is check-in and rules, 7.0 to 6.0, with 5 judges leaning Skedda and 1 tie. Occupancy analytics splits genuinely: identical 6.2 means, 1 lean each way, 4 ties. anny's verdict states hosting on servers in Germany; Skedda's attributes list US jurisdiction and non-EU data residency, its verdict citing Azure hosting in the USA and SOC 2 Type II. Weighted totals favor anny on five judges — 6.9 to 6.0 for the IT admin judge — and sit even at 6.3 to 6.3 for the workplace-manager judge. With the lean differing by criterion, this page declares no overall winner.
Choose anny if
You need hosting stated on servers in Germany — anny's verdict records exactly that, and sovereignty reads 7.0 to 4.0 with 6 judges leaning anny, 0 Skedda, 0 tie.
Your admins build floorplans and booking flows themselves — booking and floorplans leans anny 7.2 to 6.7, 3 judges to 0 with 3 ties, and the verdict credits administrator-edited 3D maps for desks, rooms and parking.
You coordinate hybrid presence — hybrid coordination leans anny 4.5 to 3.8, 4 judges to 0 with 2 ties, though the verdict records no public information on seeing which colleagues plan to be in, booking next to a colleague, or team days.
You want public per-resource rates before committing — anny publishes 5,00 €, 10,00 € and 15,00 € per month, its terms add an unpublished monthly base rate, and pricing transparency leans anny 6.3 to 5.7, 4 judges to 0 with 2 ties.
Your login stack is Entra ID, Okta or another SAML2/OIDC provider with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace calendars — integration and administration reads 7.3 to 7.0, 2 judges leaning anny and 4 tied.
Choose Skedda if
Your office enforces no-show policies — check-in and rules leans Skedda 7.0 to 6.0, with 5 judges leaning Skedda and 1 tie.
Your people check in via QR, email link, app, office Wi-Fi, Slack or Teams — the verdict documents those methods plus grace periods of 5, 10 or 15 minutes and no-shows logged or auto-released, the criterion where 5 judges lean Skedda.
Your data can reside in the USA — Skedda's sovereignty attributes list US jurisdiction and non-EU data residency, and its verdict cites Azure hosting with a published data processing agreement and Standard Contractual Clauses for EEA, UK and Swiss transfers.
Your procurement asks for SOC 2 Type II — the verdict cites SOC 2 Type II alongside those clauses, with hosting on Microsoft Azure in the USA.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Microsoft 365 Administrator
Runs Microsoft 365, Entra ID and Intune for a 1,200-person manufacturer with six sites and forty room mailboxes nobody keeps tidy. Will not create accounts by hand: wants single sign-on and SCIM provisioning from Entra ID, room bookings synced both ways with Exchange, a Teams app and an Outlook add-in deployed centrally, room displays that are not a closed box, an API, audit logs, and a subprocessor list the security team can review.
anny
This judge's pick
Skedda
Criterion by criterion
Desk, room & parking booking
anny
Desks, rooms and parking — including wallbox and barrier-free spots — are booked on interactive 3D maps per site with a self-service Map Designer, from the web, native mobile apps, an Outlook add-in and Teams, with two-way Microsoft 365 and Google calendar sync, booking on behalf of colleagues, catering add-ons and 28 languages. Room displays show live availability with tap check-in, and visitor parking runs in the same calendar as team spots. We found no public information on team neighbourhoods or zones, assigned desks, or documented accessibility of the apps.
Skedda
Desks, rooms and parking all book from interactive floor plans across multiple sites, with neighbourhoods per team, desk attributes and amenity tags, assigned spaces on the top plan, and free conversion of a CAD, PDF or hand-drawn layout into a live map. Two-way Outlook and Google calendar sync, a Teams app that books straight from the map, Slack, and iOS and Android apps cover my channels, in English, French and Spanish. I found no public information on check-in from room displays, resources such as lockers or EV chargers, or an accessibility statement.
Check-in, auto-release & booking rules
anny
Check-in runs by QR code at a self-service terminal, by tap on the room display or in the check-in app, unused rooms are automatically released, and reminders go out by email, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram. Booking rules are documented in real depth: limits per day, week, month or year, scoped to resources, groups and user lists, block lists via a zero limit, multilingual error messages and recurring bookings counting against the limit. We found no public information on approvals for restricted areas, fair parking allocation by lottery or rotation, or check-in by sensor, NFC or Wi-Fi.
Skedda
Check-in is documented in real depth: web, mobile app, email link, QR code, Slack, Teams and passive Wi-Fi detection, a configurable window up to 24 hours either side, grace periods of 5, 10 or 15 minutes, and a no-show action of log-only or automatic removal, with the first matching rule per user tag and space governing behaviour. Approvals, quotas, priority windows and buffer times apply to any area of the floor plan, and paid bookings are exempt from auto-removal. I found no public information on check-in from a room display, NFC, lottery-style parking allocation, or permanent desks released automatically when the owner is absent.
Hybrid work coordination
anny
The weekly planner books office, home office and after-work days with one click per day, people are findable by roles, skills and interests, absences sync two ways with Personio and HRworks, and an incognito mode controls visibility in communities. We found no public information on seeing which colleagues plan to be in the office, favourite colleagues, booking next to a colleague, or team and anchor days — the core of planning office days together.
Skedda
Employees can see who will be in before they book, the Slack and Teams apps surface who's in with reminders, and Wi-Fi-based presence verifies who actually arrived, with a hybrid-work guide covering neighbourhoods. Beyond that we found no public information on a weekly office, home and absence planner, favourite colleagues, team or anchor days with nudges, or per-user visibility settings.
Occupancy analytics & employee privacy
anny
Utilisation heatmaps show desk and room use on the interactive map per site or across sites, occupancy widgets cover selectable periods up to 365 days, a check-in widget sets checked-in bookings against the total, and CSV export plus scheduled automatic exports feed downstream tools. On the privacy side, an anonymisation mode keeps booking data for utilisation reports while removing the personal reference, deletion periods are configurable with separate periods for free and paid bookings, and dashboard visibility is gated per role, with a published works council feature list. We found no public information on occupancy sensors, badge or Wi-Fi data, or scenario planning for consolidation.
Skedda
Utilisation metrics run by room, floor, team, day of week and time of day with forecasting and exportable reports, and occupancy tracking adds measured presence through public IP matching, a Companion tray app and mobile background checks, shown against bookings as seen or not seen on-site. Retention is documented separately per data type with occupancy retention configurable up to a year, deletion after termination, a published DPA and a GDPR compliance policy. I found no public information on minimum group sizes for anonymised reporting, scenario planning for consolidation, or material a works council could work from.
Integrations, identity & administration
anny
For my estate this reads well: Entra ID login with SCIM sync of users and groups, SAML2 and OIDC for any provider, two-way sync between anny resources and our Microsoft 365 resource and person calendars, a Teams app and an Outlook add-in, plus named door hardware (dormakaba, EVVA AirKey, Salto KS), Qbic and Roomz room displays, and Arivo barrier control. A documented Admin API with JSON:API conventions and webhooks signed with HMAC, multi-tenancy with row-level isolation, a Gov-Cloud environment, role-based admin, and import of existing resources and bookings round it out. We found no public information on audit logs.
Skedda
From my seat this fits: SAML 2.0 single sign-on with Entra ID, SCIM provisioning from Entra ID or Okta with groups mapped to tags, two-way Outlook sync, a native Teams and Outlook app, signed webhooks with retries, a documented booking API, and an audit trail of booking activity. Room displays work with a named Logitech Tap Scheduler integration plus iPad or Android tablets, and the desktop presence app deploys through Intune, Jamf or Kandji. Caveats for my rollout: SCIM carries no admin privileges and is scoped per venue with one SCIM app per venue recommended, and I found no public information on OIDC, HR system sync such as Personio or Workday, or exporting audit logs to a SIEM.
European sovereignty
anny
anny GmbH in Cologne is the contracting entity, all data is hosted on servers in Germany, a data processing agreement is offered, and the privacy policy lists subprocessors with locations — Framer in the Netherlands, bunny.net in Slovenia, MapTiler in Switzerland, Pipedrive in Estonia — with an EU-based inference provider as AI fallback, alongside published ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certificates and SOC 2 expected in Q1 2027. We found no public information naming the hosting provider or infrastructure behind those German servers.
Skedda
The subprocessor list is public and reviewable — Microsoft Azure in the USA as hosting infrastructure, Cloudflare globally, Google Workspace and Vanta in the USA — and a DPA, GDPR compliance policy, SCC-based transfer safeguards and SOC 2 Type II audits are published. But the contracting entity is Skedda, Inc., a Delaware corporation under Delaware law, processing personal information in the United States and other countries, and I found no public information on EU hosting or a European contracting entity.
Pricing transparency
anny
Tiers are public with a clean unit: Starter free up to 5 resources, Essential 5,00€ /Ressource, Professional 10,00€ /Ressource, Business 15,00€ /Ressource, Enterprise custom from 50 resources — with unlimited users, 20% annual saving, net prices plus VAT, and per-use prices such as the phone assistant ab 24 ct. / Minute and messaging at 0,12 € / Nachricht. However, the terms describe a monthly base rate for which we found no public amount, single sign-on is an Enterprise feature, the API starts at Business, and hardware and the check-in terminal are unpriced or Auf Anfrage.
Skedda
Both Workplace tiers are public — Plus starting at $249/mo and Premier starting at $349/mo, priced per space, billed annually, with 35 and 45 spaces included and unlimited users and bookings — plus a $99/mo administrators add-on and plan gates stated for SCIM, assigned spaces, check-in, floor plans and webhooks. Taxes are excluded with the customer responsible, floor-plan conversion is free, and renewal, fee-increase and refund terms are published. What I still cannot compute from public pages: the per-space price beyond the included bundle, the Enterprise tier, hardware or display licences, and any setup or platform fee beyond the free map build.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
anny
Skedda
Legal entity
Not determined
Incorporated in US
Hosting location
Not determined
Outside the EU
Hosting options
Not determined
Not determined
Open source
Not determined
Not determined
Data processing agreement
Not determined
Not determined
Transfer impact assessment
Not determined
Not determined
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates both 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 5 of the 6 judges pick anny and 0 pick Skedda, 1 calls it a tie. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is anny or Skedda European?
anny is European (EU-Made). Skedda is not European by provenance (Rest of world, United States). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do anny and Skedda store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — anny: Default not stated; pages mention Germany. Skedda: Outside the EU by default.
Do anny and Skedda have a free plan?
As of 6 Nov 2026, anny’s own pages state a free plan; Skedda’s pages as captured do not. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.