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public per-resource rates before committing — anny publishes 5,00 €, 10,00 € and 15,00 € per month, its terms add an unpublished monthly base rate, and pricing transparency leans anny 6.3 to 5.7, 4 judges to 0 with 2 ties.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 Office Manager
Office manager at a 70-person design and marketing agency in Leipzig with 40 desks, three meeting rooms and twelve parking spaces, and does it next to reception, purchasing and onboarding. The parking spreadsheet causes an argument every Monday. Wants a floor plan set up in an afternoon, booking from Slack and the phone, a fair rule for the parking spaces, desks released when someone does not show, and a monthly price read off the website.
anny
This judge's pick
Skedda
Criterion by criterion
Desk, room & parking booking
anny
Desks, meeting rooms and each of our twelve parking spots sit on an interactive 3D plan we can draw ourselves in the Map Designer, with every spot carrying properties like wallbox or barrier-free, and people book from the web, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and native iOS and Android apps with two-way sync to Microsoft 365 and Google calendars. Booking for colleagues and guests, recurring series, catering add-ons on rooms and twenty-eight languages are all documented. I found no public information on booking from Slack, on team neighbourhoods, or on a stated accessibility standard for the apps.
Skedda
Desks, rooms and our twelve parking spaces all book straight off interactive maps, with desk attributes, team neighbourhoods, individually assignable parking, two-way Outlook and Google sync and booking inside Teams — and the vendor turns any layout file into a live map, free, within about a day. What keeps it off the top band for a Leipzig office: we found no public information on a German interface (the pages name English, French and Spanish) or on accessibility of the apps, nor on booking lockers or chargers.
Check-in, auto-release & booking rules
anny
Check-in is well built out — QR code at a tablet terminal, one tap on a room display, self check-in — and the rules engine limits how often someone may book, scoped down to a resource, a group or specific user lists, with reminders and confirmations on top. Auto-release, though, is documented for unused rooms only, and I found no public information on releasing a no-show's desk, on approval steps for restricted areas, or on a lottery or rotation to settle our Monday parking arguments.
Skedda
Check-in works from the web, the mobile app, an email link, a QR code at the desk, Slack or Teams, or automatically over the office Wi-Fi, and an unchecked-in booking is either logged or released to free the space — windows, grace periods, exemptions and even a safe roll-out mode are documented. Booking windows, quotas, buffer times and approval workflows apply to any area of the plan and to tagged groups, and specific parking spaces can be assigned. We found no public information on a lottery or rotation to share scarce parking fairly, or on capacity limits per floor.
Hybrid work coordination
anny
The weekly planner books office, home office and after-work events with one click per day and runs in Microsoft Teams, absences sync two ways with Personio and HRworks, and there is an incognito setting plus a people search by roles, skills and interests. But I found no public information on favourite colleagues, on booking a desk next to a teammate, or on team anchor days with gentle nudges — the coordination feels more planner than social.
Skedda
There is a genuine who's-in view — in the app and surfaced in Slack and Teams — alongside check-in reminders and an option to make the whole account private. Beyond that we found no public information on a weekly office/home planner, favourite colleagues, booking next to a colleague, team or anchor days with nudges, or a per-user visibility setting, so this reads as a booking tool with a colleague list rather than a coordination planner.
Occupancy analytics & employee privacy
anny
Occupancy reporting is real: percentage utilisation filterable by resource, group or address, heatmaps by day-and-hour and on the 3D map per site or across sites, a live check-in ratio against total bookings, and CSV export including scheduled automatic exports. Privacy is unusually concrete, with anonymisation that keeps booking data for utilisation reports once the personal link is removed, custom deletion periods set in weeks, role-based dashboard permissions and a published works-council feature list. I found no public information on occupancy sensors, badge or Wi-Fi data, or consolidation planning.
Skedda
Utilisation is reported by room, floor, team, day and time of day, with real-time reporting, Excel and CSV export and a booking-data API, and Wi-Fi presence detection marks bookings "Seen on-site" so booked and actual use can be compared. Retention is documented per data type and configurable (occupancy defaults to one month), and the privacy policy states booking data is not sold. We found no public information on minimum group sizes in reports, consolidation scenarios or published works-council material, which a German office would want before trusting the numbers.
Integrations, identity & administration
anny
This is the strongest part for our IT: two-way calendar sync with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, single sign-on through Entra ID, Okta or plain SAML2 with SCIM user and group sync, HR links to Personio and HRworks, badge and gate integrations from dormakaba to an Arivo number-plate barrier for the parking spots, room displays from named Qbic models, a documented Admin API plus signed webhooks, and multi-tenancy with a Gov-Cloud option. I found no public information on audit logs or a published implementation plan.
Skedda
SAML single sign-on with Okta, Entra ID, Google, JumpCloud and OneLogin, SCIM provisioning with groups mapped to user tags, two-way Microsoft 365 and Google calendar sync, signed webhooks with retries, access control via Kisi and Logitech Tap room displays by name, plus an audit trail of every booking — that covers nearly everything on our IT wish list, and a dedicated specialist is documented to get you live "in days, not months". We found no public information on direct HR-system sync (Personio, Workday and the like), and SCIM and webhooks are documented as available only on the top plans.
European sovereignty
anny
anny GmbH in Cologne signs the contract, all data is stated to run on servers hosted in Germany, a data processing agreement is offered, ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certificates are published for the GmbH, and the privacy policy names its subprocessors with addresses — Framer in the Netherlands, bunny.net in Slovenia, MapTiler in Switzerland — with tracking tools explicitly kept off the booking and admin areas. It stops short of the top level because the application's own hosting infrastructure goes unnamed in what I read, the trial site warns of tools from third countries, and a US subsidiary exists in Delaware.
Skedda
The contracting entity is Skedda, Inc., a Delaware corporation governed by Delaware law, hosting on Microsoft Azure in the USA, and the named subprocessors (Google Workspace, Vanta in the USA, Cloudflare globally) are also non-EU. To its credit the pages publish a data processing agreement, Standard Contractual Clauses for EEA transfers, a DPO contact and SOC 2 Type II audits. We found no public information on EU hosting or a European entity or representative, so our booking, presence and parking data would sit in the USA under US law.
Pricing transparency
anny
I can read most of my monthly bill straight off the pricing page: a free Starter tier for up to five resources with unlimited users, then 5,00 €, 10,00 € or 15,00 € per resource per month, 20% off when billed annually, prices net plus VAT, and priced extras like 0,12 € per SMS or WhatsApp message and the phone assistant from 24 ct. per minute. With 40 desks, three rooms and twelve parking spots I would be over the fifty-resource line where an individual offer takes over, and I found no public information on room-display hardware prices or on the amount of the monthly base fee the terms describe.
Skedda
Both workplace tiers are public — "STARTING AT $249/mo" (Plus, 35 spaces included) and "STARTING AT $349/mo" (Premier, 45 spaces included), priced per space, billed annually, unlimited users, with administrators as a "$99/mo add-on" — and the help pages state which plan unlocks check-in, assigned spaces, SCIM and webhooks, which is exactly the kind of gating a buyer needs. Taxes are excluded and annual billing is clear. We found no public information on the rate for spaces beyond the included counts, the Enterprise price, analytics add-ons or display hardware, so I still could not read our full annual cost off the website.
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.