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public per-resource rates before committing — anny publishes 5,00 €, 10,00 € and 15,00 € per month, its terms add an unpublished monthly base rate, and pricing transparency leans anny 6.3 to 5.7, 4 judges to 0 with 2 ties.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 People Lead
Head of People at a 250-person software company in Hamburg that asks for two office days a week and gets complaints that nobody else is there on them. Wants everyone to see who is coming in before they commute, team and anchor days, desks next to the colleagues they plan with, all of it inside Microsoft Teams where people already are, and nudges rather than a control system the works council would never sign.
anny
This judge's pick
Skedda
Criterion by criterion
Desk, room & parking booking
anny
Desks, rooms, parking (each spot with properties like wallbox or barrier-free), equipment and even catering add-ons are bookable on interactive 3D floor plans you edit yourself in the Map Designer, from the web, Outlook, mobile apps and directly in Microsoft Teams, in 28 languages — that would make a rollout to our Hamburg and Cologne floors straightforward, with visitor parking managed in the same calendar as team spots. We found no public information on team neighbourhoods or zones on the plan, on an Outlook add-in that books a room and a desk together, or on wayfinding to the booked desk, which is the part my teams would ask for first.
Skedda
Desks, rooms and parking all book on interactive floor plans across multiple sites, with desk attributes and amenity tags, per-team neighbourhoods like Engineering and Marketing, floor plans imported from CAD or PDF by their own setup team, repeat bookings, mobile apps, and two-way Outlook and Google calendar sync with booking straight inside Microsoft Teams. The documented languages are English, French and Spanish — no German — and we found no public information on an Outlook add-in booking a room and desk together, guest bookings linked to the host's desk, lockers or EV chargers, or accessibility of the apps.
Check-in, auto-release & booking rules
anny
Check-in works via QR ticket, tablet terminal and a tap on the room display, unused rooms are released automatically, and the booking rules are genuinely configurable — limits per day, week, month or year, scoped to a resource, service or user group, with block lists and multilingual limit messages, which is the fair-and-fair-seen tone a works council wants. What I miss is any fair allocation of scarce parking (lottery or rotation), approvals for restricted areas, and check-in by Wi-Fi or occupancy sensor; the auto-release statement covers rooms, and we found no public information on release of unconfirmed desk bookings or automatic release of permanent desks during absence.
Skedda
Check-in is documented in genuine depth: QR code, email link, app, and passive Wi-Fi detection with auto check-in on arrival, grace periods of 5, 10 or 15 minutes, no-shows either logged or auto-released, quotas, booking windows, buffer times and approval workflows applied to any area of the floor plan, with reminders and assigned spaces on the Premier plan. We found no public information on NFC or room-display check-in, capacity limits per floor, lottery or rotation for scarce parking, or assigned desks released automatically during absence synced from an HR system.
Hybrid work coordination
anny
There is a weekly planner — office, home office and after-work events bookable with one click per day, inside Teams — plus two-way absence sync with Personio or HRworks and an incognito mode in the community settings so employees control who sees them, which is exactly the nudge-not-surveillance posture I need. But the colleague layer is thin: profiles let you find people by roles, skills or interests, and I found no public information on a view of who plans to be in on a given day, booking a desk next to a colleague, team or anchor days, or notifications when colleagues decide to come in.
Skedda
Employees can see who will be in the office ahead of time, and who's-in reports reach Slack and Microsoft Teams with reminders — the core of what my people ask for before commuting. But we found no public information on a weekly office/home/absence planner, favourite colleagues, booking a desk next to a specific person, team or anchor days, attendance policies delivered as nudges, absence or HR sync, or a per-employee visibility setting, which is exactly the piece my works council would ask about.
Occupancy analytics & employee privacy
anny
Dashboards deliver utilisation percentages filterable by resource, group or address, heatmaps of desk and room use per site or across sites on the 3D map, a live checked-in ratio and day-by-hour peaks, with CSV export and scheduled automatic exports — enough for an honest desk-ratio debate with facilities. On the people side, an anonymisation mode keeps booking data for utilisation reports while completely removing the personal link, deletion or anonymisation periods are configurable in weeks with free and paid bookings set separately, and dashboard visibility is permissioned per role; we found no public information on occupancy sensors, consolidation scenario planning, minimum group sizes in reports, or a DPIA or sample works council agreement.
Skedda
Utilisation is reported by room, floor, team, day of week and time of day with forecasting of future demand, Excel and CSV export, and configurable retention — occupancy data retained up to a year with one month the default, booking data up to 5 or 7 years by plan. The presence side is an administrative tool that labels each booking holder "Seen on-site" or "Not seen on-site" and combines Wi-Fi presence with bookings, and we found no public information on minimum group sizes, aggregate-only reporting, or works council material, which for me is the part that would need careful negotiation here.
Integrations, identity & administration
anny
Nearly everything our IT would ask for is documented: two-way calendar sync with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, single sign-on via Entra ID, Okta or any SAML2/OIDC provider with SCIM user and group sync, HR sync with Personio and HRworks, badge and lock integrations from dormakaba to Nuki, Qbic room displays named by model, a documented Admin and Customer API with signed webhooks, and multi-tenancy with row-level isolation plus a Gov-Cloud option. We found no public information on audit logs, a Slack app, or a published implementation plan, and single sign-on sits only in the Enterprise tier, which matters at our size.
Skedda
SCIM provisioning with group-to-tag sync from Microsoft Entra ID or Okta, SAML 2.0 SSO across five named providers, signed webhooks with retries and event types, a documented API, Kisi access control, Logitech Tap Scheduler and iPad/Android tablet displays, multi-location support, a booking activity audit trail, and a dedicated onboarding specialist cover nearly everything our IT would ask. We found no public information on HR system sync such as Personio or SAP SuccessFactors, OIDC, occupancy sensor hardware, several companies in one account, or audit log export to a SIEM.
European sovereignty
anny
anny GmbH in Cologne is the contracting entity, hosting is stated as servers in Germany with a data processing agreement offered to customers and a processing agreement signed with the hoster, the subprocessors I can see are named with locations (bunny.net in Slovenia, MapTiler in Switzerland, Pipedrive in Estonia, Irish entities explicitly kept off the booking and admin areas), and ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certificates are published with SOC 2 in progress and the report expected in Q1 2027. The hosting infrastructure provider itself is not named and a US subsidiary exists alongside the German entity, and the independently collected residency and hosting attributes were marked unconfirmed, which is why I stop short of the top of this band.
Skedda
The contracting entity is Skedda, Inc., a Delaware corporation under Delaware law, hosting its primary application resources on Microsoft Azure in the USA, and the published subprocessor list (Azure, Google Workspace, Vanta — all USA — and Cloudflare globally) names locations with a published DPA, Standard Contractual Clauses for EEA/UK/Swiss transfers, and SOC 2 reports. For employee presence data — who sat where on which day — we found no public information on EU hosting, an EU contracting entity or EU-based subprocessors, which is the first question my Hamburg works council would ask.
Pricing transparency
anny
All four paid tiers are public with their unit — 5,00€, 10,00€ and 15,00€ per resource per month, custom pricing from 50 resources, unlimited users and admins in every paid plan, 20% annual saving, VAT treatment and a 30-day termination notice in text form — plus usage-priced add-ons at ab 4 ct. per chat message, ab 24 ct. per phone minute and 0,12€ per SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram reminder. Two things keep me from computing our full annual cost: the terms describe a monthly base rate whose amount is not published, and the check-in terminal is 'Auf Anfrage'; display hardware prices and any setup fee are likewise not stated.
Skedda
Two tiers are public with their unit — Plus "STARTING AT $249/mo" with 35 spaces included and Premier "STARTING AT $349/mo" with 45 spaces, both per space billed annually — plus a $99/mo administrators add-on, unlimited users and bookings, free floor-plan conversion, taxes excluded and 30-day annual renewal notice, and the feature-to-plan mapping for assigned spaces, check-in, SCIM and webhooks is unusually open. The Enterprise tier carries no price, the rate beyond the included spaces is not stated, and we found no public information on hardware licences for tablet displays.
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.