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public per-resource rates before committing — anny publishes 5,00 €, 10,00 € and 15,00 € per month, its terms add an unpublished monthly base rate, and pricing transparency leans anny 6.3 to 5.7, 4 judges to 0 with 2 ties.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 Skeptic
Has seen "real-time occupancy" that counted bookings and never a person, an auto-release nobody switched on because check-in annoyed the board, and a per-user price that doubled once rooms, parking and SSO were added. Asks how a no-show is detected, what the occupancy figures are built from, which room displays and sensors work without the vendor's own hardware, where the booking history is stored — and how it would leave.
anny
This judge's pick
Skedda
Criterion by criterion
Desk, room & parking booking
anny
Desks, meeting rooms and employee and visitor parking are bookable on interactive 3D floor plans with a self-service map editor, synced both ways with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, from the web, an Outlook add-in, Microsoft Teams and native apps in 28 languages, with recurring bookings, booking on behalf of others, room displays with tap check-in, catering add-ons and equipment rental. We found no public information on team neighbourhoods or zones, assigned desks, or wayfinding to the booked desk, which is what keeps this short of the top level.
Skedda
Desks, rooms and parking book on interactive maps with attributes, amenity tags, neighbourhoods with per-area rules, assigned spaces, repeat bookings, two-way Outlook and Google sync, booking inside Teams, mobile apps and English, French and Spanish interfaces — the middle level is met and exceeded slightly by neighbourhoods and vendor-converted CAD floor plans. We found no public information on lockers or EV chargers as bookable resources, guest bookings linked to a host's desk, room-display check-in, or a stated accessibility standard, so the higher level's items are unproven.
Check-in, auto-release & booking rules
anny
Check-in works from a QR-code terminal, a tablet app and a tap on the room display, unused rooms are released automatically, reminders go out by email, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram, and the documented rules engine runs parallel limits per day, week, month or year narrowed to resources, services or named user lists including block lists. The auto-release statement covers rooms only, with no stated no-show method; we found no public information on desk auto-release, approval workflows for restricted areas, assigned desks released during absence, or fair allocation of scarce parking.
Skedda
The no-show logic is genuinely documented: check-in by QR, email link, app, Wi-Fi public-IP match, Slack and Teams, configurable windows, and on close either log-only or remove the booking — with a forced step back to log-only before a destructive rule change, which is more honesty than most vendors show. Area-level windows, quotas, buffer times, approvals and reminders are all evidenced; we found no public information on NFC or display check-in, fair parking allocation by lottery or rotation, per-floor capacity limits, or assigned desks released during absence synced from an HR system.
Hybrid work coordination
anny
The weekly planner books office and home-office days in a few clicks, the planner sits inside Microsoft Teams, person search finds colleagues by role, skills or interests, absences sync two ways from Personio and HRworks, and visibility can be switched off per community. We found no public information on favourite colleagues, booking a desk next to a colleague, team or anchor days, office-day policies with nudges, or notifications when colleagues plan to come in — the coordination side is thinner than the booking side.
Skedda
What the pages show is a who's-in view ahead of time, surfaced in Teams and Slack channels — a list of who will be in, not planning. We found no public information on favourite colleagues, team or anchor days, booking next to a colleague, office-day policies with nudges, absence or HR sync, or a per-user visibility setting; the only privacy option documented is account-wide schedule hiding.
Occupancy analytics & employee privacy
anny
Dashboards give percentage utilisation filterable by resource, group, community or address, desk and room heatmaps per site or across sites in day-by-hour and day-by-month views, a live checked-in-to-total ratio, CSV and scheduled exports, and on the privacy side a documented anonymisation mode that keeps utilisation data without the personal reference, custom deletion periods down to one week, a list of the fields processed, and per-role dashboard permissions. Every figure is built from bookings and check-ins; we found no public information on occupancy sensors, badge or Wi-Fi data, reported no-show rates, minimum group sizes for anonymised reports, or scenario planning.
Skedda
The occupancy figures are built from bookings combined with network-presence matching against the venue's configured public IPs, and the method's blind spots are stated — no retroactive updates, and presence not recorded off the configured networks — which is exactly the candour I want before trusting the numbers. Utilisation by room, floor, team, day and time, Excel and CSV exports with a Seen on-site column, and retention configurable from one month to a year are evidenced. We found no public information on sensor or badge data feeding the figures, minimum group sizes or anonymised report modes, scenario planning, or works council material for a feature that flags named individuals as on-site.
Integrations, identity & administration
anny
The integration surface is unusually concrete: two-way Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace calendar sync, SCIM user and group sync with named identity providers from Entra ID and Okta to Keycloak over SAML2 and OIDC, HR sync with Personio and HRworks plus SAP over open interfaces, access control from dormakaba, Salto KS, EVVA AirKey and plate-recognition Arivo, named Qbic and Roomz display models, and a documented REST API with JSON:API conventions plus HMAC-signed webhooks with retry and de-duplication, multi-tenancy and a Gov-Cloud option. We found no public information on audit logs, administration delegated per site or country, a Slack app, or a published implementation plan.
Skedda
SCIM is documented down to per-venue base URLs, groups mapped to user tags, deprovisioning policies and their stated limits; webhooks come with signing secrets, retries and named booking events; SAML SSO names five providers; Kisi covers access control, Logitech Tap Scheduler and tablets cover displays, and the booking audit trail is exportable. We found no public information on HR system sync, OIDC, sensor hardware, or audit logs exportable to a SIEM, which keeps this below the top of the scale.
European sovereignty
anny
anny GmbH is registered in Cologne, the pages state hosting in Germany with a data processing agreement offered to customers and concluded with the hoster, and the privacy policy lists subprocessors with addresses — Framer in the Netherlands, bunny.net in Slovenia, MapTiler in Switzerland, Pipedrive in Estonia — stating that Google, LinkedIn and TikTok tags run on no booking or admin pages, with ISO 27001 and 27017 certificates published for anny GmbH. We found no public information naming the hosting infrastructure itself, SOC 2 is described as in progress with the report expected Q1 2027, payments run through Stripe without a stated processing location, the trial site carries its own third-country warning, and an on-prem option appears in one support note without documentation.
Skedda
The chain is documented and it is American end to end: a Delaware corporation hosts its primary application, database and storage on Microsoft Azure in the USA, processes personal information in the United States and other countries, and its named subprocessors — Google, Vanta, Stripe and Cloudflare — sit in the USA or globally. A published DPA, standard contractual clauses for EEA transfers and SOC 2 Type II are evidenced, which lifts it above the bare-minimum level, but we found no public information on EU hosting or an on-premise edition, so it cannot approach the European levels.
Pricing transparency
anny
Four of five tiers carry public per-resource prices (5,00 €, 10,00 € and 15,00 € per resource per month, 5,00 € per child resource, 20 % annual saving), the free tier's five-resource limit is stated, unit prices for SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram and the AI assistants are published, payment processing costs 5 % of the total plus 40 ct. per booking, prices are net plus VAT, and the contract runs indefinitely with 30 days' notice. The terms, however, define the fee as a monthly base rate plus the per-resource charge and we found no public information on the base rate's amount; single sign-on sits in the custom-priced Enterprise tier, the check-in terminal is on request, and above 50 resources requires an individual offer — so the full annual cost is not computable from public pages alone.
Skedda
Two tiers are public with their price unit and inclusions — "$249/mo" and "$349/mo", priced per space, billed annually, with "35 spaces included" and "45 spaces included" — alongside a priced "$99/mo add-on" for administrators, tax treatment, renewal notice and non-refund terms. The Enterprise tier, the price of spaces beyond the included counts, hardware, and the gating of floor plans, assigned spaces, SCIM and webhooks to higher plans are unpriced, so a real estate portfolio's annual cost is not computable from public pages alone.
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.