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public per-resource rates before committing — anny publishes 5,00 €, 10,00 € and 15,00 € per month, its terms add an unpublished monthly base rate, and pricing transparency leans anny 6.3 to 5.7, 4 judges to 0 with 2 ties.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 Works Council Member
Sits on the works council of a 2,000-person utility and chairs its IT committee. Under § 87(1) no. 6 BetrVG a desk booking system is a technical device that can monitor employees, so nothing goes live without a works agreement. Wants to know who sees who sat where, how long booking and check-in records are kept, whether reports stay anonymous below a minimum group size, whether presence can be hidden, and where the data is hosted and by whom.
anny
This judge's pick
Skedda
Criterion by criterion
Desk, room & parking booking
anny
Desks, rooms, parking, equipment and catering add-ons are bookable on interactive 3D maps that admins edit themselves in a map designer, from the web, an Outlook add-in, Microsoft Teams and native iOS and Android apps, in 28 languages. Parking sits in the same planner as desks, each spot its own resource with properties such as wallbox or barrier-free, and visitor parking shares the team's calendar. We found no public information on neighbourhoods or zones per team, which my IT committee would ask about first.
Skedda
Desks, meeting rooms and parking all book from interactive floor plans with multi-site support, desk attributes and amenity tags, neighbourhoods with per-neighbourhood access rules, assigned spaces on the Premier tier, recurring bookings, a free service converting any CAD, PDF or sketch into an interactive map, and two-way Outlook and Google Calendar sync with booking inside Teams and Slack. We found no public information on a German interface — the languages named are English, French and Spanish — nor on app accessibility, lockers or EV chargers.
Check-in, auto-release & booking rules
anny
Check-in runs via QR-code terminal, a tap on the room display or the check-in app, unused rooms are released automatically, reminders go out by e-mail, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram, and booking limits per day, week or month can be narrowed to resources, groups and named user lists. We found no public information on release of assigned desks by their owner, approvals for restricted areas, fair allocation of scarce parking by lottery or rotation, or automatic release timing for desks as opposed to rooms.
Skedda
Check-in is documented in real depth — by web, mobile app, email link, QR code and automatically on office Wi-Fi with a matching public IP — with a configurable window up to 24 hours, grace periods of 5, 10 or 15 minutes, and a documented no-show choice between logging and releasing the space; booking windows, quotas, buffer times and approvals attach to any area of the plan, and a destructive rule must first pass through a log-only mode, which is roll-out discipline a works council can work with. We found no public information on NFC or room-display check-in, on lottery or rotation for scarce parking, per-floor capacity limits, or automatic release of permanent desks synced from HR data.
Hybrid work coordination
anny
A weekly planner books office, home office and events with one click per day, inside Teams, with absence synced two ways through Personio and HRworks — and, importantly for us, visibility can be deactivated and an incognito mode controls who is seen within communities. We found no public information on favourite colleagues, booking next to a colleague, team or anchor days, or notifications when colleagues plan to come in, which for us is the substance of coordination rather than mere booking.
Skedda
The captured pages show who-is-in reports in Slack and Teams and a guide saying employees can see which coworkers will be in ahead of time, plus an account-wide private option restricting the schedule to invited, logged-in users. We found no public information on a weekly office, home and absence planner, favourite colleagues, team or anchor days, office-day policies with nudges, or a per-user visibility setting — the last being the question our works agreement would turn on.
Occupancy analytics & employee privacy
anny
Dashboards report utilisation per desk and room as heatmaps per site and across sites, booked against checked-in use, with CSV export and scheduled exports. On the privacy side the documentation is unusually concrete for a vendor page: anonymisation that completely removes the personal reference for utilisation reports, custom deletion and anonymisation periods, per-role visibility of dashboards and widgets, and the statement that anny as processor deletes nothing on its own. We found no public information on minimum group sizes for reports, sensors, or material for a works agreement, the default retention of at least ten years would need negotiating down hard, and the widget that checks daily bookings against presence quotas by role — for example first-aiders — is exactly the sort of function our works agreement would have to govern.
Skedda
Utilisation reporting covers room, floor, team, day of week and time of day, real-time usage, forecasting and exportable reports, and retention is unusually well documented with separate articles and configurable periods for user, booking and occupancy data. But the analytics name individual users, presence detection lets administrators confirm whether people were actually on the premises, and a per-person 'Seen on-site' Yes/No column exports to Excel or CSV — while we found no public information on anonymised reports with minimum group sizes, and booking data can be retained up to 7 years on the top tier, so our works agreement would have to impose the aggregation floor ourselves.
Integrations, identity & administration
anny
Single sign-on covers Entra ID, Okta, Keycloak and Shibboleth over SAML2 and OpenID Connect, users and groups sync via SCIM, Personio, HRworks and SAP connect through documented interfaces, and access-control vendors from dormakaba to Nuki plus named Qbic and Roomz display hardware are supported. The admin API gives full read and write access with signed webhooks, and multi-tenancy with row-level isolation and a Gov-Cloud are documented. We found no public information on audit logs or administration delegated per site and country, both of which I would want in writing before rollout.
Skedda
SAML 2.0 single sign-on with Okta, Entra ID, Google, JumpCloud and OneLogin, SCIM provisioning with groups mapped to tags and documented deprovisioning behaviour, signed webhooks with retries, a documented booking-data API, a Kisi access-control integration, named room displays from Logitech and tablet hardware, an activity feed billed as a full audit trail with 60- or 90-day retention tiers, and a go-live promise of days with free map conversion. We found no public information on HR system sync, OIDC, audit-log export to a SIEM, or several companies sharing one account.
European sovereignty
anny
anny GmbH of Cologne is the contracting entity, an order-processing agreement is offered to customers and concluded with the hoster, ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certificates name the GmbH itself, and the pages state hosting on servers in Germany with subprocessors listed by location — bunny.net in Slovenia, MapTiler in Switzerland, Pipedrive in Estonia. The captured material gives different signals on data residency — the independently collected sovereignty fields mark it as not confirmed — the hoster behind the German servers is not named, and SOC 2 is only expected in the first quarter of 2027.
Skedda
The chain is entirely American: Skedda, Inc. is a Delaware corporation, the primary application including its databases runs on Microsoft Azure in the USA, and the named subprocessors Google Workspace and Vanta are USA-based, with Cloudflare global — we found no public information on a European hosting option, an EU contracting entity or an EU representative. Credit where due: the data processing addendum, the subprocessor list with locations, Standard Contractual Clauses for EEA, UK and Swiss transfers, and SOC 2 Type II reports are all published, but for a German utility the record of who sat where would sit on US infrastructure under a Delaware-governed agreement.
Pricing transparency
anny
Five plans carry public per-resource prices — Starter free for up to five resources, then 5,00€, 10,00€ and 15,00€ per resource per month — with unlimited users in paid plans, a twenty percent saving when billed annually, VAT treatment and thirty-day termination stated, and message-based add-ons priced per unit. The terms describe a monthly base rate whose amount we found no public information on, the check-in terminal is priced only on request, and above 50 resources an individual offer is required — so for a company our size the real annual cost is not computable from public pages alone.
Skedda
Plus is public starting at $249/mo per space billed annually with 35 spaces included, Premier starting at $349/mo with 45 spaces, plus a $99/mo administrators add-on, free floor-plan conversion, and terms of service stating US-dollar billing, taxes excluded and payable by the customer, non-refundable fees, a renewal cap of CPI plus three percentage points and 30-day auto-renewal notice. A buyer still cannot compute a real bill: we found no public price for the Enterprise tier, for spaces beyond the included 35 or 45, or for display hardware, and which features sit in which plan is spread across support articles rather than one comparison.
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.