Tajming vs Lime Booking: two honest Croatian booking tools compared

Most of these comparison posts pit a local tool against a giant. This one is different, because Lime Booking and Tajming are actually on the same side of the big divide. Neither of us takes a commission. Neither of us is a marketplace that owns your clients. We are both flat fee tools made for this region. So this is less of a fight and more of an honest look at two cousins.

Quick note on who is writing. I am Marko, and I built Tajming. It started when the barbershop I have gone to for years, a site that was meant to be my first web design client, asked me whether people could book straight from the page. The honest answer was no, and I did not like that answer, so I built the booking myself rather than hand my own client to someone else's app. That is the whole story. Now let me be fair about Lime.

Where Lime Booking is a solid choice

Lime is an established product in Croatia and Slovenia, and there are real reasons salons use it.

SMS reminders are their thing. Lime leans into SMS notifications on its higher tier, and if a good chunk of your clients are older or simply ignore email, an SMS landing on the lock screen is hard to beat. It is also regional and proven. Lime has been around, it speaks Croatian, it covers Slovenia too, and it connects to your existing site, Facebook, or Instagram with a link or QR code. The entry package gives you an online calendar, booking, a basic CRM, and analytics.

If SMS reminders are non negotiable for your client base, Lime has an answer there that I will not pretend to match, because Tajming reminds by email, not SMS. More on that in a second.

Where Tajming is different

We overlap a lot, so the differences are specific rather than dramatic. They still matter.

Tajming is truly bilingual, Croatian and English. It runs fully in both languages, for you and for your clients, while Lime is built around Croatian and Slovenian. If you serve tourists, expats, or English speaking clients, every Tajming booking page and email works in English out of the box.

The pricing is simpler, and reminders cost nothing extra. Tajming is 14 euros a month for Basic and 24 for Pro, full stop. Reminders go out by email and are included at no extra cost. With Lime, the entry tier starts around 14.90 euros, but SMS features sit in a higher tier closer to 29.90 euros. So the honest tradeoff is this: if you want SMS, Lime is built for it but you pay for the tier; if email reminders are fine for your clients, Tajming gives you that without climbing a price ladder.

You also get a booking page that doubles as a free SEO page. Every Tajming business gets its own public page that is built to be found in Google and, increasingly, in AI search answers. It is not just a private link, it is a small storefront that can bring you bookings you did not chase.

The price you see is locked. If I ever change pricing, existing customers keep their rate, so your bill does not creep up.

Support is me, personally. Built in Osijek, same day replies, in Croatian or English, no ticket system.

And your data is portable. One click exports every client, appointment, and service to CSV, so you are never locked in.

A real reason one owner switched

I will not bury this in marketing speak. One of the owners now on Tajming came over because Lime had simply become too expensive for what they actually used. That is their words, not mine, and I am not going to pretend it is every Lime customer's story, because it is not. But it is worth a moment of honest math: if you are paying for a higher tier mainly to unlock one feature you use now and then, add up the year and see whether a flat 14 or 24 euros does the same job for less.

The honest verdict

These two are close, so I will not insult you with a landslide.

Lean toward Lime Booking if SMS reminders are the feature you care about most, or if you also operate in Slovenia and want one tool across both markets. Those are real, specific reasons.

Lean toward Tajming if you want bilingual Croatian and English for tourist or expat clients, if you prefer one flat simple price with reminders included rather than a tier built around SMS, and if you want a public booking page that helps people discover you. And if the idea of emailing the actual founder when something breaks appeals to you, that is me.

Here is the fairest thing I can offer: do not take my word for it. The trial is free for 30 days and setup is about five minutes. Run your real bookings through it for a week and see how it feels. If Lime fits you better, no hard feelings, and you keep your data either way.

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