Is Reclaim better than Motion?

For keeping time for habits, focus and breaks, yes, and it's free for one person. For booking every task into your calendar by deadline and length, Motion is better, from US$29 a month for one person billed yearly.

Yes, for one person. The Lite plan costs nothing and includes habits, focus time and buffers, but it plans only one week ahead and gives you one booking link. Paid plans start at US$10 a seat a month, billed yearly.

Does Motion have a free plan?

No. Motion has a free trial, then paid plans only. One person pays US$29 a month for Pro AI billed yearly, or US$49 month to month, and Motion says purchases are non-refundable.

Does Reclaim schedule my tasks automatically?

Not one by one, since Reclaim 2.0. Tasks no longer get their own calendar events. Reclaim suggests which task to work on during your focus and habit blocks, and makes a block for tasks when you ask its chat for one.

Does Reclaim have a mobile app?

No. Reclaim has no iPhone or Android app. You add its web app to your home screen, or move its habit events in the Google Calendar app. Motion has apps for iPhone, Android and desktop.

Does Reclaim work with Apple Calendar?

No. Reclaim connects to Google Calendar and Outlook only. Motion connects iCloud as well, but its tasks show up only on Google and Outlook calendars.

Reclaim AI vs Motion (2026): which AI calendar to pick

Which one to pick

Reclaim AI vs Motion comes down to what you want the app to put on your calendar. Pick Reclaim if you want time held for routines, focus and breaks, and a free plan for one person. Pick Motion if you want every task given its own slot and moved for you when the day changes.

The gap between them got wider this year. Reclaim's 2.0 version, which everyone who signed up after May 2026 is on, stopped giving each task its own calendar event. Its tasks overview says it now protects blocks of time and suggests which task to do inside them. Motion still works the other way: you give a task a length and a deadline, and it finds the hour.

Find your row:

If you	Pick	Why
Want to pay nothing	Reclaim	Lite is free for one person
Have more tasks than hours	Motion	Each task gets a slot
Keep losing the gym or lunch	Reclaim	Habits move inside a window
Plan from your phone	Motion	iPhone and Android apps
Use Apple's iCloud calendar	Motion	Reclaim reads Google and Outlook
Keep tasks in Todoist or Asana	Reclaim	It pulls them in and suggests one

How we compared them

Every price and feature here is from Reclaim's and Motion's own pricing pages and help centres, which we read on 31 October 2026. We didn't run a hands-on test of either app, and you won't find star ratings here. Prices are US dollar list prices before tax, as of October 2026.

Then we asked each app what you'd ask when planning an ordinary week of work and errands:

What does one person pay, and is there a free plan?
Does the app book each task, or keep time free for you to fill?
What happens to your gym slot when a meeting lands on it?
Which calendars and phones does it work with?
What can you undo, and what does a wrong purchase cost?

Reclaim: best for keeping time for habits and focus

Reclaim sits on top of your Google or Outlook calendar and defends time. Its 2.0 FAQ calls it an AI calendar assistant, and the work is done by agents: small automations for habits, focus time, buffers between meetings and recurring meetings with other people. You set a rule once, and the agent keeps finding room as the week fills up.

Look at habits first. A habit is a recurring event with rules attached. You give it a default time and length, then say what it does when something clashes: move inside a window you choose, shrink to a minimum, skip that day or hold its ground. Lunch shows how it works: give it a window of 11:00 to 14:00, and it takes whichever hour is free that day. Focus time works by quantity rather than clock time: you ask for a number of hours a week, and the focus agent keeps placing blocks until it gets them.

Tasks are where 2.0 changed. Your tasks live in Reclaim or come in from Google Tasks, Todoist, Asana, ClickUp or Linear, each with a due date, a length and a priority. Reclaim doesn't put them on the calendar one by one any more. When a focus block or a habit starts, its Tasks tab suggests what to work on, and it goes by due date and priority. Want a block just for tasks? Ask Reclaim's chat for one. Anything the chat changes waits in Preview Mode until you press apply.

Pick it if you want routines that survive a busy week, and you'd rather choose the task yourself when the time comes. Skip it if you want each task placed on the calendar for you, or if you plan from your phone: Reclaim has no iPhone or Android app. Its pricing page lists a free Lite plan for one person and paid plans from US$10 a seat a month, billed yearly.

Motion: best for a calendar that books every task

Motion schedules tasks one at a time. Its auto-scheduling guide lists what it weighs for each: your open time, how long the task takes, its deadline and its priority. Give a two-hour task a chunking rule and it gets split into four blocks of 30 minutes. ASAP puts a task ahead of everything. And when a new meeting lands on top of a planned task, Motion reshuffles the rest of your day around it, so the work you'd planned still gets an hour somewhere before its deadline.

That's what you pay for. You stop choosing what comes next, because the calendar already shows it. Motion's AI calendar page adds a warning when you've planned more work than your hours can hold, so you find out early that something has to slide, not the night before it's due.

Motion is also the bigger app. Pro AI comes with AI chat, projects, docs and a writing assistant, and it has iPhone and Android apps beside the desktop one. The phone app is a companion to it, and Motion's mobile app reference keeps the Gantt chart, bulk editing and workflow templates on the desktop app. On iPhone you can add a task through Siri or from a home-screen widget. The app comes in English only.

Pick it if your list is longer than your day and you want the app to set the order. Skip it if you want a free plan, or if what you mostly need is protected time for routines. Motion has a free trial, then paid plans only. On its pricing page, Pro AI for one person is US$29 a month billed yearly, or US$49 month to month.

Side by side

	Reclaim	Motion
Main job	Keeps time for habits and focus	Books each task into a slot
Free	Lite plan for one person	Free trial, no free plan
Cheapest paid plan	Starter US$10 a month, yearly	Pro AI US$29 a month, yearly
Tasks	Suggested inside your blocks	Each one scheduled
Routines	Habits that move, shrink or skip	Recurring tasks
Calendars	Google, Outlook	Google, Outlook, iCloud
Phone	Web app on your home screen	iPhone and Android apps
Safety net	Chat changes wait in Preview Mode	Deleted tasks are gone for good
Refunds	None on a yearly plan after 30 days	Purchases are non-refundable

Read the calendars row if you use the calendar that came with your iPhone. Reclaim's FAQ lists Google Calendar and Outlook, and nothing else. Motion connects iCloud too, but its calendar syncing FAQ says its tasks show up on Google and Outlook calendars only, never on iCloud. Motion's supported providers page adds that a task shown on an outside calendar is there to look at, and any change to it happens in Motion.

Reclaim works the other way round on a phone. Its mobile help page says you can move or edit the events it makes for your habits in the Google Calendar app, like any other event. For anything else, you add Reclaim's web app to your home screen from Safari or Chrome.

The safety net row matters on a bad day. Motion's FAQ says a deleted task, event or project is removed for good and can't be restored. Reclaim stages anything its chat changes in Preview Mode, so nothing reaches your live calendar until you review it. Its habit and focus agents still move blocks on their own, within the rules you set.

What a year costs

Twelve months at list price, for one person:

Plan	Paid yearly	Paid monthly
Reclaim Lite	US$0	US$0
Reclaim Starter	US$120	US$144
Reclaim Business	US$180	US$216
Motion Pro AI	US$348	US$588
Motion Business AI	US$468	US$828

Reclaim's Lite plan costs nothing for one person. Its pricing page gives Lite five agents, so a few habits and a focus goal, plus one week of scheduling ahead, one booking link and a limited set of app connections. It reads two calendars, enough for a work one and a home one, and one calendar sync lets you copy busy times between your work and personal calendars. Starter, at US$10 a seat a month billed yearly or US$12 monthly, plans eight weeks ahead and connects every task app Reclaim supports. Students, educators and faculty can apply for 50% off for 12 months, and people switching from Motion for 20% off for six months.

Motion has no free tier. Its pricing page puts one person on Pro AI at US$29 a month billed yearly or US$49 month to month, and Business AI at US$39 or US$69. Business AI adds time tracking, Gantt charts and dashboards, which a team uses more than one person planning a week. Buy it for a team and each Pro AI seat drops to US$19 a month, billed yearly.

The money buys different things. A paid Reclaim plan buys reach: more weeks ahead, more calendars and more connected apps. With Motion, the fee is the planner itself, along with 7,500 AI credits a month on Pro AI.

How each handles a busy week

Put the same week into both. You work 9 to 5, there's a dentist on Tuesday at 10:00, and you want the gym three evenings plus a proper lunch every day. Two jobs have deadlines: a one-hour job application by Wednesday and a four-hour tax return by Friday.

In Reclaim, the gym becomes a habit three times a week, somewhere between 17:30 and 20:00, and lunch a habit between 11:00 and 14:00. You add a focus goal of eight hours for the week, and the two jobs go in as tasks with due dates and lengths. Reclaim places the gym, lunch and focus blocks. When a 13:00 meeting appears on Wednesday, lunch moves to another hour inside its window. The tasks don't get slots of their own. When a focus block starts, you open the Tasks tab, and it weighs the two due dates to suggest one.

In Motion, the tax return gets four hours, a Friday deadline and one-hour chunks. The application gets an hour, due Wednesday, and the gym becomes a recurring task. Motion books the application first and spreads the tax return over your free hours. Stretch the dentist to 11:30 on your calendar, and Motion moves Tuesday's chunk to a later free hour. Motion's best practices ask for honest task lengths and a gap between tasks, so the day isn't packed wall to wall.

So the difference is who decides. Reclaim gives you the hours and lets you pick the task when they arrive. Motion picks ahead of time. If you like deciding in the moment, Reclaim fits. If deciding is the part you put off, pay for Motion. You can also do this by hand. Timeboxing is the same idea on a plain calendar, and the routines either app protects stick better once you build them as habits.

Want your dated tasks fitted into the gaps without handing your whole calendar to an AI? In ActivityTracker, Plan my day fits them between your Google Calendar events, inside your work hours, and Block my Google Calendar copies the blocks onto Google as busy events.

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Try them one at a time

Both trials cost nothing upfront, but they end differently. Reclaim's trial help page gives every new paid subscription 30 days free and charges you if you haven't dropped to Lite by the end. Its billing help says a yearly plan bought more than 30 days ago gets no refund. Motion's cancellation page says purchases are non-refundable, so decide before your first payment.

Run one app at a time on the same calendar, so you know which one moved what:

Week one, Reclaim. Connect your calendar and set your working hours, then add one focus goal and two or three habits. Reclaim's FAQ says to start that small.
Add this week's real tasks with a due date and a length on each.
Each evening, note one block that moved and whether the move made sense.
Week two, Motion. Put in the same tasks with deadlines and lengths, and the habits as recurring tasks.
On the last evening, add up what you finished in each week, and notice which week you quit moving blocks around yourself. The weekly reflection template gives you the questions to ask.

Made-up example: Priya works four long shifts a week as a physiotherapist and studies part time for a master's.

Her gym sessions and her reading vanish whenever a shift overruns.

She starts on Reclaim's free Lite plan with two habits: the gym three times a week between 18:00 and 20:30, and 45 minutes of reading on her day off. When a Thursday shift runs late, that gym session moves to Friday evening.

Her three essays are a different story. They sit in Reclaim's task list with their deadlines, and every time she sits down to study she picks the easiest one. In week two she tries Motion, gives each essay a length and a due date, and finds the next essay chunk already on her calendar each morning.

She does the sums on Sunday. Motion would cost her US$348 for the year on Pro AI, paid yearly, and Reclaim Lite costs her nothing. She keeps Reclaim for the gym and the reading, and writes the essays into her calendar by hand every Sunday night.