6 Clockwise Alternatives in 2026, After the Shutdown

Clockwise is gone. Its own homepage still carries the notice: the Clockwise team is joining Salesforce, and the product was no longer available starting on 27 March 2026. Searching for alternatives now does not make you early. You are months late, and your focus blocks stopped defending themselves back in March.

Get the story right before you shop, because it changes what you should expect. Salesforce did not buy a calendar optimiser and keep the lights on. The team went across, the product went away, and the notice pointed everyone at Reclaim, with a 100% price match guarantee for migrating teams, priority migration support and onboarding help.

So the official answer to this question came from Clockwise itself. That is worth more than any list, including mine, and almost nobody leads with it. Most of the pages ranking for "clockwise alternatives" are published by one of the alternatives, each of which ranks itself first, and several of them still write about Clockwise in the present tense.

I read Clockwise's shutdown notice and every pricing page in this post on 28 September 2026. I have not run these tools against each other and I am not going to pretend otherwise. What I can give you is what each one costs, which half of Clockwise it actually replaces, and who it is wrong for.

How I compared them

Every tool here got the same five questions. A feature table will not answer any of them:

• Which half of Clockwise does it replace? Clockwise did two separable things: it optimised the calendar in the background, and it gave people a way to book you. Most tools on this page do one of those well.
• What does it cost, on which billing basis? Every page here toggles between monthly and annual, and the number they show first is usually the annual rate. I have marked which is which every time.
• Is there a free tier you can actually live in? A 14-day trial is not a free tier.
• Does it work in the background or does it want a meeting with you? Clockwise ran silently. Sunsama asks for a daily sit-down instead, which is the opposite trade.
• Who is it wrong for? The vendor-published lists skip this question, because the answer is always the vendor.

The numbers came off each vendor's own pricing page on 28 September 2026, and the shutdown facts came off Clockwise's homepage the same day. No hands-on bake-off, no affiliate links, no rankings borrowed from a review site.

One more thing none of those lists will tell you. A meaningful share of the people shopping for a replacement need nothing more than focus time, and the calendar they already pay for does that for free. It is the sixth entry on this page and it deserves the slot.

Quick comparison

Prices are what each vendor's pricing page showed on 28 September 2026. Where a page printed two numbers, the lower one is the annual or yearly rate and the billing column says so. Motion's annual per-seat rates were not printed on the page, so they are not in this table.

1. Reclaim.ai: the replacement Clockwise named itself

Start here, because the vendor who shut down told you to. Clockwise's notice says it partnered with Reclaim to give anyone who wanted AI-powered scheduling and calendar optimization a smooth transition. Reclaim covers the same ground Clockwise did: focus time defended in the background, buffers around meetings, and smart 1:1s.

The pricing has four steps and every paid one has two prices. Starter is $10 per seat a month billed annually and $12 month-to-month, for up to 10 seats, an 8 week scheduling range, 3 calendar syncs, 3 scheduling links and 10 AI agents per seat. Business is $15 per seat annually and $18 month-to-month, for up to 100 seats, a 12 week range, unlimited calendar syncs and scheduling links and 100 AI agents per seat. Enterprise is $22 per seat and annual only, which the page states plainly: unavailable on monthly plans, for over 100 seats, with SSO and SCIM.

Lite is free forever. No trial clock. What you get on it:

• One user
• A one week scheduling range
• One calendar sync and one scheduling link
• Five AI agents

For a solo operator who wants focus time held and nothing else, that may be the end of the shopping trip.

Reclaim's price match expired with the product

The 100% price match guarantee was aimed at Clockwise teams migrating during the transition, alongside priority migration support and onboarding assistance. The transition ended when the product did, on 27 March 2026, so treat the offer as historical and ask Reclaim before you budget around it. A separate limited-time 30% discount on Starter and Business for new users was running when I read the page, which is the kind of thing that disappears without notice.

Best for

Anyone who liked Clockwise and wants the same thing back with the least thinking involved.

Pricing

Lite free forever. Starter $10 per seat a month billed annually, $12 month-to-month. Business $15 annually, $18 month-to-month. Enterprise $22 per seat, annual only. As of September 2026.

Free tier

Yes, one user.

Verdict

The default answer, and the honest one. If your team lives in Google Calendar, this is the shortest hop from where you were.

2. Motion: for handing over the whole schedule, not just the focus blocks

Motion does more than Clockwise ever did. It reschedules your tasks as well as your meetings, so the work itself gets moved around the calendar while the block stays where it is. If you wanted an assistant and not a bodyguard, this is the one to price.

That reach is also the tradeoff. Motion is the heaviest tool on this page, and if the only thing you ever used was two hours of protected focus time on a Tuesday, you will be paying for a project management system to get it. The setup takes longer, and more of your workflow ends up living inside one vendor.

Motion meters the AI by the credit

Pro AI is $19 per seat a month and includes 7,500 AI credits a month, with more credits at $0.25 per 100. Business AI is $29 per seat a month with 15,000 credits at $0.19 per 100, and it adds team capacity planning, dashboards, a timeline and Gantt view, time tracking and permissions. The credit pool is the number to watch once AI scheduling becomes your main way of working.

The pricing page offers "Pay annually (Save 33%)" but does not print the resulting per-seat figures, so I will not invent them. Both numbers above are the rates the page showed on its default view on 28 September 2026.

3. Morgen: calendar and tasks in one view, if you commit to a year

Morgen puts your calendars and your task lists in a single view and helps you block time against them. It sits between an optimiser and a planner: less automatic than Reclaim, less demanding than a full daily ritual.

The pricing deserves its own paragraph, because the monthly to yearly gap here is the widest on this page. Pro is $30 a month month-to-month, or $15 a month billed yearly, where the page claims a 50% saving against monthly. Team is $25 per seat a month month-to-month with a two seat minimum, or $10 per seat billed yearly, claiming 60%. Pay monthly and Morgen is the most expensive individual plan in this comparison. Pay yearly and it is among the cheapest. Same software either way.

The discounts printed on the page

Morgen advertises several reductions, and two of them matter for anyone arriving from a dead product:

• 15% off for switching from Motion, Reclaim, Fantastical or Sunsama
• A 25% permanent discount for students, academics and nonprofits
• A 14-day free trial with no credit card, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee, which is long enough to find out whether you open the app on a Wednesday

Pick Morgen and you should pay yearly. A yearly commitment to a tool you have never used may feel wrong, in which case price Reclaim Starter instead and revisit this in three months.

4. Cal.com: best for booking links, and only booking links

This is where several competing lists mislead people. Cal.com is excellent, open source, and it replaces the scheduling-link half of what Clockwise gave you. It leaves focus time, 1:1s and background reshuffling entirely alone. Multiple listicles rank it first for this query without saying so.

The free tier is unusually generous for one person. What the page lists on it:

• One user, with unlimited event types and calendars
• Email and SMS notifications
• 100+ app integrations, the mobile app and a browser extension
• Stripe and PayPal payments
• Two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync, plus a one-click Calendly import

Most solo consultants will never hit a wall on that. Paid plans start at Teams, $12 per user a month, and Organizations at $28 per user a month. Both show that yearly billing saves 25%, and both come with a 14-day trial. Enterprise is custom and annual. Those were the figures on the page on 28 September 2026.

What it will not do for your focus time

Cal.com controls when people can book you, which is genuine protection if your calendar was being eaten by external meeting requests. It does nothing about the internal meetings your colleagues put on you directly, and that was the gap Clockwise existed to close. Best for consultants, recruiters and founders whose actual problem is inbound booking, not internal meeting sprawl. Pair it with Reclaim Lite or your calendar's built-in focus time when you want the other half back.

5. Sunsama: for people who wanted to plan the day themselves

Sunsama is a ritual, not an optimiser. Each morning you sit down, pull in the tasks you intend to do, put them on the calendar, and close the planner. Nothing reshuffles itself while you are in a meeting. For a certain kind of person that daily sit-down is the part of the day that makes the rest work.

It is the wrong tool for anyone who liked that Clockwise worked silently in the background and never asked for attention. Be honest with yourself about which of those two people you are, because the pricing is not the deciding factor here.

What the daily sit-down buys you

Pro is $25 a month billed monthly and $20 a month billed yearly, with Enterprise quoted custom. Those were the figures on Sunsama's pricing page on 28 September 2026.

6. Google Calendar and Outlook: the option you already pay for

Before you add a per-seat subscription, check what your calendar already does. Both Google Calendar and Outlook ship the features a lot of people wanted Clockwise for, inside a plan your company almost certainly pays for today:

• Working hours, so colleagues see when you are and are not available
• Focus time blocks, which you set yourself and which decline conflicting invitations
• Appointment schedules, the booking-link feature built straight into the calendar

What you give up is the automation. Nothing here hunts for a better slot, negotiates between two calendars, or quietly slides your 1:1 to Thursday because Wednesday got crowded. You do that part yourself, and it costs nothing.

No vendor-run list will recommend this, which is exactly why it belongs on the page. Spend a month on the built-in features first. Find yourself doing the reshuffling by hand three times a week and you have earned the case for Reclaim, with evidence behind it. For the Outlook side of the same problem, blocking time in Outlook covers what the built-in tools handle there.

Where Gravity fits

Gravity is not a calendar optimiser. It will not defend a focus block, it will not add buffers, and it will not move your 1:1s when two calendars collide. Where that is the job, one of the six sections above is your answer, and I will say so plainly.

Here is the question I think is worth asking anyway. Every tool on this page rearranges your calendar so that you have time to do the work. None of them does the work. If the block you kept defending was for a specific recurring task, the weekly report, the Monday exports, the meeting prep, the follow-ups nobody chases, then a finished task is a better outcome than a protected hour.

That is what Gravity does. You describe the job in plain words, an expert-built agent runs it, and you get the result back. You stay in the loop on anything that leaves your own systems.

Why a finished task beats a protected hour

A protected hour still needs you in the chair, doing the thing, at the end of a week that already went sideways. A finished task does not care what your calendar looked like. That is a different trade from the one every tool on this page is offering, and for repeating work it is usually the better one.

Best for

The recurring, rules-based work you keep blocking time for: reports, reminders, document chasing and inbox triage.

Pricing

First agent free, no card. Then Pro at $5 a month during the alpha, or Max at $20 a month for more agents and usage. Buy more usage if you run out. As of September 2026.

Free tier

Yes, one agent, free. Gravity is in private alpha.

Verdict

Wrong tool if you want your calendar optimised. Worth ten minutes if the calendar was only ever a container for work you would rather not do. The best personal AI agents covers the wider category.

Which one should you choose?

Take Clockwise's own recommendation seriously, then read down this list until one line describes you.

• If you want back exactly what you lost, go to Reclaim. It gives you focus time, buffers and smart 1:1s, Clockwise named it in the shutdown notice, and Lite costs nothing to try.
• If the real wish was for something to run your whole day, tasks included, that is Motion. You are buying a bigger system than Clockwise ever was, so budget real setup time before you expect the old behaviour back.
• If you want tasks and calendar in one view and you will pay yearly, Morgen. At $30 a month month-to-month, that willingness is the whole decision.
• If your calendar problem was people booking you, Cal.com. Skip it when the problem was colleagues filling your afternoons.
• If you want a morning ritual and a clear day, Sunsama. It will frustrate anyone who liked never thinking about their calendar, and it is the one choice on this list where the price is not the deciding factor.
• If you only ever used focus time, buy nothing. Turn it on in Google Calendar or Outlook, wait a month, then decide on evidence.
• If the block existed so you could do one recurring task, Gravity is a different kind of answer: the agent finishes the task and the hour stops mattering.

My bias, stated plainly: for the weekly work that made you want the block in the first place, I would rather the task got done than the hour got defended. That is Gravity, it is in private alpha, and the first agent is free.

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