Clockwise Alternatives 2026: Where to Go After the Shutdown

Clockwise is gone. It stopped being available on 27 March 2026, and the team joined Salesforce. Type in any old URL and you get the same farewell notice, so there is no product page left and no pricing page. If a Focus Time block vanished off your calendar this year and never came back, now you know why.

People liked it, and its own numbers back that up. By the company’s account it ran for nearly a decade, created over 8 million hours of Focus Time, and moved 23 million meetings to better times for customers including Uber, Netflix, and Atlassian. Its stated mission was to help the world make time for what matters, and the closing note thanked customers for their time, trust, and belief in what the team was building. Losing a tool like that is an inconvenience, not an upgrade opportunity.

So the useful question is not which product looks most like Clockwise. It is which part of Clockwise you actually leaned on. For some people that was Focus Time. For others, the daily planning ritual that the calendar happened to hold together. And for a fair number, the calendar was never really the problem: it was the volume of administrative work generating all those meetings in the first place. Catch, an AI Executive Assistant, is built for that last group. The alternatives below are grouped by job, so you can work out the fit before paying for anything.

Clockwise Alternatives at a Glance

Tool	Category	Best for	Starting price
Catch	AI Executive Assistant	Executives whose real load is admin work, not calendar layout	Flat $99/month, everything included
Reclaim AI	Automated time blocking	Defending focus time and habits automatically	Free Lite plan; paid from $10/seat/month billed annually
Motion	AI task and project planning	Teams who want tasks, projects, and the calendar in one system	$29/seat/month, $19 annual
Sunsama	Deliberate daily planning	People who want a guided daily planning routine	$22/user/month, $204/user/year
Akiflow	Unified inbox and time blocking	Power users who want tasks, events and messages on one fast surface	$34/month, $19/month annual

What Clockwise Actually Did, and Why That Matters Now

Clockwise spent, in its own words, nearly a decade “tackling one of the most underestimated problems in the modern workplace: shared time.” By the time it closed it reported over 8 million hours of Focus Time created and 23 million meetings moved to better times, and it said it had been building AI into the heart of scheduling long before that became the defining technology of the moment.

Beyond those numbers there is very little left to check. The pricing page, the feature pages and the documentation all resolve to the farewell notice now, so how Focus Time was calculated, what you could configure, which calendars were supported and what it integrated with are no longer answerable from the source. That is worth saying plainly before you go shopping, because it also means nobody can honestly sell you a drop-in replacement. What each tool below does is a matter of public record. What Clockwise did, in detail, is not.

What you can do is replace the outcome instead of the mechanism. Either automate the defence of your own time, or remove the administrative work that fills a calendar to begin with. Both routes are covered below.

1. Catch: Best Overall Alternative

Catch is an AI Executive Assistant, and it is the right pick if the calendar was the symptom rather than the disease. Clockwise rearranged meetings once they existed. Catch works on everything upstream and around them: the email that needs a reply, the meeting that has to be coordinated across three people, the conflict where someone actually has to contact the other party, the hotel that needs a phone call about a late checkout.

The core difference is the scope of what it will act on. Catch reads calendar and inbox context and works on what it finds instead of waiting to be told. It spots a scheduling conflict and reaches out to the other party to move the meeting. It books meetings across several participants, generates scheduling links on demand with real constraints such as mornings only next week, and books through other people’s scheduling links on your behalf, choosing a time based on availability and urgency. On email it reads and prioritizes incoming mail, surfaces only what genuinely needs the executive, drafts and sends replies in their name, and chases threads that have gone quiet when the context warrants it. It also reminds you what is coming and flags what needs your attention.

Catch is not a rules engine, which matters if what you want back is something you do not have to configure. No workflows to build, no conditions to define. Catch applies judgment: it learns priorities, key relationships, meeting preferences, and how a particular executive likes things handled, building that picture from connected data and from the corrections given to it over time. Autonomy is earned rather than switched on. Early on it checks before acting, and it handles more independently as it learns the person.

It also takes real-world action that no calendar tool touches. Catch places outbound phone calls on your behalf, booking a restaurant or arranging a late checkout, and you can call Catch directly to hand off work or run through priorities. It does not answer your incoming calls, the same way a human executive assistant does not pick up your personal line. Business travel booking has been live since July 2026: flights, hotels, and ground transport booked end to end, within company travel policy where one exists, then actively managed afterwards, including rebooking when a better rate appears. Business travel only. It does not cover expenses, receipts, reimbursement, or travel-policy approvals.

You reach it wherever you already work: Slack, email, text message, iMessage, or by phone. Setup runs under three minutes. Connect Gmail or Outlook, grant permissions, start talking to it. Catch is SOC 2 Type II certified and Google Verified.

Pricing: flat $99 per month, everything included, with a 10-day free trial. Voice is part of the plan, no per-call fees. For scale, a fully loaded US executive assistant runs roughly $120,000 to $180,000 a year. Catch handles that traditional administrative role at a flat monthly price, which frees the person in that seat to grow into the operational and in-person work that still needs a human.

Best for: executives and business owners who worked out during the Clockwise shutdown that the calendar was only ever the visible part of the problem.

2. Reclaim AI: Best for Automated Time Blocking

Reclaim is the obvious first stop if Focus Time is the part of Clockwise you miss, because it ships a product under exactly that name. It connects to the calendar you already use rather than replacing it, and its whole line-up is built around defending time for focused work and habits.

Its published product line includes AI Focus Time, AI Habits, AI Tasks, AI Smart Meetings, AI Scheduling Links, AI Calendar Sync, AI Planner, AI Buffer Time, AI Time Tracking, a Team OOO Calendar, and Workforce Analytics. There is also an AI Assistant you can chat with to plan, prioritize, and optimize your schedule. AI Buffer Time automatically schedules breaks and travel around meetings and work sessions, including travel time buffers around external events and airport buffers before and after flights.

It syncs with Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar, integrates with Slack for status and notifications, and connects to Asana, ClickUp, Todoist, Jira Software, Linear, and Google Tasks to pull tasks onto the calendar automatically. Dropbox acquired Reclaim in August 2024, and it continues to run under that ownership.

Where it stops is scope. Reclaim is a layer between you and your own calendar, not an assistant that reaches into the outside world on your behalf. Its travel features protect time around trips rather than booking them: Reclaim does not book travel. That is the trade you make for a cheaper, narrower tool.

Pricing: Reclaim’s Lite plan is free forever for one user. Starter is $10 per seat per month billed annually, or $12 billed monthly. Business is $15 per seat per month annually, or $18 monthly. Enterprise is $22 per seat per month, annual billing only.

Best for: individuals and teams who want automatic defence of focus time back on the calendar without changing anything else.

3. Motion: Best for Task and Project Planning

Motion is a work management platform that puts tasks, projects, docs and the calendar in one system. Its Pro AI plan bundles AI Chat, AI Projects and Tasks, AI Calendar and AI Docs together; Business AI adds team capacity planning, advanced dashboards, Gantt charts and time tracking on top.

For a former Clockwise user this is a bigger step than it sounds. Clockwise moved meetings you already had. Motion takes on the tasks and the projects behind them too. If your team is also carrying an Asana or Monday subscription, that consolidation is the argument. If all you ever wanted was your calendar tidied, it is more product than you need.

Motion includes travel time buffers before and after events, native conferencing support for Google Meet and Zoom with custom links and physical locations, an AI Notetaker that captures summaries and key decisions on events, Flexible Hours for time off and unusual work weeks, and a dedicated email address you can forward messages to so they become scheduled tasks. It supports Apple iCloud calendars for free and busy events alongside Microsoft and Google. Motion states it is SOC 2 Type II.

Pricing: Motion’s Pro AI plan is $29 per seat per month on monthly billing, or $19 per seat per month billed annually. Business AI is $49 per seat per month monthly, or $29 billed annually. Individual, non-team rates run higher: Pro AI at $49 monthly or $29 annually, and Business AI at $69 monthly or $39 annually.

Best for: teams who want task management, project planning, and calendar scheduling in a single system.

4. Sunsama: Best for Deliberate Daily Planning

Sunsama asks you to sit down and plan the day on purpose. Its guided daily planning routine is a step-by-step flow: review the work you did not finish, pull in tasks from your other tools, check your workload against your capacity, and timebox what survives onto the calendar.

That capacity check is the part that does the work. It confronts the aspirational to-do list before the day starts rather than after it fails. You can also post your plan automatically to a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel so colleagues can see it.

Sunsama pulls tasks natively from Slack, GitHub, Asana, Todoist, Trello, Jira, Notion, ClickUp, Monday.com, and Linear, and integrates with Gmail and Outlook Email. It ships an AI assistant called Sunny that creates tasks, organizes backlogs, and runs the planning routine from a chat panel, and it automatically suggests time estimates based on your history. You can create and edit calendar events, search Google Contacts to add invitees, and attach Zoom or Google Meet links, provided a Google or Outlook calendar is connected. It also hosts a remote MCP server, so external AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude can read and manage your Sunsama data. One limit worth knowing: its built-in calendar is private and cannot be shared externally, so there is no public booking link for guests.

The routine is the product, and that is a real cost. Sunsama works because you show up to it every morning.

Pricing: $22 per user per month billed monthly, or $204 per user per year billed annually, which the pricing card shows as $17 per month. There is no free tier, but there is a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. An Enterprise plan is available for organizations needing SSO, SCIM, and audit logs.

Best for: people whose problem is overcommitment and intent rather than calendar fragmentation.

5. Akiflow: Best for One Fast Surface

Akiflow consolidates tasks, events, and messages from across your tools into one inbox, then makes it very fast to drag them onto a calendar. It imports tasks from over 3,000 external tools, and the desktop app carries a global command bar and a tray menu. Slack messages become tasks in a click.

There is two-way sync with major calendar providers, conflict detection, and time blocking, plus scheduling links for one-off or recurring meetings. Email handling is partial: you can turn an email into a task or forward it to the AI assistant, but Akiflow does not present itself as an outbound email client. Its AI assistant, Aki, automates routines, auto-schedules tasks, and manages recurring events, provides proactive alerts before you hit schedule overload, and can scan meeting notes to pull action items into the inbox. Natural-language voice commands work too, so you can talk to your schedule. It runs as a desktop app with a command bar and tray menu, a mobile app, and a web app, which Akiflow notes has fewer features than the desktop version.

Aki auto-schedules, nudges before you hit overload, and manages recurring events, but the surfaces you spend the day on are the inbox you review, the command bar you hit and the calendar you drag things onto. That suits people who want to see and place the work themselves.

Pricing: Akiflow’s single plan is $34 per month billed monthly, or $19 per month billed annually. There is a 7-day free trial, cancellable at any time. Team collaboration and billing are supported, but a team plan requires contacting Akiflow directly. Student and researcher discounts are available on request.

Best for: keyboard-driven power users who want a single fast surface for tasks and calendar.

How to Choose Your Clockwise Replacement

Pick based on what you lost, not on which interface looks familiar.

• You lost Focus Time. Reclaim AI is the shortest path, since it ships a product by that name, and its free Lite plan makes it cheap to test. Start there.
• You need something that covers a team, not just your own calendar. Reclaim sells per seat and ships a Team OOO Calendar and Workforce Analytics. Motion’s Business AI plan adds team capacity planning, advanced dashboards and Gantt charts. Sunsama is priced per user with no separate team tier, and can post your daily plan into a Slack or Teams channel. Akiflow supports team collaboration and billing, but you have to contact them to buy it.
• Your task list was always the real bottleneck. Motion, if you want tasks, projects and the calendar in one system. Akiflow, if you want everything funnelled into one inbox you drive from a command bar.
• You were overcommitting rather than fragmenting. Sunsama, for the guided planning and the capacity warning.
• The calendar was never the problem. If what actually ate your week was email volume, coordinating meetings with other people, chasing replies, booking things, and making calls, then a time blocker was only ever managing the result. Catch handles that work directly.

Here is a practical way to test it. Look at last week. If the hours you lost went to blocks that got broken, a scheduling tool solves that. If they went to messages, coordination, chasing replies, and logistics, no amount of calendar optimization is giving them back.

Our Top Pick

For most people leaving Clockwise, Catch is the strongest choice, because it handles the administrative work behind a crowded calendar rather than the layout of the calendar itself. Reclaim AI is the honest recommendation for the narrow case where automatic focus time genuinely was the whole value, and its free tier makes that easy to confirm for yourself. But if your calendar was crowded because the administrative work behind it never stopped, moving from a tool that rearranges meetings to an assistant that handles the work generating them is a bigger gain than any replacement scheduler can offer. At a flat $99 per month, voice and business travel booking are included, with no per-call fees.

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