Motion vs Catch at a Glance
Motion and Catch solve different problems, and any honest comparison has to start there. Motion is an AI work-management platform. Tasks, projects, docs, AI chat and an AI calendar, in one workspace. It tends to get evaluated against the likes of Asana and Monday.com. Catch is something else entirely, an AI Executive Assistant. It takes on the administrative role itself, including email triage, scheduling, briefings, and the real-world phone calls, all across the channels you already use.
Why does the distinction matter? Because these two are surprisingly easy to mix up. Both lean on AI. Both touch your calendar. Yet one organizes the work while the other does the admin sitting behind it. Trying to replace your project tracker? Motion is what you’d evaluate. Want someone to lift the admin off your plate completely? That’s Catch.
And they’re not mutually exclusive, which trips a lot of people up. Plenty of executives keep a project tool like Motion, Asana, or Notion running for their team’s work, then lean on Catch for their own admin. Catch integrates with Asana and Notion instead of trying to replace them. So the comparison below is less about crowning a winner for the same job and more about figuring out which job you’re actually trying to get done.
| Feature | Catch | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Category | AI Executive Assistant | AI task & project management |
| Closest comparison | A human executive assistant | Asana / Monday.com |
| Pricing | Flat $99/month, everything included | Pro AI $29/seat/mo, Business AI $49/seat/mo ($19 and $29 billed annually) |
| Billing model | One flat fee per user | Per seat, with a monthly AI credit allowance on each seat |
| Task & project management | Integrates with Asana and Notion | Yes - core product |
| AI calendar | Manages the calendar like an assistant would | Yes - included on both plans |
| Team planning (capacity, Gantt, dashboards, time tracking) | Not a project tool | Yes - on Business AI |
| Security | SOC 2 Type II (audited by EY), CASA Tier 2, US data hosting | SOC 2 Type II |
| Best for | Executives who want the admin role handled | Teams managing tasks and projects |
Task Management Is Not an Executive Assistant
Motion’s core job is to organize work that already exists. It gives you a workspace for it: projects and tasks, docs, AI chat, an AI calendar, and on the Business AI tier, capacity planning, Gantt charts, dashboards and time tracking for the team. If you or your team are drowning in a backlog of to-dos, that’s the problem Motion is built around, and it’s the heart of what it does well.
An executive assistant covers a wider scope, and a different one. The admin that fills an executive’s day is rarely a clean list of tasks waiting to be scheduled. It’s the inbox that needs triage before 9 a.m. The meeting that has to be coordinated across three people’s calendars. The client who went quiet two days ago and needs a nudge. The hotel that needs a phone call about a late checkout, plus the prep that has to be pulled together before a board meeting. None of that is a task you’d type into a project tracker.
That’s the line between the two products. Motion helps you manage the work you can see. Catch does the work, including the parts that never make it onto a list in the first place. Put “reply to the client” on a list and it still has to be written, slotted and sent. Catch reads the thread, drafts the response, proposes times, and follows up if nobody answers. One keeps the work organized. The other takes the admin off your desk.
Platform Overview
Catch
Catch is an AI Executive Assistant that handles admin work end to end. You connect Gmail or Outlook, grant a few permissions, and talk to it on Slack, email, text message, iMessage, or by phone. Setup runs under three minutes. No dashboard to configure, no workflows to build.
What makes it different is that it’s proactive. It watches your calendar and inbox and acts on what it finds. It spots scheduling conflicts and reaches out to the other party to reschedule, follows up when someone hasn’t replied, and surfaces the email that actually needs you while the routine stuff stays out of the way. It also takes real-world action, placing outbound calls (always opening with “Hi, I’m the AI agent for [Name]”) and reserving restaurants and hotels on your behalf. And you can call Catch directly to talk through your day, add to-dos, or hand off a task by voice.
Catch is built for executives, founders, and operators at US mid-market companies carrying a heavy admin load. It plays nicely with the stack a team already runs, integrating with Asana, Notion, HubSpot, and Zoho, so it can close a task, update a deal, or pull a brief without asking you to move your work somewhere new. Pricing is flat: $99/month, with a 10-day free trial. No credits, no per-call fees.
Motion
Motion is an AI work-management platform. The suite covers projects and tasks, docs, AI chat, an AI calendar, and an AI Notetaker you can switch on for a meeting to capture summaries, key decisions and a recap email, all positioned as an all-in-one workspace for getting work done. The Business AI tier adds team capacity planning, advanced dashboards, Gantt charts and time tracking.
It’s built for teams and individuals who want task and project management and their calendar in the same place, and it tends to get evaluated as an alternative to Asana, Monday.com, and similar tools. Our full Motion app review breaks down its features, real pricing, and who it actually fits.
What Catch adds on top is the executive-assistant layer: the inbox triaged and answered, a meeting coordinated by reaching out to the other person, a call placed to the hotel about a late checkout, all of it reachable over Slack, text message or the phone. The commercial models differ too: Motion is a per-seat workspace with a monthly AI credit allowance on each seat, Catch is one flat fee per user. Motion organizes your work. Catch takes on the admin around it.
Core Features Compared
Task and Project Management
Motion: This is Motion’s home turf. It offers full task and project management with an AI layer on top, which makes it a genuine alternative to a dedicated project tool.
Catch: Catch isn’t a project-management replacement, and that’s deliberate. Rather than asking you to move your team’s work into a new system, it integrates with Asana and Notion. It can close a task or shift a deadline on your behalf while your team keeps using the board it already trusts. If replacing your project tracker is the goal, Motion is the right lane. If running it for you is the goal, that’s Catch.
Catch Catch reads your inbox, prioritizes what matters, drafts replies, sends them, and surfaces only the messages that genuinely need you, often by text message so you’re not stuck sitting in your inbox. This kind of AI inbox management is a core part of the admin it handles.
Motion Motion connects to email through a forwarding address. Send a message to [email protected] and Motion turns its contents into a task on your schedule, so the thing you were emailed about lands in your plan for the week.
Scheduling and Coordination
Catch Catch schedules like an assistant would. It generates scheduling links on demand with custom constraints, picks times based on your real availability, and when there’s a conflict it reaches out to the other party to reschedule instead of just flagging it. It coordinates across several people’s calendars without you stuck in the middle.
Motion Motion’s calendar side connects Google and Microsoft calendars, plus Apple iCloud for free/busy events. Meeting events carry Google Meet or Zoom conferencing, a custom link or a physical location, and Travel Time buffers of 15, 30 or 45 minutes can be added before and after an event. Flexible Hours let you adjust your working schedule for time off, travel or an unusual week.
Real-World Action and Phone Calls
Catch Catch places real outbound phone calls, identifying itself as an AI agent, to handle things like a late hotel checkout or a dinner reservation. And you can call Catch directly to talk through your day or hand off a task by voice. Voice is included in the flat $99, with no per-call or per-minute fees. Travel booking is currently in beta for selected Catch customers, with Catch booking supported flights and hotels itself, a contrast we cover in TravelPerk vs Catch.
Motion Motion’s meeting features sit on the calendar event itself: Google Meet or Zoom conferencing, a custom link or a physical location, and an AI Notetaker that captures the summary, the key decisions and a recap email.
Proactivity and Delegation
Catch Catch acts on things you didn’t explicitly ask for. It learns your priorities, relationships, and preferences across every channel, then chases down loose ends before meetings, drafts emails in advance, and flags what needs attention. The goal here is true delegation.
Motion Motion’s AI works inside the workspace. Its use-case pages advertise AI employees built to operate with full context of your projects and processes, drafting reports, pulling KPI data and executing multi-step work, and every seat carries a monthly AI credit allowance to spend on it.
Pricing Comparison
Catch Pricing
Catch is a flat $99/month per user, with a 10-day free trial. Everything’s included: email, scheduling, voice calls, and bookings. No credits to run out of, no per-call fees. The pricing is meant to be read against a different baseline than software. A US-based human executive assistant runs roughly $120,000 to $180,000 a year, all-in. None of which means letting anyone go; the traditional admin role just gets covered, and the person is free to grow into the operational and in-person work Catch can’t do.
Motion Pricing
Motion is priced per seat. Its Pro AI plan runs $29 per seat per month, or $19 billed annually, and its Business AI plan $49 per seat per month, or $29 billed annually. Motion’s pricing page opens on the annual toggle, so $19 and $29 are the figures you see first. Individual (non-team) seats are priced separately: Pro AI $49 monthly or $29 annually, Business AI $69 monthly or $39 annually. Each seat comes with a monthly AI credit allowance, 7,500 credits on Pro AI and 15,000 on Business AI. For a team standardizing on Motion as its work-management tool, the per-seat price can be reasonable. Worth noting, though, is that this is a different category of spend than an assistant. You’re paying for a workspace your team operates, not for the admin work itself actually getting done.
Can You Use Motion and Catch Together?
Yes, and plenty of people do. The two aren’t competing for the same slot. A team can run Motion (or Asana, or Notion) to manage projects and tasks while individual executives lean on Catch for their personal admin load. And because Catch integrates with Asana and Notion, it can even act inside the project tools your team already uses. The cleanest way to think about it: Motion organizes the work, Catch handles the admin around it. Picking one doesn’t rule out the other.
Who Should Choose Which?
Choose Catch if you need:
- An assistant that handles email, scheduling, briefings, and bookings end to end
- Real outbound phone calls, included with no per-call fees
- A proactive partner that learns your priorities and acts without being prompted
- Admin handled in the channels you already use, Slack, email, text message, iMessage, and phone
- Flat, predictable pricing and executive-grade security (SOC 2 Type II, CASA Tier 2, US data hosting)
Choose Motion if you need:
- A workspace for your team’s tasks and projects, to replace something like Asana or Monday.com
- Docs, AI chat and an AI calendar sitting alongside that work
- Team planning on the Business AI tier: capacity planning, Gantt charts, dashboards and time tracking
- An AI Notetaker on your meetings, with summaries and recap emails
- Per-seat pricing with a monthly AI credit allowance on each seat
The two lists answer different questions. Motion’s is: what workspace should run our tasks and projects. Catch’s is: who is going to handle my admin. If that second question is the one keeping you in your inbox at night, Catch is the better pick, and it’ll sit happily alongside whatever project tool your team already loves.
The Bottom Line
Motion is a strong AI work-management platform and a credible alternative to Asana or Monday.com for teams that want their tasks, projects and calendar in one place. If replacing your project tracker is the job, go evaluate Motion.
But replacing a project tracker isn’t the same as taking admin off an executive’s plate, and that’s where Catch wins for the executive buyer. Catch doesn’t just organize the work. It does the email, the scheduling, the briefings, and the real-world calls, across every channel you use, for a flat $99 a month. Motion keeps the work organized. Catch takes on the admin around it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which is better, Motion or Catch?
For an executive who wants their admin handled, Catch is the better choice, since it manages email, scheduling, and phone calls end to end. Motion is the one to look at when the goal is a workspace to run your team’s tasks and projects, in place of something like Asana or Monday.com. They solve different problems, and Catch is built for delegation rather than task tracking.
Is Catch a task or project management tool?
No. Catch is an AI Executive Assistant, not a project tracker. Instead of replacing Asana or Notion, it integrates with them, so it can close tasks or pull briefs while your team keeps using the tool it already has.
Can I use Motion and Catch at the same time?
Yes. Plenty of people run Motion (or Asana or Notion) for project management and use Catch for their personal admin. Catch integrates with Asana and Notion, so the two work alongside each other instead of competing for the same job.
Can Motion turn my emails into tasks?
Yes. Motion gives you a forwarding address, [email protected], and anything you send there becomes a task on your schedule. Catch works the inbox itself, triaging, drafting, sending and following up, and surfaces only the messages that need you, often by text message.
Can Catch make phone calls for me?
Yes. Catch places real outbound calls, identifying itself as an AI agent, for things like a late hotel checkout or a dinner reservation, and you can call Catch directly to talk through your day or hand off a task by voice. It’s all included in the flat fee, with no per-call charges.
How does pricing compare?
Catch is a flat $99/month per user with everything included and no per-call fees. Motion is priced per seat: Pro AI $29/seat/month ($19 billed annually) and Business AI $49/seat/month ($29 billed annually), each seat carrying a monthly AI credit allowance. They’re different categories of spend: one is a workspace your team operates, the other is the admin work getting done for you.
Does Catch replace a project management tool?
No, and it isn’t meant to. If you want to replace Asana or Monday.com, Motion is the tool to look at. Catch handles the admin around your projects and integrates with the tools your team already uses.
Is Catch secure enough for executives?
Yes. Catch is SOC 2 Type II certified (audited by EY), passed Google’s CASA Tier 2 review, and hosts data on US soil.
Which channels does Catch work in?
Slack, email, text message, iMessage, and phone. You reach it wherever you already communicate.
Which should a busy executive choose?
If the main pain is a backlog of tasks and projects to organize for a team, choose Motion. If the main pain is the admin itself, email, scheduling, briefings, and calls, choose Catch, and keep your project tool right alongside it.
