Best Clockwise Alternatives in 2026 After the Shutdown

Clockwise said the product would no longer be available starting March 27, 2026. Smart Hold events were removed, Flexible Meetings stopped moving, and teams lost the automatic focus-time defense they had relied on.

The Clockwise team pointed users to Reclaim.ai as the closest replacement, and that is the right starting point for most former users. This guide explains why, along with what to do if Reclaim does not fit how you work.

The thing most teams miss is not the Slack integration or the analytics dashboard. It is the automatic defense of deep-work hours. Clockwise moved flexible meetings out of the way so focus blocks survived a day full of booking requests. No vanilla calendar does that on its own.

What Clockwise Did That Now Needs Replacing

Clockwise announced its wind-down in early 2026 and shut the product off on March 27. What teams actually lost:

• Automatic focus time protection. Clockwise created and defended focus blocks across your calendar without manual effort.
• Flexible holds. Events marked as flexible would shift automatically when new meetings appeared, preserving uninterrupted time.
• Team-wide focus coordination. When scheduling a team meeting, Clockwise considered everyone’s focus time preferences. This team-level optimization was its most distinctive feature.
• Meeting heat maps and analytics. Managers could see focus time trends across the organization and identify scheduling patterns that eroded deep work.
• Slack and Asana integrations. Status updates and task syncing extended Clockwise beyond the calendar.

Most alternatives rebuild one or two of these features well. None replicate all of them in a single tool. The comparison below helps you find the right combination for your team.

Quick Comparison of Clockwise Alternatives

The right replacement depends on what you actually used Clockwise for.

• Auto-rescheduling of flexible meetings → start with Reclaim
• Full task scheduling → look at Motion or SkedPal
• Planning with a human in the loop → Morgen or Sunsama

Pricing checked April 21, 2026. Annual billing where that is the default shown on the vendor’s pricing page.

App	Best For	Starting Price
Reclaim.ai	Closest direct replacement	Free / $10/mo
Motion	Full task and meeting automation	$19/mo
Morgen	AI planning with user control	$15/mo
SkedPal	Personal auto-scheduling	$9.95/mo
Sunsama	Guided daily planning	$20/mo
Google Calendar	Free fallback (Workspace only)	Free (Workspace)

No single tool rebuilds all of Clockwise’s team coordination in one place. The right choice depends on which Clockwise feature you relied on most, so here is how each tool handles the features that matter.

Detailed Reviews of Clockwise Alternatives

Reclaim.ai: The Closest Direct Replacement

Reclaim.ai is the clearest place to start because it maps most closely to what Clockwise users lost. Clockwise partnered with Reclaim during the shutdown, and Reclaim’s Smart Meetings auto-schedule recurring meetings at the best time for attendees and auto-reschedule when conflicts appear.

How it works. You define habits like “focus time” or “lunch” and tasks with deadlines. Reclaim finds open slots and creates calendar events that look like real meetings to others. When someone books over a Reclaim event, it automatically reschedules to the next available gap.

Strengths. Focus time protection works well day to day. The habit scheduling becomes the feature you miss most when it is gone. Integration with Todoist, Asana, and Linear lets you schedule tasks without duplicating them. The free plan is generous enough to evaluate seriously before paying.

Considerations. Team-wide focus coordination is lighter than Clockwise offered. Reclaim optimizes each person’s calendar individually rather than coordinating across the whole team. The team norms section below has concrete workarounds.

Pricing. Free plan. Starter at $10/user/month, Business at $15/user/month (annual billing).

Best for: Former Clockwise users whose primary need was defended focus blocks and automatic rescheduling of flexible time.

Motion: More Automation Than Clockwise Offered

Motion goes beyond focus-time defense. Its AI Calendar prioritizes tasks, schedules meetings optimally, alerts you when deadlines are at risk, and protects deep work time. It is more of an all-day scheduling engine than a focus-time layer.

How it works. You input tasks with deadlines and time estimates. Motion schedules everything around your meetings, respecting priorities and deadlines. When something changes, it reschedules affected tasks automatically. You open your calendar and see what to work on now.

Strengths. The automation goes beyond what Clockwise did. Where Clockwise defended existing focus blocks, Motion actively schedules new work into optimal slots. Project management features help teams share workload visibility. Auto-rescheduling when meetings shift reduces manual calendar maintenance.

Considerations. You sacrifice control for convenience. If Motion schedules something for 2pm but you would rather do it at 10am, overriding feels like fighting the system. No real team focus-time coordination layer. At $19/month individual, it is among the pricier options.

Pricing. $19/month individual (Pro AI), $29/month per user for teams (Business AI, annual billing).

Best for: Users who loved Clockwise’s automation and want more of it applied to task scheduling, not just focus time defense.

Morgen: AI Planning Without Giving Up Control

Morgen combines calendar aggregation, task integration, and an AI Planner that builds daily plans across your calendars. Its Frames feature lets you define protected work patterns that the planner respects when filling your day.

How it works. Morgen pulls your calendars from Google, Outlook, and CalDAV into a unified view. You add tasks from Todoist, Linear, or its built-in task manager. The AI Planner proposes a daily schedule around your meetings and Frames, and you approve or adjust before it commits.

Strengths. The planning loop keeps you in control: the AI proposes, you confirm. Scheduling links built into the same app mean one fewer tool to manage. Cross-platform support (macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android) is broader than most alternatives.

Considerations. Morgen does not auto-reschedule flexible meetings the way Clockwise did. The AI planning is closer to assisted scheduling than full autopilot.

Pricing. $15/month.

Best for: Users who want AI help building a daily plan but prefer to review and approve before committing.

SkedPal: Personal Deep-Work Protection

SkedPal is built around turning your to-do list into a realistic, adaptive calendar. Its Time Maps let you define when different types of work should happen, and the scheduling engine fills those windows automatically.

How it works. You add tasks with estimated durations, deadlines, and priorities, then assign each to a Time Map (for example, “Deep Work” mapped to mornings, “Admin” mapped to afternoons). SkedPal places tasks into the right windows and reschedules the cascade when things shift.

Strengths. Time Maps give you granular control over where work lands without manually placing every block. Time budgeting ensures you spend the right proportions on different work types. The adaptive rescheduling is closer to Clockwise’s flexible-hold behavior than most alternatives.

Considerations. SkedPal is primarily a personal tool. Team coordination features are limited compared to Reclaim or Motion. The interface is functional but less polished than newer alternatives.

Pricing. $9.95/month.

Best for: Individual users who mainly cared about protected work blocks and intelligent auto-scheduling of tasks into preferred time windows.

Sunsama: Daily Planning Over Autopilot

Sunsama emphasizes the process of planning as much as the output. Each day begins with a guided ritual that helps you choose what matters.

How it works. Sunsama walks you through a daily planning session. You review yesterday, decide what to tackle today, estimate durations, and drag tasks to your calendar. Integration with Asana, Trello, and Jira lets you pull tasks from existing systems.

Strengths. The daily shutdown ritual is genuinely useful. Sunsama prompts you to close the day intentionally, reviewing what you accomplished and what moves to tomorrow. This reflection builds better estimation skills over time. The interface is calm and focused.

Considerations. No automatic rescheduling. If a meeting lands on top of your planned focus block, you rebuild manually. No team focus-time coordination. At $20/month, it is the priciest option here for a primarily manual experience, a gap Sunsama vs. AgendaCraft covers in detail.

Pricing. $20/month (14-day free trial).

Best for: Users who realized after Clockwise shut down that they wanted intentional daily planning more than algorithmic defense.

Google Calendar Focus Time: The Built-In Fallback

Google Calendar includes a native Focus Time event type that auto-declines conflicting meetings and mutes Chat notifications. Focus Time requires an eligible Google Workspace account (work or school), so it is not available on free personal Gmail calendars.

How it works. Create a Focus Time event on your calendar. Google automatically declines meeting invitations that overlap with it and sets your status to “do not disturb.” You can make these recurring to protect the same hours each week.

Strengths. Free for teams already on Google Workspace, zero setup, and no new tool to onboard. Focus Time events are visible to colleagues who check your availability before booking.

Considerations. No automatic rescheduling. If a meeting overrides your focus block, the block is gone and you must recreate it manually. No task integration. No team-level coordination beyond what colleagues choose to respect. This is a single feature, not a full Clockwise replacement, and it does not restore flexible meeting rescheduling.

Pricing. Free with eligible Google Workspace accounts.

Best for: Teams already on Google Workspace that need a zero-cost fallback while evaluating the tools above.

Honorable Mentions

• Cal.com: scheduling platform with availability rules, buffer times, and team routing. Strong for booking-time prevention and meeting coordination, but its job is controlling who can book when, not ongoing calendar defense. The commercial product now runs on a private codebase; the open-source community version continues as Cal.diy.
• Akiflow: command-bar-driven universal inbox and time-blocking planner. Good for consolidating work from multiple sources, but positioned around inbox management, not flexible meeting automation.

A different philosophy. If you are reevaluating whether you want autopilot scheduling at all, AgendaCraft takes a controlled-automation approach: it schedules tasks based on deadlines and calendar availability, then pauses for you to review and adjust before committing. It is not a Clockwise replacement, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. See Motion vs. AgendaCraft for how this approach compares to full automation.

If Reclaim is your pick, the next section walks through migrating your Clockwise setup step by step.

Migrate Your Clockwise Setup to Reclaim.ai

If you decide to move to Reclaim (which is what most former Clockwise users and the Clockwise team itself recommend), here is how each Clockwise feature maps over. Do them in order.

1. Focus Time → Reclaim Habits. Create a Focus Time habit in Reclaim with the same daily duration you protected in Clockwise. Set it to high-priority so it resists rescheduling, and pick the same time window (morning or afternoon) you preferred.
2. Flexible Holds → Reclaim Smart Meetings. Any recurring event that used to be a Clockwise Flexible Hold should become a Reclaim Smart Meeting. Reclaim will shift it automatically when conflicts arise, matching Clockwise’s behavior.
3. No-meeting hours → Reclaim Working Hours plus buffer time. Use Reclaim’s working hours to block the no-meeting windows Clockwise enforced, then add buffer time between meetings to preserve context-switching gaps.
4. Slack status → Reclaim Slack integration. Connect Reclaim to Slack so your status auto-updates during focus blocks, the same way Clockwise handled it.
5. Team analytics → no direct equivalent yet. Reclaim shows individual focus stats but not org-wide heat maps. No tool currently replicates Clockwise’s organization-wide scheduling analytics.

Most former Clockwise users can reproduce their core setup in Reclaim by following the steps above. If you are weighing Reclaim against other approaches, Reclaim vs. AgendaCraft covers where they diverge.

That covers individual setup. The harder question is replacing Clockwise’s team-level coordination.

Protect Team Focus Time Without Clockwise

Team-wide focus coordination was Clockwise’s most distinctive feature, and no single tool has replicated it. The good news is that you can rebuild most of it with three explicit team habits.

1. Shared focus hours on a team calendar. Create a shared calendar called “Team Focus Hours” with recurring blocks for the hours your team agrees to protect (for example, 9-11 AM Monday through Thursday). Everyone subscribes. When someone tries to book a meeting during those hours, they see the block and route around it.
2. Reclaim Smart 1:1s for flexible meetings. Use Reclaim Smart 1:1 Meetings for recurring internal syncs that automatically avoid conflicts and protected time for both participants.
3. A Slack reminder at the start of focus hours. Set a Slack workflow that posts a “focus hours starting” message to the team channel at the start of the agreed focus window. Social pressure does most of the work that Clockwise’s automation used to do, and the norm survives any future tool shutdown.

This approach takes more explicit agreement than Clockwise demanded. It is also more resilient, because your calendar app alone isn’t enough to protect focus time without the team buy-in behind it.

With the team layer handled, the last step is matching the right tool to how you actually work.

Choose the Right Replacement for How You Work

The right replacement depends on which Clockwise feature you relied on most.

• Need defended focus blocks and auto-rescheduling? Start with Reclaim.ai. It is what the Clockwise team recommended, and the migration section above walks you through the mapping.
• Want more automation than Clockwise offered? Try Motion. It schedules tasks and meetings for you, not just focus time.
• Want AI planning you can review before it runs? Try Morgen. It proposes a daily plan and waits for your approval.
• Need personal deep-work protection with adaptive scheduling? Try SkedPal. Its Time Maps keep work in preferred windows.
• Prefer guided daily planning over algorithmic defense? Try Sunsama.
• Need a free fallback? Google Calendar Focus Time works for Workspace teams as a starting point while you evaluate the tools above.

Whichever tool you pick, pair it with a team norm. No software replaces the agreement that deep work matters and meetings should not fill every gap. If none of these tools fit, our 2026 guide to time blocking apps covers the full landscape beyond Clockwise replacements.