6 Best Reclaim.ai Alternatives in 2026 (Now That Dropbox Owns It)
Two years ago, Reclaim.ai was one of two AI calendar apps everyone in the productivity subreddits recommended. Then Dropbox bought it in August 2024, and Clockwise, its biggest rival, got acquired by Salesforce and shut down completely in March 2026. If you searched for an AI calendar app this year, there's a good chance you paused before picking one that might not exist in eighteen months.
That worry is fair, and this list isn't a hit piece on Reclaim.ai. It still works fine, and its pricing hasn't changed since the acquisition. But if you want a tool that isn't a feature line inside a bigger company's roadmap, or you just want something cheaper, here are six real alternatives with actual prices, actual limits, and who each one is actually for.
Why are people looking for Reclaim.ai alternatives right now?
Two acquisitions in eighteen months rattled the AI scheduling market. Dropbox bought Reclaim.ai in August 2024 for an undisclosed amount, after Reclaim had raised $9.5 million and grown to more than 320,000 users and 43,000 companies (TechCrunch). All 22 Reclaim employees joined Dropbox, and the company said pricing would stay the same for now.
Then in March 2026, Salesforce acquired Clockwise and shut the product down outright, giving users a hard migration deadline (AI for Automation). That's the second time in two years a standalone AI calendar app got folded into a bigger platform and lost its independent roadmap. If you're still on Reclaim.ai, nothing has changed for you yet, but the pattern is worth watching.
Reclaim.ai's own pricing today: Lite is free for one calendar sync, Starter is $10/month billed yearly, Business is $15/month billed yearly, and Enterprise runs $22/month (Reclaim pricing). None of that is expensive by AI scheduling standards. The alternatives below exist for people who want a different tradeoff: a company not owned by a bigger acquirer, a cheaper plan, or a tool that doesn't try to run your calendar for you.
The 6 best Reclaim.ai alternatives, compared
| Tool | Starting price | Best for | AI auto-scheduling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motion | $19/seat/mo ($12.73 annual) | Teams that want the calendar to plan itself | Yes |
| Akiflow | $19/mo annual ($34/mo monthly) | Living in one universal task inbox | Limited (Aki AI) |
| Sunsama | $20/mo annual ($25/mo monthly) | A daily planning ritual, not automation | No |
| TickTick | $2.99/mo annual | Task management first, calendar second | No |
| Notion Calendar | Free | Notion users who just want a clean calendar | No |
| Arch Calendar | Free, or $4/mo annual | Manual time blocking on a budget | No |
Motion
Motion is the closest match to what Reclaim.ai does: you list your tasks and deadlines, and it rebuilds your calendar automatically whenever something changes. Pro AI runs $19 per seat monthly, or $12.73 annually, and includes 7,500 AI credits a month, task auto-scheduling, and Google or Outlook sync (pricing breakdown). Business jumps to $29 a month for team workload views and task assignment. There's no free plan, only a 7-day trial that asks for a card upfront.
Motion is the pick if what you actually liked about Reclaim.ai was the automation itself, not the price. It's also the most expensive option on this list once you add seats.
Akiflow
Akiflow leans harder into the "universal inbox" idea than Reclaim.ai does. It pulls tasks from Gmail, Slack, Notion, and 18-plus other tools into one drag-and-drop planner, then you block time for them yourself with help from an AI assistant called Aki. Pricing is $34/month, or $19/month billed annually, with no permanent free tier, just a 7-day trial (Akiflow pricing).
If your real problem was tasks scattered across too many apps rather than scheduling itself, Akiflow is solving a different problem than Reclaim.ai was, and it might fit better.
Sunsama
Sunsama is built around a daily planning ritual. Every morning you drag today's tasks from various tools into one list, estimate how long each will take, and commit to a real plan before opening Slack. It raised prices in early 2026 for the first time in about five years, going from $20 to $25/month billed monthly, or $16 to $20/month billed annually (Sunsama pricing update). There's no AI auto-scheduling here on purpose. Sunsama's team has said the friction of manually planning your day is the point, not a bug.
That makes Sunsama an odd fit if you loved Reclaim.ai for its automation, and a strong fit if that same automation stressed you out, which some former Reclaim.ai users report.
TickTick
TickTick is a task manager first and a calendar app second, and it's dramatically cheaper than everything else here. Premium is $35.99/year, about $3/month, and unlocks two-way sync with Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar, plus Kanban boards, habit tracking, and a Pomodoro timer (TickTick pricing). The free tier caps you at nine lists and blocks calendar sync entirely, so most people who stick with TickTick end up paying.
It won't schedule anything for you. What it does well is holding a large, messy task list in one place without falling apart, which is a different job than Reclaim.ai was doing for you.
Notion Calendar
If you already live in Notion, Notion Calendar is free and worth trying before you pay for anything. It's a genuinely well-designed calendar with keyboard shortcuts for nearly everything and a built-in meeting scheduler (Notion Calendar review). What it doesn't have is task management or AI scheduling of any kind, and pulling Notion database items onto the calendar is clunky enough that even people who like the app tend to recommend against it.
Treat Notion Calendar as a calendar replacement, not a Reclaim.ai replacement. It solves a narrower problem.
Arch Calendar
We should say plainly here that we built Arch Calendar, so weigh this entry accordingly. Arch Calendar puts a to-do inbox, a calendar, and notes on one screen. It's free for up to 50 to-do lists and four spaces, or $4/month billed annually for everything unlimited (archcalendar.com). There's no AI auto-scheduling. You drag your own tasks onto your own calendar.
We think that's the right tradeoff for a specific kind of person, not everyone. If you liked Reclaim.ai because it took scheduling off your plate, Arch Calendar will feel like a step backward. If you found yourself fighting the AI's rescheduling decisions, or you don't want to pay $10 to $34 a month for a calendar, it's built for that. It also has a daily wrap-up called Today Zero that compares planned time against actual time, closer to Sunsama's daily ritual than to Motion's automation.
How do you actually move your data off Reclaim.ai?
Reclaim.ai syncs to Google Calendar as real calendar events, not a proprietary format, so your existing meetings and blocked time already live in Google Calendar and will show up in whatever you switch to. What doesn't transfer automatically is your habits, buffer time rules, and task list, since those live inside Reclaim.ai's own system. Export your task list first, then turn off Reclaim.ai's calendar sync before connecting a new tool, so you don't end up with duplicate events on both sides for a week.
FAQ
Is Reclaim.ai shutting down?
No. As of 2026, Reclaim.ai is still operating normally under Dropbox, with unchanged pricing and its original team still working on the product (Reclaim's announcement). The concern people have is about long-term roadmap independence, not an imminent shutdown.
What's the cheapest Reclaim.ai alternative?
Notion Calendar is free but has no task management or AI features. Among tools with real functionality, TickTick at roughly $3/month and Arch Calendar at $4/month are the cheapest paid options, though neither auto-schedules your day the way Reclaim.ai does.
Which alternative is most similar to Reclaim.ai?
Motion is the closest match for automated, AI-driven scheduling, since both tools rebuild your calendar around deadlines automatically. Akiflow is closer if what mattered to you was pulling tasks from many apps into one inbox rather than the automation itself.
Do any of these alternatives sync with Outlook, not just Google Calendar?
Motion, Akiflow, and TickTick all support Outlook alongside Google Calendar. Arch Calendar and Notion Calendar currently support Google Calendar only, so check that first if you run on Microsoft 365.
Should I switch away from Reclaim.ai just because Dropbox owns it now?
Not automatically. Pricing and features haven't changed since the 2024 acquisition. The Clockwise shutdown in 2026 is a reasonable reason to have a backup plan in mind, but it isn't evidence the same thing is about to happen to Reclaim.ai.