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Motion

AI scheduling app that takes your tasks and projects and automatically timeblocks them onto your calendar, replanning your day whenever something changes.

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What it does

Motion is built around a single idea: instead of you manually timeblocking a task list onto your calendar every morning, the AI does it for you, and keeps redoing it as your day changes. You add tasks, projects, and deadlines, and Motion’s scheduling engine finds room for them on your actual calendar, automatically replanning around new meetings, shifting priorities, or unfinished work rather than leaving you to manually reshuffle. Its Business tier extends the same idea to teams, adding capacity planning and workload dashboards on top of the individual scheduling engine.

Ideal users

  • People with a long, shifting task list who want it automatically scheduled rather than manually timeblocked every day
  • Freelancers and professionals juggling multiple projects who need realistic daily plans that adjust as priorities change
  • Small teams and managers who want basic capacity planning and workload visibility across the team (Business tier)

Who should avoid it

  • You want a lightweight tool — Motion is one of the more expensive and feature-dense options in this category
  • You mainly need calendar defense against meetings, not task-to-calendar scheduling — Reclaim.ai is more targeted for that
  • You'd rather plan your own day manually with intention than hand scheduling fully to an algorithm — Sunsama fits that better

Key features

  • AI Tasks and AI Projects that automatically prioritize and timeblock work onto your calendar
  • AI Calendar that replans your schedule dozens of times a day as tasks, meetings, and priorities shift
  • AI Meetings for scheduling coordination
  • AI Docs, Wiki, and Notes for lightweight project documentation
  • Team capacity planning, dashboards, and Gantt/timeline views (Business tier)
  • Time tracking and access controls (Business tier)

Pros

  • Fully automated scheduling removes the daily manual work of timeblocking a task list
  • Handles shifting priorities well — replans automatically rather than requiring you to manually reshuffle
  • Business tier adds real team capacity planning, not just individual scheduling
  • Broad feature set (docs, notes, meetings) reduces the need for separate lightweight project tools

Cons

  • One of the pricier tools in this category, especially at the Business tier
  • AI usage is credit-metered (7,500/month on Pro, 15,000/month on Business), which can feel restrictive for heavy users
  • Full automation means less direct control over exactly when things get scheduled compared to a manual planner like Sunsama
  • Best value requires committing to Motion as your primary task manager rather than just layering it on top of another one

Pricing

Paid — $19/seat/month (Pro AI)

As of mid-2026: Pro AI is $19/seat/month ($12.73/month billed annually), including 7,500 AI credits/seat/month. Business AI is $29/seat/month ($19.43/month billed annually), including 15,000 AI credits/seat/month and team capacity planning, advanced dashboards, Gantt/timeline charts, time tracking, and access controls. A 7-day free trial is available on both. Motion also markets pre-built 'AI Employees' (e.g. for sales or marketing roles) as a separate offering, but Motion's own pricing page lists only Pro AI and Business AI, with no published AI Employees tiers or prices — confirm directly on usemotion.com/pricing before citing any AI Employees pricing.

Typical workflows

  • A freelancer adds every task and deadline to Motion; the AI timeblocks them onto the calendar automatically, and when a new urgent task or meeting comes in, Motion replans the rest of the day around it without manual reshuffling.
  • A small team manager uses Motion Business to see team capacity across projects and rebalance workload before someone becomes overbooked.

Integrations

  • Google Calendar and Outlook/Microsoft 365
  • Mobile and desktop apps
  • Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, iCloud Calendar, Siri, and Zapier; Motion does not offer native integrations with task managers like Todoist, Jira, or Asana the way Akiflow and Reclaim do, though those can be connected via Zapier or Motion's API

Frequently asked questions

Does Motion replace my task manager and calendar, or work alongside them?

It's designed to be used as your primary task manager and calendar, since its core value is automatically scheduling tasks it holds directly — it gets less useful the more your real task list lives somewhere else that Motion can't see.

What happens when my schedule changes during the day?

Motion's AI Calendar replans automatically, described as happening dozens of times a day, moving unfinished or lower-priority tasks to make room for new meetings or urgent items rather than requiring you to manually reshuffle your day.

Is Motion worth it for a solo user, or is it built for teams?

The Pro AI tier is aimed at individuals and small teams and covers the core scheduling engine; Business AI adds team-specific features like capacity planning and dashboards that a solo user generally doesn't need.

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