7 Reclaim AI Alternatives, Compared by What They Actually Charge You For

Reclaim.ai is a competent product with an unusual bill. Before you compare a single feature, read its pricing page twice, because Reclaim charges on two axes and only one of them is a seat you control.

The real reason people leave Reclaim.ai

The first axis is the obvious one. Reclaim is priced per seat, and each tier caps how many seats you may have: Starter is capped at up to 10 seats, Business at up to 100, Enterprise is for over 100. The free Lite tier is described in Reclaim's own words as a "1 user team".

The second axis is the one no other roundup mentions. Reclaim's pricing page also sells Attendee Users, which it defines as attendees without a paid Reclaim seat who get pulled into Smart Meetings with three or more people. They are sold in packs on top of your seats: an additional three AUs on Starter is listed at $8 per month, six at $16, nine at $24, twelve at $32, and each pack throws in one free seat. A launch promotion printed on the same page makes AUs free through July 31st. Read what that implies. Once the promo lapses, the bill can grow because of colleagues who never signed up for Reclaim, and it grows in three-person steps.

The third thing you are buying is time, literally: how far ahead the scheduler is allowed to look. Lite optimises one week into the future. Starter buys an eight-week scheduling range. Business and Enterprise buy twelve. Lite also caps you at two connected calendars, one calendar sync and one scheduling link. If Reclaim keeps shuffling this week and never touches next month, that is the plan working as sold, not a bug.

Fourth, the price columns reward a slow read. Each paid plan shows two figures and both are labelled "per seat/month": Starter at $10 and $12, Business at $15 and $18, under a toggle marked "Yearly - SAVE 20%". I am not going to tell you which column is which, because the page prints them ambiguously. What you can check without deciding that is the arithmetic: 20% off $12 would be $9.60, not $10, so the twenty per cent has been added to the cheaper number rather than taken off the dearer one. Enterprise is quoted at $22 per seat/month and, on the other view, simply reads "Unavailable on monthly plans".

Finally, the calendar rows in Reclaim's own comparison table cover Google Calendar support and Outlook Calendar support. There is no iCloud row anywhere on the page. If your life lives in Apple Calendar, the product cannot see it.

One more piece of context explains why this search is busy at all. Clockwise, the other well-known automatic calendar optimiser, shut down on March 27, 2026 when its team joined Salesforce. It removed the Smart Holds it had created, deleted user data, and pointed its customers at Reclaim with a price-match offer. A large share of the people currently inside Reclaim never chose it.

How I picked these

Every price, cap and limit below comes from the vendor's own pricing page, read in August 2026. No review-site aggregates: they go stale, and they routinely get the billing unit wrong, which is the only number that decides your invoice. I dropped candidates I could not source first-hand, and I dropped Clockwise because the product no longer exists. Each entry names what the money is charged against, because seat, person, task and window are not interchangeable words. Each one also gets a catch, including ours, which is last and which we build.

The short version

• Morgen is the closest like-for-like swap and the only tool here whose calendar support reaches iCloud and Fastmail.
• Sunsama is for people whose complaint was that a robot chose for them.
• Akiflow collapses every task source into one bar, and has the steepest month-to-month price.
• SkedPal is the purest surviving auto-scheduler, and it prices the scheduling window itself.
• Trevor AI is the cheap one, and the only alternative here with a genuine free tier.
• Vimcal is for people who decided they never wanted an algorithm in the calendar at all.
• Notis is ours: it does the work the meetings are about, and it does not auto-schedule anything.

1. Morgen — the closest thing to a like-for-like swap

Morgen does AI-assisted time blocking, calendar automations and booking links, with unlimited calendar and task integrations on every plan. Individually it is $30 per month billed monthly, or $15 per month billed yearly, which its own card describes as "Save 50% compared to Monthly". Teams are $25 per seat per month billed monthly or $10 per seat per month billed yearly, with a minimum of two seats. There is a 30-day full refund, not pro-rated.

The reason it tops this list is a line in Morgen's own FAQ: its Assist workflows run directly against your Google, Outlook, iCloud and Fastmail calendars, with or without the Morgen app. That is the gap Reclaim's Google-and-Outlook table leaves open, and it is the single most common reason I see people bounce off Reclaim in the first week.

The catch: the friendly $15 is an annual-commitment price. Month to month, Morgen doubles to $30, the widest monthly-versus-yearly gap of anything in this comparison, and the pricing page offers no free plan at all.

2. Sunsama — if the problem was that the robot chose for you

Sunsama inverts the premise. Instead of an engine that drops blocks into your week, it walks you through a daily planning ritual: pull tasks in from your tools, estimate them, and commit to a realistic day. One Pro plan, priced per person: $17 per month billed yearly, or $22 per month billed monthly. Fourteen-day trial, no credit card, unlimited usage and integrations, with AI, MCP and Zapier included.

It is also refreshingly blunt about the business model. The page states outright that Sunsama "doesn't have a free forever plan and doesn't plan to", on the argument that free plans create bad incentives.

The catch: there is no free tier and the meter is a person, so inviting one teammate doubles the bill. Worth knowing too: the FAQ further down that same pricing page still quotes an older $25 per month per person and $20 per month yearly, so confirm the figure you are actually charged at checkout.

3. Akiflow — one inbox for every task source

Akiflow's pitch is consolidation. Tasks, subtasks, meetings and integrations land in a single command bar you drag onto the calendar, with an Aki AI assistant and an MCP connector included on both plans. Pro Monthly is $34 per month billed monthly; Pro Yearly is $19 per month billed yearly, flagged as a promo with "Save 44% yearly". The trial is seven days. Team pricing is a conversation with sales, and there are discounts for students and researchers on request.

If your actual pain with Reclaim was that your tasks live in six places and Reclaim only syncs some of them into blocks, this is the shape of tool that fixes it.

The catch: $34 is the highest month-to-month price in this roundup, the seven-day trial is the shortest, and the attractive $19 is both an annual commitment and explicitly labelled a promo, which means it is the number most likely to move.

4. SkedPal — the purest auto-scheduler left

SkedPal is the one that most resembles what Reclaim actually does: you describe priorities, time budgets and time zones for different kinds of work, and it lays the plan onto your calendar and re-lays it when reality intrudes. Core is $9.95 and Pro is $14.95, both printed "per month billed annually". The trial is fourteen days with no credit card required.

Note how it segments the tiers, because it is the same axis Reclaim uses and it is honest about it: Core schedules inside a 21-day AI window with one calendar sync account; Pro extends the window to 60 days with unlimited accounts, and adds instant schedule updates, a status tracker, smart notifications and time tracking.

The catch: both headline prices are quoted on an annual commitment, and Core's 21-day horizon is shorter than the eight weeks Reclaim's Starter tier gives you, so the cheap tier is cheap partly because it thinks less far ahead.

5. Trevor AI — the cheapest way to keep time-blocking

Trevor is a lightweight day planner: a task hub, a synced calendar view, AI scheduling suggestions you accept with one click, and integrations with Todoist, Google Tasks and Microsoft To Do. There is a free tier for personal use. Pro is $5 per month paid annually, or $6 per month paid monthly, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

For a solo user who liked Reclaim's habits and focus blocks but resented paying seat prices for a team of one, this is the least painful landing spot on the list.

The catch: the pricing is hedged in ways I would want cleared up before subscribing. The page says the price shown "may includes a 25% discount, applied on Sign Up" and that a "7 day trial may be included", so the number you land on is not fully knowable in advance. Connecting more than one calendar account is a Pro feature, and pricing lives on the homepage rather than a dedicated page.

6. Vimcal — for people who want a fast calendar, not an algorithm

Some Reclaim refugees do not want a different scheduler; they want the scheduler gone and the calendar itself to stop being slow. Vimcal is a keyboard-first calendar with multi-time-zone conversion, booking links and polls. The iOS-only tier is free. The full iOS and desktop experience is $20 per month, or $16.67 per month on yearly billing, with the page noting savings of up to 16%; the FAQ puts it as "$20/month or $200/year". Vimcal EA, aimed at executive assistants, is $75 per month or $62.50 per month yearly, and adds delegated scheduling, auto-created and auto-deleted holds, calendar audits and one-click handoff between assistants.

The catch: it does not auto-schedule tasks. No focus-time defence, no habit placement, no rescheduling engine. And the free tier is an iPhone app, so on a laptop you are on a paid plan from day one.

7. Notis — when the calendar was never the problem

Disclosure: Notis is our product, which is why it is at the bottom and why the catch below is longer than the pitch.

Notis is a personal assistant you message from WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack or email, or reach from your coding agent. It connects to over a thousand apps, including your calendar, so it can read the week and book things, but the reason to look at it after Reclaim is different: it does the work the meetings are about. Draft the reply, update the CRM, write the doc, run the automation on a schedule.

The pricing unit is a task, not a seat. Pro is $20 a month and includes $20 of usage, Pro+ is $59 and Ultra is $149, each including that much usage. Notis publishes the rate: quick tasks 1 to 5 cents, everyday tasks around 9 cents, heavy runs around 19 cents, so Pro's allowance is roughly 230 tasks a month. The CLI is $0 forever. Cloud Computer time is the thing that changes across tiers, at one hour a month on Pro, three on Pro+ and uncapped on Ultra.

The catch: Notis has no auto-scheduling engine. It will not defend focus time, place habits, or rearrange your week when a meeting moves. If that specific behaviour is why you pay Reclaim, pick Morgen or SkedPal instead. On top of that, the free plan is the CLI only, so the messaging channels most people want begin at $20 a month, and because usage is metered, a heavy month genuinely costs more than a flat seat would.

Which one should you choose

• Your calendars are on iCloud or Fastmail: Morgen, and it is not close.
• Attendee Users are what broke the budget: anything else here, since none of them bill for people without accounts.
• You want the auto-scheduling but cheaper: SkedPal on Pro if you need a 60-day horizon, Trevor AI if a solo free tier is enough.
• The robot kept putting the wrong thing at the wrong time: Sunsama, which makes you decide on purpose.
• Your tasks are scattered across six tools: Akiflow, if you can stomach $34 month to month.
• You want the algorithm out of your calendar: Vimcal.
• The calendar was fine and the work was the bottleneck: Notis, ours, with the caveat above.

My verdict

Reclaim is not overpriced so much as priced on axes that are easy to miss until the invoice arrives: seats you cap, attendees you do not control, and a scheduling horizon you rent by the tier. If you are leaving because of the seat mathematics, Morgen is the swap that costs you the least behaviour change, provided you can commit to a year. If you are leaving because the automation itself was wrong for you, the honest move is to stop buying automation: Sunsama or Vimcal. And if you look at your week and realise the blocks were never the bottleneck, the meetings were producing work nobody had time to do, then a scheduler of any kind is the wrong purchase and something that executes is the right one.

Sources and research notes

Prices and limits were read directly from each vendor in August 2026: Reclaim.ai pricing, the Clockwise shutdown notice, Morgen pricing, Sunsama pricing, Akiflow pricing, SkedPal pricing, Trevor AI features and pricing, Vimcal pricing and Notis pricing. No aggregator or review-directory listing was used as a source for any figure. Promotional prices, promo labels and trial lengths move; the billing unit each vendor charges against moves far less, which is why this piece leads with the unit.