Reclaim.ai Alternatives in 2026: For Phones, iCloud or Fewer Apps

The best Reclaim.ai alternative depends on which part of Reclaim isn't fitting. Morgen covers phones and more calendar services, including iCloud. Akiflow starts from one inbox of tasks pulled in from your other tools. Google Calendar's own focus time and booking pages cover the basics without another subscription for some Workspace users. Merlin, our own app for the Mac, helps with the prep and follow-up around your meetings rather than rearranging the calendar.

Reclaim is good at what it was built for, and plenty of people should stay. This page sets out what it does well, the specific limits that send people looking, one alternative for each of those limits, and a table of published prices and platforms so you can compare without opening a dozen tabs.

What Reclaim does well

Reclaim.ai is an AI calendar assistant that schedules work, meetings and personal time on top of the Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar you already use. Its homepage lists the pieces: Focus Time that protects a weekly goal for deep work, Habits that find time for recurring routines, Tasks placed on your calendar with flexible timing, Smart Meetings that find a time for every attendee, Scheduling Links, Calendar Sync that blocks time across calendars, Buffer Time around meetings, and time tracking.

The current version leans further into automation with control kept in your hands. Reclaim's 2.0 FAQ says anyone who signed up after May 2026 is on Reclaim 2.0, which combines a full calendar view called the Planner, a chat-based AI Assistant, and background Agents for habits, buffers, focus and meeting load. Changes from the assistant land in a Preview Mode first, so nothing moves on your live calendar, and no attendee is notified, until you apply them. Reclaim can also be reached from other AI tools through MCP, a standard way for AI assistants to connect to other apps.

It connects to the task tools many teams already run. The homepage names Todoist, Asana, Jira, ClickUp, Linear and Google Tasks, plus Slack status sync, Zoom and Raycast. On data, Reclaim says it holds SOC 2 Type II certification and does not train AI on customer data.

Reclaim also has a real free plan. On the pricing page, Lite is free for one user, with a one-week scheduling range, one calendar sync, one Scheduling Link and two connected calendars. Paid seats cost $10 a month on Starter or $15 on Business when billed yearly, and $12 or $18 billed monthly; Enterprise is $22 a seat, yearly only. For a team on Google or Outlook that wants meetings and focus time arranged automatically, Reclaim remains a strong choice, and its Smart Meetings are the feature to weigh hardest before leaving.

Reasons to switch from Reclaim

Most reasons for leaving Reclaim come down to five documented limits or preferences:

• No native phone app. Reclaim's mobile help article says it doesn't have native apps for iOS or Android today. The workaround is to add the web app to your home screen, or edit Reclaim's events from Google's own calendar app on the phone.
• Two calendar services. Reclaim works with Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar. If your personal life runs on iCloud, it sits outside what Reclaim schedules around.
• The free plan plans one week ahead. Lite's scheduling range is one week; Starter reaches eight weeks and Business twelve. Unlimited Scheduling Links, unlimited calendar syncs, delegated access for assistants and the team out-of-office calendar start on Business.
• You'd rather decide where tasks go. Some people want their task list in front of them and drag work into the day themselves, with automation as an option rather than the default.
• The calendar was never the bottleneck. If what slips is the prep before a meeting or the follow-up after it, a better-arranged calendar doesn't fix that.

One more reason is arriving rather than leaving. Clockwise's own site says its product is no longer available as of March 27, 2026, and Reclaim's Clockwise comparison offers former Clockwise accounts a price match. If you came to this page from Clockwise, Reclaim does most of what Clockwise did, and the options below are worth a look before you settle.

Ownership changed too, though the product didn't. Reclaim's announcement from August 20, 2024 says Dropbox acquired the company, that Reclaim will keep getting new features, and that no changes to pricing or support were planned.

Four Reclaim alternatives and who each one fits

Morgen: for native phone apps and more calendar services

Morgen is a calendar app with an AI Planner for time blocking, built for people whose calendars live in more than one place. Its pricing page lists unlimited calendar connections on every plan, naming Google Calendar, Outlook and Microsoft 365, and iCloud, with Apple Calendar and Fastmail in the FAQ. Tasks come in from Notion, Todoist, Linear, ClickUp, Obsidian, Google Tasks and Microsoft To Do, among others.

Platforms are Morgen's clearest edge over Reclaim: Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and a browser for individuals. The Individual plan costs $30 a month billed monthly or $15 a month billed yearly, and includes the AI Planner, booking pages and scheduling links. Teams pay $25 a seat monthly or $10 a seat yearly, with a two-seat minimum. Morgen lists no free plan, but offers a 14-day trial with no card and 15% off the first year for people switching from Reclaim.

Morgen fits someone who plans on a phone as much as a laptop, or keeps a family calendar in iCloud next to a work calendar in Google. A team that leans on Reclaim's Smart Meetings should check Morgen's team plan against those needs before switching.

Akiflow: for one inbox of tasks from every tool

Akiflow is a time-blocking planner built around a Universal Inbox that collects work from the tools you already use. Its integrations page lists Gmail, Slack, Notion, Asana, ClickUp, Trello, Todoist, Jira, GitHub, Linear, Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Teams and Outlook Email, with Google, Outlook and iCloud calendars. From that inbox you schedule tasks onto the calendar in one click, or let it time-block the day for you, per the Akiflow homepage, which also introduces Aki, an AI assistant for daily briefings, reminders and voice commands.

The pricing page lists one Pro plan: $34 a month billed monthly, or $19 a month billed yearly ($228 a year). There is no free plan, and the 7-day trial needs a card and turns into the chosen subscription unless you cancel. An AI Meeting Assistant add-on costs $19 a month. Akiflow's download page offers Mac and Windows desktop apps, iOS and Android apps, and the web; the mobile apps require installing the desktop app first.

Akiflow fits someone whose tasks arrive from Slack messages, emails and three project tools at once, and who wants to triage them before deciding when to do them. It costs more than Reclaim per person and has no published team price.

Google Calendar's own tools: for fewer apps

Google Calendar already covers two of Reclaim's headline features, with conditions. Focus time in Google Calendar blocks time and can automatically decline new and existing meetings during it, according to Google's help page. Personal Gmail accounts don't get it; Google lists Workspace Business Standard or Plus, Enterprise, Education and Nonprofits as the editions that include it.

Appointment schedules give you a booking page with durations and availability you set. Google's appointment schedule guide says they work with personal and Workspace accounts, that some features need an eligible Workspace or Google One subscription, and that schedules can't be created in the Calendar app on Android, iPhone or iPad.

This route fits someone on a qualifying Workspace plan who mostly used Reclaim for focus blocks and one booking link. It won't place tasks or habits for you, or reschedule them when a meeting moves. Our guide to using Google Calendar walks through the setup, and automating Google Calendar covers default alerts and a daily agenda.

Merlin: for the work around your calendar

Merlin is our product, and it is not a scheduling engine. It's an assistant for the Mac that reads your Google calendars and Gmail and helps with what surrounds each meeting. Shortly before an event starts (around ten minutes), a Meeting Brief lands in chat with attendee backgrounds, earlier discussions, commitments and agenda ideas. Each morning at eight, the Daily Digest covers important mail, the day's events across every connected Google account, and pending tasks. On paid plans, Calendar Sync tells you when a meeting is added, moved or cancelled, and who answered an invite.

Merlin's To-do panel gathers open tasks from Linear, Notion, Todoist and Granola, plus anything you ask Merlin to note down. After each sync it ranks them, weighing each app's priority, due dates and what's on your calendar over the next few days. Ask in chat and Merlin can check when colleagues are free, create, move or cancel an event, or answer an invite. You see the change first and confirm it; the calendar stays as it is until you do.

The limits matter if you're replacing Reclaim. Merlin doesn't defend focus time, place habits or move your tasks onto the calendar on its own, and it doesn't schedule group meetings automatically. There's no Windows or phone version, and it connects Google accounts only (up to two free, up to five once you pay), with no Outlook support. The free plan renews 5,000 credits monthly and asks for no card. Pro is $29 monthly, or 20% less when paid for the year, and there are no trials.

Because Reclaim writes its blocks to your Google Calendar, the two can run side by side: Reclaim arranges the week, and Merlin preps you for what's in it.

Reclaim vs. Morgen vs. Akiflow vs. Google Calendar vs. Merlin

Prices are in US dollars for one person, taken from each company's own pricing page. "Yearly" means the monthly rate when billed annually.

How to choose

1. You need it on your phone. Morgen or Akiflow, both with native iOS and Android apps. Reclaim works in a phone browser and its events can be edited from Google's calendar app, but there's no native Reclaim app.
2. Your calendars aren't all Google or Outlook. Morgen connects iCloud and Fastmail as well.
3. Your tasks start in Slack and email. Akiflow's inbox is built for that intake step. Reclaim's integrations work best when tasks already live in Todoist, Asana, Jira, ClickUp or Linear.
4. You mostly wanted focus blocks and a booking link. Check whether your Google Workspace plan includes Focus time before paying for another tool.
5. Your team schedules across many people. Stay with Reclaim; its Smart Meetings and Business features are what the others don't match.
6. Meetings are booked fine, but you walk in unprepared. Merlin, if your desk is a Mac and your calendars are Google's, alongside whatever arranges your week.

Moving off Reclaim

Reclaim schedules on top of your existing calendar, so your real meetings stay in Google Calendar or Outlook when you leave. What you'll rebuild is the setup: your focus goal, habits and their time windows, buffer rules and Scheduling Links. Write those down before you cancel, and give anyone who books you through a Reclaim link the new link first.

Your tasks stay in the tool they came from. If Reclaim pulled them from Todoist, Asana or Linear, they're still there, and Morgen, Akiflow and Merlin can each read Todoist and Linear directly. Give the new tool a couple of real weeks next to Reclaim's free plan before cancelling a paid seat.