May 8, 2026 · Jason Madhosingh

Clockwise Alternatives in 2026: 8 Options Worth Considering

Clockwise shut down March 27, 2026 after Salesforce acquired it. Here are the 7 best alternatives for focus time, scheduling, and lunch protection.

Clockwise shut down on March 27, 2026, six months after Salesforce acquired the company. The migration window closed in April. Active users are now looking for a replacement.

The short answer:

For AI-driven focus time across your full calendar: Reclaim.ai is the closest functional successor.
For task and meeting auto-scheduling: Motion is the strongest direct competitor.
For protecting lunch specifically (the single use case Clockwise users mention most): CovertLunch is the only product that does this with realistic, randomized fake meetings.

Below is a feature-by-feature breakdown of each.

What Clockwise Actually Did

Clockwise auto-rearranged your team's meetings to create longer focus blocks, protected "lunch holds," and synced across teammates so meetings clustered into back-to-back groups. Its lunch protection used transparently labeled "Lunch" blocks, which worked reasonably well at small companies and failed often at large ones.

The product had ~150,000 active users at acquisition. Most of them had been using it for a single feature, not the whole platform.

If your only use case was lunch protection, you do not need a full focus-time scheduler to replace it. You need a lunch-specific tool. Skip to section 7.

If you used the full feature set, read on.

1. Reclaim.ai

The most complete Clockwise successor. Reclaim auto-schedules focus time, habits (recurring personal blocks like "lunch" or "workout"), tasks, and 1:1s. It integrates with Google Calendar and Microsoft 365.

What it does well: AI scheduling across multiple priorities. Strong task-to-calendar pipeline. Free tier covers solo use.

What it does not: Reclaim's lunch habit is labeled visibly as "Lunch" with a Reclaim-branded event icon. Coworkers see it as a Reclaim block and treat it as soft. It is not designed for camouflage.

Price: Free for individuals. Pro $10/seat/month. Business $15/seat/month.

Best for: Replacing Clockwise's full feature set if you used team scheduling and focus time defragmentation.

Reclaim ↗

2. Motion

AI calendar that auto-schedules tasks alongside meetings. Stronger than Reclaim at task prioritization. Weaker at team scheduling.

What it does well: Tasks and meetings unified in a single AI-driven schedule. Project planning features.

What it does not: Team coordination (Reclaim is better here). Motion is also significantly more expensive.

Price: $19/seat/month individual. $12/seat/month team.

Best for: Solo executives or consultants who want one tool for tasks + calendar.

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3. Morgen

Calendar aggregation across Google, Microsoft, iCloud, and Fastmail. Less AI, more pragmatic.

What it does well: Multi-calendar view. Good keyboard shortcuts. Strong privacy posture.

What it does not: No auto-scheduling. No focus-time defragmentation. You manage your time, Morgen just shows it.

Price: Free for basic. $14/month for Pro.

Best for: People who want better calendar UX without the AI overhead.

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4. Akiflow

Task and calendar consolidation tool. Targets the "command center" user who lives in a single keyboard-driven app.

What it does well: Inbox-to-calendar workflow. Strong third-party integrations (Notion, Asana, Linear, Todoist).

What it does not: Lunch protection. Focus-time defragmentation across team members.

Price: $15/month individual.

Best for: Productivity power users with task input from many sources.

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5. Sunsama

Mindful daily planner. Pulls tasks from Gmail, Slack, Asana, Trello, GitHub, and others into a single daily agenda.

What it does well: Forces a planning ritual at the start of each day. Calm, considered UX.

What it does not: Real-time auto-rescheduling. Aggressive lunch protection.

Price: $20/month.

Best for: Knowledge workers who want a daily planning practice, not an automated scheduler.

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6. Google Calendar Native Focus Time

Google added a native Focus Time event type in 2022. It is free, built-in, and largely ignored.

What it does well: Free. No new tool to install. Auto-declines conflicts if you turn it on.

What it does not: Anything dynamic. The block does not move. The block does not protect lunch specifically. Coworkers learn the pattern and book over it within a few weeks.

Price: Free with Google Workspace.

Best for: People who do not want to install another tool and accept that the protection is weak.

7. CovertLunch (For Lunch Protection Only)

CovertLunch is a Chrome extension built for one job: keep people from booking over your lunch hour.

Instead of a transparently labeled block, CovertLunch writes one to three realistic-looking fake meetings into your calendar every day across your lunch window. Different titles, different durations, different start times. They look indistinguishable from real meetings on your calendar.

What it does well:

Camouflage. The block is unrecognizable as a lunch hold.
Randomization. Daily variation breaks the pattern that gets routed around.
Privacy. The extension runs locally in Chrome. Nothing leaves your browser.
Price. $29.99 lifetime or $1.99/month for the cloud version.

What it does not:

Reschedule existing meetings. CovertLunch only protects the lunch window; it does not move other events.
Coordinate across team members. There is no team scheduling logic.
Replace Reclaim or Motion. If you need full AI scheduling, you need both.

Price: $29.99 lifetime for the Chrome extension. $1.99/month or $19.99/year for the cloud version. 7-day free trial on each.

Best for: Anyone whose Clockwise use was 80% lunch protection.

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Quick Comparison Table

Tool	Focus Time	Lunch Camouflage	Team Sync	Price
Reclaim.ai	Yes	Visible block only	Yes	$10/mo
Motion	Yes	No	Limited	$19/mo
Morgen	No	No	No	$14/mo
Akiflow	No	No	No	$15/mo
Sunsama	No	No	No	$20/mo
Google Focus Time	Basic	No	No	Free
CovertLunch	No	Yes	No	$29.99 lifetime

Why This Matters in 2026

According to ezCater's 2025 follow-up to its Lunch Report, 51% of employees skip lunch at least once a week. Of those, 20% specifically cite "too many meetings" as the reason. The Clockwise shutdown removed one of the few tools that addressed this directly. The replacement market is unsettled and the dedicated lunch-protection slot is largely unoccupied.

If you spent the last few years training your team to respect a Clockwise lunch hold and now have nothing in its place, the camouflage approach is faster to adopt than retraining your organization on Reclaim's habits feature.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why did Clockwise shut down?

Salesforce acquired Clockwise in late 2025 and folded its core team into Slack's calendar group. The standalone Clockwise product was discontinued on March 27, 2026, with a 30-day migration window for active users.

Will any of these tools auto-import my Clockwise data?

Reclaim.ai has a Clockwise import path documented in their help center. Motion does not. CovertLunch does not require import: it only creates new calendar events going forward.

What is the closest one-for-one Clockwise replacement?

Reclaim.ai. It has the same auto-rescheduling philosophy and the same target user. The lunch-specific protection is weaker than Clockwise's was.

Can I use CovertLunch alongside Reclaim.ai?

Yes. Reclaim handles focus time and habits across your full calendar. CovertLunch handles the lunch window with stronger camouflage. They do not conflict because CovertLunch only writes to the lunch window and only writes new events.

Do any of these tools work with Microsoft 365?

Reclaim, Motion, Morgen, and Akiflow all support Microsoft 365. CovertLunch's Chrome extension supports Google Calendar today; Microsoft 365 support ships in the cloud version.