Motion alternatives
Motion schedules tasks, projects and meetings onto your calendar automatically, for one person or a whole team. The alternatives below differ in how much they decide for you, from rearranging your calendar on their own to handing you a list and leaving the rest to you.
Each app is described from its own public pages, checked on 28 September 2026. Nothing here is ranked, and prices and plans are left out because they change often. If something has changed, write to us and it will be corrected.
Sailyn is our product and is in this list; the others are not ours.
Reclaim
An AI planner that places tasks, habits, meetings and focus time on your Google or Outlook calendar and moves them when your day changes. For teams it finds meeting times from everyone's calendars.
Suits you if you live in Google Calendar or Outlook and want it rearranged for you.
Sunsama
A daily planner that walks you through planning each day and reviewing each week. It pulls tasks in from tools such as Todoist, Trello, Asana, Jira and Slack so you can drag them onto your calendar, and has a focus mode. It runs on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux.
Suits you if you want to plan your day yourself, with a routine that guides you through it.
Todoist
A task list that understands dates written in plain words, such as every Monday at 9, with projects to group tasks. It runs on the web, iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux.
Suits you if you mostly need somewhere reliable to put everything, and will decide the order yourself.
Structured
A visual day planner that lays tasks and calendar events out on one timeline, with an inbox for new ideas, subtasks and a Pomodoro timer. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Android.
Suits you if seeing your day as a picture helps you more than a list.
Sailyn
A planner for one person that plans the week around what is fixed in it, from a sentence you type, and says plainly when the work does not fit. Instead of a calendar full of blocks it shows one task with the reason it was picked, runs the session and pays you for starting. It reads a connected Google or Apple calendar, or any calendar link, and can write its plan into a calendar of its own.
Suits you if you have a plan and still cannot start, or a timetable and deadlines that have to share one week.
The longer comparison with Sailyn
Sailyn is free while in beta and runs in a browser, so there is nothing to install to try it.
Know what you need to do, but can't get started? Sailyn gives you one next step, a plan that adapts, and no penalty for difficult days.