If you logged into Clockwise in late March 2026, you already know the bad news: the app is gone. Salesforce hired the Clockwise team for its Agentforce group on March 24, and the product was shut down three days later on March 27 — along with Focus Time blocks, Scheduling Links, and Flexible Meetings. Eight million hours of blocked deep work and 23 million optimized meetings were wiped from calendars in a single week.

If your team ran on Clockwise, you need a replacement. Not a loose equivalent — something that actually defends focus time, handles team-wide calendar optimization, and doesn’t require a week of retraining. This guide tests the five tools that fit that role in 2026, with real pricing, honest tradeoffs, and a direct migration path for each Clockwise capability.

  • Reclaim.ai is the closest 1-to-1 replacement. It covers every core Clockwise feature (Focus Time defense, scheduling links, Slack sync, team analytics) and adds task and habit scheduling that Clockwise never had.
  • Motion is the right move if you want autopilot. Instead of just reshuffling meetings, Motion rebuilds your entire day from tasks, deadlines, and priorities — and re-plans in real time as things shift.
  • Budget matters. Clockwise Teams was $6.75/user/month. Reclaim Starter is $8/user/month annual, Motion Pro AI is $19/seat/month annual, and Morgen is $15/month individual.
  • The free tier question: Reclaim Lite and Google Calendar are the only free options that defend focus time at all. Motion has no free plan — only a 7-day trial.
  • Migrate before contracts renew. Reclaim offers a 20% discount for Clockwise refugees. Some teams are also looking at Morgen and Sunsama for manual time blocking with less AI aggression.

Why Clockwise shutting down matters

Clockwise’s pitch was simple: instead of asking individuals to protect their own focus time, it looked at the whole team’s calendar and moved flexible meetings around to create uninterrupted blocks for everyone. That team-wide optimization was genuinely unique. Most calendar tools optimize for one person at a time; Clockwise optimized for a department.

That’s why its disappearance stings more than a typical SaaS sunset. Salesforce confirmed on March 23, 2026 that it was hiring the team (not acquiring the technology) and that all services would stop on March 27. No data transfer, no grace period. If you were on the Teams plan at $6.75/user/month, you got a prorated refund and a partnership notice pointing you to Reclaim.ai. Four weeks later, here’s what’s actually working as a replacement.

1. Reclaim.ai — the most direct replacement

Reclaim.ai is the tool Clockwise explicitly pointed users to during shutdown. That’s not marketing fluff — feature-for-feature, it covers the most Clockwise ground.

What it replaces

  • Focus Time defense: Reclaim automatically blocks deep work slots and reschedules them if something urgent lands. Unlike Clockwise’s one-focus-block-per-day limit, Reclaim supports multiple sessions with min/max duration controls and time-of-day preferences.
  • Smart Meetings: Internal and external meetings both reshuffle around conflicts. Clockwise only optimized internal meetings.
  • Scheduling Links: Priority-based — Reclaim’s links flex lower-priority events to surface more open time for important meetings.
  • Slack status sync and team analytics: Both carry over. Workforce analytics show meeting load and focus time trends by person and team.

What Reclaim does that Clockwise never did

Reclaim pulls tasks from six project management tools (Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Todoist, Trello) and schedules them on your calendar automatically. Habits protect recurring routines — lunch, exercise, reading — and shift them based on priority. If you relied on Clockwise to create focus time but kept your tasks in a separate tool, Reclaim closes that gap.

2026 pricing

  • Lite (Free): Focus Time, 1 Habit, 1 Scheduling Link, 1-week range, 2-calendar sync.
  • Starter: $8/user/month annual (up to 10 users) — unlimited habits, Smart Meetings, all task integrations, 3 scheduling links, 8-week range.
  • Business: $12/user/month annual (up to 100 users) — team analytics, OOO calendar, no-meeting-day policies, priority support.
  • Enterprise: $18/user/month annual (100-seat minimum) — SSO, security reviews, custom SLAs.

Clockwise migrants get 20% off for the first year. Try it free at reclaim.ai.

Where it falls short: it’s a calendar tool, not an email or task manager. And Outlook support is newer than Google Calendar support, so some power features still feel Google-first.

2. Motion — for teams that want autopilot

Where Clockwise reshuffled meetings, Motion wants to reshuffle your whole day. Add tasks with deadlines and priorities, and Motion builds every hour of your calendar around them — including time blocks for work, breaks, and recurring rituals. When plans shift, Motion re-plans everything automatically.

Why it’s a step up (and a step sideways) from Clockwise

Clockwise was deliberately lightweight: it optimized flexible meetings and left the rest of your workflow alone. Motion is the opposite — it’s an opinionated system that takes over scheduling decisions for you. That’s great if you have a chaotic to-do list and want an AI to sort it, and rough if you prefer manual control.

Motion also includes project management (Kanban boards, Gantt charts, task dependencies), an AI meeting notetaker, and team workload balancing. You’re getting a full work OS, not just a calendar helper.

2026 pricing

  • Pro AI: $19/seat/month annual ($29 month-to-month) — complete auto-scheduling, 7,500 AI credits/month, 7-day free trial only (no free plan).
  • Business AI: $29/seat/month annual ($49 monthly) — shared team schedules, 15,000 AI credits/month, collaborative task visibility.

A 10-person team on Pro AI pays $2,280/year. Start a trial at usemotion.com.

Where it falls short: no free plan, and the autopilot style can feel controlling — tasks sometimes land in time blocks that don’t match how you actually work. Overkill if all you wanted was focus time.

3. Morgen — for manual blockers who want AI suggestions

Morgen is the antidote to Motion’s autopilot. It unifies Google Calendar, Outlook, iCloud, and Fastmail into one view, pulls tasks from your PM tools, and suggests time blocks — but you stay in control of what actually lands on the calendar.

Ex-Clockwise users who liked seeing their entire week at a glance without an AI rearranging meetings behind their back tend to prefer Morgen. The “Frames” feature lets you set templates for different kinds of work (focused coding, admin batching, interviews) and drag tasks into the right frame manually.

2026 pricing

  • Free: Calendar aggregation across multiple accounts, basic task view.
  • Pro: $15/month individual — AI copilot, Frames, recurring tasks, task integrations.
  • Teams: $25/seat/month — shared scheduling, team availability.

4. Sunsama — if your Clockwise ritual was daily planning

Some Clockwise users never used the focus-time features much — they just opened it each morning to see their day laid out and pick what mattered. If that’s you, Sunsama is worth a look.

Sunsama is a guided daily planner. Each morning it walks you through a short ritual: pick today’s tasks, estimate durations, and time-block them on the calendar. At day’s end, it asks what you finished and what carries over. Less AI optimization, more intentional planning.

2026 pricing: $20/month or $16/month annual. 30-day free trial. See sunsama.com.

5. Google Calendar with Focus Time — the free baseline

If your team’s budget disappeared with Clockwise and you just need focus-time defense, Google Calendar’s built-in Focus Time events (available on Workspace Business Standard and above) handle the basics. You lose team-wide optimization, but you get:

  • Focus Time event types that auto-decline meeting conflicts
  • Working Hours and Working Location settings
  • “Find a time” for group meetings that respects everyone’s focus blocks

No AI rearrangement, no scheduling links, no task integration — but also no new subscription. For small teams, this is a real baseline to start from before layering Reclaim or Motion on top.

How to choose: by job, not by brand

If you want a drop-in Clockwise replacement with team analytics

Go with Reclaim.ai Business ($12/user/month). Feature-for-feature closest, cheapest for teams up to 100 people, and the Clockwise partnership gives you 20% off plus migration guides.

If you want AI to run your whole day

Motion Pro AI ($19/seat/month annual). More aggressive than Clockwise ever was, and handles tasks and projects end-to-end. Worth it if your team was already heavy on Asana or ClickUp.

If you want manual control with AI nudges

Morgen Pro ($15/month). No surprise rearrangements, beautiful unified calendar, and AI that suggests — not decides.

If your “focus time” was really a planning ritual

Sunsama ($16/month annual). Structured daily planning without the AI-autopilot feel.

If you need free

Google Calendar Focus Time (included in Workspace) plus Reclaim Lite (free) for one habit and one scheduling link. Not a full replacement, but a working starting point.

The migration checklist

  1. Reconnect Slack: your Clockwise-based status automation is gone. Reclaim, Motion, and Sunsama all offer similar integrations.
  2. Rebuild team no-meeting policies: Reclaim Business and Motion Business both support them.
  3. Replace scheduling links everywhere they live — email signatures, booking pages, docs, email templates.
  4. Run a 2-week trial before committing annual. A week of real use is the only signal that matters.

The bigger lesson

Clockwise’s shutdown is a reminder that standalone productivity tools get acquired and killed. Before committing to any new tool, ask two questions: does it export my data cleanly, and does my team’s workflow survive if this product disappears? The answer should be yes to both. Lock-in is a feature for vendors, not for you.

Frequently asked questions

When exactly did Clockwise shut down?

March 27, 2026. Salesforce hired the Clockwise team (not an acquisition of the product) on March 24, and services stopped three days later. Focus Time blocks, Scheduling Links, and Flexible Meetings all stopped working that day, and Clockwise deleted all user data rather than transferring it.

Is there a free Clockwise replacement?

The closest free options are Reclaim.ai Lite (1 habit, 1 scheduling link, Focus Time) and Google Calendar’s built-in Focus Time events on Workspace Business Standard or above. Neither fully replaces Clockwise’s team-wide optimization, but both cover the focus-time basics at zero cost.

Does Reclaim support Outlook?

Yes. Reclaim added full Microsoft Outlook support during its post-Clockwise acquisition push. Historically it was Google Calendar-first, so some power features (especially around multi-calendar habit scheduling) feel slightly more polished on Google. But Outlook parity is now close enough that most teams won’t notice the gap.

Motion costs $19/month — why is it so much more than Clockwise was?

Because Motion is doing more. Clockwise at $6.75/user/month was a focus-time optimizer. Motion at $19/user/month is a full task manager, project management tool, AI scheduler, and meeting notetaker. If you only want focus time, Motion is overpriced. If you’d otherwise pay for a PM tool plus a scheduler, Motion replaces both.

Can I use Clockwise’s old scheduling links?

No — all Clockwise scheduling links stopped working on March 27, 2026. If you had links in email signatures, docs, or booking pages, you need to replace them with Reclaim, Motion, Calendly, or Cal.com links. Reclaim’s links are the closest behavioral match (priority-based availability), Calendly and Cal.com are better for external booking at scale.

Is it worth waiting for a Salesforce replacement?

No. Salesforce hired the Clockwise team for its Agentforce AI agents line, not to rebuild a consumer calendar tool. Any future scheduling features will likely be tied to Agentforce and aimed at Salesforce customers, not standalone users. Plan your migration now.