Remy vs Motion vs Reclaim

Founder of Remy writing, so weigh that. Motion’s and Reclaim’s words below are from their own sites, checked in August 2026.

What they are, in their words

Motion: “The #1 Rated Productivity Platform for the AI Era. AI Projects, AI Tasks, AI Calendar, AI Meetings, AI Docs…” Its core trick: “Motion takes all of your projects and tasks, prioritizes and timeblocks them on your calendar, and dynamically optimizes your schedule dozens of times a day.” Pro AI is $19 per seat per month, Business AI $29 (pricing page; credits metered on top). No free plan; there’s a trial.

Reclaim: “#1 AI calendar for work.” It “schedules work, meetings, and life, automatically” by blocking time for tasks, habits, and focus work on Google Calendar or Outlook, and moving those blocks when meetings land. Free Lite tier; paid plans around $10-18 per seat per month depending on tier and term.

Remy: “the AI assistant for your life, not your job.” It reads your Gmail and Google Calendar, tells you the one line that matters in the long email, gives heads-ups before renewals and refills slip, makes phone calls, fills forms, drafts replies. Every action is shown first and happens only when you press and hold. iPhone, free during the beta.

The real split: a calendar that plans vs an assistant that acts

Motion / Reclaim
  your tasks + your meetings → an optimized calendar

Remy
  your inbox + your life → the one line that matters
                         → the call / form / draft, with your OK

Motion and Reclaim are excellent at a specific thing: deciding when. Neither reads your inbox for you (Motion lets you forward emails to create tasks; Reclaim doesn’t touch email at all). Neither picks up a phone. Neither fills in the county’s registration form. Their entire world is the calendar grid.

Remy doesn’t auto-schedule your tasks. It won’t move your deep-work block when a meeting lands. What it does is the stuff that never makes it onto a task list in the first place: the soccer registration that closes Friday, the passport that expires five weeks before the trip, the salon call, three contractor quotes for the gutter.

Two honest things about each

Motion is genuinely good if your problem is a work calendar that’s out of control, and it says it never trains AI on your data (“Motion does not - and never will - train AI models using your data”). The complaints you’ll find are about price and autorenewal, and about the meeting notetaker inventing action items. It’s built for teams; the personal side is a footnote (“never get double-booked between work and personal lives”).

Reclaim has a real free tier and the same no-training stance (“We don’t train AI on your data”). The recurring complaint is the thing that makes it work: auto-created Focus Time and task blocks that users say keep coming back when deleted.

Remy is in beta, iPhone-only, Gmail-only, and does nothing for your work calendar. If what you need is time-blocking, Remy is the wrong tool; go get Motion or Reclaim and come back when the life pile is what’s left.

Pick Motion or Reclaim if

• Your calendar is wall-to-wall meetings and the question is when the work gets done.
• You want tasks auto-scheduled and re-planned when things move.
• You’re a team, or your life admin is already handled.

Pick Remy if

• The pile is life admin, not work: school, appointments, renewals, refills, calls.
• You want something that reads the inbox and comes to you, instead of a list you maintain.
• You want it to do the thing (call, book, fill, draft) after you approve it.
• You don’t want your life used to train anyone’s model.

Remy is not for you if

• You need work-task scheduling, team features, or meeting notes.
• You’re on Android, or your mail isn’t Gmail.

What’s true as of August 2026

Motion: Pro AI $19/seat/mo, Business $29, trial only, calendar + tasks + meetings, no inbox reading, no calls, no training on your data. Reclaim: free Lite, paid ~$10-18/seat/mo, calendar only (Google/Outlook), approval before AI calendar changes, no email, no calls, no training. Remy: iPhone beta, free, Gmail + Google Calendar, reads on its own, calls, forms, drafts, press-and-hold approvals, zero-data-retention providers. This page moves its date when any of that changes.