Clockwise vs Motion: which one fits your team?
These two are after the same job: take the mess on your calendar and sort it out without asking you. The difference is how much of your day each one is willing to move.
It turns on how much control you are willing to hand over, and whether you already have somewhere for the work itself to live.
Pick Clockwise if
nothing any more, because it closed on 27 March 2026 after the team joined Salesforce. Where it stops: it is no longer available, so this is a landing spot rather than a comparison.
Pick Motion if
your calendar is chaotic, you mostly work alone, and you would rather software reconciled it than do it yourself. Where it stops: the plan is the algorithm’s, and the price is set for people who want that.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Clockwise does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, Motion is about $1140 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Clockwise: No longer offered. Clockwise shut down on 27 March 2026. Motion: Around $19 to $29 per seat per month billed annually, more monthly. No free plan.
Where they part company
Motion does more on 14 of them
- time blocking on a calendar
- having a plan for today
- two way calendar sync
- being the place the tasks actually live
- booking links
- rules that fire on their own
- being useful before you configure it
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
- turning meetings into tasks
- turning email and chat into tasks
- docs and a wiki inside
- portfolio and agile reporting
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
Side by side
| What it does | Clockwise | Motion | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Gone | Core. The blocks are placed by the algorithm, not by you. | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Gone | Core | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Gone | Core | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | No. It was a calendar optimiser, never a task manager. | Yes | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No | Partly | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Gone | Partly. Team features are layered on an individual first product. | Core |
| Booking links | Gone | Yes | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | Partly | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | No | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | No | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | No | Partly | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Gone | Partly | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Gone | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | No | Partly. The AI schedules the work. It does not do the work. | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Gone | Yes | Core |
| A free plan | Gone | No | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 2: linking pull requests to the work and having a free plan.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask is the other answer to the same problem. You place the blocks, so nothing gets shuffled without you, and the tasks live in the same tool instead of somewhere else.
It does more than both of them on being the place the tasks actually live, dependencies and a timeline, showing who has room, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, linking pull requests to the work, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling, being useful before you configure it and having a free plan.
Common questions
Clockwise vs Motion: which should I pick?
Pick Clockwise if nothing any more, because it closed on 27 March 2026 after the team joined Salesforce. Pick Motion if your calendar is chaotic, you mostly work alone, and you would rather software reconciled it than do it yourself.
What is the biggest difference between Clockwise and Motion?
The clearest gap is time blocking on a calendar, where Motion does more than Clockwise. Underneath that, Clockwise is software that arranges your calendar for you and defends what it put there, and Motion is software that arranges your calendar for you and defends what it put there.
Is Clockwise or Motion cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Clockwise does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, Motion is about $1140 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Clockwise and Motion have in common?
They answer the same on 2 of our 16 axes: linking pull requests to the work and having a free plan. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Clockwise and Motion?
UnaTask does more than both on being the place the tasks actually live, dependencies and a timeline and showing who has room. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked June 2026.