Motion vs Zenhub: which one fits your team?
These two barely overlap. One arranges hours on a calendar, the other is the record of what your engineers are shipping. Teams that use both are not confused, they are covering two different needs.
It turns on nothing, really. If you are weighing these against each other you are probably looking for a single tool that does both.
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.
Pick Zenhub if
your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match. Where it stops: it is engineering shaped, and there is no calendar.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Motion is about $1140 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Motion: Around $19 to $29 per seat per month billed annually, more monthly. No free plan. Zenhub: Paid per user, with a free tier for small teams. Check their current tiers.
Where they part company
Motion does more on 9 of them
- time blocking on a calendar
- having a plan for today
- two way calendar sync
- booking links
- being the place the tasks actually live
- turning meetings into tasks
- docs and a wiki inside
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
- being useful before you configure it
Zenhub does more on 5 of them
- linking pull requests to the work
- portfolio and agile reporting
- having a free plan
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
Side by side
| What it does | Motion | Zenhub | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Core. The blocks are placed by the algorithm, not by you. | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Core | No | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Core | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Yes | Partly. The issues live in GitHub. Zenhub is the layer that runs agile on them. | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | Partly | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Partly. Team features are layered on an individual first product. | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | Yes | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | Partly | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | Core | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | Partly | No | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Partly | Core. Burndown, velocity and story points, which is the reason to buy it. | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | Partly. The AI schedules the work. It does not do the work. | No | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Yes | Partly | Core |
| A free plan | No | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 2: turning email and chat into tasks and rules that fire on their own.
And where UnaTask sits
That single tool is roughly what UnaTask is aiming at: real time blocks on a calendar, with pull requests linked to the tasks they close.
It does more than both of them on being the place the tasks actually live, showing who has room, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and being useful before you configure it.
Common questions
Motion vs Zenhub: which should I pick?
Pick Motion if your calendar is chaotic, you mostly work alone, and you would rather software reconciled it than do it yourself. Pick Zenhub if your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match.
What is the biggest difference between Motion and Zenhub?
The clearest gap is time blocking on a calendar, where Motion does more than Zenhub. Underneath that, Motion is software that arranges your calendar for you and defends what it put there, and Zenhub is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Motion or Zenhub cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Motion is about $1140 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Motion and Zenhub have in common?
They answer the same on 2 of our 16 axes: turning email and chat into tasks and rules that fire on their own. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Motion and Zenhub?
UnaTask does more than both on being the place the tasks actually live, showing who has room and turning meetings into tasks. 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.