Reclaim.ai 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 Reclaim.ai if
your task system is settled and the only thing missing is somebody guarding the gaps between your meetings. Where it stops: it layers on a task manager, so it is never the only tool.
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: Reclaim.ai is about $480 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Reclaim.ai: A generous free tier, then roughly $8 to $15 per user per month. Zenhub: Paid per user, with a free tier for small teams. Check their current tiers.
Where they part company
Reclaim.ai does more on 5 of them
- two way calendar sync
- time blocking on a calendar
- booking links
- having a plan for today
- being useful before you configure it
Zenhub does more on 5 of them
- linking pull requests to the work
- dependencies and a timeline
- portfolio and agile reporting
- being the place the tasks actually live
- showing who has room
Side by side
| What it does | Reclaim.ai | Zenhub | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Yes. Blocks are placed automatically around your meetings. | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Partly | No | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Core. Two way with Google and Microsoft 365, and very good at it. | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | No. It reads your tasks from somewhere else. It is not where they live. | Partly. The issues live in GitHub. Zenhub is the layer that runs agile on them. | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Partly | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | Yes | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | Core | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | No | 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 | No | 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 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 6: turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, docs and a wiki inside, rules that fire on their own, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and having a free plan.
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 time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, being the place the tasks actually live, showing who has room, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, docs and a wiki inside, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and being useful before you configure it.
Common questions
Reclaim.ai vs Zenhub: which should I pick?
Pick Reclaim.ai if your task system is settled and the only thing missing is somebody guarding the gaps between your meetings. Pick Zenhub if your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match.
What is the biggest difference between Reclaim.ai and Zenhub?
The clearest gap is two way calendar sync, where Reclaim.ai does more than Zenhub. Underneath that, Reclaim.ai 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 Reclaim.ai or Zenhub cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Reclaim.ai is about $480 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Reclaim.ai and Zenhub have in common?
They answer the same on 6 of our 16 axes, among them turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks and docs and a wiki inside. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Reclaim.ai and Zenhub?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and being the place the tasks actually live. 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.