Coming from Motion, Reclaim, Clockwise or a day planner. What actually changes,
what you have to move, and (where it is the honest answer)
why you might not want to.
Diarized is not another app to move into
Most auto-schedulers want to be where your work lives. To let Motion schedule
your tasks, the tasks have to be Motion's tasks. That is a second place to
keep your list, a second interface to learn, and a second calendar to manage.
The app you were perfectly happy with becomes the one you stop opening.
Diarized has no list and no calendar of its own. It reads the
tasks you already keep in
Asana, Google Tasks, Todoist, Microsoft To Do, Notion, TickTick, Linear, Jira, ClickUp, monday.com or GitHub, works out when you are actually free, and writes
blocks into your own Google or Outlook calendar. Which means you keep reading
your day in whatever you already use: Fantastical, Apple Calendar, the
Outlook app or your watch, with nothing new to install.
In March 2026 Salesforce bought Clockwise and shut it down with about a week's
notice, across more than forty thousand organisations. That is the risk of
keeping your work inside the scheduler. Your tasks stay in your task app and
your calendar stays yours, whatever happens to any scheduler,
not because we promise to be careful, but because there is nowhere
here for your work to live.
Auto-schedulers
Tools that put your to-do list on your calendar, which is the same job Diarized does. The difference is where the list lives.
An all-in-one workspace (tasks, projects, docs and calendar) that auto-schedules the work you keep inside it.
Motion schedules the tasks you keep in Motion. Its only built-in ways to get work in are forwarding an email and asking Siri; anything else goes through Zapier or their API. So using it means your to-do list moves house, and the app you were happy with becomes the one you stop opening. Diarized reads the list you already keep and never asks you to retype it.
Moving over
- Export or copy anything that only exists in Motion back into a real to-do app: Todoist, TickTick, ClickUp, whichever you used before.
- Connect that app to Diarized, and connect the calendar you want blocks written to.
- Turn off Motion's calendar sync before your first run, or you will briefly see both tools' blocks for the same work.
Motion is trial-only, as we now are. Their pricing page opens on the team annual tab showing $19 a seat, which is the figure most comparisons repeat and is not one you can buy on your own: alone you pay $45 a month, or $28 a month paid yearly (checked 18 August 2026). Diarized is $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year, free for the first 30 days.
Diarized as a Motion alternative →
An auto-scheduler that reads your existing task app and defends time on your calendar for habits and meetings.
Reclaim works the way Diarized does. It connects to Todoist, Asana, Jira, ClickUp, Linear or Google Tasks rather than replacing them. If it is working for you, that is a good reason to stay, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. Two things set them apart. Its free plan only connects Google Tasks, so reading anything else starts at $10 a seat a month. And Diarized shows you the actual decision behind every block (what it was competing with, what it lost to), because the placement is a deterministic algorithm rather than a model we would have to describe with adjectives.
Moving over
- Connect the same task app to Diarized that Reclaim was reading.
- Let one run finish, then compare the two days side by side before turning anything off.
- Switch off Reclaim's scheduling for that task app so only one tool is writing blocks.
Reclaim's paid tiers start at $10 per seat a month paid yearly, $12 monthly; its free tier is limited to Google Tasks (checked 18 August 2026). Diarized reads all eleven of its task apps on every plan, after a 30-day free trial.
Diarized as a Reclaim alternative →
Focus-time and meeting-shuffling for teams. Salesforce acquired it and shut it down on 27 March 2026, giving users roughly a week's notice.
Clockwise moved meetings and carved out focus blocks; it was not reading a to-do list, so there is nothing to migrate, and what it leaves behind is a gap you can fill. Diarized fills the part where your actual work gets time on the calendar. It does not move other people's meetings, and it will not: an event with other attendees is somebody else's arrangement, and we treat it as immovable busy time rather than something to negotiate.
The shutdown is also the clearest argument for how this is built. Forty thousand organisations lost a tool in a week. Your tasks never live inside Diarized and the calendar is already yours, so there is nothing here that could be taken away from you.
Moving over
- Connect your task app and your calendar.
- Set your working hours on the settings page. That is the part Clockwise was protecting for you, and it is the one setting worth getting right on day one.
For the meeting-moving half specifically, Diarized is not a replacement.
Diarized as a Clockwise alternative →
A calendar app that auto-schedules the tasks you enter into it, around the events already there.
FlowSavvy is the closest thing to us on this page, and it got closer in August 2026 when it added two-way Todoist sync, so if Todoist is your task app, it no longer makes you move in either. The remaining difference is the calendar: FlowSavvy is one you adopt, and Diarized has none of its own. Blocks go into Google or Outlook, which means you keep reading your day in whatever you already use: Fantastical, Apple Calendar, the Outlook app, your watch. The other difference is breadth: they read one task app, we read eleven.
Moving over
- Move anything that only exists in FlowSavvy (anything you typed into it rather than into Todoist) into your task app.
- Connect that app and your calendar to Diarized.
Corrected August 2026: this entry used to say FlowSavvy's tasks have to live inside it, which stopped being true days before we published it. If you are on Todoist and happy with a new calendar app, they are a fair choice.
Diarized as a FlowSavvy alternative →
A daily planning ritual: every morning you pull tasks in and place them on your day by hand.
Sunsama is deliberately manual, because the planning is the product, and people who love it love that. Diarized is the opposite trade: the day gets built for you and you look at it if you want to. Worth being clear which one you actually want before switching, because this is a difference in kind rather than in quality.
Moving over
- Keep the task app Sunsama was pulling from and connect it here.
Sunsama is $22 a month, or $17 billed annually, with no free plan (checked 18 August 2026).
Diarized as a Sunsama alternative →
A Swiss calendar app that pulls tasks in from the apps you already use and proposes a plan for placing them.
Morgen reads your existing task apps, so like Reclaim it does not ask you to move in, and it reads roughly as many as we do. Pretending otherwise would be the same mistake this page already made once about FlowSavvy. Three things separate them.
The first is who decides. Morgen's AI Planner proposes and waits: their own page says the plan is yours to tune and approve, which is a decision you make again every morning. Diarized places the work and writes it, and you look at the result only if you want to.
The second is the calendar. Morgen is a calendar app you adopt and read your day inside. Diarized has none of its own, so blocks land in Google or Outlook and you keep reading your day in Fantastical, Apple Calendar or whatever you already open.
The third is how far ahead either will look. Morgen's AI Planner plans one to seven days at a time, so it answers what this week holds. Diarized schedules 56 days out, which is the range at which a deadline five weeks away starts showing up as a problem.
Moving over
- Keep the task apps Morgen was reading and connect the same ones here.
- Decide where you want to read your day, because leaving Morgen means going back to Google Calendar, Outlook or a calendar client.
- If Morgen was writing time blocks into your calendar, turn that off before the first run so two tools are not placing the same task.
Morgen is $30 a month, or $15 a month billed yearly, after a 14-day trial that does not ask for a card (checked 19 August 2026). Diarized is $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year, free for the first 30 days. Morgen hosts in Switzerland and says so prominently; we are in the UK, which is the same GDPR answer under a different flag.
Diarized as a Morgen alternative →
An auto-scheduler that places the tasks you give it, with time budgets for different kinds of work.
SkedPal is a genuine auto-scheduler: one click places the week, and it replans when something slips. The difference is where the tasks come from. Asana is its one direct task integration; anything else arrives through Zapier or gets typed into SkedPal, so for most people it becomes another list to keep. Diarized adds no list of its own: we read eleven task apps directly and write only calendar events.
One thing SkedPal does better, and it belongs here rather than in a footnote: its Pro tier schedules 60 days ahead where we stop at 56. If you plan a quarter out, that is a real reason to prefer it.
Moving over
- Move anything that only exists in SkedPal into the task app you want to keep.
- Connect that app and your calendar to Diarized.
- Turn off SkedPal's scheduling before the first run so both are not placing the same work.
SkedPal Core is $9.95 a month billed annually or $14.95 monthly, and Pro is $14.95 annually or $21.95 monthly, after a 14-day trial with no card (checked 19 August 2026). Core schedules 21 days out and Pro 60. Diarized is $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year, schedules 56 days ahead on every plan, and is free for the first 30 days.
Diarized as a SkedPal alternative →
A command bar and unified inbox: it pulls tasks in from everywhere you get them so you can triage them onto a day.
Akiflow reads a wider kind of source than we do. It takes Todoist, Notion, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear and Trello, alongside Slack, Gmail and GitHub. Those last three are where work reaches you as a message, and we deliberately do not read them, because a message has nowhere to live once you call it a task. If your actual problem is that work reaches you in fifteen places, that is the problem Akiflow was built for and this page is not going to talk you out of it.
The difference is what happens next. Akiflow is somewhere you work: you open it, clear the inbox, and place things on the day, and it will auto-schedule if you ask it to. Diarized is not somewhere you go. It reads the list you already keep and writes to the calendar you already read, and on an ordinary day you open neither.
Moving over
- Move anything you created inside Akiflow, rather than in one of the apps it reads, into the task app you are keeping.
- Connect that app and your calendar to Diarized.
- If you keep Akiflow for the inbox, turn its scheduling off so only one tool is writing blocks.
Akiflow is $34 a month, or $25 a month billed yearly, after a 7-day trial, the shortest of any tool on this page (checked 19 August 2026). Their pricing page was also running a countdown showing $19 on the yearly plan when we looked, so that is the number you may see quoted; it is a promotion, not the standing rate. Diarized is $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year, free for the first 30 days.
Diarized as a Akiflow alternative →
Day planners you do not have to leave
These put your day on a timeline and are often called competitors. For two of them that is not quite right. They read your calendar, and Diarized writes to it, so they already work together with nothing to set up.
A visual day planner that lays your calendar out as a timeline you can see at a glance.
Structured reads your Google Calendar. Diarized writes to it. So the blocks Diarized schedules simply appear in Structured, already placed, with no integration to enable. Connect Diarized and your existing Structured setup keeps working exactly as it does now, with the planning done for you.
Diarized as a Structured alternative →
A visual planner built for focus and neurodivergent users, with timers and a strong emphasis on the shape of a day.
Like Structured, Tiimo reads your calendar, so Diarized's blocks show up in it without anything being connected. Nothing to switch, so keep Tiimo and let Diarized decide what goes where.
Diarized as a Tiimo alternative →
A hyper-scheduling day planner where you build the timeline yourself, quickly, by hand.
Sorted³ is the closest thing to Diarized's opposite, and it says so itself: its own marketing is “nothing is automated in Sorted 3 — you build the day yourself, by hand.” That single difference is what separates the two. If building it by hand is the part you enjoy, stay; if it is the part you keep not doing, that is what this is for.
Moving over
- There is nothing to export. Connect the task app you already keep and compare a Diarized day against one you built yourself.
Diarized as a Sorted³ alternative →
Every price and product claim above was checked against each vendor's own pages
in August 2026. Competitor pricing changes faster than anything else on a page
like this, and a wrong number about somebody else's product is worse than no
number. If you find one out of date,
tell us and it gets fixed.
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