by Clockwise, Inc.
Clockwise review, pricing and limits
AI-powered calendar assistant that creates focus time and optimizes team schedules
- Best for
- Engineering managers
- Not for
- Sales professionals (cannot reschedule external client meetings)
Should you use Clockwise?
Clockwise moved more than 23 million meetings and created over 8 million hours of Focus Time for 40,000 organizations before it closed, per its farewell page. Nothing can be bought or used now, so this page is kept for reference and set to noindex. Teams that relied on it should pick a maintained scheduler such as Reclaim, Motion or SkedPal.
Organization-wide meeting optimization analyzing millions of permutations daily to create 4-6 hours of protected focus time weekly
Strong moat from 10+ years of training data on real organizational calendar patterns, proprietary optimization algorithms analyzing millions of permutations daily, and network effects requiring team-wide adoption. However, moat is eroding due to acquisition by Salesforce and planned shutdown; competitors like Reclaim AI and Motion have similar pricing and expanding feature sets. Moat weakened by inability to handle external meetings, limiting use cases.
Also for
- Product managers
- Software engineers
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- Data scientists
- Research scientists
- Knowledge workers in tech companies
- Engineering teams
- Knowledge workers
- Enterprise organizations
- Productivity-focused teams
- Remote and hybrid work teams
Also not for
- Consultants (rely on external meeting coordination)
- Customer success managers (external customer focus)
- Agency account managers (external client dependencies)
Main trade-off
Cannot reschedule external meetings, severely limiting utility for sales/client-facing teams; requires broad team adoption to deliver value
Clockwise pricing
| Plan | Monthly price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Personal time holds, Scheduling Links, calendar delegation |
| Teams | $6.75/mo | Focus Time holds, meeting optimization, group Scheduling Links; $7.75 billed monthly |
| Business | $11.50/mo | Org-wide meeting analytics, admin controls, no-meeting day; annual only |
| Enterprise | Custom | SCIM provisioning, custom data processing, preferred support |
How the pricing works, in full
Clockwise can no longer be bought; sales ended when the product closed in March 2026. The last pricing page, archived on March 6, 2026, showed four plans. Free cost $0. Teams cost $6.75 per user per month billed annually, or $7.75 billed monthly, and added auto-scheduled Focus Time and meeting optimization. Business cost $11.50 per user per month with no monthly option, with org-wide meeting analytics and admin controls. Enterprise was custom-priced and added SCIM provisioning. Prepaid time past the shutdown was refunded pro rata. For a maintained replacement see Reclaim or Motion.
Before you commit
- Switching cost and retraining when moving to alternative post-March 2026 shutdown
- Limited value if only individuals or small teams within organization adopt (effectiveness scales with penetration)
- Requires full Google Calendar or Outlook integration without partial opt-in for sensitive calendars
What Clockwise does
Clockwise is inactive. The AI calendar assistant stopped working on March 27, 2026, when its team joined Salesforce, according to the shutdown notice on getclockwise.com. Focus Time holds and Scheduling Links were removed from calendars and user data was set for deletion. Clockwise named Reclaim as its replacement, with a price match for migrating paid teams.
Intelligent Meeting Optimization
Analyzes up to 1 million calendar permutations daily per team to identify optimal meeting times and automatically rearrange flexible meetings to minimize disruption
Focus Time Automation
Automatically creates and protects blocks of uninterrupted time (2+ hours) for deep work, adjusting dynamically as calendar changes occur throughout the week
Prism AI Conversational Scheduling
Natural language scheduling assistant that interprets plain English requests like 'move all my 1:1s to later this week' and executes the change directly
Team Analytics & Insights
Provides organization-wide metrics on focus time created, meetings moved, and meeting load by role, enabling data-driven scheduling decisions
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Cross-Calendar Coordination
Coordinates schedules across Google Calendar and Outlook (beta) with real-time Slack status updates so attendees see changes as they happen
Flexible Meeting Management
Marks meetings as 'flexible' to indicate reschedulability; Clockwise respects fixed meetings and external attendee constraints while optimizing internal scheduling
Works with
- Google Calendar
- Microsoft Outlook (beta)
- Slack
- Zoom
- Chrome extension
Missing integrations
- Asana (previously integrated, now discontinued)
- Jira
- Linear
- ClickUp
- Todoist
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Meet native embedding
- Custom API for workflow automation
Most users expect these and they are not currently supported.
Capabilities
- Calendar optimization
- Scheduling assistant
- Time management
- Productivity automation
- Meeting coordination
- Focus time protection
- Conversational scheduling
- Team collaboration
Strengths and limits
Strengths
- Teams that adopt it report getting 4-6 hours of protected focus time back per week
- Free tier supports unlimited users with lunch/travel holds, personal calendar sync, and Slack status integration
- Cheapest paid tier of the major AI schedulers, undercutting rivals like Reclaim AI and Motion
- Real-time Slack status sync keeps teammates aware the moment a meeting gets moved
- Team-wide adoption compounds the benefit: the more of an org on Clockwise, the more meetings it can shuffle
Limits
- Cannot reschedule external meetings; if your calendar is full of client or vendor calls, it has little to offer
- Works best only once most of the team has adopted it; a lone holdout gets little value
- No task-manager integrations remain live: the old Asana connection was discontinued and there is no Jira, Linear, or ClickUp link
- Microsoft Outlook support is still in beta, with fewer features than the Google Calendar version
- Discontinued: shut down in March 2026, so existing setups, automations and booking pages no longer work
Clockwise alternatives
| Tool | Price from | Free plan | Runs on | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clockwise This page | $6.75/mo | Yes | Web | -- |
 MotionPick Motion if you want built-in task and project management alongside AI scheduling, not just meeting optimization. | $19/mo | Trial | Web · iOS · Android · Mac · Windows | 3.9 |
 Reclaim.aiPick Reclaim AI if you want a scheduler that outlives Clockwise's 2026 shutdown, with a price-match migration deal. | $8/mo | Yes | Web | -- |
 SkedPalPick SkedPal if you want an AI to fill a personal to-do list into open calendar slots, not to coordinate a whole team's meetings. | $9.95/mo | -- | Web · iOS · Android · Mac · Windows | 3.7 |
Clockwise facts
- Works offline
- No
- Minimum skill level
- Beginner
- Price band
- Mid-range
- Maker founded
- 2016
- Compliance
- Privacy-focused by default; supports SSO and SCIM on Enterprise tier; does not sell data to LLM training
- Total funding
- $76M Series C (led by Coatue, with Atlassian Ventures, Accel, Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures)
Architecture and specs
- Architecture
- Proprietary scheduling optimization engine + LLM-based NLP for intent translation
Data and privacy
Proprietary (not open source)
Questions about Clockwise
Is Clockwise still active in 2026?
No. Clockwise's own notice says the product stopped being available on March 27, 2026, as its team joined Salesforce. Smart Hold events such as Focus Time were removed from calendars, Scheduling Links stopped working, and user data was to be deleted shortly after that date, with no transfer to Salesforce.
How much does Clockwise cost in 2026?
Nothing, because it can no longer be bought: Clockwise shut down on March 27, 2026. Its archived pricing page (March 6, 2026) listed Free at $0, Teams at $6.75 per user per month billed annually or $7.75 monthly, Business at $11.50 per user per month on annual billing only, and Enterprise on custom pricing. Prepaid time running past the shutdown was refunded pro rata, per the shutdown notice.
What are the best alternatives to Clockwise?
Clockwise itself recommends Reclaim, which promised paid Clockwise teams a 100% price match, priority migration support and a dedicated switching guide. Motion suits teams that want task and project management next to scheduling. SkedPal fits one person planning their own task list rather than coordinating a team.
How does Clockwise compare to Reclaim AI in 2026?
Only one of them still runs. Clockwise rearranged flexible internal meetings to protect focus time until March 27, 2026, but could never move a meeting with an outside attendee. Reclaim schedules Focus Time, Habits and Smart Meetings, and is the tool Clockwise pointed its users to, with fast-tracked security reviews covering SOC 2 Type II, SSO and SCIM.
Is Clockwise free to use?
Not any more. The Free plan, which handled personal time holds and Scheduling Links for individuals and small teams, closed with the rest of the product on March 27, 2026, and its Focus Time blocks were removed from calendars. Check a maintained scheduler such as Reclaim or Motion for a current free option.
About Clockwise
Clockwise was founded in 2016 and has raised $76M in a Series C led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures, Accel, Greylock, and Bain Capital Ventures. The platform pairs a proprietary scheduling optimization engine with Prism, a natural-language AI assistant, to analyze calendar permutations across a team and automatically rearrange flexible internal meetings into protected blocks of focus time. It integrates with Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook (beta), Slack, and Zoom, syncing changes in real time as schedules shift through the week.
Read the full background
Clockwise is used by more than 40,000 organizations, including Netflix, Twitter, Uber, Atlassian, and Asana, and has rescheduled more than 23 million meetings to create over 8 million hours of protected focus time. It only reschedules meetings where every attendee is internal, so its value scales with how many people across an organization adopt it; individual or partial use delivers a smaller benefit. Salesforce has since bought the company, and the product exits the market later in 2026.
Sources and guides
Official sources
- Clockwise official site Vendor
- Clockwise Help Center & Documentation Docs
- Getting Started with Clockwise Docs
- Slack Integration Guide Docs
- GitHub repository GitHub
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