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Reclaim isn't a Google Calendar alternative – it improves your existing Google Calendar.

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Features & integrations
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Tasks
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Automatically schedule tasks to your calendar around your existing calendar events, by priority, before their due dates.
Flexible time blocking
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Keeps your schedule flexible with smart "free" and "busy" controls based on how busy your schedule is to maximize availability while defending your time.
Pricing
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Pricing for paid plans using an annual subscription.
$8-$12 per month
$6-$18 per month
Robust free plan
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Reclaim offers a free forever tier that includes full access to most of the platform. Google Calendar does not offer a free tier for professional accounts.
Flexible time blocking
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Auto-schedule time for your tasks, routines, meetings, and keep your schedule flexible with smart "free" and "busy" controls to balance productivity and collaboration.
Tasks
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Automatically schedule tasks around your existing calendar events by priority and due date. Unlike Google Calendar, which only sets a reminders on the due date, Reclaim integrates with Google Tasks to block time on your calendar before deadlines.
Habits / recurring routines
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Automatically block time for recurring routines using smart time windows and priority controls. Unlike Google Calendar's generic repeating events, Reclaim Habits flex to your changing schedule.
Prioritized scheduling
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Set priorities for all events on your calendar and automatically reprioritize your schedule around your most important work and meetings when plans change.
Custom Hours
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Set fully customized hours for when you want you meetings, habits, tasks, and personal smart events to schedule.
Focus time
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Create "focus time" blocks to protect from meetings and automatically reschedule based on priorities with Reclaim. Google Calendar's generic focus time event lacks rescheduling automation.
No-meeting days
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Defend entire days on your calendar every week from meetings while still allowing your tasks and routines to be scheduled for heads-down work.
Calendar sync
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Block your availability across both personal and work calendars both ways, or across mutliple work calendars. Reclaim supports unlimited calendar syncs in any direction. Google Calendar syncs calendars but doesn't block time to show your availability to others.
Advanced privacy controls
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Customize how your events appear to your team, with either full details, busy blocks, or custom titles and descriptions based off of the event type to communicate more context around your schedule. Google Calendar only supports an all details, or busy blocks.
Travel time
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Automatically schedule travel time before and after calendar events with physical locations.
Smart Meetings
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Automatically schedule recurring meetings at the best time for everyone on the invite with Smart Meetings at Reclaim. Google's generic recurring meeting events don't consider availability or reschedule to changes in your calendar.
Productivity stats / time tracking
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Get productivity stats to help you understand how much time you spend in meetings, across routines, and advanced time tracking for tasks.
Smart meeting breaks
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Automatically schedule meeting breaks after any calendar event with a video conferencing link to reduce back-to-back meetings.
Slack integration
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Automatically sync your Slack status to your calendar with customizable status messages and DND, and manage your time blocks directly from Slack. Google Calendar does not offer custom Slack status sync, setting DND for event types, and task management actions.
Zoom integration
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Automatically add Zoom links to your meetings and sync your Zoom status with your Slack status. Google Calendars Zoom integration does not also connect with Slack to auto-set and auto-clear your Slack status when you join and leave a Zoom meeting, even if it's not on your calendar.
Google Meet integration
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Automatically add Google Meet links to your smart calendar meetings.
Google Tasks integration
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Automatically schedule Google Tasks based on priority and due dates around existing calendar events. Google Calendar lacks the ability to customize task durations or defend time before due dates.
Todoist integration
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Automatically find the best time for your Todoist tasks, by priority, before their due dates, around your existing calendar events. Todoist's native integration does not schedule your tasks by priority, break down tasks into multiple time blocks, or keep your task schedule flexible to reschedule around priority changes.
Jira integration
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Automatically find the best time for your Jira tasks, by priority, before their due dates, around your existing calendar events. Jira does not offer a native integration with Google Calendar.
Linear integration
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Automatically find the best time for your Linear issues, by priority, before their due dates, around your existing calendar events. Linear does not offer a native integration with Google Calendar.
ClickUp integration
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Automatically find the best time for your ClickUp tasks, by priority, before their due dates, around your existing calendar events. ClickUp's native integration does not schedule your tasks by priority, break down tasks into multiple time blocks, or keep your task schedule flexible to reschedule around priority changes.
Asana integration
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Automatically schedule Asana tasks by priority before their due dates, around your calendar events. Asana's native integration treats tasks as all-day events, failing to protect needed work time before deadlines. It lacks prioritized scheduling, task breakdowns, and flexibility to adapt to priority changes.
Raycast integration
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Leverage a Reclaim command launcher for Mac that allows you to quickly create tasks, share scheduling links, see upcoming calendar events, start events, and join meetings on the fly.
Free priority support
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Free email and live chat support to all users with an average response time of <1h. Google Calendar only provides support through their help docs.
SSO & SCIM user provisioning
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Automatically provision & deprovision Reclaim users via SCIM as well as dedicated SSO support.
Security Reviews
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Dedicated security & vendor reviews.

AI for your calendar

Still working around fixed, inflexible events in Google Calendar? While they're great for basic calendar scheduling, Google Calendar is not designed to react to the chaos of a normal workday.

But Reclaim's AI scheduling automatically plans out the perfect day for you. It flexibly schedules time for all the things you need to get done: tasks, routines, meetings, even breaks, around your existing Google Calendar events. No more manual time blocking that jams up your workweek.

Priority levels for events

When plans change, your calendar should too. Unlike Google Calendar’s fixed events that end up getting double (or triple) booked, Reclaim auto-reschedules your smart events when a conflict comes up or something urgent drops in.

At Reclaim, every event automatically has a priority level – even your regular calendar events. And if you need to set up an urgent meeting through a Scheduling Link, you can bring down the priority level over Google Calendar events or Reclaim events you'd be willing to auto-schedule to another time. Your day is always prioritized around your most important work and stay flexible to maximize your productivity.

Way better calendar sync

Here's a shocking secret few Google Calendar users really know – when you share your Google Calendar with another one, no one can actually see when you're busy with a synced event. That's right, only you can see those events.

But at Reclaim, you can sync your actual availability across an unlimited number of Google Calendars so you're never double-booked again. And the best part – you can control how those synced events display to your coworkers. Reclaim offers anonymous 'Busy' blocks, full event details, or to sync your events as 'Personal Commitments' so your team knows you're busy with something important, without oversharing personal details they don't need to know.

More than 340,000 people across 45,000 companies are active with Reclaim
“Reclaim.ai has been a game changer for me. The hardest part of time blocking for me has been sitting down to do it. And if I do it, I feel like I can ignore it. Reclaim does that work for me.”
Todd Turner
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