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Reclaim.ai vs. Microsoft Viva Insights

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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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Reclaim plans with Focus Time start at $10/user/month. Viva Insights costs $12/user/month for access to their Focus Plan capabilities.
$10 per month
$12 per month
G2 Ratings
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Reclaim: 4.8/5 stars from 120+ reviews. Viva Insights: 4.5/5 stars from 43 reviews.
4.8/5 (120)
4.5/5 (43)
AI focus time/focus plan
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Set personalized Focus Time goals each week, and Reclaim intelligently schedules deep work around your meetings and priorities to help you achieve them. Viva Insights only supports fixed daily Focus Plans that don’t adapt to individual goals or changing schedules.
AI rescheduling & conflict resolution
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Automatically reschedule Focus Time (as well as Tasks, Habits, and AI Meetings) with AI when conflicts occur to keep your calendar flexible and optimized to your priorities — no manual cleanup needed. Viva Insights requires manual adjustment when schedules change.
Focus goals (team & organization)
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Reclaim empowers teams to align on company-wide Focus Time goals while letting every employee’s schedule adapt intelligently. Viva Insights enforces the same static Focus Plan for everyone, regardless of individual needs.
Focus scheduling modes
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In Reclaim, choose Proactive mode to pre-fill your week with Focus Time or Reactive mode to step in only when you’re falling behind. Viva Insights doesn’t offer adjustable scheduling modes.
Custom scheduling hours
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Set unique scheduling windows for Focus Time, tasks, habits, and personal events. Reclaim honors these individual preferences, while Viva Insights uses one blanket working-hours setting.
Smart meetings
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Reclaim puts your recurring meetings on autopilot — AI finds the best time for all attendees, automatically reschedules around conflicts or PTO, and keeps your calendar balanced. Viva Insights offers meeting reflections but no smart scheduling or rescheduling.
Smart meeting breaks
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In Reclaim, automatically schedule short breaks after meetings with video links to reduce back-to-back fatigue. Viva Insights can only suggest breaks manually, not auto-book them.
Habits (AI-powered recurring events)
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Automatically schedule recurring habits like workouts, planning sessions, or journaling in Reclaim. Viva Insight's Focus Plan can’t reserve custom recurring time.
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Microsoft Viva Insights vs. Reclaim: What G2 users are saying
Reclaim
✅ Positives:
  • “Reclaim.ai truly changed my life. I gave it a try, and within a day, I decided to switch from another tool I had been using intensively. Instead of spending time on tedious daily and weekly calendar organization, I now just make a few clicks, and it takes care of everything automatically. It saves me about an hour every day - so much so that I realized I no longer needed to hire a personal assistant for calendar management. An absolute game-changer!” Source
  • “Loving reclaim.ai, specifically because it can integrate with my outlook work calendar and my two personal google calendars. I love that it will schedule around my meetings to make sure I get all of my tasks done on time. It has saved me a lot of time planning my day/week. I definitely get more done.” Source
🔴 Negatives:
  • “When I first started using Reclaim, it was a little confusing getting the calendars set up, so originally I only had a one-way setup. That got really annoying because I still had to check both calendars, so then I went back and figured out that I could sync all the calendars to each other.” Source
  • “Some of the main features, such as integration with various calendars, are inevitably paid. The cost is not high, however, there are other similar free tools.” Source
Microsoft Viva
✅ Positives:
  • “What I liked most about Microsoft Viva Insights is the idea of a new type of service, which promotes combating worker fatigue throughout the workday. This tool allows you to better manage your time and give more or less importance to certain daily tasks such as Teams meetings. If I'm not mistaken, this idea comes from the Productivity Score Tool, a tool that was not very successful. The use of this tool is not complex, you simply have to explore and try out each section a bit to test its usefulness.” (source)
  • “Viva Insights helps increase my productivity by providing insights into work patterns, identifying best times for focus in and meetings. It also helps me with my well-being by suggesting mindfulness exercises and ideal times for breaks. The number of features in the insights is beneficial for seeing a complete picture about my working trends and habits.” (source)
🔴 Negatives:
  • “The insights are not actionable most of the time. The advice is pretty generic sometimes. For instance - screentime and collaboration time is not really helpful for me, so it should give options to select which type of insights I actually want.” (source)
  • “Although Time management and analytics can be helpful, there are a few aspects I want to see improved. The reminder for taking breaks although helpful but I feel is too frequent. Plus I do not see options for customization. The UI is not user friendly setting my time for focusing for the first time literally took me about 20 - 25 mins.”  (source)

AI-powered focus time automation

The Focus plan in Viva Insights auto-schedules a single daily block up to two weeks ahead, but it’s static — any new meetings or shifting priorities require manual fixes. Reclaim’s AI-powered Focus Time dynamically schedules and reschedules around real-time changes, protecting deep work without upkeep. Set weekly goals, choose proactive or reactive modes, and fine-tune preferences like ideal time of day, block length, and daily limits.

Org & team-wide optimization

Viva Insights sets individual Focus goals but can’t optimize across teams or adapt to each employee’s unique schedule. Reclaim scales focus across the organization. Leaders define team or company goals, and AI automatically tailors them to every calendar — up to 12 weeks ahead. It syncs tasks from Jira, Asana, ClickUp, and Todoist, and coordinates Smart Meetings that flex around availability, reducing conflicts and manual coordination.

Actionable analytics

Viva Insights offers reflective analytics but doesn’t improve time management automatically. Reclaim turns insights into action. Employees track their Focus Time progress, managers spot workload and collaboration gaps, and leaders get org-wide visibility, enabling data-driven decision-making. The same AI that measures productivity also defends it — driving measurable, ongoing improvement.

“My work schedule has changed significantly since I started using Reclaim. It's been a game-changer! I would be lost without it.”
Caroline Wakefield
Vice President - CTRS Solutions Ltd

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