Clockwise shut down: what to use instead

Clockwise stopped working on 27 March 2026, about a week after its users were told, because Salesforce hired the team behind it into its Agentforce group and chose not to keep the product running. If you are reading this because your calendar quietly stopped rearranging itself, the useful first step is not to pick the most popular replacement but to work out which half of Clockwise you were actually relying on, since the two halves are now served by different kinds of tools and no single product covers both the way Clockwise did.

Clockwise announced on 19 March 2026 that its team was joining Salesforce, and the product went offline on 27 March. Salesforce took on the people and not the software, so there is no Salesforce version of Clockwise to move to and nothing is planned to replace it from that side. Paid subscriptions were refunded on a prorated basis, and Clockwise stated that no user data would be transferred to Salesforce and that all of it would be deleted shortly after access ended.

That last point decides how a migration looks. There was no export window and there is no archive to request now, so whatever settings you had built up in Clockwise, such as the hours of focus time you aimed for each week or the days you kept free of meetings, have to be rebuilt by hand in whatever you choose next. It is worth writing those down from memory before you start comparing tools, because they are the actual requirements and they are easy to lose sight of once a new product starts presenting its own defaults.

Clockwise did two separate jobs that happened to live in one product. The first was moving meetings. It looked at the internal meetings you had marked as flexible and shifted them, across everyone invited, so that the gaps in each person's day joined up into longer stretches, and its scheduling links offered times that respected those stretches. That job only works when the tool can see and change a whole team's calendars, which is why Clockwise was sold to companies rather than to individuals.

The second job was protecting your own time. Clockwise reserved Focus Time blocks in your calendar and defended them against new bookings, so that on a busy week you still ended up with hours where nothing was scheduled over you. That job concerns one person and one calendar, and it does not need anybody else's calendar to work.

Most people used both without thinking of them as separate, but they point to different replacements, so it is worth deciding which one you would actually miss on Monday morning.

Reclaim is the replacement Clockwise itself pointed its users to in the shutdown notice, and it is the only widely used tool that still moves meetings with several attendees on its own. Its free Lite plan schedules about a week ahead, and the paid plans run from roughly 10 to 22 dollars per seat a month depending on tier and billing, with the longer scheduling ranges on the higher tiers. Its offer for people switching from another smart calendar, Clockwise included, is 20 percent off for six months, as listed on its pricing pages in October 2026.

If your team booked meetings with outside people more than it rearranged internal ones, a booking-link tool such as Calendly or Cal.com covers that part of what Clockwise's scheduling links did, although neither will move a meeting once it exists.

Here the honest answer is that a replacement for Focus Time does not have to look like Focus Time. Clockwise protected a generic block and left you to decide, once you were inside it, what to work on. An automatic task scheduler goes one step further and fills the protected time with the specific tasks on your list, placed by how long each one takes and when it is due, in the free time around your meetings, so the block is reserved for something rather than for nothing in particular.

Several tools do this and they differ more in who they are built for than in what they do. Motion pairs it with project management and an AI workspace from 19 dollars a month, while FlowSavvy has a free plan that genuinely schedules and ships native phone apps to everyone. SkedPal handles the most complicated constraints and also works with Outlook and iCloud, and Reclaim schedules tasks alongside its meeting features if you would rather keep both halves in one product. Best automatic task schedulers sets these against each other by situation, which is a quicker way to a shortlist than reading every pricing page.

Because nothing could be exported, start from the settings you wrote down rather than from the new tool's suggestions. Enter your working hours first and set them to when you actually start and stop, since a scheduler that places work at eight o'clock when you never begin before half past nine produces a plan you will stop trusting within a week. Recreate your no-meeting days next, either as working-hour rules or as blocked time, depending on what the new tool supports.

Then decide what the protected time is for. If you used Clockwise's Focus Time as a general reserve, add the work that used to fill it as tasks with honest durations and let the scheduler place them, and give it a full ordinary week before judging the result, because the thing that tells you whether a replacement works is how it behaves on the day a meeting moves, not how tidy the first plan looks.

Hourwright replaces the focus-time half of Clockwise and does not touch the meeting half. It reads when you are busy in Google Calendar and places your tasks in the free time between those meetings according to the priority and deadline weighting you set, splitting long work into sittings where a single slot is too short, and any task it could not fit is reported to you by name. It never moves a meeting or reads anyone else's calendar, so if rearranging your team's meetings is what you are missing, Reclaim is the better answer and this is not.

It costs three euros a month or twenty euros a year after a 31-day trial that needs no card, and it works with Google Calendar only and on desktop for now. Sync is one way with a lock action for anything you want kept in place, and the plan is rebuilt when you run the scheduler again rather than continuously in the background. The comparison page sets it against each of the four schedulers named above, including the cases where one of them is the better choice for you.