Reclaim.ai is a smart calendar and scheduling tool designed to help individuals and teams better manage their time by automatically finding the best times for meetings, tasks, and priorities. It integrates with existing calendar systems to optimize schedules, ensuring important work gets the time it deserves while maintaining flexibility for last-minute changes and emergencies.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile iPhone |
Support | Chat, Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
Reclaim is a game changer for keeping me on track in my day-to-day. It integrates with Google Calendar and other tools like Fellow so easily. I use it every single day.
I find it difficult to lock certain habits in at specific times each day. I also haven't been able to set recurring monthly habits based on day of the month (i.e. setting a task for the 1st of each month).
Reclaim helps me ensure that all recurring weekly tasks are scheduled and accounted for. It's been a game changer with productivity through its time blocking capabilities.
Pretty much the only solution I found for people who use multiple Google calendars - allows you to manage your time across each calendar, and share as you feel best. Also manages time for tasks, scheduling 1:1s, and more! The team - including the cofounder - are responsive and helpful.
Very little so far; mostly future feature requests that are on the way!
Helps me manage my own personal and work calendar, along with other Google Calendars in different orgs that I use regularly.
I use Reclaim.ai every day. Time blocking is finally worth doing. It is a great system but without Reclaim.ai, if something unexpected comes up or something runs over, you've got to manually move the schedule. Well, no longer. Reclaim.ai not only builds a schedule you can easily adjust, it automatically reshuffles when something comes up. It seamlessly integrates with my calendar so it is helpful on every device. Setting it up was very easy too. I have had no need for customer support so I can't comment on that.
The only downside of reclaim is that I also use it to track the time I actually spend doing things. If a task rolls over the the next week but I finished it in the previous week, I can't drag and drop from this week to last week.
Time and project management is the problem being solved. I am more productive.
immediately and cleanly updates calendars
Habits are a bit confusing to tweak. Still figuring it out for me.
organizing my work life and personal life
Auto 1:1s are fantastic. I rarely think about scheduling them anymore. And with many reports it's a solid time savings as well. Also, scheduling links are really good. Was able to ditch external scheduling tools with Reclaim bring much more flexible.
I think Gcal didn't expose working hours via API so it's an extra onboarding step. Just a minor thing, not a huge deal.
Scheduling 1:1s, scheduling external meetings, and blocking task time on my calendar. Reclaim saves me a TON of time. And it's just really well built I think.
Syncs with Todoist and other task managers. Automatically time-blocks tasks based on a variety or factors. Creates scheduling links with adjustable priority to fit around actually getting things done.
Once you start using Reclaim, you need to commit to using it for all your tasks and time management. A spontaneous work session or interruption requires manual adjustments to get your schedule back on track.
Making sure I have enough time in my day to actually get my work done. Before Reclaim it was easy to let my time be taken up by meetings and requests that were less important than my tasks.
The software acts like a personal assistant. I tell it about my priorities and preferences, and it shifts my calendar around, accepting and declining meetings, in accordance with those wishes, no matter what surprises crop up.
I get to-dos from many different systems: Jira, Google Doc Comments, Fellow, Todoist, I wish the tool had more integrations so I could track all my todo lists, and allocate time to burn them down, from a single place.
I frequently need to reschedule 1:1s as project meetings crop up. Reclaim.ai automatically finds the next available slot that works for both me and my direct report, and reschedules the meeting if I cannot attend. Reclaim also auto-schedules time to for my todo list items, and habits, so I can never have the excuse of "never having time".
Easy and smart sync between personal and work calendars Automatically schedule and move weekly 1:1s Scheduling links are smarter because they consider more than just "free/busy"
Don't personally use "tasks" feature Teams feature seems expensive and of limited value
Blocks time on my work calendar for personal events privately (just says "blocked). Also syncs travel calendar from tripit into work calendar so that flights show as “busy”. Basically keeps all my calendars in sync. The smart 1:1 feature makes it simple to keep 1:1’s scheduled, even when all our calendars are moving around. The scheduling link feature allows people to book time with me (like Calendly) but it’s smarter because it can move things around to accommodate requests.
It's simple and they offer great service. I often speak with the support and the give me feedback in less than a hour.
I would like to have recurring tasks, but I think it's a coming project.
It's solving the freeze of not doing what to do. Now, with Reclaim, you can just throw all your to do in the app and then follow your calendar.
Reclaim makes it possibe for me to manage my calendars across multiple accounts and organizations without creating scheduiling conflicts
Just wish they had their own calendar client for iOS etc.
Needing to sync availability across multiple organizations.
Automatically blocks out times so that I am never double booked.
A little cumbersome to set up, but worth the effort.
Before reclaim I was manually updating 6+ calendars and not only was that time consuming, it left room for errors.
Reclaim connects my work and personal calendars so I can easily see and share my availability with my team and with customers. I love Reclaim's new meeting scheduling links feature - I can create templates including other team member's availability and share these with customers via a link that can be placed in an email, Asana comment, Slack message, or really anywhere.
There's really nothing I can think of to include here - Reclaim helps me to stay organized and is very easy to use.
I have several Google accounts (work and personal) & Reclaim shows my schedule across all calendars so I can see my availability effortlessly.
It has an amazing depth on calendar management, something I haven't seen before. -Integrates with Google Calendar and creates a smarter way of managing your appointments. -Gives you the flexibility to change time slots on the spot, defends some that are important for you. -Works for arranging 1:1 meetings (if the other person uses it as well) without entering all those details they're most likely not going to remember anyway. -Creates automatic buffers after meeting so no more jumping from call to call without breathing.
It's a paradigm shift, so it's a little bit difficult to start working with it at the beginning. It takes some work at the beginning to arrange how you book your meetings.
Handling my schedule used to be a mess, and it was very difficult to find slots to do actual work. With Reclaim's flexibility it's much easier to save spaces to do work, to do meetings and more. And a plus is to get stats on how your week is distributed between different types of appointments.
cheaper than competitors, like Motion easy to use
loads slow sometimes take long time for ask to be scheduled
I want to manage my time better
The ability to have the app find space to get specific events. Like it sets an hour for your lunch, makes sure you have time to catch up on emails, but they don't have to be fixed times like in the calendar.
You have to log in to their website to manage many stuff and it creates one more thing to do
Making sure that my personal commitments don't overlap with work. It helps taking more advantage of a flexible schedule and remote setting.
habits and recurring tasks arranged with artificial intelligence
I can't edit original events using reclaim platform, i need to go directly to google calendar.
rituals with my team or recurring meetings
I don't have to think about prioritization or manual time-blocking any more. Reclaim integrates tasks from my project management software (Jira) and tasks that don't have tickets. All I need is a flexible time estimate for each task and my calendar is made. This has really helped me get the most urgent stuff done in the available time that I have. Earlier this year I reduced my work hours so have felt the pressure to get the same work done in less time. Reclaim has really helped me be most effective during my available time, plus I can use it for personal life tasks. It has helped me set realistic goals for myself and expectations with others.
It was kind of hard to set up with Jira but once I got it working it is okay. It is a bit slow to sync and schedule tasks from Jira too and sometimes takes multiple tries.
Reclaim helps me schedule tasks in my available work hours and prioritize the most important tasks. It also helps fend off unnecessary meetings and automatically updates my Slack status so my co-workers can see if I'm busy or free.
I like that reclaim uses AI to help me organize my time, tasks, hobbies, and meetings. It hooks up with my google calendar and allows me to set priorities for all the things that I need to do in order for me to best manage my time. Their customer service is amazing as they always get back with me very quickly. They also have a helpful AI bot which answers questions for me which have been asked before. The ease of use is good. It takes a little bit of time to set up, but runs on it's own once (if you have a lot of recurring tasks/meetings) once you have configured it the way you'd like. This has become a part of my routine is meetings to add the tasks, due dates, and priorites to my reclaim, and reclaim handles the rest!
Reclaim doesn't have much that I would *dislike*. They have even taken suggestions I have given and have a clear roadmap of where they are going. I would like to hear a little bit more about what is happening, as I have been a member for a few months and haven't heard any updates that have been made since.
Cleaning up my calendar, scheduling meetings, giving me clarity in my daily routine and schedule.
Reclaim manages my 1:1s with a 10 person team requiring different check-in frequencies around a variable schedule, which I would not be able to manage without. It also defends my time so I am able to get my other work done. They recently brought in prioritization of all events, which has been a gamechanger for me.
My less tech savvy colleagues have been slower to adopt Reclaim, but their support team gave me team a customized onboarding that has helped them overcome any barriers to use.
I need to balance managing my team, meeting with clients, and preserving time to do my work. It helps me understand how much time I have available, and how many people I need to delegate to in order to have a manageable workload.
Reclaim.ai is perfect for a business owner who uses Google calendar, and especially if you use one of the Project management tools that integrate with it. I've tried other AI scheduling tools, but in order for me to get the most of them, I would have had to ditch the project management tool my agency was using. With this, I can keep my existing tech stack and still experience the benefits of having help with my calendar. Instead of having to track my client work and business tasks inside my PM tool (ClickUp) and then manually blocking time in my calendar to do them (so draining and frustrating), tasks and projects are automatically added to my calendar based on their start & end dates and estimated time for the task. I also love that I can add custom habits in here, and/or modify existing templates for my home life and business. That's another HUGE benefit for me - setting Personal -vs- work hours and being able to leverage the AI for my personal/home/family life as well. After getting everything set up, I now benefit from Reclaim.AI's features every day. I also appreciate that it's affordable - $8/month! It's so worth it!
I do wish that it synced with my existing scheduling tool, Honeybook. I need most of my appointments to stay there so I can track my leads and leverage my automations when people schedule. Reclaim.AI's native scheduling feature is really awesome, but if there was a way to combine the features of Reclaim.AI with Honeybook it would be top notch!
Having to switch between PM tool and schedule blocking. Feeling behind on all the work I have to do because I have to manually block time for all projects. It helps me focus and trust that all my tasks are accounted for and will be finished on time.