Clockwise Shut Down in March 2026: Replace Every Feature
Clockwise shut down on March 27, 2026. Salesforce hired the team to work on Agentforce, the product was sunset with about a week’s notice, and user data was deleted rather than migrated. If Clockwise was quietly defragmenting your calendar every morning, that job is now vacant — and no single tool inherited it. This guide covers exactly what happened, which Clockwise features you actually lost, and the best replacement for each one.
What happened to Clockwise
Clockwise was the AI calendar assistant that automatically protected focus time and moved flexible meetings to reduce calendar fragmentation. Founded in 2016 by three former RelateIQ employees, it raised $76 million — including a $45 million Series C led by Coatue in 2022 — and served roughly 40,000 organizations, including teams at Uber, Netflix, and Atlassian.
Then it ended fast:
- March 19, 2026 — Clockwise announced the team was joining Salesforce to work on Agentforce, and that the product would be discontinued.
- March 27, 2026 — the service shut down. Accounts stopped working and user data was deleted shortly after; per Clockwise’s own wind-down notice, nothing transferred to Salesforce.
- Refunds — customers with prepaid subscriptions extending past March 27 received prorated refunds for the unused portion automatically.
This was an acquihire, not a product acquisition — Salesforce wanted the engineers, not the calendar app. There is no successor product inside Salesforce that picks up Clockwise’s features, no read-only mode, and no export window still open. We covered the news itself in Is Clockwise shutting down? — this post is about what to do next.
What Clockwise users lost
Clockwise did three jobs that most calendar tools don’t, and replacing it means knowing which of them you actually relied on:
- Focus-time defense. Clockwise found the gaps in your week, held them as Focus Time, and defended them as meetings piled in — by its own numbers, over 8 million hours of protected focus blocks.
- Smart meeting moves. You could mark internal meetings as “flexible,” and Clockwise would automatically reschedule them to defragment everyone’s calendar — resolving conflicts and consolidating meetings into blocks so free time stayed contiguous.
- Team scheduling and awareness. Scheduling links that respected teammates’ focus time, no-meeting days, and a Slack status sync that told colleagues when you were heads-down.
If you only used the focus blocks, a free feature you already have may cover you. If you leaned on the automatic meeting moves — the genuinely hard part — you need something with real autonomy. Here’s the map.
Replacing Clockwise, feature by feature
1. Carly — replaces the “assistant that acts on your calendar” core
Carly is an AI executive assistant you reach over email or text. Where Clockwise was a rules engine bolted onto Google Calendar, Carly is an agent: tell it to hold two hours of deep work every morning, move a conflicting internal meeting, or find a slot with your co-founder, and it does the calendar work itself — on Google Calendar and Outlook, which Clockwise never supported.
What it replaces from Clockwise: Focus-time blocking, rescheduling, and the scheduling coordination — plus things Clockwise never did. Carly fires on real triggers 24/7 in the cloud (a new invite lands, a client emails asking to move a call, Monday at 8am), drafts and sends email in Gmail and Outlook, and acts across 200+ integrations including Slack, Notion, and your CRM. There’s also a free, no-signup group-availability grid for finding a time across several people.
Best for: Anyone who wants the outcome Clockwise promised — a defended, defragmented week — handled by an assistant instead of a plugin, especially on mixed Google/Outlook teams.
Pricing: Free, unlimited Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month
2. Reclaim — replaces focus-time defense and habit scheduling
Reclaim is the closest like-for-like survivor: it auto-schedules tasks, habits, and focus blocks around your meetings and defends them as your week fills up. One thing to know before you commit: Reclaim was acquired by Dropbox in August 2024. Unlike Clockwise, it was a product acquisition, not an acquihire — Reclaim is still open for new signups, still shipping, and added full Microsoft Outlook support in August 2025, so it’s no longer Google-only.
What it replaces from Clockwise: Focus Time, buffer time, smart meeting auto-scheduling, and scheduling links. It’s individual-first, so you get value even if nobody else on your team signs up.
Best for: Individuals who mainly used Clockwise’s focus blocks and want the most direct migration.
Pricing: Free plan; paid plans from $8/user/month (billed annually)
3. Motion — replaces auto-scheduling, adds task and project management
Motion builds your entire workday automatically: it takes your task list, deadlines, and priorities and schedules everything into your calendar, continuously replanning as things change. It goes further than Clockwise did — but it’s opinionated, and the setup takes real effort.
What it replaces from Clockwise: The automatic calendar optimization, extended to tasks and projects, on both Google and Outlook calendars.
Best for: Power users who want their to-do list and calendar merged into one auto-planned system.
Pricing: Pro from $19/month (cheaper billed annually); team plans available
4. Vimcal — replaces fast scheduling for meeting-heavy calendars
Vimcal is a speed-focused calendar client — keyboard shortcuts, one-tap availability sharing, time-zone tooling — built for people with too many meetings. It doesn’t auto-move anything; it makes manual calendar work fast enough that you may not miss the automation.
What it replaces from Clockwise: The scheduling-links and availability-sharing side, with first-class Google and Outlook support. Vimcal EA is a separate tier built for assistants managing executives’ calendars.
Best for: Executives and EAs who wanted Clockwise’s polish more than its autonomy.
Pricing: $20/month ($16.67/month billed yearly); free iOS-only tier
5. Amie — replaces the calendar + to-do surface, with a caveat
Amie is a beautifully designed calendar and to-do app for Mac and iOS. The caveat: in 2025 Amie pivoted its emphasis toward AI meeting notes, so the calendar side is no longer the headline — and it remains Apple-centric.
What it replaces from Clockwise: The daily calendar-plus-tasks view, not the optimization engine. There’s no automatic meeting moving here.
Best for: Mac/iOS users who want a gorgeous manual calendar and are also in the market for a notetaker.
Pricing: Free tier; paid plans for AI features
6. Google Calendar’s built-in focus time — the free fallback
If all you used Clockwise for was the focus blocks, Google Calendar already ships the basics on Workspace work and school accounts: a dedicated Focus Time event type that can auto-decline conflicting meetings, plus Time Insights showing where your hours go. It won’t find the optimal gaps for you or defragment anyone’s calendar — you place the blocks yourself — but it costs nothing and requires no new tool.
What it replaces from Clockwise: Static focus-time protection and meeting-load visibility. Nothing dynamic.
Best for: Workspace users who want zero new subscriptions and can live without automation.
Pricing: Included with Google Workspace
Clockwise Replacements Compared
| Tool | Best for | Replaces from Clockwise | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carly | An assistant that acts on calendar + email | Focus blocks, rescheduling, coordination — via an agent on triggers | $35/mo (free workflow tier) |
| Reclaim | Direct like-for-like migration | Focus Time, smart meetings, scheduling links | Free; from $8/user/mo |
| Motion | Tasks + calendar auto-planned together | Auto-scheduling, extended to projects | From $19/mo |
| Vimcal | Meeting-heavy execs and EAs | Fast scheduling and availability sharing | $20/mo |
| Amie | Mac/iOS calendar + to-dos | The daily calendar surface only | Free tier |
| Google Calendar focus time | Zero-cost basics | Static focus blocks | Included in Workspace |
| Clockwise | — | Shut down March 27, 2026 | — |
FAQ
Is Clockwise still working? No. The service shut down on March 27, 2026, and user accounts and data were deleted shortly after. There’s no read-only mode and no way to recover old settings or Focus Time rules.
Did Salesforce buy Clockwise? Salesforce acquihired the Clockwise team — the people now work on Agentforce — but did not continue the product or take the data. The standalone app was discontinued eight days after the announcement.
What’s the closest free replacement for Clockwise? For focus blocks alone, Google Calendar’s built-in Focus Time (on Workspace work accounts) is free. For actual auto-scheduling, Reclaim’s free plan is the closest match, and Carly’s free tier covers unlimited Zapier-style workflows — AI agents start at $35/month.
Did Clockwise users get refunds? Yes. Anyone with a prepaid subscription extending past March 27, 2026 received a prorated refund for the unused portion automatically.
More: Clockwise alternatives · Is Clockwise shutting down? · Reclaim alternatives · Motion alternatives · Carly vs Clockwise · Genspark alternatives · Monica AI alternatives · Ninja AI alternatives
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