5 Best Mayday Alternatives in 2026
Mayday was a well-liked AI-assisted calendar for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS that auto-suggested ideal times for events and tasks based on your patterns, rescheduled dynamically as priorities shifted, and offered smart scheduling links. The catch in 2026 is simple: Mayday was sunset, so it’s no longer available — which means if you loved it, you need a new home.
The good news is that the auto-scheduling idea Mayday pioneered now shows up in several active tools, and some go well beyond what a Mac calendar could do. Here are five alternatives that find the right times for you.
1. Carly
Carly is an AI executive assistant you reach over email and text rather than a calendar app you open. It does what Mayday did — finds good times and blocks tasks onto your calendar — and adds the parts a calendar app couldn’t: it runs the scheduling back-and-forth with other people, keeps your contacts and CRM current, sends a daily briefing, and records and summarizes meetings.
What makes it different from Mayday: Mayday was Apple-only and lived in a menu bar. Carly works on Outlook and Gmail, on any platform, with no app to live in. For scheduling with others, it offers a free no-signup availability grid where everyone marks when they’re free, and it can finalize and send the invite for you.
Best for: People who liked Mayday’s auto-scheduling but want a cross-platform assistant that also handles email, scheduling with others, and meetings.
Pricing: Starts at $35/month
2. Reclaim
The closest spiritual successor to Mayday’s auto-scheduling. Reclaim’s AI automatically finds and defends time for tasks, habits, and meetings on your Google or Outlook calendar, and reshuffles blocks as your week changes.
What makes it different from Mayday: Reclaim is cross-platform (it runs on your existing calendar rather than a Mac app) and is built around automatically protecting focus time. See Reclaim alternatives.
Best for: People who want automatic time-blocking and defended focus time.
Pricing: Free tier; paid plans available
3. Clockwise
An AI calendar assistant focused on teams. It moves flexible meetings around to create shared blocks of focus time across a group, syncs across Google and Outlook, and optimizes everyone’s day collectively.
What makes it different from Mayday: Clockwise optimizes across a whole team’s calendars, not just your own, which Mayday never did. See Clockwise alternatives.
Best for: Teams that want collective focus time and smarter meeting placement.
Pricing: Free tier; paid plans available
4. Motion
An AI planner that takes your tasks, deadlines, and meetings and auto-builds (and continuously rebuilds) your daily schedule. The most aggressive of the bunch about deciding exactly when you should do each thing.
What makes it different from Mayday: Motion is task-management-plus-auto-scheduling in one cross-platform app, with heavier project-management features than Mayday had. See Motion alternatives.
Best for: People who want an AI to fully construct their daily plan from a task list.
Pricing: Paid, with a trial
5. Notion Calendar
If the Mayday appeal was mainly a clean, smart calendar, Notion Calendar is a free, well-designed option with natural-language event creation and tight links to Notion tasks and docs.
What makes it different from Mayday: Notion Calendar doesn’t auto-schedule like Mayday did, but it’s free, cross-platform, and excellent if your work lives in Notion. See Notion Calendar alternatives.
Best for: Notion users who want a free, clean calendar across platforms.
Pricing: Free
How to choose
For the closest match to Mayday’s automatic time-finding, start with Reclaim or Motion. For team-wide focus time, Clockwise. For a free, simple calendar, Notion Calendar. And if you want more than a calendar could ever give you — an assistant that finds the times, negotiates the scheduling, and handles the inbox and meetings — Carly does it over email and text, on Outlook or Gmail.
FAQ
Is Mayday still available? No. Mayday was discontinued, so existing and would-be users need an alternative.
Which Mayday alternative auto-suggests times like it did? Reclaim and Motion both auto-schedule tasks and meetings onto your calendar. Carly does the same and also runs the scheduling conversation with other people.
Do these work outside the Apple ecosystem? Yes — Reclaim, Clockwise, Motion, Notion Calendar, and Carly are all cross-platform and work with Google and Outlook calendars.
More on scheduling: Reclaim alternatives · Clockwise alternatives · Motion alternatives · Notion Calendar alternatives
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