Reclaim AI Review and Pricing (2026): Is It Worth It?
Reclaim is an AI layer on top of Google Calendar or Outlook. You tell it how much focus time you want, which routines matter (lunch, gym, weekly review), and which tasks are due. It then books and keeps moving those blocks around your meetings so they don’t get eaten.
The short verdict: Reclaim is one of the best-value tools for people who want to defend their own time. The free plan is real, paid plans start at $10 per seat per month billed annually, and it now runs on Outlook as well as Google. The catch: it manages your calendar, not your conversations with other people, and it can flood a calendar with events that are hard to remove if you set it up carelessly. If your real pain is the back-and-forth of scheduling with clients, candidates, or a busy team over email, Carly is built for that job.
Reclaim at a glance
| Reclaim.ai (as of Sep 28, 2026) | |
|---|---|
| What it is | AI calendar that auto-schedules focus time, habits, tasks, buffers, and recurring meetings |
| Who makes it | Reclaim.ai, founded in 2019 and acquired by Dropbox in August 2024; now branded “Reclaim.ai from Dropbox” |
| Platforms | Web app plus Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar; no native iOS or Android app |
| Price | Free Lite plan; Starter $10, Business $15, Enterprise $22 per seat/month billed annually |
| Free plan / trial | Lite is free forever; every new account gets a 14-day trial of paid features |
| Best for | Individuals and small teams losing focus time to meetings |
| Biggest limitation | It optimizes your calendar; it doesn’t negotiate times with people over email |
What Reclaim actually does
Focus Time. You set a weekly goal (say, 15 hours) and Reclaim books focus blocks around your meetings. It can defend them proactively, or only when your week is at risk of missing the goal.
Habits. Recurring events with a flexible window (lunch sometime between 11:30 and 2, say) that move when a meeting lands on them.
Tasks. Pull tasks from Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear, or Google Tasks and Reclaim schedules work sessions before each deadline. Everything except Google Tasks needs a paid plan.
Smart Meetings. Recurring meetings (1:1s, team syncs) that float within a window and reschedule themselves around conflicts. They work best when every attendee is a Reclaim user or shares their calendar; Reclaim’s own help doc says that without that visibility, its “scheduling engine won’t be able to accurately consider their preferences”.
Scheduling Links, Buffer Time, Calendar Sync. Booking links with priority rules (including Team and Round Robin links), automatic breaks and travel time, and syncing busy blocks between work and personal calendars.
Reclaim 2.0. A redesign in private beta adds an in-app AI assistant you chat with (“Help me get my week back on track”), a Preview Mode that stages changes before they hit your live calendar, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini. The 2.0 overview still labels auto-scheduling meetings to make room as “in development.”
Outlook support. This used to be the big gap. Reclaim opened Outlook Calendar to all users in beta on May 21, 2025, and its Outlook page now claims “Full Microsoft 365 support” with Teams links and shared mailboxes. One real friction point: many corporate tenants block third-party apps, so you may hit an “Admin Approval Needed” error until IT approves it.
What changed under Dropbox. At the acquisition, Reclaim said it had 320,000 users across 43,000 companies and promised “no planned changes to pricing or customer support anytime soon.” Since then it has shipped Outlook support, Focus Time, Team OOO calendars in April 2026, the 2.0 beta, and higher prices.
What users say
Where it earns its keep
Calendar sync across several accounts is the most consistent praise. A Product Hunt reviewer wrote: “This was a life saver for me. I tried other alternatives like Clockwise but none of them managed to sync multiple google workspaces and mix it with a personal google calendar.”
A Google Workspace Marketplace reviewer in January 2026 said: “The automation feels intentional, not gimmicky, and it continuously optimizes time without constant manual input.”
On Hacker News, a customer who had tried building cross-calendar sync on their own explained: “Pretty quickly figured out this wasn’t side project-sized and dropped it, so I’ve been happy to give Reclaim my money in the years past!”
Our read: Reclaim’s fans juggle two or more calendars and want their time protected without thinking about it.
Where people get stuck
The loudest complaint is events that won’t go away. On the Google Workspace Marketplace listing (3.97 out of 5 from 238 ratings when we checked), a June 2026 reviewer wrote: “I can’t delete “Focus Time” entries on my calendar. I delete them and they just come back. Uninstalling the app didn’t help.” Another, in March 2026: “I have 300 tasks that reclaim.ai created and now I cannot delete them in google calendar nor in reclaim.ai, it is a mess!!!”
Sync lag shows up too. A Product Hunt reviewer whose team tested it said: “It works okay, but the syncing with calendars can lag. The idea is great, but it still needs refinement to fully deliver.”
Some users worried about Dropbox from day one. One Hacker News commenter wrote: “I love Reclaim right now, it serves its purpose very well and stays completely out of the way whilst doing it, but I don’t have any love for Dropbox or the vision for the future with Dropbox.” Another objected to account control, saying “Reclaim’s policy allows Enterprise customers to take over other individual paying accounts associated with the Enterprise,” and adding: “$100 a year was a bit much for a feature that should be in Google Calendar already.” Reclaim’s co-founder replied that “we should have done a better job communicating how this change was rolling out.”
Our read: most bad reviews come from people who switched on several features at once and found cleanup harder than setup.
Reclaim AI pricing (2026)
Prices as listed on Reclaim’s pricing page on Sep 28, 2026, checked on both the monthly and yearly toggles. All prices are USD, per seat, and exclude tax.
| Plan | Annual billing | Monthly billing | Seats | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | Free | Free | 1 user | 5 AI agents, 1-week scheduling range, 2 connected calendars, 1 Calendar Sync, 1 Scheduling Link, Google Tasks/Slack/Zoom/Meet only |
| Starter | $10/seat/mo | $12/seat/mo | Up to 10 | 10 agents per seat, 8-week range, 3 Calendar Syncs, 3 Scheduling Links, all task integrations |
| Business | $15/seat/mo | $18/seat/mo | Up to 100 | 100 agents per seat, 12-week range, no cap on Calendar Syncs or Scheduling Links, webhooks, Team OOO Calendar, delegated access for EAs |
| Enterprise | $22/seat/mo | Not offered | 100+ | Everything in Business plus SSO, SCIM, org-chart-aware scheduling |
Costs that aren’t on the headline
- Attendee Users (AUs). Smart Meetings with three or more people need a paid seat or an AU for each attendee without one. Annual packs cost $8/month for 3 on Starter, $12/month for 6 on Business, and $18/month for 10 on Enterprise ($10 and $15 on monthly Starter and Business). A “launch promo” banner still says AUs are free “through July 31st,” a date that has passed.
- All-or-nothing seats. Reclaim’s help center says all users on a team must be on the same plan, and Enterprise has a 100-seat minimum.
- The annual discount is smaller than advertised. The toggle says “SAVE 20%” and the help doc says 29%; $12 vs $10 and $18 vs $15 work out to about 17%.
- Prices have risen since the acquisition. TechCrunch reported that at the time of the deal, team plans “started at $8 per person per month”. Archived copies of the pricing page from September and November 2024 show Starter at $8 and Business at $12 per seat on annual billing ($10 and $15 monthly). By December 2025 they were $10 and $15, a 25% increase after the “no planned changes to pricing” promise.
- Trial rollback. After the 14-day trial you drop to Lite; anything over Lite’s limits runs for 28 more days, then gets deactivated.
Discounts: 50% off for 12 months for students and educators, 20% for three years for nonprofits and startups, 20% for six months if you switch from Clockwise, Motion, or Calendly.
What it really costs
Solo (Josh, a consultant with one work and one personal calendar): Lite is $0 and covers basic time protection, but one Scheduling Link and a one-week window get tight fast. Starter is $120 a year billed upfront, or $144 a year paid monthly. If Josh wants Business features like more Scheduling Links or letting an assistant manage his account, it’s $180 a year (annual) or $216 (monthly).
5-person team (Emily’s agency): Starter is $600 a year on annual billing or $720 a year month to month. Business is $900 or $1,080. If the team runs a weekly Smart Meeting with three contractors who don’t have seats, add an AU pack: $96 a year on annual Starter.
Is it worth it? For focus time and habits, yes: $10 to $15 a seat is cheap for what it automates, and Lite is a fair test. It stops being good value when you need meetings coordinated with people outside your company, which Reclaim leaves to Scheduling Links.
Problems and limits
- No native mobile app. Reclaim’s help center says it “doesn’t have native mobile apps for iOS or Android today”; you add the web app to your home screen or edit events in your calendar app.
- Cleanup is slow. Reclaim’s own account deletion guide warns that removing its events can get rate-limited by Google and tells you to disable Habits and sync policies first.
- Two app versions at once. Many help docs are marked “Reclaim 1.0,” while the 2.0 assistant is private beta you request by email.
- Legacy plans are frozen. Customers on the old Pro and Team plans keep them, but new features won’t be added.
Reclaim vs Carly
| Reclaim | Carly | |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | Defends your time on your calendar | Handles scheduling and email with other people |
| How you use it | Web app and calendar add-on | CC or forward Carly on email, text it, or use the web app |
| Scheduling with outsiders | Scheduling Links; Smart Meetings need attendee calendar access | CC Carly on a thread; it proposes times, sends invites, handles reschedules |
| Group scheduling | Team and Round Robin links | Booking pages and group availability polls |
| Inbox | Not in scope | Triages, drafts, replies, and follows up |
| Automations | Webhooks on Business | Visual workflows triggered by new emails, calendar events, forms, or schedules |
| Apps | Task tools, Slack, Zoom, Raycast | Connects to thousands of apps, including HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, and Asana |
| Calendars | Google and Outlook | Gmail/Google and Outlook/Microsoft 365, multiple accounts at once |
| Price | Free; $10 to $22/seat/mo | Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month |
Reclaim is cheaper and better at protecting your own focus time. Most schedules, though, break down around other people: the client who replies “how about Thursday?”, the candidate in another time zone, the five-person call nobody will book. Reclaim’s answer is a link the other side may never click. Carly works inside the email thread: CC it, and it finds a time on your Google or Outlook calendar, replies to everyone, and sends the invite.
Carly also works the rest of your inbox, and Email Agents give you separate assistants with their own address for intake or support. Need SSO or a custom setup for a larger team? Book a call.
Who should use Reclaim, and who should look elsewhere
Use Reclaim if:
- You live in Google Calendar or Outlook and meetings keep eating your deep-work time
- You juggle work and personal calendars and want busy blocks synced between them
- You’re a small team willing to all get seats so Smart Meetings work properly
Look elsewhere if:
- Your bottleneck is coordinating meetings with clients, candidates, or partners over email (Carly handles that)
- You manage your day mostly from a phone
- You want a project manager that plans everything for you (see our Motion vs Reclaim comparison and Motion AI review)
For more options, see our roundup of Reclaim alternatives or the head-to-head Reclaim vs Clockwise.
FAQ
Is Reclaim AI worth it?
For individuals and small teams who want focus time and routines protected automatically, yes. Starter is $10 per seat per month billed annually, and the free Lite plan lets you test it first. If your time goes to scheduling back-and-forth with people outside your company, an email-based assistant like Carly fits better.
How much does Reclaim AI cost?
As of Sep 28, 2026: Lite is free; Starter is $10 per seat per month billed annually or $12 monthly; Business is $15 annually or $18 monthly; Enterprise is $22 per seat per month, annual only, with a 100-seat minimum. Attendee User packs for larger Smart Meetings cost extra.
Is Reclaim AI free?
Yes. Lite is free forever for one user, limited to a one-week scheduling range, two connected calendars, one Calendar Sync, one Scheduling Link, and a short list of integrations.
Does Reclaim work with Outlook?
Yes. Outlook support opened to all users in May 2025, and Reclaim now advertises full Microsoft 365 support. Some company tenants require an admin to approve the app first. Carly also works with Outlook and Microsoft 365, including your inbox, not just your calendar.
Does Reclaim have a mobile app?
No native iOS or Android app. You can add the web app to your home screen or edit Reclaim events in your usual calendar app. If you want an assistant you can reach from your phone, you can text Carly.
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