Tools · Issue #19 ·
Reclaim, the AI calendar that guards your focus time and moves it around your meetings so your week doesn't fill up without you
In one line: Reclaim connects to your Google or Outlook calendar and keeps time for deep work, routines and breaks on it, moving those blocks around as meetings land, with a chat assistant that shows every change in a preview before it touches your real calendar, and a free-forever Lite plan for one person.
What it is
Reclaim (now part of Dropbox) is an AI calendar that sits on top of the calendar you already use, Google Calendar or Outlook. You tell it what you want your week to look like, and background Agents keep working toward it. A Focus Time agent takes a weekly goal (say 10 hours) and keeps finding and holding time for heads-down work around your meetings, and it can even auto-decline invites that land on top of it. Habits find the best slot for recurring things like lunch, the gym or a weekly review. Buffers add breaks after video calls and travel time around events that need a commute. Smart Meetings move recurring meetings to the time that works for everyone, and the Meeting Quality agents flag invites you haven't answered and meetings missing a video link. There's also Reclaim Chat, an assistant next to your calendar where you can type things like "Find 30 minutes to meet with Bob this week" or "Clear the rest of my day and mark me as out sick". The part that makes it safe to try: changes from the chat go into Preview Mode first, a staging copy of your calendar, so nobody gets an invite or a cancellation until you apply them. It also has scheduling links (a Calendly-style booking page that knows which of your blocks can move), syncing between your work and personal calendars so each shows you as busy, task lists pulled in from Google Tasks, Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, Jira and Linear, time analytics, and an MCP connection so you can use it from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini or Cursor.
Who it's for
People whose calendar fills up before they get any real work done: managers, freelancers juggling clients, founders, anyone who keeps blocking "focus" time by hand and watching it get booked over. It's also good if you have a work calendar and a personal one and keep getting double-booked, since one free sync is included. It's less useful if your calendar is mostly empty (there's nothing to protect yet), if you live in Apple Calendar only (Reclaim works with Google and Outlook calendars), or if your company won't let a third-party app read and write your calendar, which Reclaim needs to do its job.
Try this today
Go to reclaim.ai, click Get Started, and connect the calendar you schedule most of your week in (you can add a personal calendar later). Then open Settings, Hours and set your working hours, meeting hours and personal hours; Reclaim uses these to decide where things can go. Next, open Agents, click Add, and pick Focus Time. Set a realistic weekly goal, like 6 to 8 hours, and a minimum block length of an hour. Reclaim shows where the blocks would land in Preview Mode first, so look it over before you apply it. Then add one Habit you keep skipping, like lunch. For one week, don't touch any of it and just see how much of that time survives. Tip: before you ask the chat assistant to reshuffle anything big, check the preview, because that's the step that stops a flood of notifications going out to other people.
The catch
The free Lite plan only plans 1 week ahead (paid plans go 8 or 12 weeks), gives you 5 AI agents, 1 calendar sync and 1 scheduling link, and is for one person only. Integrations on Lite are limited to Google Tasks, Slack, Zoom and Google Meet; Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, Jira and Linear need a paid plan, and the chat assistant has a smaller allowance on Lite than on paid plans. If you start a paid plan's free trial, put a reminder in your calendar: Reclaim's help center says the trial is 30 days (the website's menu says 14) and that your plan carries on and you may be charged unless you downgrade to Lite before it ends. Reclaim needs read and write access to your calendar, so a work account may need your IT team's OK. And it's only as good as your settings: if your hours are wrong or your focus goal is too big, it will cheerfully fill your week with blocks you'll ignore, so start small.
Pricing
Lite: free forever, for one person, with 5 AI agents, Focus Time, Habits, Buffers, Smart Meetings, Meeting Quality, 1 week of scheduling range, 1 calendar sync, 1 scheduling link and limited integrations. Starter: $12 per seat a month, or $10 per seat a month billed yearly, up to 10 seats, 10 agents per seat, 8 weeks of range, 3 calendar syncs, 3 scheduling links and all integrations. Business: $18 per seat a month, or $15 per seat a month billed yearly, up to 100 seats, 100 agents per seat, 12 weeks of range, unlimited syncs and links, webhooks, a team out-of-office calendar and delegated access for assistants. Enterprise: $22 per seat a month, yearly only, for teams over 100 seats, with SSO and SCIM. There's no minimum seat count on Starter or Business, so you can buy one seat for yourself. Prices are in USD and exclude tax. Discounts listed on the pricing page: 50% off for 12 months for students and educators, 20% off for 3 years for qualified nonprofits and startups, and 20% off for 6 months if you're switching from Clockwise, Motion or Calendly.
Pricing checked on Reclaim's pricing page (and its machine-readable version, updated Jul 9, 2026) and the Reclaim help center (Getting Started, Focus Time Agent, Tasks, Reclaim Chat, Reclaim 2.0 FAQ, Pricing and Plans, and Free Trial pages) on Nov 2, 2026.