A Clockwise alternative now that it's gone

Clockwise shut down on March 27, 2026 when the team joined Salesforce. If you ran it for personal planning rather than team meetings, here's why ClaroCal might fit better than the official replacement.

First, the news: Clockwise is gone

If you came here looking for Clockwise, the short version is that it shut down. The team joined Salesforce and the product stopped being available on March 27, 2026. Focus Time blocks, Smart Holds, and flexible meeting moves were all removed from people’s calendars, and scheduling links stopped working.

Clockwise pointed its users to Reclaim, with price matching and migration help. If you were using Clockwise the way it was built to be used, coordinating a team’s meetings, Reclaim is the natural move and worth a look.

But a lot of people used Clockwise for something simpler, and for them the official answer isn’t quite right.

What Clockwise was actually good at

Credit where it’s due. Clockwise was a clever tool for teams drowning in meetings. It would quietly shuffle flexible meetings to open up shared focus time, protect blocks across a whole team, and smooth out the calendar chaos that comes with twenty coworkers booking each other. On Google Workspace and Outlook, at a company, it earned its keep.

That was its real strength, and also its real limit. Clockwise was about other people’s meetings, not your own task list.

Where ClaroCal fits, and where it doesn’t

ClaroCal is not a team meeting optimizer. If you need to defend focus time across coworkers or auto-move group meetings, ClaroCal doesn’t do that, and Reclaim is the closer replacement for that job.

What ClaroCal does is the personal half: it connects to your Google Calendar, takes your own to-do list, and drafts a realistic plan for your day around the meetings already on it. If the part of Clockwise you actually missed was just having a sane plan for your own time, that’s the part ClaroCal covers.

The free plan syncs hourly. Basic is $7.99 a month, or $59.88 a year (about $5 a month), with 15-minute sync and a 14-day trial. For a comparable auto-scheduling approach without the team layer, the Motion alternative writeup and the best time blocking apps guide are good next reads.

Picking the right replacement

Be honest about how you used Clockwise. If it was team meeting hygiene, follow the migration path to Reclaim. If it was your own focus and planning, that’s a personal-planner job, and that’s where ClaroCal is built to help.

Clockwise’s shutdown details were confirmed in June 2026 from its own announcement. If you’re reading this later, check whether the migration window is still open.

Last reviewed June 2026.