Calendly vs. Reclaim: #1 Alternative for AI Meeting Scheduling (original) (raw)
Features & integrations
Reclaim
Reclaim
Calendly
Calendly
Tasks
Automatically schedule tasks to your calendar around your existing calendar events, by priority, before their due dates.
Flexible time blocking
Keeps your schedule flexible with smart "free" and "busy" controls based on how busy your schedule is to maximize availability while defending your time.
Free plan
Reclaim offers a free forever plan that includes an AI-powered scheduling link, one Habit, and unlimited Tasks + Buffer Time—no credit card required. Calendly’s free plan includes a basic scheduling link for simple “book-a-meeting” scheduling.
Smart meetings
Reclaim’s Smart Meetings put recurring meetings on autopilot—AI finds the best time for all attendees and auto-reschedules when conflicts arise. Calendly has no automated AI-powered scheduling for recurring meetings.
Smart breaks
Reclaim automatically inserts Smart Breaks after meetings and adds travel time around in-person events to keep your schedule healthy. Calendly can add buffers, but they apply around Calendly meetings only and don’t extend across tasks, habits, or focus time.
Calendar sync
Reclaim syncs an unlimited number of calendars to protect availability and prevent conflicts across schedules. Calendly does not offer calendar sync.
Habits / recurring routines
Reclaim uses AI to schedule recurring Habits like lunch, planning, workouts, or routines that automatically adapt to your changing week. Calendly does not offer habit scheduling.
Task scheduling
Reclaim auto-schedules tasks to your calendar by priority, duration, and due date—continuously reshuffling as your week changes. Calendly does not provide task scheduling.
Analytics productivity stats & time tracking
Reclaim analyzes time across meetings, Focus Time, Tasks, and Habits—including deep vs. shallow work and work-life balance insights. Calendly provides meeting analytics primarily on Calendly-created events.
Scheduling links
Reclaim’s AI-powered scheduling links surface 524% more open time slots by shifting lower-priority reschedulable AI events while protecting your top priorities. Calendly scheduling links only show existing free time and do not support priority levels.
Team/group scheduling links
Reclaim Team Links maximize availability across multiple people by flexing lower-priority events—and can include team members who are non-Reclaim users. Calendly team links schedule only over mutual “free time” and require all team members to be Calendly users.
Round Robin links
Reclaim Round Robin links use AI to optimize for both availability and load balancing automatically—and can include non-Reclaim users. Calendly round robin requires choosing between “availability-first” or “load balancing” and requires team members to be Calendly users.
Pricing
Reclaim plans start at 10–10–10–15/user/month. Calendly starts at 10–10–10–16/user/month.
Advanced privacy controls
Reclaim provides calendar-wide privacy controls, including for synced events and AI-managed time blocks. Calendly privacy controls are oriented around scheduling links and event-type booking workflows.
One-off scheduling links
Reclaim creates personalized one-off links with tailored settings (priority, availability rules, title, durations, reminders, and more) for a specific invitee. Calendly single-use links expire after one booking and are limited to global settings for that event type.
Max bookings
Reclaim lets you cap bookings per day/week to protect capacity and prevent overload. Calendly also supports max booking limits for scheduling links.
High-priority scheduling links
Reclaim supports priority scheduling links that surface more availability by booking over lower-priority reschedulable AI events. Calendly does not offer priority scheduling for links.
Flexible duration scheduling links
Reclaim lets invitees choose multiple meeting durations on a single link across event types while maximizing availability over flexible events. Calendly supports multiple durations on a single link, but it’s limited to free time available and isn’t available for Managed Event type links.
Target calendar for each scheduling link
Reclaim supports scheduling links across an unlimited number of calendars and lets you choose the target calendar per link. Calendly only allows you to book meetings on one calendar.
Customizable meeting hours
Reclaim lets you fully control the hours invitees can book meetings through scheduling links. Calendly also supports customizable meeting hours.
Automated rescheduling for scheduling links
Reclaim supports rescheduling flows for link-booked meetings while keeping your schedule optimized around priorities. Calendly also supports rescheduling for meetings booked through links.
Scheduling links booking pages
Reclaim supports booking pages that group multiple scheduling links in one place for cleaner sharing. Calendly also supports booking pages.
Collect payments via scheduling links
Reclaim does not currently offer payment collection on scheduling links. Calendly supports payment collection by connecting Stripe and PayPal.
Customizable reminder emails for scheduling links
Reclaim supports automated reminder emails that can be customized per individual scheduling link. Calendly supports automated reminder emails and texts, but they’re limited to global event-type settings.
Recurring meetings
Reclaim automates recurring meetings with Smart Meetings, finding the best time for attendees, and auto-rescheduling for conflicts. Calendly does not provide AI-powered recurring meeting scheduling.
Travel time
Reclaim automatically inserts travel time around in-person events to prevent unrealistic back-to-back meetings. Calendly can approximate travel time using buffers, but those buffers apply around Calendly meetings only.
No-meeting days
Reclaim can automatically defend no-meeting days to preserve large blocks for uninterrupted deep work. Calendly does not enforce no-meeting days.
Flexible time blocking
Reclaim flexibly protects Focus Time, Tasks, and Habits while still surfacing availability for important meetings when needed. Calendly’s free-time-only model means time blocking directly reduces scheduling link availability.
Prioritized scheduling
Reclaim uses priority levels across tasks, habits, Focus Time, and meetings so your schedule automatically defends the most important work first. Calendly does not support prioritized scheduling.
Focus time
Reclaim lets you set a weekly Focus Time goal and automatically defends deep work around meetings and priorities. Calendly does not offer Focus Time scheduling.
Slack integration
Reclaim integrates with Slack for scheduling workflows and day-to-day coordination. Calendly also integrates with Slack for scheduling workflows.
Zoom integration
Reclaim automatically adds Zoom links to Scheduling Link meetings and supports Zoom across AI scheduling workflows. Calendly also supports Zoom integration.
Google Meet integration
Reclaim auto-generates Google Meet links for events and supports Meet across Smart Meetings and scheduling links. Calendly also supports Google Meet integration.
Google Tasks integration
Reclaim syncs Google Tasks and schedules them automatically on your calendar by priority and availability. Calendly does not provide Google Tasks integration or task scheduling.
Todoist integration
Reclaim turns Todoist tasks into intelligently scheduled calendar events that rebalance as priorities change. Calendly does not provide Todoist integration or task scheduling.
ClickUp integration
Reclaim syncs ClickUp tasks and reserves time automatically to keep projects moving. Calendly does not provide ClickUp integration or task scheduling.
Jira integration
Reclaim syncs Jira issues and automatically schedules focused work time based on priority and due dates. Calendly does not provide Jira integration or task scheduling.
Linear integration
Reclaim syncs Linear issues and intelligently books time for engineering work alongside meetings, Focus Time, and habits. Calendly does not provide Linear integration or task scheduling.
Asana integration
Reclaim syncs Asana tasks and auto-schedules time for them around availability and deadlines. Calendly does not provide Asana integration or task scheduling.
Raycast integration
Reclaim integrates with Raycast to run scheduling actions and availability workflows from your command palette. Calendly does not offer a native Raycast integration.
SSO & SCIM user provisioning
Reclaim supports SSO + SCIM for enterprise onboarding and access management. Calendly also supports SSO + SCIM for enterprise deployments.
Security reviews
Reclaim supports dedicated security and vendor reviews with enterprise-grade controls. Calendly also supports enterprise security reviews.