A free Reclaim alternative
Reclaim.ai fills the free time on your Google or Outlook calendar with your habits, tasks and focus time, and its AI looks for the best slot for each. Its free Lite plan schedules a week ahead; paid plans start at $10 per user a month billed yearly.
Plainer is a plain workspace for your notes, documents and files, with a planner view built in. That planner covers the same daily loop (pick today’s tasks, give some of them a time, adjust as the day changes), keeps you in charge of when work happens, and puts a project timeline above it. It is free to use. Open Plainer
Side by side
- Price
- Plainer: Free to use. No card or personal AI key. The optional assistant has usage limits.
Reclaim: A free Lite plan for 1 user. Starter is $10 per user a month billed yearly, or $12 monthly; Business is $15 or $18. A 14-day trial of the paid plans. - Free plan limits
- Plainer: One plan for everyone, with the full planner.
Reclaim: Lite schedules up to a week ahead, with 1 calendar sync, 1 scheduling link and limited integrations. - Daily planning
- Plainer: A day list with flexible “No time yet” tasks above a full-day calendar.
Reclaim: Habits, tasks and focus time placed in free time on your calendar by AI, which looks for the best slot for each. - Timeboxing
- Plainer: You decide: drag a task into a time block, or reserve a work block and keep its tasks in a separate work list.
Reclaim: Automatic: Reclaim books the time blocks on your calendar for you. - Projects
- Plainer: Nested tasks and subtasks on a Gantt timeline, plus weekly goals.
Reclaim: Tasks time-blocked on your calendar. - Calendar
- Plainer: Google Calendar, read-only: Plainer shows your events and never edits them.
Reclaim: Google Calendar and Outlook, with its events written to your calendar. Calendar sync blocks time across your calendars. - Meetings
- Plainer: Your meetings show in the day; Plainer does not book them.
Reclaim: Smart meetings that find the best time for recurring meetings, scheduling links and automatic breaks after video calls. - Assistant
- Plainer: Plan my day, Roll over, Weekly review and your own saved commands. Changes can be undone.
Reclaim: Scheduling AI that finds the best time for each habit, task and recurring meeting.
Choose Plainer if
- You want a daily planner without a monthly bill or a card up front.
- You would rather decide when work happens than have an AI book it into your calendar.
- Your work is projects with steps and dates, and you want the timeline and today’s list in one view.
- You want to shape the tool yourself: open a file as a table, board, calendar or timeline, write your own commands, or install templates from the Marketplace.
Choose Reclaim if
- You live in Google Calendar or Outlook and want habits, tasks and focus time placed there automatically.
- You book a lot of meetings and want scheduling links, smart recurring meetings and breaks after calls.
- You plan in Outlook, or keep several calendars in sync.
- Your team wants shared scheduling on one plan.
Switching from Reclaim
Open Plainer and connect Google Calendar if you use it. Add this week’s tasks to the days you planned them for, and leave them without a time until they need one. Then ask the assistant to plan your day. You can export your workspace at any time.
Start planning in Plainer. Also comparing other planners? See Plainer and Motion, Plainer and Sunsama or Plainer and Akiflow. Questions: contact us.
Reclaim prices and features were read from reclaim.ai/pricing on 1 November 2026 and can change. Reclaim is a trademark of its owner. Plainer is not affiliated with Reclaim.