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Best Motion Alternatives

52 tools that can replace or complement Motion

Pricing Comparison

Tool Free Plan Starting Price Rating
Motion ✗ No $12+ ★ 4.3
Notion ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.6
Asana ✓ Yes Free / $10.99+ ★ 4.4
ClickUp ✓ Yes Free / $7+ ★ 4.5
Monday.com ✓ Yes Free / $9+ ★ 4.5
Trello ✓ Yes Free / $5+ ★ 4.3
Todoist ✓ Yes Free / $5+ ★ 4.5
Linear ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.8
Airtable ✓ Yes Free / $20+ ★ 4.5
Jira ✓ Yes Free / $7.91+ ★ 4.3
Toggl Track ✓ Yes Free / $9+ ★ 4.6
Clockify ✓ Yes Free / $3.99+ ★ 4.5
Calendly ✓ Yes Free / $12+ ★ 4.6
Cal.com ✓ Yes Free / $12+ ★ 4.4
Basecamp ✗ No $15+ ★ 4.1
Wrike ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.2
Smartsheet ✓ Yes Free / $9+ ★ 4.2
Reclaim.ai ✓ Yes Free / $8+ ★ 4.4
SavvyCal ✓ Yes Free / $12+ ★ 4.6
Acuity Scheduling ✗ No $20+ ★ 4.4
Doodle ✓ Yes Free / $6.95+ ★ 4.2
Notion Calendar ✓ Yes Free ★ 4.4
AppFlowy ✓ Yes Free / $12.5+ ★ 4.3
Cal.ai ✓ Yes Free / $12+ ★ 4.2
Fibery ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.4
YouTrack ✓ Yes Free / $3.67+ ★ 4.3
Shortcut ✓ Yes Free / $8.5+ ★ 4.4
Plane ✓ Yes Free / $7+ ★ 4.2
TickTick ✓ Yes Free / $3.99+ ★ 4.5
Teamwork ✓ Yes Free / $13.99+ ★ 4.3
Huly ✓ Yes Free / $15+ ★ 4.1
Taiga ✓ Yes Free / $5+ ★ 4.2
Everhour ✓ Yes Free / $8.5+ ★ 4.4
Clockwise ✓ Yes Free / $6.75+ ★ 4.3
Jane App ✗ No $54+ ★ 4.7
Any.do ✓ Yes Free / $5.99+ ★ 4.3
Superlist ✓ Yes Free / $9+ ★ 4.2
Things 3 ✗ No $9.99+ ★ 4.8
Routine ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.2
Zoho Sprints ✓ Yes Free / $5+ ★ 4.2
Focalboard ✓ Yes Free ★ 4
Height ✓ Yes Free / $8.5+ ★ 4.3
Toggl Plan ✗ No $9+ ★ 4.3
TeamGantt ✗ No $19+ ★ 4.4
LiquidPlanner ✗ No $15+ ★ 4.2
eM Client ✓ Yes Free / $49.95+ ★ 4.3
Smartsheet ✓ Yes Free / $9+ ★ 4.3
Fantastical ✓ Yes Free / $6.75+ ★ 4.5
BusyCal ✗ No $4.99+ ★ 4.3
Google Calendar ✓ Yes Free / $6+ ★ 4.5
Linear ✓ Yes Free / $8+ ★ 4.7
Fibery ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.3
Taskade ✓ Yes Free / $8+ ★ 4.2

All Motion Alternatives

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Notion

★★★★★ 4.6
Free / $10+

All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

  • Extremely flexible
  • Great free tier
  • Powerful databases
  • Slow with large pages
  • Steep learning curve
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Asana

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $10.99+

Work management platform for teams to organize, track, and manage tasks.

  • Clean interface
  • Great for teams
  • Timeline view
  • Limited free plan
  • Can feel complex
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ClickUp

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $7+

All-in-one productivity platform replacing multiple tools.

  • Feature-rich
  • Affordable
  • Great free plan
  • Can be overwhelming
  • Mobile app needs work
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Monday.com

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $9+

Work OS for teams to run projects, workflows, and everyday work.

  • Visual and intuitive
  • Great automations
  • CRM built-in
  • Expensive at scale
  • Free plan is very limited
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Trello

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $5+

Simple, visual Kanban-style project management tool.

  • Dead simple to use
  • Great free plan
  • Power-Ups ecosystem
  • Limited views
  • Not great for complex projects
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Todoist

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $5+

Powerful yet simple task manager for personal and team productivity.

  • Clean design
  • Natural language input
  • Cross-platform
  • No built-in calendar view
  • Limited project views
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Linear

★★★★★ 4.8
Free / $10+

Streamlined issue tracking built for modern software teams.

  • Blazing fast
  • Beautiful UI
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Dev-focused only
  • Limited customization
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Airtable

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $20+

Low-code platform for building collaborative apps.

  • Powerful database views
  • Great API
  • Interface designer
  • Expensive
  • Row limits
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Jira

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $7.91+

Industry-standard issue and project tracking for software development teams.

  • Powerful Agile/Scrum support
  • Detailed reporting (burndown, velocity)
  • Deep dev tool integrations
  • Steep learning curve
  • Overwhelming for non-technical users
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Toggl Track

★★★★★ 4.6
Free / $9+

Simple and intuitive time tracking tool for freelancers and teams with powerful reporting.

  • One-click timer start
  • Works across all devices
  • Detailed reporting and analytics
  • Free plan limited to 5 users
  • No invoicing built-in
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Clockify

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $3.99+

Free time tracking tool with unlimited users and projects, plus invoicing and scheduling features.

  • Completely free for unlimited users
  • Simple and clean interface
  • Invoicing and scheduling included
  • Advanced features require paid plans
  • Reporting less detailed than Toggl
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Calendly

★★★★★ 4.6
Free / $12+

Scheduling automation platform that eliminates back-and-forth emails for booking meetings.

  • Eliminates scheduling friction completely
  • Integrates with all major calendars
  • Routing forms for lead qualification
  • Free plan limited to one event type
  • Can feel impersonal to some recipients
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Cal.com

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $12+

Open-source scheduling platform and Calendly alternative with self-hosting and full customization.

  • Open-source and self-hostable
  • Unlimited event types on free plan
  • Full API and webhook access
  • Self-hosting requires technical setup
  • Fewer integrations than Calendly
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Basecamp

★★★★☆ 4.1
$15+

Simple project management and team communication tool with opinionated workflows to reduce meetings and email.

  • Flat monthly price for unlimited projects (Pro)
  • Reduces meeting culture with async communication
  • Hill Charts for visual project progress
  • No free tier available
  • Limited customization compared to Asana/Monday
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Wrike

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $10+

Versatile project management platform with Gantt charts, custom workflows, and cross-tagging for complex organizations.

  • Cross-tagging lets tasks live in multiple projects
  • Powerful Gantt charts with dependencies
  • Custom request forms for intake workflows
  • Interface can feel cluttered and overwhelming
  • Free tier limited to basic features
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Smartsheet

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $9+

Enterprise work management platform combining spreadsheet familiarity with project management, automation, and governance.

  • Familiar spreadsheet interface reduces learning curve
  • Powerful automation with no-code workflows
  • Enterprise-grade permissions and governance
  • Can feel overwhelming for simple projects
  • Expensive at enterprise scale
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Reclaim.ai

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $8+

AI scheduling tool that automatically finds time for tasks, habits, meetings, and breaks in your calendar.

  • AI defends time for deep work automatically
  • Smart 1:1 and meeting scheduling
  • Habit tracking with flexible time blocks
  • Google Calendar only (no Outlook yet)
  • AI can over-schedule if not tuned
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SavvyCal

★★★★★ 4.6
Free / $12+

Scheduling tool designed to be respectful of both parties' time, offering overlay calendars, personalized links, and a recipient-first booking experience.

  • Recipients can overlay their own calendar to find mutual times
  • Ranked availability shows preferred times first
  • Personalized scheduling links per contact
  • Smaller brand recognition than Calendly
  • Fewer integrations than established competitors
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Acuity Scheduling

★★★★☆ 4.4
$20+

Online appointment scheduling software by Squarespace for service-based businesses to automate booking, payments, reminders, and client management.

  • Highly customizable for service businesses
  • Integrated payment processing (Stripe, Square, PayPal)
  • Robust reminder and follow-up email system
  • No free plan available
  • Interface feels dated compared to modern alternatives
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Doodle

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $6.95+

Group scheduling tool that simplifies finding meeting times for multiple participants through polling, with booking pages and calendar integration.

  • Best-in-class group scheduling with polls
  • Participants don't need accounts to vote
  • Simple and intuitive for non-technical users
  • Free plan has ads and limited features
  • Less suited for complex recurring scheduling
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Notion Calendar

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free

Calendar app by Notion (formerly Cron) combining scheduling with Notion database integration, offering time blocking, availability sharing, and multi-calendar views.

  • Beautiful native app with fast performance
  • Deep integration with Notion databases and pages
  • Availability sharing without back-and-forth emails
  • Requires Notion account for full functionality
  • No Microsoft 365 calendar support yet
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AppFlowy

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $12.5+

Open-source Notion alternative offering documents, databases, kanban boards, and AI-powered features with data privacy and self-hosting capabilities.

  • Open-source with full self-hosting option
  • Familiar Notion-like interface and features
  • Local-first with offline support
  • Less mature than Notion with fewer integrations
  • Template library is limited
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Cal.ai

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $12+

AI-powered scheduling assistant built on Cal.com that handles meeting scheduling via natural language, automatically resolving conflicts and suggesting optimal times.

  • Natural language scheduling via email or chat
  • Automatic conflict resolution across calendars
  • Open-source foundation with full transparency
  • AI features still maturing
  • Requires Cal.com account as foundation
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Fibery

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $10+

Connected workspace for product teams combining project management, knowledge management, feedback analysis, and custom databases in one flexible platform.

  • Highly flexible with custom entity types and relations
  • Combines PM, wiki, and feedback tools in one platform
  • Bi-directional relations between any entities
  • Steep learning curve due to extreme flexibility
  • Smaller community than Notion or ClickUp

YouTrack

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $3.67+

Issue tracking and project management tool by JetBrains with agile boards, time tracking, and deep IDE integration for software development teams.

  • Free for up to 10 users
  • Powerful query language for filtering
  • Seamless JetBrains IDE integration
  • Steep learning curve
  • UI can feel dated compared to Linear

Shortcut

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $8.5+

Project management built for software teams with stories, epics, and iterations.

  • Intuitive UI for engineering teams
  • Great API and integrations
  • Flexible iteration planning
  • Limited reporting on free plan
  • No time tracking built-in

Plane

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $7+

Open-source project tracking that serves as a modern alternative to Jira.

  • Open source and self-hostable
  • Modern clean interface
  • Jira-like power without complexity
  • Relatively new
  • Smaller integration ecosystem

TickTick

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $3.99+

All-in-one task manager with calendar, habit tracker, and Pomodoro timer.

  • Built-in calendar and habits
  • Pomodoro included
  • Affordable premium
  • Some features need premium
  • Smaller ecosystem

Teamwork

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $13.99+

Project management and client work platform designed for agencies and professional services, with built-in time tracking, billing, and resource management.

  • Excellent for client-facing work
  • Built-in time tracking and billing
  • Unlimited free client users
  • Interface can feel cluttered
  • Learning curve for full feature set

Huly

★★★★☆ 4.1
Free / $15+

Open-source all-in-one project management platform combining issue tracking, team collaboration, HR, and knowledge management in a Linear-inspired interface.

  • Open-source with self-hosting option
  • All-in-one platform reducing tool sprawl
  • Fast and modern interface
  • Smaller ecosystem than established tools
  • Documentation still growing

Taiga

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $5+

Open-source agile project management platform for cross-functional teams, with Scrum and Kanban boards, epics, user stories, and sprint planning built in.

  • Fully open-source and self-hostable
  • Beautiful modern interface
  • Both Scrum and Kanban support
  • Smaller community than Jira
  • Fewer integrations

Everhour

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $8.5+

Time tracking tool that integrates directly into project management tools like Asana, Trello, and Jira, allowing teams to track time without switching contexts.

  • Native integration with PM tools
  • Timer appears inside Asana/Trello/Jira
  • Visual budgeting and estimates
  • Requires a PM tool to get full value
  • Free plan limited to 5 users

Clockwise

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $6.75+

AI-powered calendar management tool that optimizes team schedules by automatically moving flexible meetings to create Focus Time blocks for deep work.

  • Creates Focus Time automatically
  • AI resolves scheduling conflicts
  • Team-wide schedule optimization
  • Requires team adoption for best results
  • Can over-optimize meeting moves

Jane App

★★★★★ 4.7
$54+

Practice management software for health and wellness clinics, handling online booking, charting, billing, and insurance claims in one unified platform.

  • Beautiful and intuitive interface
  • Online booking with custom intake forms
  • Insurance billing built in
  • No free plan or trial without credit card
  • Canada-focused (expanding globally)

Any.do

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $5.99+

Minimalist task management app combining daily planner, to-do lists, and calendar in a clean interface designed for people who want simplicity over complexity.

  • Beautiful minimal interface
  • Daily planner feature prioritizes tasks
  • WhatsApp integration for task creation
  • Limited free plan features
  • Fewer power features than TickTick

Superlist

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $9+

Modern task manager from the creators of Wunderlist, blending personal to-do lists with team collaboration in a fast, beautifully designed cross-platform app.

  • Lightning fast performance
  • Seamless personal and team lists
  • Beautiful design by Wunderlist creators
  • Relatively new with fewer integrations
  • Limited automation features

Things 3

★★★★★ 4.8
$9.99+

Award-winning personal task manager for Apple devices with a GTD-inspired design, known for its beautiful interface and thoughtful approach to task organization.

  • One-time purchase (no subscription)
  • Stunning Apple-native design
  • GTD workflow built in
  • Apple ecosystem only
  • No collaboration features

Routine

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $10+

AI-powered planner that unifies calendar, tasks, and notes in one tool with smart scheduling that automatically finds the best time for your tasks.

  • Unifies calendar + tasks + notes
  • AI auto-schedules tasks into free time
  • Beautiful minimal design
  • Newer product with fewer integrations
  • Limited team features

Zoho Sprints

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $5+

Agile project management tool from Zoho designed for Scrum teams, with sprint planning, backlog management, velocity charts, and deep Zoho ecosystem integration.

  • Free for up to 5 users
  • Deep Zoho suite integration
  • Built-in timesheet tracking
  • Limited outside Zoho ecosystem
  • Fewer integrations than standalone tools

Focalboard

★★★★☆ 4
Free

Open-source project management tool by Mattermost that serves as a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion boards, and Asana, with kanban, table, and calendar views.

  • Completely free and open-source
  • Self-hostable for data control
  • Multiple view types (board, table, gallery)
  • Limited to basic project tracking
  • No built-in time tracking

Height

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $8.5+

AI-powered project management tool that automates routine work like bug triage, task labeling, and status updates using built-in AI agents for engineering teams.

  • AI automates repetitive PM tasks
  • Cross-project task management
  • Beautiful modern interface
  • Newer tool with smaller community
  • AI features can over-categorize
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Toggl Plan

★★★★☆ 4.3
$9+

Visual project planning tool with drag-and-drop timelines for teams.

  • Beautiful visual timelines
  • Simple interface
  • Team workload view
  • Limited features vs competitors
  • No free tier
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TeamGantt

★★★★☆ 4.4
$19+

Online Gantt chart software for simple and intuitive project scheduling.

  • Intuitive Gantt charts
  • Easy collaboration
  • Drag-and-drop scheduling
  • Limited beyond Gantt view
  • No free tier
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LiquidPlanner

★★★★☆ 4.2
$15+

Predictive project management with intelligent scheduling and resource planning.

  • Predictive scheduling
  • Automatic resource leveling
  • Risk assessment
  • Steep learning curve
  • Expensive
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eM Client

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $49.95+

Full-featured desktop email client with calendar, contacts, and chat integration.

  • One-time purchase
  • Feature-rich
  • Good Exchange support
  • Desktop only
  • Free limited to 2 accounts
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Smartsheet

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $9+

Enterprise work management platform combining spreadsheet familiarity with project tools.

  • Familiar spreadsheet interface
  • Powerful automation
  • Enterprise-grade
  • Can be confusing
  • Expensive for small teams
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Fantastical

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $6.75+

Powerful calendar app for Apple with natural language input and beautiful design.

  • Natural language input
  • Beautiful design
  • Weather integration
  • Apple only
  • Expensive
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BusyCal

★★★★☆ 4.3
$4.99+

Professional calendar app for Mac with customizable views and task integration.

  • Highly customizable
  • Menu bar calendar
  • Natural language
  • Mac only
  • Learning curve
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Google Calendar

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $6+

Free cloud calendar with smart scheduling, event suggestions, and team features.

  • Free
  • Great integrations
  • Smart suggestions
  • Limited customization
  • Basic views
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Linear

★★★★★ 4.7
Free / $8+

Fast and streamlined issue tracking tool built for modern software teams.

  • Incredibly fast
  • Beautiful design
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Limited customization
  • Opinionated workflow
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Fibery

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $10+

Connected workspace for product teams combining strategy, discovery, and delivery.

  • Highly connected
  • Custom entities
  • Good for product teams
  • Complex setup
  • Steep learning curve
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Taskade

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $8+

AI-powered workspace for tasks, notes, and real-time collaboration with AI agents.

  • AI agents built-in
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Multiple views
  • Less mature than competitors
  • AI quality varies

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