Motion

Motion in short

What it is: Best for planning your week with calendar scheduling; trials bill unless you cancel. Price: Free trial. Individuals: Pro AI $29/mo annual or $49 monthly (7,500 AI credits/mo); Business AI $39/mo annual or $69 monthly (15,000 credits). Teams: $19 or $29 per seat/mo annual ($29 or $49 monthly). Free trial available. (checked 2026-11-03). Best for: plan tasks onto your calendar automatically; turn meeting notes into tasks. Watch out: no free plan on the pricing page; per its terms, a trial bills automatically unless you cancel.

Our verdict

Best for planning your week with calendar scheduling; trials bill unless you cancel.

Motion's pricing and help pages describe a calendar and project planner with AI chat and meeting notes, billed per seat with monthly AI credits.

Based on public docs and pricing pages, not hands-on testing. How we check

Strengths

Calendar, tasks, projects and docs in one app
iOS, Android and desktop apps
AI credits included with each seat

Limitations

No free plan on the pricing page; per its terms, a trial bills automatically unless you cancel
The lower listed prices need annual billing
Team seats are sold in bundles (for example, 6 people need a 10-seat plan)
AI credits reset each billing cycle and do not carry over

Motion pricing

Individuals: Pro AI $29/mo annual or $49 monthly (7,500 AI credits/mo); Business AI $39/mo annual or $69 monthly (15,000 credits). Teams: $19 or $29 per seat/mo annual ($29 or $49 monthly). Free trial available.

From the official pricing page, checked 2026-11-03. Plans change, so confirm before you buy.

Is Motion free?

It lists a free trial, not a permanent free plan. Individuals: Pro AI $29/mo annual or $49 monthly (7,500 AI credits/mo); Business AI $39/mo annual or $69 monthly (15,000 credits). Teams: $19 or $29 per seat/mo annual ($29 or $49 monthly). Free trial available. (official pricing page, checked 2026-11-03)

Good for

plan tasks onto your calendar automaticallyturn meeting notes into tasksrun projects and docs with an AI chatplan team capacity

Note: Motion's privacy notice lists training and developing machine learning algorithms among the uses of collected information: https://www.usemotion.com/legal/privacy-policy

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What users say

Community sentiment (opinion, not verified facts)

1 linked post on X and Reddit, Aug 23, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. Coverage is thin. Individual users' views, kept apart from the vendor facts on this page.

We found only one Motion thread in the window, which is not enough to report a theme. Searches on X for Motion mostly returned posts about other things named motion.

Not enough discussion yet. There were too few posts about Motion in the window to report a theme.

The only thread we found:

r/UseMotion on Reddit: I started using Motion today, I am unimpressed

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Alternatives in Assistants

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Dots (OpenAI): Best for ChatGPT Pro users who want always on agents in ChatGPT, Slack and Teams; not offered in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK.
Grok Bot: Best for running several agents that share a cloud computer, tools and files; the weekly pool is shared with Grok and Cursor.
ChatGPT Work (OpenAI): Best for turning your tools and files into documents, presentations and web apps; the Free plan is desktop only, and usage is shared with Codex.
Claude (Anthropic): Best for work on your own files and browser when you want to choose between approving each action and automated checks; local files and the browser need Claude Desktop open.
Manus: Best for trying long tasks on free daily credits; monthly credits reset and go to zero if you cancel.
Lindy: Best for teams that want an assistant in Slack and email that waits for approval on outside actions; every active user is billed.
Alexa+ (Amazon): Best for Prime households that want errands like takeout, reservations and rides done by voice; check approvals yourself, since Amazon's pages do not describe them.
Claude Duet (Anthropic): Best for US Claude Pro, Max or Ultra subscribers who want morning briefs and check-ins; it is a waitlisted research preview that shares your Claude limits.
Comet (Perplexity): Best for an assistant inside a free browser; agent work in Work mode runs on paid credits.
Copilot Cowork (Microsoft): Best for Microsoft 365 Premium or Pro subscribers; Personal and Family plans lose access, and it is still a preview.
Gemini (Google): Best for Google AI Pro or Ultra subscribers who want background tasks with apps like Instacart and OpenTable; not offered in the EEA, Nigeria, Switzerland or the UK.

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FAQ

Is Motion free?

How much does Motion cost?

What is Motion used for?

Listed use cases: plan tasks onto your calendar automatically; turn meeting notes into tasks; run projects and docs with an AI chat; plan team capacity.

What are the best alternatives to Motion?

Other AI assistants in this directory: Muse (Meta), Dots (OpenAI), Grok Bot, ChatGPT Work (OpenAI). We list them in data order, not ranked.

Did you test Motion?

No. Verdicts are based on each vendor's public docs and pricing pages, not hands-on testing, unless a page says otherwise.