Motion vs Planzer.io

Motion

• People who want tasks placed on the calendar automatically
• Teams that want tasks, projects, docs and meeting notes in one app
• Deadline-driven work that needs frequent re-planning

Planzer.io

• Individuals whose tasks are spread across several work tools
• People who want time estimates compared with tracked time
• Linux users: there is a desktop app beside the Mac and Windows ones

Motion

• There is no free plan. A card is required for the trial, and Motion's terms say purchases are non-refundable.
• One person pays more than a team seat: Pro AI is $29 a month billed annually for an individual, against $19 per seat for teams.
• AI use is metered: 7,500 credits per seat a month on Pro AI and 15,000 on Business AI, with extra credits charged per 100.
• Gantt charts, time tracking, capacity planning and permissions are limited to Business AI.

Planzer.io

• The free plan stops at 100 tasks; once the limit is reached, new tasks need Pro or extra tasks earned by leaving reviews.
• Pro features are not available in the iPhone, iPad and Android apps, even with an active Pro plan; they work on the web and desktop apps.
• Subscriptions can only be bought and managed on the web or in the desktop apps, not in the mobile apps.
• The vendor describes it as built for individuals, not as a team tool.

Motion

Automatic scheduling

A scheduling engine places tasks into openings on your calendar based on duration, priority and deadlines, and rebuilds the plan as the day changes.

Tasks and projects

Tasks sit inside projects and workspaces, and AI can draft a project and its tasks from a description. Timelines and Gantt charts need Business AI.

Calendar sync

Connects Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook (Office 365 and Exchange Online) and iCloud Calendar. The iCloud connection has a more limited feature set.

Booking links

A shareable link lets other people book meetings based on your real-time availability. You set rules for availability, duration, buffers and limits.

AI Notetaker

Captures transcripts from video calls and drafts summaries and action items, which you approve before they become tasks.

AI Chat and Docs

A chat interface creates items and searches workspace data, and collaborative docs include AI drafting. AI use draws on the plan's monthly credits.

Planzer.io

Guided daily and weekly planning

Plan my day runs in four guided steps and a shutdown ritual closes the day. Plan my week and Review my week do the same at the weekly level.

Time blocking on your calendar

Drag any task onto Google, Outlook or iCloud Calendar as a real event. Resizing the block updates the task's time estimate.

Tasks from 16 integrations

Tasks from tools such as Notion, Todoist, Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Jira and Linear appear in a sidebar and are dragged into the day. Outlook emails can be planned too.

Focus timer and time tracking

Focus sessions run with breaks, overtime and background sounds, and tracked time is compared with each task's estimate day by day.

Projects, goals and templates

Projects carry milestones and goals that tasks link to. Routines and checklists can be saved as templates and added to any day.

AI features on Pro

Pro adds parsing of dates, tags, projects and priorities from typed text, AI break-down of large tasks, a ranked top 3 and a written weekly review.

Motion

• Pro AI (teams)$19

  per seat / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)

  AI chat, projects and tasks, calendar and meetings, docs and notes, mobile and desktop apps, and 7,500 AI credits per seat each month.

• Business AI (teams)$29

  per seat / month, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)

  Everything in Pro AI plus capacity planning, dashboards and reports, Gantt charts, time tracking, permissions and 15,000 AI credits per seat.

• Pro AI (individuals)$29

  per month, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)

  The same Pro AI plan bought by one person rather than per seat for a team.

• Business AI (individuals)$39

  per month, billed annually ($69 billed monthly)

  The same Business AI plan bought by one person rather than per seat for a team.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Business AI plus custom integrations, API with engineering support, white-glove onboarding and a dedicated solutions engineer.

Planzer.io

• Free$0

  Up to 100 tasks with all 16 integrations, guided daily planning, time blocking, the focus timer, time tracking and every app.

• Pro$8

  per month, billed yearly ($10 billed monthly)

  Unlimited tasks, smart task parsing, AI break-down into subtasks, AI top-3 ranking, an AI weekly summary and file attachments up to 5 MB.

Motion

• Annual discount

  Save 33% by paying annually

  Motion's pricing page labels annual payment as saving 33%: a Pro AI team seat is $19 a month billed annually against $29 billed monthly.

Planzer.io

• Annual discount

  Lower Pro price with yearly billing

  Pro is $8 per month billed yearly against $10 billed monthly. The vendor labels this a 33% saving, although the two listed prices differ by 20%.