Motion
Motion is an AI work platform from Motion that combines tasks, projects, a calendar, docs and meeting notes in one app. Its scheduler places every task on your calendar and rebuilds the plan when deadlines or priorities change. There is no free plan, only a paid trial, and plans are sold by seat with monthly AI credits.
Quick facts
Best for
- People with more tasks than hours
- Small agencies and service teams
- Managers tracking team capacity
Key features
Places tasks in open calendar slots by deadline, priority and duration, and reshuffles the plan automatically when something slips.
Turns a description or a document into a full project with tasks, assignees, deadlines and stages, then keeps statuses updated.
Captures notes and summaries from calls and turns the decisions into scheduled tasks inside your existing projects.
Drafts, proofreads and organizes documents in the same workspace as the tasks and projects they belong to.
Business AI adds team capacity planning, time tracking, Gantt timelines and dashboards for tracking progress across projects.
Create or update work in plain language, and build repeatable workflows from written SOPs without manual setup each time.
Use cases
- Let the scheduler rebuild your week after a client pushes a deadline, without moving tasks by hand.
- Generate a project plan from a brief and adjust the tasks it proposes instead of writing them yourself.
- See which teammates are over capacity before you assign the next piece of work.
- Turn meeting decisions into scheduled tasks so follow-ups land in someone's calendar.
Pricing
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What is Motion?
Motion bills itself as an AI platform for work: projects, tasks, calendar, meetings, docs, notes, dashboards and workflows in one app, built around a scheduler that decides when each task happens. The pitch is that you stop maintaining a plan and let the software rebuild it as things change.
What stands out
- Scheduling is the core. Tasks carry duration, priority and deadline, so the calendar shows when work will actually happen.
- Projects can be generated from a description, then managed with statuses and progress reports.
- AI features draw on a monthly credit balance per seat, so heavy use is metered rather than unlimited.
Limitations
- There is no free tier, so the trial is the only way to try Motion at no cost.
- AI credits are finite: 7,500 per seat monthly on Pro AI, and extra credits are billed per 100.
- Billing is per workspace, and each member with full access takes a seat.
- Individual plans cost more per person than team seats, so compare both tabs on the pricing page first.
- Automatic scheduling only helps if you keep durations and deadlines accurate, which takes discipline.
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