Plan7 vs Motion
Motion is an automation engine: give it tasks with deadlines and it places and re-places them on your calendar. Plan7 is an iPhone app that starts earlier. It checks whether one 30-day goal fits the hours you actually have, builds the week around your fixed commitments and sleep, then runs each day with app blocking and a Live Activity.
Last verified 2026-07-30
They can sit next to each other: one shapes the week, the other automates the work inside it.
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| Dimension | plan7 | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | An iPhone app that plans and runs your week around one 30-day goal | AI auto-scheduling + project management |
| Planning starting point | One goal, your fixed hours, what you protect and your sleep | Your tasks, deadlines and existing calendar |
| Personal assessment | StrongShort onboarding that counts your 168 hours | Not offeredNo personal life assessment; you enter tasks |
| Goals | StrongOne 30-day goal, made measurable | LimitedWork goals as projects and deadlines |
| Responsibilities | StrongFixed hours stay put; protected time is never cut | Not a core featureWork tasks, not life responsibilities |
| Sleep | StrongSleep set first; Lights Out at bedtime | Not offered |
| Energy | AvailableYou say when you're at your best; no device data | Not offered |
| Constraints | StrongFixed commitments placed first | LimitedRespects meetings and set work hours |
| Weekly routine generation | StrongSeven days of time blocks with day intensities | Not a core featureSchedules tasks, not a life routine |
| Daily planning | StrongToday view, Live Activity, Edit day by message | StrongAuto-builds and reshuffles the day |
| Automatic rescheduling | LimitedYou ask in Edit day; nothing moves on its own | StrongContinuous automatic rescheduling |
| Calendar integrations | LimitedReads your iPhone calendar; never writes | StrongGoogle, Outlook, iCloud (unified view) |
| Task integrations | Not offeredNo task-tool integrations | AvailableNative tasks/projects; Zapier + API |
| Focus tools | StrongScreen Time app and website blocking; focus timer | LimitedTime-blocks focus; no app blocking |
| Progress tracking | AvailableTune my week reviews 7 days; wake-up streaks | AvailableProject dashboards; time tracking (Business) |
| Team features | Not offered | StrongCapacity planning, Gantt, dashboards |
| Platforms | iPhone only (iOS 16.4+) | Web, desktop, mobile; Siri |
| Pricing model | Monthly or annual subscription; no free plan | Per-seat subscription; no free tier |
| Best for | Fitting one goal into a real week and following it day to day | Automating a task-heavy work schedule |
plan7
Plan7 starts from the question of whether a goal fits at all. You give it one 30-day goal, the hours that can't move, what you protect and how you sleep. It subtracts all of that from the 168 hours in a week and tells you by how many hours the goal falls short before it builds anything. Then it lays out seven days of time blocks with an intensity for each day, and every block can say why it landed where it did.
Motion
Motion assumes you already know your work and just need it to fit. You give tasks a duration, a deadline and a priority; its engine scans open calendar slots and places them, then reshuffles the whole day and week in seconds when a meeting runs long or priorities change. It's genuinely powerful — but it optimizes around deadlines and work capacity, not around your life. It has no concept of sleep, energy or personal responsibilities as inputs.
plan7
You download Plan7 on your iPhone, sign in with Apple or Google and answer questions about your goal, the days and hours you can give it, your fixed commitments, what you protect and your sleep. Reading four weeks of your calendar to find repeating events is optional. No task list is needed. After you subscribe, the week takes up to five minutes to build.
Motion
Motion expects you to connect a calendar and start entering tasks with durations, deadlines and priorities before it can schedule anything. The payoff is real automation, but the setup rewards people who already have a defined task load and live in a work calendar.
plan7
Sleep, fixed commitments and protected time go in first; the goal gets the hours that are left. Each day gets an intensity, so a heavy day can sit next to a lighter one. If the goal needs more hours than the week has, Plan7 says so instead of overfilling it. Each week, Tune my week reads how the last seven days went and rebuilds the next one.
Motion
Motion fills the week by fitting tasks into whatever the calendar leaves open, ranked by deadline and priority, and flags when you're overcommitted. It's excellent at packing work efficiently, but it plans the work, not the life around it — recovery and personal time only exist if you enter them as events.
plan7
Today shows the block you're in with a live countdown and what comes next, and the same view sits in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. Apps you chose in Screen Time are paused during focus blocks, fixed commitments and bedtime. Nothing reschedules itself: when the day changes, you type or say it in Edit day. Small changes apply right away with Undo, and bigger ones show a preview first.
Motion
This is Motion's home turf. Its Today view shows the auto-arranged schedule, and when a meeting overruns or you finish early, it re-optimizes the rest of the day without you touching anything. Missed work gets rescheduled automatically against its deadline. If hands-off execution is what you want, Motion does it well.
Concrete cases, with the honest pick for each. Sometimes that is the other tool.
The founder
Running a company while trying to keep training, a relationship and enough sleep in the week, and none of it currently fits.
The week has no room left, and more task scheduling won't create any. Plan7 counts the hours first, keeps training and family protected, and says how far short the goal is so the founder can cut it down before the week starts.
The operations lead
Juggling 60+ tasks across several projects with real deadlines, plus a team whose capacity has to be tracked.
This is Motion's core strength. Auto-scheduling, dependencies, capacity planning and dashboards handle a shifting work load. Plan7 plans one person's week around one goal; it has no projects, task lists or team features.
The meeting-heavy consultant
Back-to-back client meetings in Google Calendar, wants focus time protected and work automatically slotted into the gaps.
When meetings change daily and work has to flow into whatever gaps open up, Motion (or Reclaim) fits. Plan7 can read the calendar to find repeating events, but it never writes to it and doesn't slot work around new meetings by itself.
The graduate student
Fixed classes, irregular sleep, an iPhone that eats study time, and study plans that fall apart by Wednesday.
The plans fail because they ask for more hours than exist and the phone takes the rest. Plan7 sets sleep and classes first, puts study where the hours really are, and pauses the chosen apps during study blocks.
plan7
You cancel from your Apple account, like any other App Store subscription.
Motion
Motion is a per-seat subscription with no free tier. Pro AI is $19/seat/month billed annually (about $29 month-to-month) and includes 7,500 AI credits a month; Business AI is $29/seat/month annually with 15,000 credits and team features. The trial runs 7 days and asks for a card, and heavy AI use can add per-credit overage charges.
As of 2026-07-30
Pick Motion if your real problem is a heavy, deadline-driven work load and you want software to run your calendar; it is one of the best automatic schedulers available, and it works on the web, desktop and Android too. Pick Plan7 if you have an iPhone and the problem comes earlier: one goal you keep failing because the week never had room for it, and a phone that eats the hours that are there. If it's both, let Plan7 hold the shape of the week and let Motion automate the work tasks inside your working hours.
For a specific need, yes: if you want a week built around one goal, your fixed hours and your sleep, and help following it on your iPhone, Plan7 fits better. If you want tasks placed and moved on your calendar automatically, Plan7 is no replacement; it doesn't write to your calendar.
No. Nothing in Plan7 moves on its own. When the day changes, you tell it in Edit day by typing or speaking; small changes apply right away with Undo and bigger ones show a preview first. For the next week, Tune my week rebuilds the plan from what you did. Continuous automatic rescheduling is Motion's job.
Only to read, and only through your iPhone's calendar. If you allow it, Plan7 reads four weeks and proposes repeating events as fixed hours. It never writes events. Motion unifies Google, Outlook and iCloud and schedules into their open slots.
Both are subscriptions with no free plan. Plan7 is a monthly or annual App Store subscription for one person; the App Store shows the price in your currency and you cancel from your Apple account. Motion is billed per seat ($19–$29/seat/month on annual billing) with AI credits and a 7-day trial.
No, not for task and project automation. Plan7 gives you the weekly structure and helps you follow it; it has no task list, auto-scheduler, dependencies, dashboards or team planning. If those are central to your work, keep Motion and use Plan7 for the shape of the week around it.
Product and pricing claims about Motion come from its official pages, verified on 2026-07-30. Plan7 claims are limited to what ships today.
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Download Plan7 on your iPhone, answer the questions, and see whether the goal fits your 168 hours before the week is built.