Plan7 vs Reclaim
Reclaim is a calendar automation layer: connect Google or Outlook and it defends focus time and slots tasks and habits into the open space, reshuffling them as meetings appear. Plan7 is an iPhone app that starts from one 30-day goal, checks it against your sleep, fixed hours and protected time, and builds a week of time blocks it then runs with you each day.
Last verified 2026-07-30
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| Dimension | plan7 | Reclaim.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | An iPhone app that plans and runs your week around one 30-day goal | Calendar automation & scheduling |
| Planning starting point | One goal, your fixed hours, what you protect and your sleep | Your existing Google/Outlook calendar |
| Personal assessment | StrongShort onboarding that counts your 168 hours | Not offeredNo life assessment; you configure rules |
| Goals | StrongOne 30-day goal, made measurable | Not a core featureNo goal decomposition |
| Responsibilities | StrongFixed hours stay put; protected time is never cut | Not a core featureHabits/tasks you set up |
| Sleep | StrongSleep set first; Lights Out at bedtime | Not offered |
| Energy | AvailableYou say when you're at your best; no device data | Not offeredHabits use windows you pick, not an energy model |
| Constraints | StrongFixed commitments placed first | AvailableDefends focus time around meetings |
| Weekly routine generation | StrongSeven days of time blocks with day intensities | Not a core featureAuto-blocks tasks/habits, not a life routine |
| Daily planning | StrongToday view, Live Activity, Edit day by message | AvailableAuto-scheduled blocks on your calendar |
| Automatic rescheduling | LimitedYou ask in Edit day; nothing moves on its own | StrongContinuous reschedule around conflicts |
| Calendar integrations | LimitedReads your iPhone calendar; never writes | StrongGoogle & Outlook (required to work) |
| Task integrations | Not offeredNo task-tool integrations | StrongTodoist, Asana, Jira, ClickUp, Linear |
| Focus tools | StrongScreen Time app and website blocking; focus timer | AvailableFocus Time defense |
| Progress tracking | AvailableTune my week reviews 7 days; wake-up streaks | AvailableTime/productivity analytics (team) |
| Team features | Not offered | StrongSmart 1:1s, scheduling links, analytics |
| Platforms | iPhone only (iOS 16.4+) | Web/PWA only (no native mobile/desktop) |
| Pricing model | Monthly or annual subscription; no free plan | Freemium; per-seat subscription |
| Best for | Fitting one goal into a real week and following it day to day | Defending focus time on a work calendar |
plan7
Plan7 starts from one goal for the next 30 days. It asks what can't move, what you protect, how you sleep and when you're at your best, then subtracts all of that from the 168 hours in a week. If the goal needs more time than is left, it says by how many hours before building anything. The week it builds holds the goal, the fixed hours and the rest of your life together.
Reclaim.ai
Reclaim starts from a calendar that already exists. It defends focus time, auto-schedules flexible habits and tasks into the gaps, and continuously reshuffles them as meetings land. It's very good at protecting and rearranging time — but it assumes you've already decided what belongs there. It optimizes the space; it doesn't tell you what deserves it.
plan7
You download the app, sign in with Apple or Google and answer questions about your goal, your fixed hours, what you protect and your sleep. Connecting a calendar is optional: Plan7 can read four weeks of your iPhone calendar and propose the repeating events as fixed hours, and it never writes back. After you subscribe, the week takes up to five minutes to build.
Reclaim.ai
Reclaim requires you to connect a Google or Outlook calendar before it can do anything, then configure habits, tasks and focus-time rules. Setup is meaningful, and the product only makes sense if your life already runs on one of those calendars.
plan7
Plan7 lays out seven days of time blocks: sleep and fixed commitments first, protected time kept whole, the goal's hours placed in what's left, and an intensity for each day. Every block can tell you why it landed where it did. Each week, Tune my week reads the last seven days and rebuilds the next one.
Reclaim.ai
Reclaim shapes the week reactively: it keeps flexible blocks intact by moving them around whatever meetings arrive, so focus time survives a chaotic calendar. That's genuinely valuable, but the week is defined by your meetings and configured rules, not by a designed routine.
plan7
Today shows the block you're in with a live countdown, and a Live Activity puts it in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. The apps you chose in Screen Time stay paused during focus blocks, fixed commitments and bedtime. When a meeting moves, you type or say it in Edit day: small changes apply right away with Undo, bigger ones show a preview first. Nothing moves on its own, and none of it lands on your Google or Outlook calendar.
Reclaim.ai
Reclaim shines during the day: your defended focus blocks and scheduled tasks live natively on Google/Outlook, syncing to your phone's calendar app, and they rearrange automatically when a meeting appears. If hands-off, calendar-native execution is the goal, this is where Reclaim earns its keep.
Concrete cases, with the honest pick for each. Sometimes that is the other tool.
The manager in back-to-backs
Google Calendar is a wall of meetings, focus time keeps getting eaten, and 1:1s need constant rescheduling.
This is exactly Reclaim's job: defending focus time, coordinating 1:1s and reshuffling blocks around a volatile calendar. Plan7 reads a calendar but never writes to it, and it doesn't handle meeting logistics.
The person rebuilding their life
Wants to get sleep, training, focused work and family time into a sustainable week, and doesn't live in a meeting-heavy work calendar.
Reclaim needs a busy work calendar to be useful and models work-shaped blocks. Plan7 builds the whole week from sleep, fixed hours and protected time, then runs it on the iPhone with app blocking and Lights Out at bedtime.
The habit-builder
Wants recurring habits like exercise and reading to happen reliably, and already runs on Google Calendar across work and personal life.
Reclaim's flexible Habits auto-schedule into ideal windows and defend themselves against conflicts on a calendar you already use. Plan7 plans habits into its own week and reminds you on the iPhone, but it never writes them to Google Calendar or moves them when a meeting lands.
plan7
You cancel from your Apple account, like any other App Store subscription.
Reclaim.ai
Reclaim.ai (now part of Dropbox) has a free Lite plan for one user. Paid tiers are billed per seat, monthly: Starter $10, Business $15, Enterprise $22 (with SSO/SCIM). Annual billing is advertised at roughly 20% off, but the exact annual per-seat figures could not be verified from the pricing page.
As of 2026-07-30
Choose Reclaim if your life already runs on Google or Outlook and your real need is defending focus time, coordinating meetings and letting tasks and habits reshuffle themselves. It is one of the best tools for that, and its free tier makes it easy to try. Choose Plan7 if you first need to know whether a goal fits your week at all, and you want an iPhone app that builds that week around your sleep and fixed hours, then runs it with app blocking and a Live Activity. Reclaim manages the calendar you have; Plan7 plans the week from your goal and keeps it on your phone.
It depends on the need. If you want a week built around one goal, your sleep and your fixed hours, and run from your iPhone, Plan7 fits better. If you want automatic calendar defense and rescheduling on Google or Outlook, Plan7 doesn't replace Reclaim: it never writes to your calendar.
Only to read. If your Google calendar is on your iPhone, Plan7 can read four weeks of it and turn repeating events into fixed hours. It never writes events back. Reclaim needs a connected Google or Outlook calendar to work at all and writes its blocks into it.
No. Automatic rescheduling around calendar conflicts is Reclaim's core feature. In Plan7 you tell Edit day what changed, by typing or speaking, and it moves, shortens or skips blocks: small changes apply with Undo, bigger ones show a preview first.
Plan7 is a native iPhone app (iOS 16.4 or later), with no Android, iPad or web version. Reclaim has no native mobile app; it runs as a web app or installable PWA, so it works on any device with a browser.
Product and pricing claims about Reclaim.ai 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.