Update (June 2026): Clockwise has shut down. Salesforce acquired the Clockwise team in early 2026 and sunset the product on March 27, 2026, giving customers roughly a week to migrate. Prepaid subscriptions were refunded on a prorated basis and user data was deleted. The pricing below reflects what Clockwise charged before the shutdown and is kept for reference. If you are migrating off Clockwise, skip to the alternative.
Clockwise Pricing Plans at a Glance
| Feature | Clockwise Free | Clockwise Teams | Clockwise Business | alfred_ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $0 | $6.75/user/mo | $11.50/user/mo | $24.99/month |
| Focus time protection | ||||
| AI schedule optimization | Basic | |||
| Google Calendar support | ||||
| Outlook / Microsoft 365 | ||||
| Scheduling links | ||||
| Slack integration | ||||
| Email triage | ||||
| AI reply drafting | ||||
| Task extraction from email | ||||
| Daily briefing | ||||
| Team analytics | ||||
| Admin controls / SSO |
Clockwise vs alfred_, February 2026
Clockwise Free Plan
Clockwise’s free plan gives you the core value proposition: automated focus time protection on your Google Calendar. It identifies pockets of time in your schedule and blocks them off for deep work, and defends those blocks when new meetings are proposed. For a solo Google Calendar user who wants to experiment with automated focus time, the free plan is genuinely useful.
The ceiling arrives quickly: no AI-powered scheduling optimization across team members, no Slack integration, and no scheduling links. The real value of Clockwise, coordinating focus time across a whole team, requires a paid plan.
- Basic focus time protection on your personal calendar
- Google Calendar only, no Outlook
- No team coordination or cross-calendar optimization
- No Slack integration, no scheduling links
Clockwise Teams ($6.75/user/month) and Business ($11.50/user/month)
The Teams plan unlocks Clockwise’s primary value: AI scheduling that coordinates across multiple team members’ calendars simultaneously. It finds optimal meeting times, defragments everyone’s schedules, and protects focus time collectively. The Slack integration is a genuinely useful addition, Clockwise can surface meeting conflicts and scheduling suggestions directly in Slack.
Business adds organizational analytics (how much focus time is your team actually getting?), advanced admin controls, and SSO for enterprise security compliance. For managers and team leads, the analytics alone may justify the $4.75/user/month premium over Teams.
- Teams ($6.75/user/mo): AI scheduling, cross-team coordination, Slack integration, scheduling links
- Business ($11.50/user/mo): Everything in Teams plus team analytics, admin controls, SSO
- 10-person team on Business: $115/month, nearly 5x alfred_’s flat rate
Hidden Costs and What Clockwise Doesn’t Cover
- Google Calendar only: Clockwise does not support Outlook or Microsoft 365. For mixed-platform teams or Outlook-primary organizations, this is a hard blocker.
- No email management: Clockwise doesn’t touch your inbox. Email triage, drafting, and follow-up tracking remain fully manual.
- Limited solo value: Clockwise’s core strength is multi-person calendar coordination. If you’re a solo professional, you’re paying for infrastructure you won’t use.
- Per-user scaling: The per-user model compounds. A 20-person team at Business is $230/month.
- No task extraction: Tasks that arrive by email still require manual capture into your task manager.
Is Clockwise Worth the Price?
With Clockwise now shut down, the question is moot for new buyers, but the value case is still worth understanding when you evaluate replacements. For Google Calendar teams where back-to-back meetings were the primary productivity killer, Clockwise was excellent value. At $6.75/user/month on Teams, the focus time it created and protected could easily pay for itself in recovered productive hours within the first week.
The value case was always weaker for solo professionals. There are no other team members’ calendars to coordinate. It also never worked for anyone on Outlook (the product simply did not support it) or for professionals whose bigger problem is email volume rather than meeting fragmentation.
The Better-Value Alternative: alfred_
alfred_ adds email triage, task extraction from emails, and daily briefings to calendar management, everything Clockwise handles for the calendar side, plus the inbox side. It works with both Google Calendar and Outlook.
For solo professionals and executives, alfred_ is the stronger choice: one flat-rate tool that handles the full surface of administrative work rather than optimizing one dimension of it.
Our Verdict
Clockwise: shut down in March 2026, strong while it lasted
Clockwise shut down on March 27, 2026 after Salesforce acquired the team. At $6.75 to $11.50/user/month it had been strong value for Google Calendar teams fighting meeting fragmentation, genuinely creating and protecting focus time across an organization. But it was always Google-only, it never touched email, and solo professionals got limited benefit. If you are migrating off it, alfred_ handles calendar intelligence plus the email problem and works with both Google and Outlook.
Best for
- Google Calendar teams where back-to-back meetings fragment everyone's focus time
- Organizations that need cross-team calendar coordination and scheduling analytics
- Teams already deeply integrated with Slack who want scheduling intelligence there
Not for
- Outlook or Microsoft 365 users, Clockwise is Google Calendar only
- Solo professionals who need individual productivity tools, not team coordination
- Anyone who needs email management alongside calendar optimization