Tech Review: Reclaim.ai

“I just looked at my calendar for next week – it’s slammed with meetings, and there is literally NO TIME FOR WORK.”

Have you ever felt like that? We have. Managing calendars is our jam and we even need to reign it in sometimes.

Do you have multiple calendars? Do you find yourself saying to people “Can you send my meeting invite to this email address? It has my calendar on it.”

Enter Reclaim.ai, the ultimate calendar assistant that promises saving up to 40% of your workweek. That may be a bit ambitious… like, 40% is a lot. Anywhoo.

We started using Reclaim.ai when it was in its infancy. A client heard about it and we thought, ‘what the hell?’ and it’s been a mainstay since.

Now what does it do exactly? Good question. The simplest way to think of it, is if you have a couple of work calendars (um… hello contractors?) and a personal and maybe a family calendar or a kids sports calendar, you can get them all synced to each other with ease. So that if you book a meeting on one calendar, it automatically is visible to all of your other synced calendars instantly without having to be in the same organization.

For instance – if you have shared your personal calendar with a friend, when a meeting gets booked into your work calendar, your friend will be able to see that that time is no longer available. You have complete control as to what other calendars see (free/busy or the event details).

The app is so intuitive it will find space to get specific events in. It can set an hour for your lunch, can make sure you have time to catch up on emails, without them being fixed events in your calendar. It is constantly working to add in meeting buffers etc as well.

Pricing – if you have two calendars you want to connect – it is free forever. Once you get into multiple calendars (✋ – Northern Primrose) the cost becomes $6.50 USD per month per user.

Now we know that everyone is trying to keep costs down… we get it. But saving the headache of checking multiple calendars and managing access to each of those with other people? Totally worth it. At least in our opinion.