Atomic vs Clockwise
Atomic (atomiclife.app) is an AI calendar assistant: natural-language scheduling, task categorization and meeting management across Google, Outlook and Apple calendars; third-party sources report Basic around $12/month and Pro/Team around $15/month, but listings conflict, so confirm on the official site (checked Oct 2026). Clockwise auto-optimized team calendars: Focus Time holds, smart scheduling, meeting breaks, no-meeting days; its historical record lists a Free plan with 75 Schedule Assists/week, Teams $6.75/user/month billed annually, Business $11.50/user/month annual (verified Apr-Oct 2026). Clockwise is discontinued: the vendor announced it will go away, and the product is no longer available starting March 27, 2026. Its historical record is kept here only as history and no longer applies; do not budget against it. Pick Atomic if you want a chat-style AI to manage your personal schedule today; the Clockwise side is retained for teams migrating off Clockwise or studying focus-time calendar assistants, not as a purchasable option. No hands-on test was run; no winner declared.
| Decision point | Atomic | Clockwise |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Not verified | Historical reference for teams migrating off Clockwise or studying focus-time calendar assistants; not a purchasable product. |
| Plans and cost | Not verified | Discontinued: the vendor announced Clockwise will be going away, with the product no longer available starting March 27, 2026. Historical prices (Teams $6.75/user/month billed annually, Business $11.50/user/month annual, Enterprise custom; free plan 75 Schedule Assists per week) no longer apply and are kept here only as a historical record. Do not budget against them. |
| Limitations | Not verified | Clockwise is no longer available starting March 27, 2026. The team joining Salesforce does not mean the product can still be bought. Historical prices and the 75-per-week free cap no longer apply; confirm shutdown, data-deletion, and migration terms on the vendor's announcement. |
Use the same input
Your calendar is packed with meetings and you want AI to automatically carve out focus time, but you're not sure whether you need a 'chat-style assistant' or 'automatic calendar optimization'.
What a successful result must preserve
Compare by interaction style (chat vs auto-optimization), team features, free-tier allowances and pricing transparency.
Evidence and test status
Pricing and feature comparison based on publicly available information. Plan prices, allowances and feature claims below come from the two vendors' official pricing and feature pages plus recent third-party pricing reads, re-checked October 2026. Clockwise facts are historical (shutdown announcement, March 27, 2026) and are not current prices. We did not run a hands-on test on either tool; no quality winner is declared.
- Atomic — Imported listing. Official details have not been verified.
- Clockwise — Official shutdown announcement ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-31)