Motion: Tasks & AI Scheduling Reviews

For years I’ve tried so many different task management apps trying to find one that really worked. I was hesitant to try this app at first because of the price but finally gave it a try. It’s AMAZING. An easy to use app that’s brings every aspect of your life together in one tool. Combining the ability to pull together work tasks and family/mom tasks into one place. Add tasks is quick and easy with a low barrier. And easy to prioritize so nothing is missed and lower future priority items aren’t forgotten and come up again at the right time. I have Motion open on one computer monitor at all times - it’s my bible with how I run my day. One of my favorite features is the ability to define custom time slots like “work hours”, “in office hours”, “weekend nap time” and buckets that are very specific to me - and then schedule my tasks into those time boxes. Ensures work items are presented at the right time. Updates and new features are constantly being pushed to the phone app and desktop app and always getting better. Biggest fan. ❤️❤️❤️

I can't express enough how much of a game changer the this app app has been for me. As someone with a hectic schedule, staying organized has always been a challenge. But with this app, that challenge has become a thing of the past. This AI-powered calendar seamlessly integrates with my workflow, effortlessly organizing my tasks and commitments. I simply input my tasks and deadlines, and this app does the rest, intelligently scheduling them into my calendar based on my availability and priorities. What I love most about this app is its ability to adapt to my ever-changing schedule. It dynamically shifts tasks around to ensure I stay on track, even when unexpected events arise. Thanks to this app, I no longer feel overwhelmed by my workload. Instead, I feel empowered and in control of my time. If you're looking for a tool to help you stay organized and on top of your tasks, look no further than the this app app. It's a true game changer. Highly recommended!

I think this app is a really great product. I’ve been using it for a while now and it helps me with the way that I think I tell it things I need to do and how long it will take and it just puts it on the calendar for me I can tell it to schedule things and my work hours or my off hoursor my hobby hours as a person with a mishmash of art projects and home work and kids to take care of and family stuff and online businesses to manage things get really hairy. Motion really helps me to keep on top of all the things, but also make my goals accessible. The only downside to Motion is it might be a little too robust for me and it cost a little bit too much money but the trees until there’s a better option for this I’m gonna continue to pay it because I haven’t found anything else like it.

I have a lot of to do lists. Whether it’s work or my side hustles or my personal life, I have 1 million tasks to do and they just end up becoming lists of undone items because I have always told myself that I can never find the time to do these things.

I got extremely excited about this app! I love how I can just input a task, give it an estimation for how long it will take to do the task, and this app will find some time in my calendar to place the task as an appointment. It’s a simple but fantastic concept.

HOWEVER - there are two very important features that are missing: the lack of an equally robust mobile app with notifications, and/or Not being able to sync the this app Tasks to an outside calendar so that notifications could be enabled through a third-party app.

This means that you must be tethered to your desktop at all times in order to get notification so about an upcoming task. Although I do work at my desktop quite a bit, I would say a good chunk of my work is done in the field, and notifications on mobile are in absolute must. Of course, this also means that there are no iOS widgets, or Apple Watch app either.

The annual subscription is over $200, and even though the desktop functionality is amazing, I cannot fully justify the cost without a full suite that goes wherever you go.

I had this app for a year and then cancelled. What I liked about it was the automatic scheduling, that’s a brilliant feature for someone who is juggling multiple tasks. I decided to cancel because the things that are important with juggling is notifications, notifications, notifications. The fact that I would have to always check my day on my desktop was not feasibly possible however, if I’m notified on my phone for something I have to do then I can grab my laptop and do it. I gave it a try again because I would get emails about multiple changes to the program, to Motion , etc. Mainly asking Siri and having notifications. Unfortunately… I am unable to utilize any of this. Siri doesn’t recognize Motion to ask. Notifications don’t notify even though they are enabled. So it’s still not providing me with what I need. Not good, still needs more work done.

Update. Customer service issued a refund in less than 12 hours. Have to admit that impressed me. I wasn’t using because work would not allow Motion to be used with our calendar scheduling. That was the only reason I had canceled. Changing my rating to reflect the superior customer service.

You have to go onto the website to cancel. I canceled this two weeks ago and got a message that it would be available to me through the 14th. Today I just got charged for another month. When I signed in I showed me active again. I canceled again and got the same message that I would be available to the 14th of the following month.

I downloaded Motion for the free 7 day trail and I wanted to love it. Motion is touted to help people with ADHD like myself but it completely misses the mark in a really big way. It doesn’t alert you on your phone when a task is due, even if you have the this app app on your phone. It dings on the computer, which is ok but unless you’re sitting at your computer all day then it’s rather pointless because in order to make it alert you on your phone you have to manually go into your calendar on your phone and schedule stuff so your phone alerts you, which defeats the entire purpose of the auto scheduling feature. If that was worked out then it would be worth it but as it is now, a calendar on my computer is nothing more than a back up calendar.

I don’t usually write reviews. But this app is revolutionary. The happiness algorithm they promote states it will help you: feel accomplished, get serious stuff done, and relax and sleep better. Check, check, and check. After week and half of use, I think my productivity is up 10x. I’ve always had a great calendar and great todo list. I’ve never been able to effectively coordinate them. Most days I would procrastinate because I didn’t know where to best focus my attention next. this app solves that problem. And I still have complete control over my time. If I need to adjust my time, this app does all the work to adjust everything else. Big fan. Worth the $$.

I run a commercial commercial construction company and Motion has been a game changer. As far as organization time management and project timelines it is phenomenal. This is probably the only application I use on a daily basis to help organize jobs tasks within jobs and my weekly schedule. Anytime I have any problems the customer service is extremely responsive and helps me resolve issues quickly. If you’re like me and unorganized because you’re constantly busy Motion is going to be a game changer for you. I highly recommend it and can’t wait to see what other features they include on future updates.

Is there going to be optimization for the Ipad version? I like in the interface on the iPhone but wish the Ipad version was better
Going on the Ipad, I would like to see a widget that showed the schedule for the day and a widget to create tasks right from the home screen without having to open up Motion . Trying to use Motion to run my service company. Sometimes it's a bit of a hassle to get off a phone call and have to navigate to Motion . Usually driving in a truck or hands tied up with something I enough to the point of not being able to stop and navigate to an app and create a task

Overall, the desktop and mobile applications offer a fairly seamless user experience thus making the cost feasible for the amount of money spent on an individual plan. I didn't see an option to add a widget to an Apple device and voice-enabled commands will make this a more complete solution. It's made keeping my personal and professional to do lists, calendar blocks and color coding more seamless. I hope the AI continues to evolve to further support applications like this app that provide support that is applicable in both your personal and professional lives.

Love the idea of AI auto scheduling my tasks. Like the integration with Google Calendar. I’m disappointed by the design of the web-based site.
1. The task bar on the left hand side is chaotic looking and actually makes me feel less in control. It lists every single task I have coming up. Is there a way to hide it?
2. The name of the task on the calendar is often cut off so I need to click on the task item to see what it is.
3. In general the design does not feel clean— this is a major disappointment for someone who bought this expensive subscription hoping it would be my go-to calendar.
Would love to stick with this but need to hear if this app plans to do design improvements.

When I first signed up, I loved this webpage/app but now I find it frustrating. There is not a good connection between the web-based page and Motion with a huge lag time for updating the calender. If you add in the fact that you can’t change anything without going on a webpage, that makes it incredibly frustrating. If I want to change a timeframe that I can schedule a task during, I have to go on my laptop in order to do that. I should be able to do the same thing on Motion that I can do on the webpage or else I don’t see how this could work seamlessly.

For this reason, I most likely will be cancelling after my free trial. I need something that connects freely with my phone, not being tied to a computer.

Trying to schedule in my work hours and balance them with my personal hours. For some reason the AI really isn’t scheduling in my work hours every day and seems to think my consistent 8 hr a day job isn’t consistent and sometimes doesn’t even schedule it in, just takes into account my personal hours only. Pretty annoying and not very helpful. I think with some tweaks it can be very helpful though.

this app has done an absolutely phenomenal job. This is the one system that my ADHD brain has been searching for. I struggle when it comes to knowing exactly what it is to do next, this solves that. It also does an incredible job suggesting steps when you send tasks to it either through email or through Siri voice notes. It helps keep me focused, and I am spending much more time doing what I’d like to be doing, which is spending time with my team and family. Bless you and your company for providing this amazing resource!

Clunky UI with so much unnecessary visual noise (AI ‘sparkle’ doesn’t need to be forced into every AI-created task name. Useless.), scheduling capabilities I don’t even use are forced to be shown in the side bar, PERSISTENT AD at the top encouraging a discount for teams (I’m a paid user - get ads out of my view), app always defaults to Week view where the font is absurdly tiny, Siri Shortcuts and other integrations are extremely limited (forces you to use the bad ‘AI/sparkle’ version when creating tasks instead of being able to directly define parameters such as schedule type. So much low-hanging fruit being ignored makes this unusable and easily my biggest software purchase regret of 2023. The marketing is WAY better than the product, especially for the price. Be warned.

In the first year of my administration, i’m currently going crazy trying to balance my regular day teaching schedule with my new internship administration schedule with my graduate courses with my two children with my current coaching schedule and I also have a wife, so it seems to bring it all together and I’m feeling real great about this app because aftersleeping for the last month of depression and now getting traction on the things that I’ve let go and the things I need to get done it’s a daily grind this app gets through it

Ive been usung thr app and program for a couple of days now and heres what I have so far:

- Lacks password protection. As it stands, all you need is someone’s email address, provided they have an account, and you can wreak havoc on their schedule. Would like to see password protection.

- When out and about like I am, Motion does not provide notifications or reminders. You have to physically open Motion to check your calendar. Would like push notifications so when I’m out and about it lets me know what’s next.

- For repeat events it APPEARS that you can only schedule for a month at a time. I might be wrong on this one, but as I added items last night the end date was the following month. More to follow on that. If correct, then there should be an option to schedule things for longer periods at a time.

Overall, it’s a fantastic concept and does as advertised. With a few upgrades/updates, Motion would be perfect!!

Originally, I trialed this app and a competing app. I decided to go with the competitor. But after several months, I had an epiphany of why this app was better. It handled rescheduling in a much more automated and intuitive way! I switched back and I use it to plan everything.
I do use their desktop app 98% of the time. But that's mainly because I have a desk job.
Recently, they've been making improvements to their desktop app and I think they are all great! I think Motion is becoming more polished and intuitive.

I spent so much time planning my day, by the time I got started I could barely accomplish my goals. I was always running behind. Trying to keep a constant inventory of ongoing projects and tasks in my head at all times took all of my energy, and I was burnt out fast. this app is amazing, I can quickly input tasks and reminders as I think of them, and then relax in my off time. When it’s time to work, I log in and see my day planned for me. Like having a virtual assistant!

Absolutely love Motion. As a mom who works a 9-5 and part time job from 5-9, I’m riding the struggle bus trying to manage my schedule. I used to rely on my iPhone calendar app but I hated when I had a change in my schedule and had to individually adjust each event and notification. Motion uses AI to adjust my schedule to any changes which I absolutely love! It’s one less thing to worry about. I appreciate that this is user friendly and super easy to navigate. 10/10 would recommend!

I feel like the ads completely misrepresent Motion. I wish I knew it required desktop computer use before doing the free trial. It is not at all made for mobile and is so unideal and useless to use. I’m mostly a tablet user. I’m a total idiot and didn’t have a computer to complete the set up, then the free trial ended and I was auto charged. So I went about setting it up figuring I’d at least try using it.

Besides that, which I could live with if it was a good product, it doesn’t do the things I actually want to do. It only lets you set “work hours” but I want to differentiate between different projects and time periods. I’m a student so I really need to be able to set different blocks for individual subjects to work only on specific tasks/projects, versus being at work and only being able to work on certain projects. The calendars are also really inefficient, it wouldn’t let me edit events and you can’t use both Google and iCloud calendars if your gmail is your iCloud email. Really really unhappy

Scheduling routine events or importing most calendars is very easy, however where Motion really sets itself apart from the rest is the AI powered task system. The moment you think of a task for your business, for your family, work, anything. Create it and the AI will take care of the rest. Tasks that aren’t completed this app will move it to the next logical spot in your set hours. Making it so you have so many less “oh snap I forgot to do that” moments. Turning big goals into small steps that keep pinging you and adapting to your quickly changing schedule. I highly recommend this app especially if you have big goals and aren’t sure where to start!