Comparison

Renard vs Reclaim.ai

Last updated 31 July 2026

Reclaim guards your calendar. It finds the gaps, drops your habits and tasks into them, and pushes back when a meeting tries to take a block you said was yours. Renard does none of that. It reads the week after the fact and asks whether it was the week you meant to have. Choosing between them is really a question about whether your problem happens before the week or after it.

We make Renard. Reclaim is better at its own job than we would be if we tried it, and the sections below say so plainly — a comparison that only flattered us would waste your time.

What Reclaim does well

Reclaim's premise is that you already keep a calendar and the problem is that it does not hold. So it connects to the calendar you have and works inside it: recurring habits get placed into real open slots, tasks with deadlines get time set aside, buffer appears around meetings, and when something moves, the rest shifts to accommodate it instead of quietly disappearing.

It is genuinely good at the thing people find hardest, which is defending time that has no external pressure behind it. Nobody chases you for the two hours you promised yourself for deep work. Reclaim does. It also handles the social side of scheduling — availability, booking links, coordinating habits across a team — and it has a free plan, so the entry cost of finding out whether it suits you is low.

If reading that made you think "yes, that is my problem", stop here and go try it. Nothing below is an argument against it.

Where Renard is different

Renard has no scheduling engine. It will not place a habit, defend a block or rearrange anything. That is not an unfinished feature — it is the opposite starting assumption.

Reclaim assumes the week goes wrong because the calendar does not hold. Renard assumes something more uncomfortable: that a week can hold perfectly, every block defended, every habit placed, and still not be a week you would choose to repeat. So instead of arranging time in advance, Renard records what actually happened. Events can be started, paused and resumed, so the hours it holds are hours you really spent rather than hours you intended to. You tell it what matters to you in your own words. And once a week it writes you a letter about the distance between the two.

"Your morning writing block survived every day this week, which is new. You also worked past nine on four of them. In April you said evenings were the thing you were trying to get back." An example of a Renard weekly letter

It also gives you a freeform canvas rather than only a grid, so a project or a whole area of life can sit beside your week in whatever shape it actually has.

The thing to check before you switch

Reclaim is a layer. Renard is a calendar. That difference catches people out.

Because Reclaim writes into the calendar you already keep, switching to it costs you nothing — your existing calendar stays the source of truth and your colleagues see the same thing they always did. Renard is not a layer. It holds your events itself. It can import from Google Calendar once, covering a window of past events plus the coming year, but nothing is written back and later changes in Google do not follow. There is no two-way sync with any calendar.

If your work calendar has to stay authoritative and shared, that is a real constraint and you should weigh it before anything else on this page.

Side by side

So which one?

Pick Reclaim if the time you care about keeps getting taken. You know what you want your week to contain, and the failure happens between deciding and doing, usually because someone else booked the hour. That is a scheduling problem and Reclaim solves scheduling problems.

Pick Renard if nothing is being taken from you and the week still ends strangely. The blocks held. You did the things. And on Sunday you could not say what any of it was for. No amount of defending will fix that, because the calendar was never the thing that was broken.

A rough test: think of the last week that went badly. Was it full of things you did not choose, or full of things you chose and did not want? The first points at Reclaim. The second points here.

Common questions

Is Renard a Reclaim alternative?

Only if the scheduling was not really what you were after. Renard has no scheduling engine at all. If you want that job done differently, Motion is the closer alternative.

Does it sync with my Google Calendar?

It imports from it once, and that is all. Nothing is written back and there is no ongoing two-way sync. Renard holds your events itself.

Which is cheaper?

Both have free plans. Renard's needs no card; Pro is $9.90 a month or $99 a year and Max is $49.90 a month or $499 a year. Reclaim's rates change, so check its own page. See Renard pricing in full.

Can my team use it?

No. There is no shared availability, no booking links and no team view. Renard is for one person.

Does Renard work on iPhone?

Through the browser, where it can be added to the home screen. There is no native iOS app yet. There is an Android app.