Reclaim alternatives for calendar blocking

Two calendar cards for the same Tuesday, Work and Client. With calendar blocking on, each meeting on one card appears on the other as a private event titled Blocked.

What Reclaim does, and where it stops

Reclaim schedules tasks, habits and focus time around your meetings, offers scheduling links, and syncs Google and Outlook calendars. Its calendar sync creates a busy block on your other calendars, either as free/busy or with full details.

Lite is free and covers 1 calendar sync, 1 scheduling link and 2 connected calendars. Starter is $10 per seat per month billed yearly ($12 monthly); its plan list says 3 calendar syncs while its comparison table says unlimited. Business, $15 billed yearly ($18 monthly), has unlimited calendar syncs.

How many calendars each free plan or trial can block

	Free plan or trial	Number of calendars or syncs it can block	Which calendars it connects
Reclaim Lite	Free	1 calendar sync, 2 connected calendars	Google and Outlook
Notion Calendar	Free	Auto-blocks busy slots across your calendars	Google, Outlook and iCloud
Multical	7-day trial	Unlimited calendar syncing	Google, Outlook and iCloud
OneCal	14-day trial	Starter: 2 calendars	Google, Outlook, iCloud, CalDAV
CalendarBridge	Free trial	Basic (yearly): 2 calendars	Google, Outlook, CalDAV
SyncThemCalendars	14-day trial	Basic: 5 calendar syncs	Google, Outlook, iCloud
Meetingpad	Free	Unlimited Google and Microsoft calendars	Google and Microsoft

From each company's own website and help pages, checked on November 9, 2026. Prices change, so check before you buy.

How to move from Reclaim to Meetingpad

On Reclaim's Calendar Sync page, open each sync policy you're replacing and delete it from the bottom of its edit screen. Reclaim says this can't be undone; to pause instead, use the Status toggle.
Reclaim's help says deleting a synced copy on the destination calendar isn't enough while the sync runs: delete or decline the event on the source calendar, or Reclaim adds it back.
If you leave Reclaim entirely, deleting your Reclaim account clears the events it created, including Calendar Sync copies, which can take up to an hour.
Download Meetingpad, add your Google and Microsoft calendars, switch on calendar blocking and check that a Blocked event appears.

The alternatives, one by one

1. Meetingpad

Best if a client's calendar thinks you're free

How it worksA private Blocked event on every other calendar you connect, without the meeting's title

CalendarsGoogle and Microsoft. No iCloud

AppsMac, and Windows in beta

PriceFree plan; Pro $5 a month or $50 a year

Skip it if you need iCloud, a phone app or a team plan, or if a client's IT won't allow third-party apps.

2. Notion Calendar

Best free new calendar app

A free calendar app that can auto-block busy slots. Meetingpad vs Notion Calendar

3. Multical

Best if you need iCloud too

Blocks your time across Google, Outlook and iCloud. Meetingpad vs Multical

4. OneCal

Best for iCloud and CalDAV

Copies events across Google, Outlook, iCloud and CalDAV. Meetingpad vs OneCal

5. CalendarBridge

Best for rolling out across an organization

Mirrors events, including CalDAV, with organization accounts. Meetingpad vs CalendarBridge

6. SyncThemCalendars

Best simple sync with nothing to install

Copies events between Google, Outlook and iCloud, nothing to install. Meetingpad vs SyncThemCalendars

7. Cal.com

Best for free booking links

Free booking links that check every calendar you connect. Meetingpad vs Cal.com

Which one fits your situation

You want tasks, habits and focus time scheduled for you: Reclaim is the only tool here that does that.
You want blocking on its own, across every calendar you connect: Meetingpad and Notion Calendar block busy time without a scheduling assistant.
You need iCloud: Notion Calendar, Multical, OneCal and SyncThemCalendars connect it.
You only need booking links: Cal.com's free plan checks every calendar you connect.

Frequently asked questions

Is Reclaim's calendar sync free?

Reclaim's free Lite plan includes 1 calendar sync, 1 scheduling link and 2 connected calendars. Business has unlimited syncs at $15 per seat per month billed yearly.

How is Meetingpad's blocking different from Reclaim's?

Reclaim adds a busy block as part of an AI scheduling assistant, for Google and Outlook. Meetingpad adds a private event titled Blocked to every Google and Microsoft calendar you connect, which doesn't show the meeting's title.

Why do Reclaim's synced events come back when I delete them?

Reclaim's help says to delete or decline the event on the source calendar; otherwise the sync adds the copy back to the target calendar.

Block your time on every calendar you connect

Connect your Google and Microsoft calendars and switch on calendar blocking. A meeting on one adds a private Blocked event to the others, so each client's team sees you're busy.

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