Motion

Motion takes a list of tasks with deadlines and durations and writes them into the calendar itself, then rewrites the plan every time a meeting lands or something slips. The pitch is that deciding what to do next is the work you keep redoing, so a tool should do it. It suits somebody juggling a shoot schedule, client deliverables and a publishing calendar in one head. It is priced per seat and there is no free plan, only a trial.

There is no free plan, only a trial whose length the pricing page does not state. Pro is $29 per seat a month, or $19 billed annually, which the vendor advertises as a 33 percent saving. Team pricing sits above it. Everything is per seat, so a second person doubles the cost before any feature difference.

People running a shoot schedule, client deliverables and a publishing calendar at once, who lose more time deciding what to do next than doing it.