Lindy vs Reclaim AI: pricing, features and which to choose

Lindy is a hosted AI assistant and team agent made by the company founded by Flo Crivello. The product launched in March 2023 as an assistant for calendars, email, travel, prospecting, and meeting summaries, then expanded into AI employees and a shared teammate. Lindy says people can use it privately through email, iMessage, Slack DMs, and the web app, while teams can mention it in shared Slack channels. Its current product includes persistent workspace context, shared meetings and files, scheduled routines, and connected workplace tools. Lindy is closed source and hosted by the vendor. Its history includes an aborted Meta acquisition and a return to independent operation on September 1, 2026. The company does not publish a current employee count or funding total.

A typical Lindy workflow starts by connecting an inbox, calendar, meeting service, CRM, or another supported tool. A user can request inbox triage, a meeting brief, a draft reply, a CRM update, or a recurring report. In Slack, teammates mention Lindy in a channel or thread and follow the work there. Lindy can record meetings, create notes, organize shared folders, answer questions about earlier calls, and run scheduled routines such as daily briefs. The service supports more than 1,500 integrations according to its current product pages, plus hosted MCP servers and direct API credentials. Reads occur without approval, while outside actions can wait for approval in Slack. Administrators can set workspace connections, spend caps, and action guardrails for shared work.

Lindy's main tradeoff is variable credit consumption combined with per-seat billing. A colleague who uses Lindy, including through a Slack mention, can require a paid seat, and a large task can consume much of an allocation. Monthly credits stop when the pool is empty, although administrators can buy top-ups. Reclaim AI focuses more closely on calendar and time planning, while Lindy covers broader workplace tools and Slack-based team work. Zapier Agents emphasizes configurable automation across app connections, whereas Lindy emphasizes conversational delegation, meetings, memory, and approvals. Microsoft Copilot Studio is more closely tied to Microsoft's enterprise stack and governance controls. Pick Lindy if your work spans inboxes, meetings, Slack, and several business tools, and you accept hosted per-seat billing.

Reclaim AI launched in June 2019 in Portland, founded by Patrick Lightbody, Henry Shapiro, and Ian White, former product leaders and engineers at New Relic. The founders first tested the calendar product privately before releasing LifeWork Calendar, a free utility that combined work and personal calendars without exposing personal appointment details. GeekWire reported $1.5 million in angel and venture funding by 2020. Dropbox announced Reclaim’s acquisition on August 20, 2024, and said its team would continue developing the product. Reclaim remains a named calendar scheduling product with Lite, Starter, Business, and Enterprise plans. Lite is free for one user, while paid pricing starts at $10 per seat monthly, with annual billing displayed separately. A post-acquisition funding total is not published. Individuals and teams needing automatic calendar time blocking should choose it.

Reclaim centers work planning on the calendar rather than a task list alone. Users can create Habits for recurring routines, Tasks for deadline-based work, Focus Time goals, Buffer Time, Smart Meetings, and Scheduling Links. Habits move when conflicts arise, while Tasks receive flexible calendar blocks before due dates and can be divided into smaller work periods. Smart Meetings consider attendee availability, time zones, priorities, and existing commitments. Scheduling Links show availability shaped by scheduling preferences and priorities. Calendar Sync copies events between connected calendars to protect availability. Integrations include Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Google Tasks, Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Slack, Zoom, Raycast, webhooks, and selected assistant connections. Choose it for automatic calendar time blocking across priorities, routines, meetings, and multiple calendars.

Reclaim requires access to connected calendar data and is neither open source nor self-hosted. Lite supports one user, a one-week scheduling range, one calendar sync, one Scheduling Link, five AI Agents, and limited integrations. Paid teams must use one plan type, while Enterprise is for organizations with more than 100 seats and annual billing. Motion adds project and task management to calendar planning. Clockwise emphasizes team meeting coordination and focus-time protection, whereas Sunsama favors manual daily planning. Choose Reclaim for automatic time blocking, recurring routines, focus time, and multiple Google Calendar or Outlook sources. Choose Motion for deeper project planning, Clockwise for team meeting coordination, or Sunsama for deliberate daily planning. Reclaim suits individuals and small teams comfortable granting calendar access to a hosted service, while it is not suitable for self-hosted requirements or manual planning preferences. Choose Reclaim if calendar adaptation is your priority.