Done vs Motion
A Motion alternative where you bring the agent, and you keep the last word.
Motion auto-schedules your work onto your calendar and now runs AI Employees that draft and plan alongside you. Done overlaps more with Motion than with anything else on this list, so the honest difference isn't “AI or no AI” — it's whose AI, and who signs off. Done is MCP-native: you connect the agent you already pay for, its tokens narrow to read-only or a single project, and finished work waits for your approval instead of closing itself.
| Feature | Done | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Assign a task to an AI agent that does the work | Yes | AI Employees draft and plan work |
| Natural-language quick capture | Yes | Yes |
| Auto-decompose a task into subtasks | Yes | No |
| Recurring tasks | Yes | Yes |
| Task dependencies (blocked-by) | Yes | Yes |
| Per-account MCP endpoint for AI agents | Yes | Community servers |
| Time-blocks your day around your real meetings, and re-plans when one moves | Yes | Yes |
| Describe a filtered view in a sentence | Yes | Views |
| Daily digest of overdue / due-today / stalled | Yes | Yes |
| Free to start | Free to start (100 AI calls/mo) | Paid (trial) |
Why people choose Done
- Bring your own agent — Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client — instead of a built-in one
- An approval gate: agent work reaches Done, and nothing closes without you
- Budgets and scoped tokens, so an agent can't raise its own limits or reach past one project
- Free to start, no credit card
Where Motion shines
Motion is the strongest product on this list at time management — it fits tasks around your meetings and rebalances automatically when plans slip — and its AI Employees do real work rather than only suggesting it. If you want one vendor to supply both the schedule and the agent, Motion is a genuinely good answer.
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Comparison based on publicly available information last verified in July 2026. Motion and other names are trademarks of their respective owners; features change — check their site for the latest.