MyGlyde vs Motion: scheduling the work, or starting it

Motion is aimed at people whose problem is arithmetic — too many commitments, not enough hours, and a calendar that needs constantly re-solving. Its AI does that genuinely well: it auto-schedules tasks into your real calendar, reshuffles when things slip, and plans across a team. MyGlyde uses AI for something else entirely. It assumes your calendar is not the bottleneck, and that the gap between knowing what to do and beginning it is.

Feature comparison between MyGlyde and Motion
Feature	MyGlyde	Motion
What the AI does	Turns one vague sentence into concrete first moves, sized in minutes	Auto-schedules tasks into your calendar and reshuffles them when things slip
The problem it assumes you have	You know what matters; you cannot make yourself begin	You have more commitments than hours and need them arranged optimally
Deciding what's next	One task shown alone, chosen by urgency, energy and capacity — Swap if it's wrong	Your calendar tells you, because the scheduler already placed it
Focus timer	Sprints with a visible shrinking ring and credit for every minute	Calendar blocks are the unit of focus
Missing a day	A banked Freeze Shield is spent; streak and history survive, no guilt screens	Unfinished work is rescheduled automatically
Rewards	Credits for effort, spent on a Reward Menu you wrote yourself	Not a reward-based app
Built for	One person trying to start, with optional quiet co-working rooms	Individuals and teams, with capacity planning, dashboards and Gantt views
Price	Free core loop; Plus £7.99/mo or £59/yr (founding price, 14-day trial) — as of Aug 2026	Pro AI $19/seat/mo, Business AI $29/seat/mo, annual billing saves 33%; no free tier — as of Aug 2026

Motion might suit you better if…

Your calendar genuinely is the bottleneck — back-to-back meetings, shifting deadlines, and a real cost to getting the order wrong.
You are managing a team and need capacity planning, dashboards and timelines.
You want tasks placed into actual calendar slots automatically, and you will trust the scheduler to do it.
The price isn’t a factor, because an hour of your time is worth more than the subscription.

MyGlyde is built for you if…

Your calendar has space in it. The blocks are there and you are not starting them.
You want the task broken into a first move you could do right now, not scheduled for Thursday at two.
You want a bad day to cost a Freeze Shield rather than trigger an automatic reshuffle of everything.
You want effort itself to pay out — credits and treats you picked — because that is what makes you come back tomorrow.

Where the AI is pointed

The same tax sentence turned into three numbered first moves: 'Open the folder where this lives' at ~2m, 'Write the first sentence or line' at ~10m, and 'Do the single smallest visible piece' at ~15m. — Not a calendar slot — a first move small enough to take right now.

The Reward Menu written out like a restaurant menu — a coffee outside as the appetiser, a chapter of a novel as the side, twenty minutes of a video game as dessert — with 68 earned credits to spend on them. — And a payout you chose yourself, for the effort rather than the outcome.

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