YWGSD vs Motion

At a glance

• Price

  YWGSD

  $24 a month, or $192 a year — $16 a month. Everything’s included on every plan.

  Motion

  $19 to $69 per seat a month, depending on the plan, the billing period, and whether you’re on the Individuals or the Teams track. Every plan is an AI plan, metered in credits.

• Free trial

  YWGSD

  14 days. A card up front, and we email you 3 days before the first charge.

  Motion

  A card up front, with a $1 hold to check it. No trial length is stated anywhere on their current site.

• Refunds

  YWGSD

  Your first payment back within 7 days, taken yourself from Settings. No asking.

  Motion

  Their terms say purchases are non-refundable, and that any refund is at their discretion.

• How it schedules

  YWGSD

  Every task gets a real block in the gaps between your meetings, inside the hours you allow. The day rebuilds itself whenever something changes.

  Motion

  Auto-scheduling, and a mature version of it: long tasks split into chunks, dependencies, hard deadlines, separate work and personal hours.

• A task you didn’t get to

  YWGSD

  Moves to your next opening and stays in front of you until you finish it or cancel it. Past its deadline it turns amber. A missed repeat never expires.

  Motion

  Rescheduled into the next available slot.

• AI

  YWGSD

  None. The same calendar and the same lengths give the same plan every time.

  Motion

  AI chat, AI docs and a meeting notetaker on every plan, metered at 7,500 or 15,000 credits per seat a month, which don’t carry over.

• Your calendars

  YWGSD

  Reads Google, Outlook and iCloud. Never writes to any of them.

  Motion

  Google, Outlook and iCloud. It writes your tasks into Google or Outlook, so they appear there as events.

• Getting thoughts in

  YWGSD

  An Inbox that asks for nothing — no length, no priority, no deadline — then the once-over turns the pile into scheduled work in about a minute.

  Motion

  Siri, a widget, email-to-task and a desktop shortcut. New tasks head straight for the schedule; their Inbox is a feed of what changed.

• Phones

  YWGSD

  The web app works in any phone browser. The iPhone app is built and waiting on the App Store. No Android app.

  Motion

  iOS and Android apps, described as companions to the desktop app. The first setup has to be done in a desktop browser.

• Teams

  YWGSD

  No. One person, one plan, nothing shared.

  Motion

  Yes: shared projects on every plan, and capacity planning, permissions, Gantt charts and time tracking on Business AI.

The three differences that matter

Your calendar stays exactly as you left it

Motion writes your tasks into Google or Outlook, so they show up as events for anyone who can see your calendar. YWGSD reads your calendars and plans around them, and writes nothing back. Nothing of ours ever appears on your work calendar.

A thought can wait without being a task

In Motion, a new task goes straight into the schedule, which means deciding how long it’ll take at the moment it occurs to you. YWGSD has an Inbox that asks for nothing, and a once-over later that turns the whole pile into scheduled work in a couple of minutes.

You can take the refund yourself

Motion’s terms say purchases are non-refundable and refunds are at their discretion. YWGSD emails you 3 days before the first charge, cancelling is one click, and for 7 days after that first payment there’s a button in Settings that sends your money back without asking anyone.

Where Motion is better

Written plainly, because you’re going to find out anyway.

• planning work across a team: shared projects, capacity planning, permissions
• Gantt charts and time tracking, on their Business plan
• AI you can talk to, AI docs and a meeting notetaker
• Android, and native desktop apps
• splitting a long task into chunks automatically

What Motion’s customers say

On Trustpilot, Motion has 3.7 out of 5 from 578 reviews, as of 22 September 2026. More than half are five stars. Of the one-star reviews we read, most were about the same thing: being charged for a full year when a trial ended, and not getting it back. That’s why the billing promise exists.

On price

On what both sites listed on 22 September 2026, YWGSD costs less than every Motion plan: $16 a month billed yearly against Motion’s lowest of $19, and $24 month to month against their lowest of $29. With no AI credits on top.

That’s not the reason to pick it, though. Motion does a great deal more. If you don’t need the more, you’re not paying for it.

Switching takes about ten minutes

1. 1

   Connect your calendars

   Google, Outlook and iCloud. We read them so work lands around your meetings, and we never write to them.

2. 2

   Say when you work

   One set of hours to start with. Add more later if the evenings belong to something else.

3. 3

   Type your list into the Inbox

   One line, Enter, next — the field keeps focus, so a whole list goes in as fast as you can type it. No lengths or deadlines yet.

4. 4

   Give it the once-over

   How long, how important, and it’s scheduled. Keep Motion running alongside for a week if you like; nothing here writes to your calendar, so the two can’t fight.