Vene and Reclaim

Checked 18 October 2026

Reclaim works inside your Google or Outlook calendar and defends time in it: focus time, habits, breaks between meetings. Vene is a Mac app that plans your tasks into the day on your own Mac and gives the day an end. They automate the same thing and differ in where it runs and what it protects.

What	Vene	Reclaim
Where it runs	A Mac app, planning on your Mac	In the browser and inside Google Calendar
Account	None	A Google or Outlook account
Calendars	Anything in the Mac's Calendar app, including Apple's	Google and Outlook; no Apple calendar
Where your tasks live	Apple Reminders	Reclaim's own tasks, or Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Google Tasks
Habits	Practices, planned into your evenings	Habits, placed in your chosen windows
Breaks and focus	Breaks between long stretches of work	Focus Time goals and automatic breaks between meetings
Who it is for	One person	One person up to large teams
Price	Free in beta, $108 a year at launch, free for anyone in education	Free plan; paid from $10 a month per person, billed yearly

If your life runs on Google Calendar, your team uses it too, and you want something free, try Reclaim first. Its free plan schedules one week ahead. Vene is for someone on a Mac who keeps tasks in Apple Reminders and wants the day to end.

Vene is free while it is in beta and $108 a year once it launches, with a 14 day free trial and nothing to pay for anyone in education. Reclaim's Lite plan is free and schedules one week ahead. Billed yearly, Starter is $10 a month per person and Business is $15. Billed monthly, Starter is $12 and Business is $18. Enterprise is $22 a month per person, billed yearly only, for teams of more than 100.

Sources

• Reclaim pricing
• Reclaim home page
• Reclaim integrations
• Reclaim habits

Also: Vene and Motion · Vene and FlowSavvy