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Features
38 features across 20 categories
AI(2)
Integrated AI assistant for asking questions and getting answers contextually within Motion
AI that understands all of a user's work context including docs, tasks, projects, and calendar to provide hyper-personalized assistance without lengthy prompts
Administration(1)
Centralized billing management for teams and organizations
Automation(2)
Handles repetitive work and busywork to let users focus on real work
Converts SOP documents into automated step-by-step workflows with action items, automatically creates workflow templates from documentation, and assigns work to team members based on capacity
Calendar Management(6)
Automatically time-blocks and schedules tasks on calendar, dynamically optimizes schedule dozens of times daily, schedules meetings at ideal times, and consolidates multiple calendar accounts
Automatically adjusts and optimizes schedule when plans change instead of requiring manual adjustment
Automatically tells users what the best task to work on is at any moment by optimizing across projects, deadlines, priorities, and dependencies
Automatically creates meeting booking pages, shows availability, and schedules meetings at optimal times that maximize focus time
Consolidates Outlook, Google Calendar, and iCloud calendars into a single interface to prevent double-booking
Optimizes schedule across both work and personal calendars and preferences
Collaboration(1)
Ask teammates questions inside projects, tasks, and docs with full context for discussions without context-switching to email or Slack
Content Creation(1)
Assists with creating, editing, and summarizing content within documents
Data Management(1)
Create and manage spreadsheets and database-like structures with AI assistance
Documentation(4)
Transforms scattered notes and brainstorms into organized projects and tasks, drafts and proofreads documents in seconds, finds tasks buried in old notes, and creates shared wikis and documentation
Instantly publish docs as shareable links or live websites
Embed tasks, projects, tables, images, and attachments directly inside documents for full context
Create company wikis, process documentation, and knowledge bases with organization and team sharing capabilities
Email(1)
Automatically generates and sends follow-up emails after meetings with summaries, notes, and action items
Meetings(4)
Automatically generates action items from meetings and assigns them to the correct person and project
Takes meeting notes automatically with 80% accuracy compared to human notes, generates action items, creates follow-up emails, records and transcribes meetings, and integrates notes directly into tasks and projects
Combines user-written notes with AI-generated notes for a complete meeting record
Provides full recordings and transcripts for every meeting, labeled by topic and timestamped to jump to specific sections
Platforms(1)
Native applications for iOS, Android, and desktop platforms
Project Management(2)
Generates complete projects in seconds from descriptions and docs, automatically assigns tasks with deadlines, manages project statuses, and keeps projects 32% faster by eliminating idle time between tasks
Automatically updates project statuses, assigns next steps, and flags delays without manual intervention
Project Visualization(1)
Visual project timeline and Gantt chart views for planning and tracking
Reporting(2)
Provides intelligent visualizations of bottlenecks, efficiency metrics, and project ROI for better resource allocation
Predicts project ETAs based on team capacity, alerts when projects are off-track, analyzes team capacity to prevent overwork, and provides AI-powered dashboards showing bottlenecks and efficiency improvements
Search(1)
Instantly finds anything including docs, notes, projects, tasks, and communications across the platform
Security(1)
Granular control over who can access, edit, and view projects, tasks, and documents
Storage(1)
Unlimited cloud storage for documents, files, and project data
Task Management(4)
Automatically creates and prioritizes tasks based on urgency and importance, matching workload to available time and warning users days in advance if tasks are at risk of missing deadlines
Proactively warns users days or weeks in advance if tasks are at risk of missing deadlines
Gathers all tasks from other apps in one centralized location, supports task creation from Gmail, Outlook, iCloud emails, Zoom, Meet, Teams meetings, Slack messages, and voice commands via Siri
Finds and extracts tasks buried in old notes and pulls them into a central task list
Team Management(1)
Analyzes team workload and identifies overwork or underutilized resources to rebalance work appropriately
Time Management(1)
Tracks time spent on tasks and projects
Pricing
Free
Pro AI
Popular- ✓AI Chat
- ✓AI Projects & Tasks
- ✓AI Calendar & Meetings
- ✓AI Docs, Wiki, & Notes
- ✓AI Sheets & Databases
- ✓AI Task Planner
- ✓AI Writer & Editor
- ✓Unlimited Storage
- ✓iOS, Android, Desktop apps
- ✓Integrations
- ✓7,500 credits/seat/month
Business AI
Popular- ✓Everything in Pro AI
- ✓Team Capacity Planning
- ✓Advanced Dashboards & Reports
- ✓Timeline & Gantt Charts
- ✓Time Tracking
- ✓Permissions & Access Control
- ✓Central Billing
- ✓Priority Support
- ✓15,000 credits/seat/month
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Buying Motion saves ~$30,120 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 38 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
9 known integrations