Motion uses AI to auto-schedule the tasks you give it, reshuffling your calendar as the day changes. Pidgy finds the tasks in the first place, reading your Outlook and Gmail so the list writes itself, then plans, drafts and chases.
Motion is a powerful AI calendar. Enter your tasks with deadlines, priorities and durations and it auto-blocks them onto your calendar, then re-optimises dozens of times a day. It is genuinely strong at scheduling and project management, at a premium price of around $29 per user per month with no free plan. Its blind spot is capture: you, or its meeting notetaker, still have to enter the tasks. Pidgy starts at the inbox, reading every email in Outlook and Gmail and writing the to-dos for you, including your own commitments, then laying them into calendar blocks with Plan mode and drafting and chasing as needed. Pick Motion if your tasks already exist and you want them auto-scheduled. Pick Pidgy if the tasks are hiding in your email.
How Pidgy and Motion compare on the things task-driven professionals actually ask about.
| Capability | Pidgy | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Where tasks come from | Auto-extracted from every email |
You enter them, or from meeting notes |
| Reads your inbox to find tasks | Yes, continuously |
No, you add them |
| Captures commitments you made in replies | Promises become to-dos |
Not detected |
| Auto-schedules tasks onto your calendar | Plan mode, you place them |
AI auto-blocks the whole day |
| Dynamic rescheduling when the day shifts | Manual replan |
Re-optimises automatically |
| Project management depth | Inbox projects with progress |
Kanban, Gantt, dependencies |
| Drafts the reply, not just the task | In your voice, you hit send |
Out of scope |
| Chases stalled follow-ups | Queues the chase for you |
Not offered |
| Treats Outlook and Gmail as your inbox | Reads both as one |
Syncs calendars, not your inbox |
| Pricing | Early access |
About $29/user/mo, no free plan |
Motion and Pidgy both want you out of the busywork, from opposite ends. One schedules tasks; the other finds them.
Motion's superpower is auto-scheduling: give it tasks with deadlines and durations and its AI blocks them onto your calendar and reshuffles in real time. The work of entering those tasks is still yours. One common request from Motion users is simply a way to send emails to the to-do list.
Pidgy's superpower is the opposite end. It reads your inbox and the tasks, including the promises you made, appear without typing, ranked and ready to plan.
Motion auto-blocks your whole day and dynamically re-optimises when a meeting runs long or a deadline shifts, plus it offers Kanban boards, Gantt charts, dependencies and a meeting notetaker.
Pidgy's Plan mode is a manual drag, not an auto-scheduler. If a self-driving calendar is the dream, Motion leads.
Pidgy lays your inbox tasks into calendar blocks in one move: drag where they fit, pick a duration, set a reminder, Add to calendar.
It is simpler than Motion's engine, but it starts from the email rather than a task you typed and a deadline you set.
Pidgy drafts the reply in your voice and chases the threads that go quiet, so the follow-up that would have stalled does not.
Motion is a planner and project tool, not an email assistant. For inbox work, that is the gap Pidgy fills.
Four things happen on their own, from the moment an email lands. This is the part Motion leaves to you.
Both are good tools. They start from different ends of the same problem.
The to-dos that write themselves, from the inbox you already live in.
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