Motion takes the tasks you type in and builds your calendar around them, reshuffling as the day moves. Pidgy goes looking for the tasks you have not typed yet, in your Outlook and Gmail, and then drafts the replies and chases the silences that a scheduler never sees.
Pidgy vs Motion is a choice between a self-filling list and a self-driving calendar. Motion is an AI scheduler. You give it tasks with deadlines, priorities and durations, and it blocks them into your calendar and re-plans dozens of times a day, at roughly $29 per user per month with no free plan. It does not read your inbox, so the tasks still have to be entered by you or captured from meeting notes. Pidgy begins at the inbox. It reads Outlook and Gmail, writes the to-dos itself (including promises you made in replies), lets you drag them into calendar blocks with Plan mode, drafts the reply in your voice, and chases what stalls. Tasks already written and a crowded calendar, Motion. Tasks buried in email, Pidgy.
Answer these and the decision usually makes itself.
One. Where do your tasks come from? If they arrive in meetings, planning sessions and your own head, Motion's entry screen is the natural front door and its scheduler does the rest. If they arrive as emails, in paragraph two of a client's message or in a promise you typed at 6pm, Motion never sees them until you re-enter them. A frequent request from Motion users is a way to send emails straight to the to-do list, which is the exact job Pidgy does without being asked.
Two. Do you want the calendar to drive itself? Motion's answer is yes, fully. It auto-blocks the whole day and re-optimises when a meeting overruns or a deadline moves. Pidgy's Plan mode is a manual drag, one move per task, with a duration and a reminder. It is lighter and it starts from the email rather than from a form, but it will not rearrange your afternoon on its own.
Three. How much of the task is email? Many inbox-born tasks are "reply to this" or "get an answer from that person". Motion logs the task. Pidgy writes the reply in one of four tones and, when the other side goes quiet, queues the chase. Motion is a planner and project tool, not an email assistant, so that half of the work stays outside it.
Each row is a piece of effort. The cells say whether Pidgy or Motion takes it off you.
| The effort | Pidgy | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Noticing that an email contains a task | The tool, continuously |
You |
| Entering the task with a deadline and duration | The tool, from the message |
You, or its meeting notetaker |
| Catching a promise you made in a reply | The tool |
Not detected |
| Placing the task in the calendar | You, one drag in Plan mode |
The tool, automatically |
| Re-planning when a meeting overruns | You |
The tool, dozens of times a day |
| Running a multi-step project | Inbox projects with a progress figure |
Kanban, Gantt and dependencies |
| Writing the reply the task needs | The tool drafts, you send |
You, elsewhere |
| Chasing the person who went quiet | The tool queues the chase |
You |
| Watching both Outlook and Gmail | The tool, as one inbox |
Syncs your calendars, not your mail |
| Taking notes in the meeting | You |
Built-in notetaker |
| Paying for it | 7-day free trial |
Around $29 per user per month, no free plan |
Motion starts once a task exists. This is what Pidgy does to make it exist, from the moment a message lands.
Four situations where we would send you to Motion.
Give Motion a task with a deadline and a duration and it finds the slot, then moves it when something runs late. Pidgy's Plan mode asks you to do the placing. If the dream is a calendar that re-plans itself, Motion is the one delivering it.
Motion offers Kanban boards, Gantt views and task dependencies. Pidgy's projects are groupings of email, documents and tasks with a progress percentage, useful for keeping an engagement in view, but not a project management system.
Motion's meeting notetaker and booking pages turn a conversation into scheduled work. Pidgy has no notetaker. When most of your commitments are made out loud rather than in writing, Motion captures them and Pidgy does not.
If you already keep a full task list and the pain is fitting it into a crowded week, capture is not your problem and Pidgy's main advantage does not apply. Motion's engine is aimed squarely at that pain.
The two products sit at opposite ends of the same pipeline, which makes them easy to combine.
Pidgy takes the front of the pipeline. It reads the inbox, extracts the asks and your own promises, ranks them, and groups them into projects. Motion takes the back. It receives tasks with deadlines and durations and turns them into a schedule that survives contact with a real week. The hand-off is not automatic today, so the tasks you want Motion to schedule are ones you carry across, but the noticing and writing-down step, the one Motion users keep asking for, is already done.
The email work stays with Pidgy throughout. When the scheduled task is "answer Sofia about the lease", the draft is waiting in your voice, and if Sofia goes quiet, the chase is queued. Motion does not read mail, so it has nothing to say about either.
Price is one of the clearer differences between Pidgy and Motion.
Motion charges around $29 per user per month and has no free plan. For a five-person team that is close to $145 a month before anyone has entered a task. For people who lean on the auto-scheduling every day, it earns its fee.
Pidgy has a 7-day free trial with no credit card needed. It is the lighter and cheaper place to start, on Outlook or Gmail.
Same goal, less busywork, approached from opposite ends.
The list that fills itself, from the inbox you already open.
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