- **Personal**: $15/year (early adopter: $10/year), unlimited calendars, up to 3 sync pairs - **Professional**: $50/year (early adopter: $35/year), unlimited calendars, up to 8 sync pairs - **Free trial**: 21 days, full feature access - **Cost per year for 5 calendars**: $50 (Professional plan)

- **Free**: Basic sync (limited features), task management with 2 tasks/week - **Individual**: $10/month ($120/year), full access, unlimited tasks - **Premium**: $15/month ($180/year), same features, priority support - **Team**: Custom pricing, contact sales - **Cost per year for basic paid plan**: $120–180

Hetk vs Reclaim.ai

Different tools for different problems

Hetk and Reclaim.ai are frequently mentioned together, but they solve fundamentally different problems.

Hetk syncs calendar events across providers, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple iCloud. It keeps your calendars in sync so you don’t get double-booked across accounts.

Reclaim.ai is an AI scheduling tool that automatically blocks time for tasks, habits, focus time, and meetings within a single calendar system. Its “calendar sync” feature is limited to blocking availability between your own calendars, it doesn’t copy events across providers.

Side-by-side comparison

	Hetk	Reclaim.ai
Primary purpose	Cross-provider calendar sync	AI-powered scheduling
Google Calendar	Yes	Yes
Microsoft Outlook	Yes	Yes
Apple iCloud	Yes	No
Cross-provider event sync	Yes, full event data	No, availability blocking only
Privacy controls	Mark as Private, Show As, Identity Transform	N/A
AI scheduling	No	Yes (Focus Time, Habits, Tasks)
Scheduling links	No	Yes
Pricing	$15–50/year	$0–264/year per seat

When to choose Hetk

Choose Hetk if your problem is keeping multiple calendars in sync across different providers. Common scenarios:

Syncing a personal Google Calendar with a work Outlook account
Keeping client calendars aligned as a freelancer or consultant
Syncing board seat calendars with your primary work account
Any setup involving Apple iCloud

Hetk copies actual event data (with configurable privacy controls) and works across Google, Outlook, and iCloud in any combination.

When to choose Reclaim.ai

Choose Reclaim if your problem is finding time in your schedule for tasks and deep work. Reclaim’s AI features, Focus Time, Habits, Smart Meetings, Buffer Time, are designed to optimize how you spend your time within a Google or Outlook calendar.

Reclaim’s “calendar sync” blocks availability between your own calendars but doesn’t sync event content across providers and doesn’t support iCloud.

Detailed pricing breakdown

Hetk pricing

Personal: $15/year (early adopter: $10/year), unlimited calendars, up to 3 sync pairs
Professional: $50/year (early adopter: $35/year), unlimited calendars, up to 8 sync pairs
Free trial: 21 days, full feature access
Cost per year for 5 calendars: $50 (Professional plan)

Reclaim.ai pricing

Free: Basic sync (limited features), task management with 2 tasks/week
Individual: $10/month ($120/year), full access, unlimited tasks
Premium: $15/month ($180/year), same features, priority support
Team: Custom pricing, contact sales
Cost per year for basic paid plan: $120–180

Price comparison:

Budget option: Hetk Personal ($15/year) vs. Reclaim Free (limited)
Full-featured: Hetk Professional ($50/year) vs. Reclaim Individual ($120/year), Hetk is 58% cheaper
Premium support: Hetk Professional ($50/year) vs. Reclaim Premium ($180/year), Hetk is 72% cheaper

Feature-by-feature analysis

Hetk and Reclaim.ai occupy very different positions in the productivity ecosystem, though both interact with your calendar. Understanding the distinction helps you pick the right tool, or both.

Hetk is a calendar synchronization engine. Its job is to ensure that events in Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple iCloud stay in perfect sync. If you create an event in one system, Hetk copies it to the others with full control over privacy, visibility, and identity information. It solves the “double-booking” problem: you can’t double-book when all your calendars are synchronized.

Reclaim.ai is a calendar optimization engine. It analyzes your calendar, detects available time, and helps you schedule tasks, focus blocks, and habits intelligently. It might reschedule a meeting slightly earlier to create a focus block, or suggest the best time to handle a task. Its “calendar sync” feature is limited to blocking availability between your own calendars, not copying events across providers.

In practice: Hetk makes your calendars talk to each other. Reclaim makes your calendar smarter. They solve different problems, though there’s a small overlap in the sync space (Reclaim’s availability blocking).

Use case: when to use each tool

Use Hetk if:

You juggle Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCloud and need them synchronized
You’re a freelancer managing client calendars alongside personal time
You’re an executive with multiple calendar accounts (personal, corporate, board)
You care about privacy, syncing sensitive events without exposing all details
You want to avoid double-booking across providers

Use Reclaim.ai if:

You want AI to intelligently reschedule meetings and tasks
You need automatic focus time blocking based on your work patterns
You manage tasks in Asana, Todoist, or Jira and want them integrated with your calendar
You’re trying to optimize how you spend your time within a single calendar
You want habit tracking alongside your schedule

Use both if:

You use Google and Outlook (or iCloud) together
You also want AI-powered optimization and task management
You’re willing to layer two tools (Hetk for sync, Reclaim for optimization)

Can you use both?

Yes. They don’t overlap. You could use Hetk to sync events across your Google and Outlook accounts, and Reclaim to auto-schedule focus time and tasks within your primary work calendar. The two tools complement each other perfectly, Hetk handles cross-provider sync, Reclaim handles optimization and task management on top of your synchronized calendars.

However, if you only need sync and don’t care about AI scheduling or task management, Hetk alone is sufficient and costs 70% less than Reclaim’s cheapest paid plan.

FAQ

Does Reclaim.ai do cross-provider sync like Hetk?

Reclaim can read from Google and Outlook calendars, but it doesn’t sync events between them. Its calendar sync feature blocks availability between your own calendars to prevent double-booking within Reclaim’s ecosystem. Hetk copies actual event data across providers.

What if I use Apple iCloud as my primary calendar?

Hetk supports iCloud. Reclaim doesn’t. If iCloud is central to your workflow, Hetk is the only option between these two tools.

Can I use Reclaim’s free tier instead of paying for either tool?

Reclaim’s free tier has limited features (2 tasks/week, basic sync). Hetk’s free trial is 21 days with full access. For ongoing use, Hetk’s free tier (limited to 1 sync relationship) offers more than Reclaim’s free tier if you only need basic sync.

Should I choose one tool or pay for both?

If you only need sync and don’t care about AI scheduling, choose Hetk ($50/year). If you only need AI optimization and don’t use multiple calendar providers, choose Reclaim ($120+/year). If you use both multiple providers and want AI optimization, paying for both ($50 + $120 = $170/year) is still cheaper than many all-in-one solutions.

Does Reclaim’s AI scheduling work with Hetk?

Yes. Hetk syncs your calendars; Reclaim can then analyze the combined calendar for optimization and auto-scheduling. They work together.

What’s Reclaim’s “availability blocking”?

Reclaim can block time on your Google Calendar to represent focus blocks, habits, or tasks. If you also use Outlook, Reclaim can block time on both calendars to show you as “busy” across systems. This prevents meetings from being booked during focus time. It’s not the same as syncing events, it just blocks availability.