CalWizz vs Clockwise: Analytics vs AI Scheduling (And Why You Might Need Both)
Last updated: February 2026
Category: Time Management Tech Stack
TL;DR
Clockwise rearranges your calendar. CalWizz tells you whether your calendar is healthy in the first place.
Clockwise is an AI scheduling optimizer used by 40,000+ organizations — it shuffles your meetings, protects focus time, and coordinates across time zones. CalWizz is a calendar analytics platform — schedule health scores, meeting pattern analysis, and cost tracking that shows you what’s actually happening on your team’s calendar.
They’re different tools for different problems. Here’s when to pick one, the other, or both.
| CalWizz | Clockwise | |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | Diagnose calendar problems | Fix calendar problems automatically |
| Approach | Analytics-first | AI optimization-first |
| Best for | Teams that need visibility | Teams that need scheduling automation |
What Is Clockwise?
Clockwise is an AI-powered calendar management tool that analyzes millions of schedule arrangements daily to find the optimal layout for your meetings and focus time. Used by companies like Uber, Atlassian, and Amplitude, it’s built around one premise: your calendar is a puzzle, and AI can solve it better than you can.
Clockwise’s core features:
- AI Calendar Optimization: Clockwise continuously reshuffles flexible meetings to create longer blocks of uninterrupted time. It considers your preferences, your team’s preferences, and time zone differences.
- Focus Time Holds: Automatically blocks focus time on your calendar. If a conflict arises, Clockwise moves the focus block rather than losing it.
- Flexible Meeting Scheduling: Mark meetings as “flexible” and Clockwise finds the best slot across all attendees — then moves them again if a better arrangement emerges.
- Smart Meeting Breaks: Automatic buffer time between meetings so you’re not sprinting from one Zoom to the next.
- No-Meeting Days: Enforce team-wide or company-wide meeting-free days.
- Scheduling Links: Share availability links including round-robin and group scheduling.
- Lunch Holds & Travel Time: Protects your lunch break and accounts for commute time.
- Slack Integration: Syncs your calendar status and enables DND during focus blocks.
Clockwise reports that teams using it gain an average of 2+ hours of additional focus time per week.
What Is CalWizz?
CalWizz is a calendar analytics and schedule health platform for teams. It doesn’t touch your calendar — it reads it, analyzes it, and gives you a clear picture of how your team’s time is actually being spent.
CalWizz’s core features:
- Schedule Health Score: A single composite metric — like a credit score for your calendar — that tells you whether your time allocation is sustainable. Track it weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
- Meeting Pattern Analysis: See how many hours your team spends in meetings, which meetings have too many attendees, which recurring meetings nobody actually needs, and where the fragmentation lives.
- Meeting Cost Tracking: Put a dollar figure on every meeting. A 60-minute meeting with 8 people isn’t just an hour — it’s 8 hours of collective time. CalWizz quantifies that.
- Focus Time Measurement: Track actual contiguous focus time across your team — not just blocked time, but real uninterrupted stretches.
- Meeting Fragmentation Analysis: Identify days where meetings chop focus time into unusable 30-minute scraps.
- Team Benchmarks: Compare your team’s calendar health against baselines. Are your engineers spending more time in meetings than the industry average?
- Calendar Audit Reports: Automated recommendations on which meetings to cut, shorten, or convert to async.
Where Clockwise Wins
Let’s be fair — Clockwise is better at:
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Actively fixing your schedule. Clockwise doesn’t just tell you something’s wrong — it moves meetings, creates focus blocks, and optimizes in real time. If you want hands-off calendar management, Clockwise delivers.
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Focus time protection. Clockwise’s focus time feature is proactive. It defends blocks, moves them when conflicts arise, and integrates with Slack to signal “do not disturb.” It’s not just measurement — it’s enforcement.
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Cross-team coordination. For large teams spanning multiple time zones, Clockwise’s AI finds meeting times that minimize disruption across the whole group. That’s a genuinely hard problem to solve manually.
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Enterprise adoption. With Uber and Atlassian as customers, Clockwise has proven it works at scale. Their business tier includes admin controls, org-wide no-meeting days, and company-level analytics.
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Scheduling links. Clockwise’s scheduling links support group scheduling and round-robin — useful for teams that do a lot of external scheduling.
Where CalWizz Wins
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Depth of analytics. Clockwise’s analytics are a Business-tier add-on ($11.50/user/month). CalWizz is built for analytics — schedule health scores, meeting cost tracking, fragmentation analysis, and team benchmarks are the core product, not an upsell.
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The Schedule Health Score. No one else offers this. A single, trackable metric that answers “is our calendar getting better or worse?” over time. It’s the difference between checking your weight occasionally and having a fitness tracker.
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Making the case for change. When you walk into a leadership meeting and say “we need fewer meetings,” you need data. CalWizz gives you the receipts — which meetings cost the most, which have the lowest engagement, which could be async. Clockwise can’t make that argument for you because it’s already making changes silently.
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Meeting cost visibility. CalWizz puts dollar figures on meetings. Research from Harvard Business School found that a single weekly executive meeting can cost an organization over 300,000 hours annually when you account for cascade effects. CalWizz surfaces this data automatically.
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Audit before you automate. You probably shouldn’t optimize a broken calendar — you should fix the broken meetings first. CalWizz identifies what needs changing. Then a tool like Clockwise can optimize what’s left.
Head-to-Head Comparison
| Feature | CalWizz | Clockwise |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule Health Score | ✅ Core feature | ❌ Not available |
| Meeting Pattern Analytics | ✅ Deep analysis | ⚠️ Business tier only |
| Meeting Cost Tracking | ✅ Per-meeting dollar estimates | ❌ Not available |
| AI Calendar Optimization | ❌ Analytics only | ✅ Core feature |
| Focus Time Protection | ⚠️ Tracks & measures | ✅ Auto-blocks & defends |
| No-Meeting Days | ❌ | ✅ Team & company-wide |
| Scheduling Links | ❌ | ✅ Including round-robin |
| Team Benchmarks | ✅ | ⚠️ Limited to Business tier |
| Calendar Audit Reports | ✅ Actionable recommendations | ❌ |
| Slack Integration | Planned | âś… Status sync & DND |
| Google Calendar | âś… | âś… |
| Outlook | Planned | âś… |
| Pricing | TBD | Free – $11.50/user/mo |
Who Should Choose What?
Choose Clockwise if you:
- Want AI to actively manage and optimize your calendar
- Need focus time blocks that defend themselves automatically
- Coordinate a large team across multiple time zones
- Want scheduling links with group and round-robin support
- Prefer a tool that takes action, not just reports
Choose CalWizz if you:
- Manage a team and need real visibility into calendar health
- Want data to build the case for meeting culture changes
- Need a Schedule Health Score you can track and report on over time
- Want to identify which specific meetings to cut, shorten, or make async
- Prefer insights that inform decisions over automated rearrangement
- Need meeting cost data to justify changes to leadership
Use both if you:
- Want CalWizz to diagnose the problems and Clockwise to optimize the solution. This is actually the smartest play for mid-size teams: use CalWizz to identify which meetings to kill, shorten, or restructure — then let Clockwise optimize the remaining calendar for maximum focus time. Analytics and automation are complementary, not competing.
Pricing Comparison
| Plan | CalWizz | Clockwise |
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| Free | TBD | Basic calendar management, scheduling links, 2-week optimization |
| Paid (Teams) | TBD | $6.75/user/mo (annual) — AI optimization, flexible meetings, Slack sync |
| Paid (Business) | TBD | $11.50/user/mo (annual) — org analytics, no-meeting days, admin controls |
| Enterprise | TBD | Custom pricing |
Note: Clockwise’s calendar analytics features are locked to the Business tier at $11.50/user/month. Their Free and Teams plans focus on scheduling optimization without reporting. CalWizz pricing will be announced soon — join the waitlist to get early access.
The Bottom Line
Clockwise and CalWizz answer two different questions.
Clockwise asks: “How can I arrange this calendar better?” It’s an optimizer. Give it your meetings and it’ll find the best layout — more focus time, fewer conflicts, smarter scheduling. It’s excellent at what it does.
CalWizz asks: “Should these meetings even exist?” It’s a diagnostic tool. Before you optimize the arrangement of your meetings, you need to know which ones are worth keeping. A 2022 study published in Harvard Business Review found that when companies cut meetings by 40%, productivity increased by 71%. You can’t cut meetings you can’t measure.
Here’s the thing Clockwise can’t do: tell you that your Tuesday 4 PM “alignment sync” has cost your team $47,000 this year and nobody speaks in it. That’s CalWizz’s job.
And here’s what CalWizz won’t do: automatically reshuffle your Wednesday meetings to create a 3-hour focus block. That’s Clockwise’s job.
Different tools. Different jobs. Potentially powerful together.
Pick the one that matches your pain — or use both and stop guessing about your calendar entirely.
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