Compared on 15 October 2026
opah vs Motion
Motion is an AI work suite whose AI schedules your tasks and projects on your calendar and re-plans through the day. opah leaves the planning to you, and brings in the issues your clients assign you in their trackers. Here’s how they differ.
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Side by side
| Feature | opah | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A personal planner for working for several companies at once: the issues assigned to you in their trackers, your calendars, meetings, notes, deadlines and time. | An AI work suite: AI timeblocks your tasks and projects on your calendar, plus projects, docs, notes, meetings and reports. |
| Separate clients | A workspace per company, each with its own projects, connections, calendars, notes and meetings. | Workspaces, each with its own inbox and calendar connections; its help suggests one for client projects. |
| Issue trackers | Reads the issues assigned to you from Linear, Jira Cloud, GitHub (and Enterprise Server) and GitLab (and self-managed), and tasks from a Notion database, several connections each. | No native Jira, Linear, GitHub, GitLab or Notion sync documented: Zapier, one way into Motion, or its API. |
| Written back to trackers | Only an issue’s status, and only when you turn on Send status for that connection. | Nothing documented: Zapier is one way into Motion. |
| Calendars | Google Calendar, several accounts, both ways. No Outlook or iCloud. | Google, Outlook (Microsoft 365) and iCloud, both ways. |
| Slack | A message you react to with an emoji becomes an issue in your Inbox, linked back to it. | Its homepage says Slack messages can become tasks; its help center has no article on it. |
| Notes and meetings | Markdown notes, and meetings with their agenda and notes, linked to issues with @. No recording or transcripts. | Docs, a wiki and notes, and an AI notetaker that joins calls on your main calendar. |
| Time tracking | Built in: a timer and entries on each issue. | Listed in the Business AI plan. |
| Planning | You plan: Today, a day per issue, deadlines and estimates. Nothing schedules itself, and there’s no AI. | AI schedules your day for you, re-plans dozens of times a day, and warns about deadlines at risk. |
| Where it runs | In the browser, installable as an app on your computer. No mobile apps. | Web, desktop apps for macOS and Windows, and iOS and Android. |
| Price | Free for now. Later one plan: €10 a month, or €96 a year, tax included. | For individuals, Pro AI: $49 a month, or $29 a month billed yearly; Business AI: $69, or $39. For teams, from $19 a seat. No free plan. |
| Trying it | A demo in the browser with sample data and no account. Once plans start, a free month first, no card. | A free trial that asks for a card (a $1 hold); its pages don’t say how long. No demo without signing up. |
Checked on 15 October 2026 against Motion’s own pages, prices as shown there. Sources: pricing, integrations, Zapier, integrations FAQ, workspaces, AI notetaker, sign-up, download.
Where Motion fits better
- You want the planner to schedule your day for you, and plan it again when things change.
- Your work is mostly your own projects and tasks, or a team plans in Motion together.
- You want AI meeting notes, docs and reports in the same app.
- Your calendars are in Outlook or iCloud, or you want desktop and phone apps.
Where opah fits better
- Your work comes from your clients’ Jira, Linear, GitHub, GitLab or Notion: opah reads it straight from them, with no Zapier in between.
- You’d rather plan your day yourself, with every action on a keyboard shortcut.
- You want time tracked on each issue, which Motion lists only in its Business AI plan.
- You’d like to try it with sample data before giving a card, or even an email address.
Who it’s for
Freelancers, contractors, consultants and fractional leads who work for several companies at once and sit in each one’s tools. It’s a personal planner, not a team tool: nothing to roll out to your clients, nobody to invite.
See it with sample data
The demo opens in your browser with five made-up companies’ issues, calendar, meetings and notes. Nothing to sign up for.
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