Switch · Reclaim → Nova · July 2026
Switching from Reclaim to Nova
An honest ten-minute path across — including the parts Reclaim still does better. Facts checked against Reclaim's public pages, July 2026.
Keep Reclaim running while you look. Nova has no importer — the path below is manual and takes about ten minutes.
What Reclaim does well
Reclaim is the best-known tool for defending time on a calendar you already live in. Habits, focus blocks, smart 1:1s and automatic buffer time are real features that solve a real problem, there's a genuinely free tier, and it plugs straight into Google Calendar and Outlook without much thought.
- Reclaim pricing
- Lite is free forever; paid seats from about US$10 per user per month billed annually (US$12 monthly), Business above that
- Way in
- Free Lite plan plus a 14-day trial of the paid tiers
Read from reclaim.ai/pricing, July 2026.
What people bump into · as of 2026
Two things come up repeatedly, as of 2026. Reclaim moves blocks around your calendar automatically — that's the product working as documented, but it means the calendar you looked at this morning isn't the one you'll see at three. And it is calendar-shaped: the renewal buried in an email, the invoice nobody paid, the reply you owe someone — Reclaim was never built to catch those, so they stay yours to remember.
Paraphrased from Reclaim’s own public pages and the behaviour it documents. No individual is quoted and no review is invented.
What actually changes.
Nova starts from what arrives, not from your calendar. Forwarded mail and captured notes get sorted into Needs you, Waiting, Money, FYI and Noise, and the ones that matter come back as a prepared next move.
Nothing on your calendar shifts by itself. Nova can flag a clash or a deadline; moving anything is your tap.
One person, one price. R149/month, not per seat — and shown in rands.
Reclaim is better at packing a calendar. If defending focus blocks is the whole job, keep it — plenty of people run both.
The last card is the honest one: where Reclaim still wins.
The ten-minute path across.
Everything below works today. There is no data importer for Reclaim — this is the manual route, written out honestly.
- Minute 1Sign up — no card
The free preview gives you 10 AI actions. Keep your current tool running; nothing about it changes while you look.
- Minutes 2–4Forward the last week of real mail
Nova gives you a private forwarding address. Send the renewals, invoices and threads you actually care about. This is how Nova learns your life — there is no importer that can pull your history out of Reclaim, and we won't pretend there is.
- Minutes 5–7Bring your dates across
Export an .ics from whatever calendar you use and import it, or type the three dates you'd hate to miss — a licence, an insurance renewal, a filing deadline. Typing them takes about a minute.
- Minutes 8–10Prime one worry, then stop
Tell Nova the single thing you're most afraid of forgetting. That becomes your first watcher, and the first card usually lands the same day. Connect a mailbox or WhatsApp broker later, on Plus, once Nova has earned it.
Questions people actually ask.
- Can I import my data from Reclaim into Nova?
- No — Nova has no importer for Reclaim, and we'd rather say so than sell you a migration button that doesn't exist. What works today is manual and takes about ten minutes: forward your recent mail to your private Nova address, import an .ics of your calendar or type your key dates, and tell Nova the one thing you're most worried about forgetting.
- Do I have to cancel Reclaim first?
- No. Nova's free preview needs no card, so run both for a week and compare what each one catches. If Nova doesn't earn its place, you've lost nothing and Reclaim carried on untouched. Nova itself cancels in the app — no email, no retention call.
- What will Nova do differently from Reclaim?
- The core difference is approval. Nova prepares the reply, the reminder or the follow-up and then waits for your tap — nothing is sent, paid or moved on your behalf. It also prices in rands at R149/month for one person, works on any phone from the browser, and catches things that live outside a calendar or a mailbox.