Clockwise switched off on March 27, 2026, and it took its calendar holds with it: the Focus Time, Travel Time and Meeting Breaks it had placed were removed, Flexible Meetings stopped moving and Scheduling Links went dark. If your week was built on those holds, your calendar went back to manual. This guide maps each piece Clockwise did to a replacement: what Google Calendar has built in, what Nolario does, and what you can do by hand. Nolario is our product, so weigh our answer accordingly; we say plainly which Clockwise features it does not replace.
What Clockwise took with it
Clockwise removed its own events from your calendar and deleted your data, so there is nothing to migrate; you rebuild from scratch. When we read Clockwise's farewell page on October 23, 2026, it said the product would no longer be available starting on March 27, 2026, that the team was joining Salesforce, that there would be no transfer of data to Salesforce and that all user data would be deleted shortly after that date. Prepaid subscriptions running past it were refunded on a prorated basis.
The same page put numbers on what disappeared: over 8 million hours of Focus Time created, 23 million meetings moved to better times, and 40,000 organizations. It lists what goes away in detail: Smart Hold events such as Focus Time, Travel Time and Meeting Breaks are removed from calendars, Flexible Meetings stop moving, and Clockwise Scheduling Links are no longer available. Cal.com, a scheduling vendor that sells an alternative, wrote on March 26, 2026 that users were told on March 20, about a week before the switch off.
Piece by piece: what replaces it
Three of the five pieces have a direct replacement in Nolario, one has a partial one, and Flexible Meetings has none. The Google column uses only Google's help page on focus time, read on October 23, 2026; where that page is silent, the cell says so.
| Feature | Nolario | Google Calendar (built in) | By hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focus time blocks | Proposed into free gaps, added on a tap | Focus time event, Workspace plans | A recurring event |
| Block kept when a meeting lands on it | Proposes the nearest free slot that day | Not on the help page we read | You move it |
| Declines meetings during focus | No | Optional auto-decline | No |
| Meeting breaks | After 90, 120 or 180 minutes, on a tap | Not on the help page we read | Gaps you leave yourself |
| Travel time | Before meetings with an address, on a tap | Not on the help page we read | An event you add |
| Moves meetings with other people | No | No | No |
| Scheduling links | Free times offered in reply drafts | Not on the help page we read | Times you type |
| Calendars | Nolario, Google and Apple | Google, work or school account | Any |
How Nolario handles focus time, breaks and travel
Nolario proposes the holds Clockwise used to place, and none of them lands in your calendar until you tap. That is the main difference in behaviour: Clockwise placed and moved its holds on its own, while Nolario, which also never sends a message for you, leaves each focus, break and travel block to your tap.
- Focus time. Turn it on in the Autopilot settings and set your working hours. Nolario looks seven days ahead and, on a day with less protected time than you asked for, proposes a block of at least 30 minutes in the first free gap of the part of the day you prefer. If a new appointment later overlaps one of its blocks, it proposes the nearest free time that day, and if not even half an hour is left, it proposes removing the block. Hours you mark as private are never planned into.
- Meeting breaks. Off by default. You pick the longest run of meetings (90, 120 or 180 minutes) and the break after it (10, 15 or 30 minutes); the default is 15 minutes after two hours. Nolario proposes the break block, and the meeting times it offers in a reply draft never make a run longer than your rule.
- Travel time. Off by default. For a meeting with a physical address, Nolario proposes a block right before it, 30 minutes unless you choose 15 to 90. It does not use a maps service, so the length is your setting, not a route calculation. When the block starts, the open app tells you it is time to leave.
Nolario recognises its own blocks by a marker in the event, in the Nolario, Google and Apple calendars alike, so a focus block you created yourself with the same title counts as focus time too and is never moved. If the meeting request arrives by mail, the reply draft already offers two or three free times, which covers the most common use of a scheduling link.
What Nolario does not replace
Flexible Meetings has no replacement here, and neither does a booking page. Nolario does not move a meeting with other people or decline an invitation on its own, so if you relied on Clockwise to reshuffle a team's calendar, you need a scheduling tool built for that. Nolario is also an inbox first: it ranks Gmail, Outlook, Slack and Teams in one feed and drafts replies, and the calendar helpers sit around that. It is on a waitlist and runs as a desktop web app with no mobile app yet. For planners built around time blocking, see our Motion alternatives and the Nolario vs Sunsama comparison.
A one-hour rebuild without a new tool
You can get most of the protection back by hand in an hour, at the cost of keeping it up yourself. This order puts the biggest win first:
- Pick two or three mornings a week and add a recurring focus block to each.
- If your Google Workspace plan is one Google lists for focus time, make those blocks focus time events and turn on automatic declining; Google says this needs a work or school account.
- Leave 15 minutes free after every two hours of meetings when you accept invitations.
- Add a travel event before every meeting that has an address.
- On Friday, look at next week and move any block a new meeting has landed on.
The weekly review in step 5 is the part people drop, and it is the part Clockwise did for you. If you want that done as a proposal you confirm with a tap, that is where Nolario fits; if you want it done without asking, no tool in this post does it any more.
Verdict
If you only used Clockwise for focus time and you are on a listed Google Workspace plan, Google's built-in focus time with auto-decline is the quickest free fix. If you also want breaks and travel time proposed for you, and your day is decided as much by your inbox as by your calendar, Nolario covers both from one place, on a tap. If you need meetings moved automatically across a team, look for a dedicated scheduler. For the wider view of assistants that manage both mail and time, read our AI chief of staff tools roundup. The calendars Nolario connects are on integrations, plans are on pricing, and the free tools need no account.
