Claims reviewed August 27, 2026
Compare Tilly’s iPhone-first daily companion with Motion’s automatically planned work system.
The clearest difference is how each product expects you to plan. Use the table to compare the daily experience before comparing individual features.
Feature
Tilly
Motion
Primary experience
Tilly
A clear Today view centered on iPhone
Motion
An all-in-one work platform
Planning style
Tilly
Suggestions and user-confirmed actions
Motion
Automatic task scheduling and replanning
Calendar support
Tilly
Google, Outlook, Apple, and subscribed calendars
Motion
Google, Outlook, and iCloud event connections
Tasks and projects
Tilly
Tasks connected to the day
Motion
Projects, tasks, meetings, docs, and team workflows
Mobile role
Tilly
The primary daily surface
Motion
One surface in a broader work platform
Best fit
Tilly
People who want personal daily clarity
Motion
People and teams who want work scheduled automatically
Motion asks for task duration, deadline, priority, and available hours, then places the task on the calendar. Its help center says the schedule recalculates when meetings or priorities change. Tilly shows the day, flags conflicts, and keeps meaningful calendar changes behind an explicit choice.
Motion describes a work platform with projects, tasks, meetings, documents, dashboards, and team workflows. That breadth can replace several tools for a team. It also creates more structure to maintain than a focused calendar companion. Tilly stays closer to the personal question: what needs attention next, across the calendars already shaping the day?
Motion documents two-way event sync with Google, Outlook, and iCloud. Scheduled task blocks follow different sync rules, so test the exact provider and destination calendar you use before moving a live workload. Tilly connects Google, Outlook, iCloud, and subscribed calendars while keeping the source calendar visible in the combined day.
Automatic scheduling depends on trustworthy inputs. Give Motion realistic durations, true deadlines, useful priorities, and working-hour boundaries before judging the plan. Then watch what happens when the calendar is too full: a hard deadline may use time outside the normal schedule, while an impossible task may remain unscheduled. Tilly needs less task metadata, but still depends on connecting every calendar that can make you unavailable. In either product, a missing source calendar produces a confident-looking plan that is incomplete.
Choose Tilly when the iPhone is your daily center, several personal and work calendars need one readable view, and you want to confirm changes instead of letting a planning engine keep moving tasks.
Choose Motion when automatic task placement is the job to be done and projects, team workflows, documents, meeting notes, and a continuously recalculated work plan belong in the same system.
A clean demo calendar hides the tradeoffs. Use ordinary meetings, changing priorities, more than one account, and the device you carry during the day.
1
Add three real tasks with different deadlines and durations.
2
Create a meeting that collides with one scheduled task.
3
Check which calendar owns the new task blocks.
4
Use the phone during a busy day, not only the desktop setup flow.
Yes. Motion says its scheduling engine places tasks from their duration, deadline, priority, and availability, then recalculates when the day changes.
No. Tilly combines calendars, tasks, daily context, focus time, and conflict help, but meaningful schedule changes remain explicit.
Motion is the stronger fit when project and team workflow management must drive the calendar. Tilly is designed as a calmer personal daily center.
The better choice is the one whose daily behavior matches how you want decisions to be made.
Reviewed August 27, 2026. Product details and prices can change; verify the linked product pages before deciding.