Clockwise Reviews & Product Details

Clockwise provides me with great peace of mind. In the last months since I started using Clockwise, I have been able to totally simplify my workflow to setup & manage my meetings, so in the end I can focus on what is important: taking care of my team and the work we deliver. I have 9 direct reports, and like many people I believe a handful of people I need to sync up with on a very regular basis (say weekly or fortnightly). This makes it ~10+ recurring 1:1 per week. With the size of our company, this naturally ends up in various conflicts on a regular basis.

Imagine this: you've got a meeting from 10:00 to 10:15, then another one from 10:15 to 10:30 then 10:45 to 11:30.

If say, the 10 to 10:15 is a 1:1 exceptionally want to extend to 1 hour, I just do it.

Meaning the meeting will now be from 10:00 to 11:00.

Then, I move on back to my normal work. (leaving the meeting conflict I just created myself...).

And then, the next time Clockwise makes its daily pass, I know it will just do the rescheduling for me and resolve the conflict.

And not just resolving the conflict, but doing it in a way that is going to be beneficial for me *and* the other person in the call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not possible to configure multiple chunks in working days to have meetings slated there.

E.g. I would like to tell Clockwise that I'm open for meetings on, say, Monday evenings from 20:30 to 21:30 because this flexibility works for me (and I'll use it to have my sport workout during the more "typical" working hours, when most people are working on the clock :-)). This is not possible currently AFAICT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creates focus time slots automatically whenever you have a couple of hours free. Also allows you to put recurring meetings in autopilot, allowing Clockwise to automatically find the best date and time in order to create or preserve more focus-time slots. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is great for me. I can't think of anything specific. I would like Google Calendar to natively have some of the features. It would be great to have a auto reply whenever I get an invite without description. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- It finds the best time to have meetings between you and your colleagues so you all get the most focus time, which is amazing.

- I love the visualization of my schedule at the end of each week that shows how my week changed - this is great to show my boss and show him how much free time I don't have.

- I like how it automatically blocks free time and lets you know how much conflict/how inconvenient it is to book certain time with colleagues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not really an isssue with the product, more adoption. If people you meet with frequently aren't using it, it's hard to get the value because it does not have access to their calendar. I wish everyone used it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its ease of integration and configuration make it very useful. I like that I can set meetings I schedule to float so that they can be bunched together (or not) so that I can preserve focus time. As a product manager, I oscillate between the "manager's" schedule where I need to coordinate with stakeholders across the company, and a "maker's" schedule where I need large blocks of uninterrupted time to think and develop new ideas. Clockwise is the best tool I have found to strike this balance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to have a console that lives outside of my calendar with more robust configuration options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The autopilot scheduling feature for 1:1s, where Clockwise automatically reschedules 1:1s internally when it finds a better way to optimize my schedule and create time for me to focus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That it doesn't work outside your company with external users. This tool would be even more life-changing if there was a calendly-like link that encouraged external parties to my Company to schedule with me on my Clockwise link, so that it can optimize for both parties schedules, and avoid having instances where someone abruptly cancels a meeting a needs to reschedule. If it was able to optimize with external parties, it'd greatly reduce email traffic, where we again need to coordinate another time to speak and go back-and-forth :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that the app can be configured to automate my reoccurring meeting such as 1-1s to maximize my focus time as well as the other attendee's focus time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having it hold room for lunches gets annoying because I need to modify the lunchtime to be shorter or longer and I can never seem to get the edits to adjust properly it always seems to correct itself back to the original slot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does the work or rescheduling and moving meetings around as needed for you ( if you let it !)

I like the automatic coloring of different slots according to subjects

I like the stats it gives you about the value added to you and your team, from Week to week.

It allows setting slots in advance as lunches

It lets your teammates know when you are not working

It allows you to add your personal calendar and block your work calendar from adding meetings on that time. - this really saves a lot of time!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing so far, I like it it works well.

I would like other people not only teammates to be able to join this. not sure if this feature is possible or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The autopilot feature + teams. As we have a lot of meetings (especially these CoVid days...), clockwise helps by removing the burden of aligning meetings for small groups, maximising focus time.

Also having the teams calendar visible for everyone really helps when people are WFH. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be great to get a booking suggestion for the group of people when you are scheduling a meeting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Focus Time feature is great - helps me think about my day better, and improve my use of my own time. Autopilot to reschedule meetings is OK - could use some improvements, but the core functionality is good. The automatic syncing of calendars is great in concept, but could use a little more fine tuning. Overall usability is great, super clean interface and seamless integration with Google Calendar. Overall a really solid product, and given that it's free there's truly no downside to using. I've been trying to share it as widely as I can within my current company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only real downsides are features that are good that could use improvement. As an example, being able to control which meetings from a synced calendar actually block my calendar vs are visible to me but not anybody else would be an improvement. Similarly the Autopilot feature isn't quite as nuanced as I would like - it would be better if you could build in more refined logic (ie "reschedule to any time after this other meeting") instead of just "reschedule during the day" vs "reschedule during the week"). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like that I can have a summary and quick visibility of the amount of time I invest in each thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you configure when are your off times and link it with google calendar it is very difficult to modify that time. For example if I need to change the lunch time of a specific day in real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.