Motion decides when you do things. Its AI places your tasks onto your calendar by priority and deadline, and reshuffles them as your day moves. Rymi is built on the opposite belief: that deciding what matters is itself the most important thing you do, and the last thing you should hand to an algorithm.
That disagreement is total, and it makes the choice unusually clean. If you want to stop deciding, that is Motion's whole promise. If you suspect the deciding was the point all along, that is Rymi's. This page exists mostly to help you work out which of those two people you are.
If your bottleneck is fitting many tasks around many meetings, Motion's automatic scheduling and rescheduling is genuinely valuable. It does real work you would otherwise do by hand: when a meeting moves, everything downstream re-plans itself, and you do not sit there manually shuffling blocks. For a calendar-heavy professional, that is the right tool, and Rymi cannot and will not do it.
Motion has also grown into an all-in-one work app, with docs, sheets, AI chat and meeting notes alongside the scheduler. There is no free plan; Pro runs around $19 a month (closer to $13 a month billed annually), with a Business tier above it and a short trial, and AI usage that can add to the bill. For a team that wants scheduling, projects, and AI in one paid place, it is a lot of capability.
Rymi hands you the decision rather than taking it. Each morning you choose the few things that matter and commit to them; nothing is auto-placed, nothing is reshuffled overnight. It is free, native, fast, and private - no calendar to hand over, no account to create. To be fair to Motion: it lets you drag to correct its choices, so it is not that you have no control. It is that you spend your time correcting the algorithm instead of making the call - and making the call is the part Rymi thinks is worth doing yourself.
The concessions here are large, and worth stating plainly. Rymi has no calendar auto-scheduling, no project management, no integrations, and no AI. If you genuinely want a tool to plan your day so that you do not have to, Rymi is the wrong app, and you should keep looking. For context, not as ammunition: Motion's mobile app is widely reported as weak, and its expansion into an all-in-one suite has drawn "bloat" criticism - worth weighing before you commit to a premium subscription, but not the reason to choose Rymi. The reason is the disagreement, not the reviews.