Your Calendar Is Perfectly Scheduled. Your Admin Still Isn't Done.

You spent $19/month on an AI calendar that auto-schedules your meetings. Great. But who drafts the follow-up email after the meeting? Who processes the lunch receipt? Who responds to the client who texted you on WhatsApp at 9pm?

Motion schedules your day. It does not do your day.

If you are a real estate agent, consultant, or coach who needs more than a calendar optimizer, keep reading.

What Is Motion?

Motion is an AI-powered scheduling and project management tool. It auto-prioritizes your task list, finds open slots in your calendar, and reschedules things when priorities change. It also offers meeting notes, docs, and team dashboards.

Motion is good at one thing: fitting tasks into your calendar using AI. If your biggest problem is "I have 40 tasks and don't know what to work on first," Motion solves that.

The question is whether scheduling is your actual bottleneck, or whether it is everything that happens around the schedule.

The Problem With Scheduling-Only Tools

You signed up for Motion because you were drowning in tasks. Here is what your day actually looks like:

7:45 AM — Motion scheduled your first call at 9. Great. But your inbox has 23 unread emails from overnight, 4 of which need replies before the call. Motion does not touch your email.

12:30 PM — You had a client lunch. The receipt is in your pocket. The notes are in your head. Motion scheduled the lunch but has no idea what was discussed, what you owe, or what you promised to follow up on.

9:15 PM — A lead messages you on WhatsApp. "Hey, are you free Thursday?" You are on the couch. Motion does not connect to WhatsApp. You either reply now or forget by morning.

One Trustpilot reviewer put it plainly:

"AI agents are completely useless... AI features are already being deprecated shortly after purchase." — Trustpilot review, 2025

Meanwhile, a reviewer on kristian-larsen.com noted that Motion "works best for teams of 3 or more," not for a solopreneur juggling client calls and admin between showings.

Why Solopreneurs Switch From Motion to Cora

Your admin has 5 parts. Motion handles 1.

A solopreneur's daily admin is not just scheduling. It is:

Email triage and replies, 31 minutes/day average for professionals
Meeting notes and follow-ups, 23 minutes/day
Receipt and expense tracking, scattered throughout the day
Client messages on WhatsApp, evenings and weekends
Calendar management, the one thing Motion does

Cora handles all five. Not by auto-scheduling a block for "do admin," but by actually doing the admin.

Instead of scheduling time to reply to emails, you forward them to Cora. It drafts replies in your voice and sends them when you approve.

Instead of scheduling time to process receipts, you snap a photo on WhatsApp. Cora pulls out the amount, date, vendor, and category. Done in 4 seconds.

Instead of scheduling a follow-up reminder, Cora listens to your voice note after a meeting and creates the follow-up email, the calendar invite, and the summary.

Cora vs Motion: Honest Comparison

Feature	Cora	Motion
Primary function	AI secretary (email + calendar + receipts + notes + WhatsApp)	AI scheduling + project management
Pricing	$0-199/mo, action-based	$19-49/seat/mo + credits
Free tier	50 actions/month, fully functional	7-day trial only, no free plan
Setup time	3 minutes (WhatsApp + Google)	30+ minutes (complex onboarding)
Primary interface	WhatsApp (voice + text)	Web dashboard + mobile app
Email triage + drafting	Yes, learns your style	No
Voice-to-notes	Yes, core feature	Meeting notetaker only (in-call)
Receipt processing	Yes, snap and send	No
WhatsApp integration	Native — it is the interface	No
AI auto-scheduling	Basic calendar management	Yes, advanced AI scheduling
Project management	No (not the use case)	Yes, with Gantt charts and dashboards
Team features	No (built for solopreneurs)	Yes, team capacity planning
Best for	Solopreneurs who need a secretary	Teams who need a project scheduler

Where Motion wins: If you manage a team of 5+ people working on projects with dependencies and deadlines, Motion's AI scheduling and project dashboards are useful. It is a better project management tool than Cora.

Where Cora wins: If you are one person who needs email handled, receipts processed, meeting notes turned into action items, and client messages answered (all from your phone), Cora does the actual work. Motion just schedules time for you to do it yourself.

The Real Cost Comparison

Motion:

Pro AI: $19/month (annual) or $29/month (monthly) = $228-348/year
But: 7,500 AI credits/month. Credits burn during setup, testing, and mistakes.
Additional credits: $0.25 per 100 credits
Plus: 30+ minutes onboarding, ongoing configuration
No free tier, so if it does not work for you, you already paid

Cora:

Free tier: 50 actions/month, enough to test everything
Starter: $49/month = $588/year
Actions are predictable: 1 email = 1 action. 1 voice note = 1 action. No credit multipliers.
Setup: 3 minutes. No configuration.

Motion is cheaper per month. But Motion does not do your email, your receipts, your meeting follow-ups, or your WhatsApp messages. If you need separate tools for those (an email assistant, an expense tracker, a note-taker), the combined cost and time exceeds Cora quickly.

Who Should Still Choose Motion

Motion is the right tool if:

You manage a team and need to coordinate task assignments
Your main problem is fitting 40 tasks into a week, not doing admin
You want Gantt charts and project dashboards
You already have separate tools for email, receipts, and messaging
You work primarily from a desktop, not your phone

Cora is not a project management tool. If you need Gantt charts, Motion does that better.

Who Should Choose Cora

Cora is built for you if:

You spend more time between appointments than at a desk
Your admin backlog is emails, receipts, and meeting follow-ups, not project timelines
You want to send a voice note and get a structured note back
You need something that works on WhatsApp, where your clients already message you
You have tried productivity tools and found them too complicated for what you actually need
You want a free tier to test before committing

The Solopreneur Scheduling Trap

Here is the trap: you buy a scheduling tool thinking it will fix your productivity. It does not. Because the problem was never "I can't find time for this task." The problem was "I don't want to do this task."

Scheduling your email triage for 8 AM does not make email triage happen. An AI secretary that triages your email while you drive to your first showing does.

Try Cora Free — 50 Actions, No Credit Card

Start with 50 free actions per month. Triage your email. Process a few receipts. Send a voice note after your next meeting and watch it turn into a follow-up email.

No credit card. No annual contract. No credit system.

Open WhatsApp and say what you need.

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Last updated: February 23, 2026. Motion pricing and feature data sourced from usemotion.com/pricing, Trustpilot reviews, and independent review sites. Cora is a product of Cora AI. This page is maintained for accuracy — if anything is out of date, contact us.