Top 10 Task Managers With Unique AI Features (Not Just a Chatbot)

Most "AI task managers" are the same app with a chat box added. This list highlights tools where AI does something distinct: scheduling, protecting focus time, generating structure, summarizing real timelines, or cutting the admin overhead.

1) Self-Manager.net — AI built into your real work timeline

AI is connected directly to your date-based tables with the context of tasks, notes, time tracking, comments, and logs.

Unique AI features (10)

• Generate tasks from any text
• Chat with AI about a specific table (full context)
• Summarize a table and follow up in chat
• Chat with AI about pinned tables
• Summarize pinned tables with follow-ups
• AI Period Summary chat (week or month)
• Instant AI weekly or monthly reviews (one click)
• Follow up on period reviews and turn them into plans, goals, or reports
• Use AI on live task/comment timelines
• Combine AI with date-based planning so outputs reflect real weeks and months

Why it is unique: AI can summarize and analyze your actual weeks and months as a timeline, not just a single project page.

2) Motion — AI that auto-schedules your day and re-optimizes constantly

Motion uses AI to build your day around tasks and constraints, then reshuffles when interruptions happen.

Unique angle: AI as a planning engine, not just text generation.

3) Reclaim.ai — AI that defends focus time and adapts to reality

Reclaim auto-schedules tasks, habits, breaks, and focus time around your calendar and adjusts when plans change.

Unique angle: AI that protects deep work on your calendar and keeps rescheduling for you.

4) Sunsama — AI that guides a daily planning ritual

Sunsama helps you plan realistically with time estimates and guidance based on how you have worked before.

Unique angle: AI as a coach for sustainable planning instead of full automation.

5) Taskade — AI Project Studio plus Agent Mode

Taskade uses AI to generate projects, tasks, and workflows quickly and includes an Agent Mode for project-specific agents.

Unique angle: AI for bootstrapping entire project structures and agent-style workflows.

6) ClickUp — AI that turns docs and notes into structured tasks

ClickUp converts meeting notes and docs into tasks, adds AI-driven prioritization, and offers summaries inside the workspace.

Unique angle: AI integrated into docs, tasks, and context for teams living in one system.

7) Asana — AI status and smart summaries

Asana drafts status updates and generates smart summaries for tasks and projects to surface highlights and action items.

Unique angle: AI that reduces stakeholder reporting overhead and keeps work updates consistent.

8) monday.com — AI blocks and assistants inside workflows

monday uses AI for categorization, extracting information from files, and assistants or summaries depending on the workflow.

Unique angle: AI building blocks that enhance operational workflows, not only task writing.

9) Todoist — Assist that breaks down tasks and extracts from email

Todoist Assist helps break down tasks, suggest improvements, and turn emails into tasks without adding heavy PM overhead.

Unique angle: AI that quietly improves task clarity and capture inside a lightweight to-do app.

10) Height — AI that tackles repetitive PM chores

Height focuses on AI handling admin work like triaging bugs, cleaning backlogs, and updating specs.

Unique angle: AI that reduces operational overhead for product and engineering workflows.

How to choose the right one (fast)

• AI weekly or monthly reviews plus timeline clarity: Self-Manager
• AI to plan your day automatically: Motion
• AI scheduling that protects focus time on your calendar: Reclaim
• Guided daily planning with realistic pacing: Sunsama
• AI-generated project structures and agents: Taskade
• AI inside a big team workspace: ClickUp, Asana, monday
• Lightweight to-do with smart assist: Todoist
• Autonomous PM admin reduction: Height