What Is Momentum?
Momentum is a personal motivation and productivity tool founded by Levi Bucsis and Jesse Overton in 2013. It is a Chrome, Edge, and Firefox extension that replaces your new-tab page with a personalized dashboard — daily photo, quote, weather, focus task, ambient sounds, and a simple to-do list. Free for personal use; Plus is $3.33 per month annual or $4.99 per month monthly. A Teams tier adds collaborative features.
Momentum at a glance: New-tab focus dashboard. Beautiful, calming, and great at setting daily intent. With over 3 million users, it pioneered the "intentional new tab" category.
What Is Taskade?
Taskade is an AI-native workspace founded by John Xie, Dionis Loire, and Stan Chang in 2017 (Y Combinator-backed). It combines documents, projects, custom AI Agents, Automations, and the Genesis app builder in one platform. Daily focus carries straight into actual execution — the focus task lives in the same project that holds the plan, the agent that drafts work, and the automation that ships it.
Taskade routes across 11+ frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The free plan includes unlimited projects, real-time collaboration, the Genesis app builder, custom AI Agents, 7 project views, and 500+ workflow templates.
Momentum vs Taskade
Momentum is brilliant at one thing: setting the tone of your day. The new-tab dashboard, the daily mantra, the focus task, the ambient soundscape — these turn an empty browser tab into a moment of intent. For anyone whose biggest productivity unlock is "remember what matters," it works.
Taskade picks up where Momentum leaves off. Once you know what matters, the focus task needs to become a real project — with subtasks, due dates, AI agents drafting work, automations sending updates, and integrations pulling in the data you need. Taskade is the workspace where the focus task gets done, not just declared.
The Workspace DNA advantage
Momentum sets intent. Taskade is built on Workspace DNA: a self-reinforcing loop between three pillars.
- Memory (Projects) — Your team's tasks, docs, files, and structured data become the substrate every agent reasons over. The longer you work, the smarter the workspace gets.
- Intelligence (AI Agents) — Custom AI Agents with persistent memory, 22+ built-in tools, and the ability to act on your work. Agents draft, summarize, brainstorm, and execute.
- Execution (Automations) — Durable workflows triggered by external events (Calendar events, Gmail threads, Sheets updates, Slack messages, webhooks) that read from Memory, act through Intelligence, and write the results back into Memory. The loop closes.
Read the full architecture in How Workspace DNA Works.
Taskade Pricing
| Plan | Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Free Forever | $0 | Solo users and small teams |
| Starter | $6/mo annual (3 seats) | Small teams |
| Pro | $16/mo annual (10 seats) | Growing teams |
| Business | $40/mo (unlimited seats) | Larger teams |
| Enterprise | $400/mo with custom SLA | Organizations with security/compliance needs |
When to choose each
Choose Momentum if:
- Your single biggest productivity unlock is a calming new-tab dashboard.
- You want a personal focus tool and nothing more.
- Aesthetic and ambient mood matter more than execution depth.
Choose Taskade if:
- You want focus and execution to live in the same workspace.
- You want custom AI Agents that act on your work, not just remind you of it.
- You want 100+ bidirectional integrations across Calendar, Gmail, Slack, and more.
- You want to ship apps, dashboards, and internal tools from prompts via Genesis.
Use both if: Many people keep Momentum for the new-tab moment and use Taskade as the workspace where the focus task actually gets done.
Build without permission
- Build with Genesis — One prompt, one deployed app
- Browse the Community Gallery — Clone apps from other teams
- How Workspace DNA Works — The architecture