GoodPlans / Compare / Best Sunsama alternatives
The 6 best Sunsama alternatives in 2026
The quick answer
| App | Best for | Price | Who plans? |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoodPlans | Dropping the ritual entirely | $29.99/yr | The app |
| Structured | The same hand-planning, far cheaper | ~$29.99/yr or ~$99.99 lifetime | You |
| Morgen | Keeping the integrations, paying less | $15/mo billed yearly | Both |
| Reclaim.ai | Spending nothing | Free Lite · from ~$10/seat/mo | The app |
| Motion | Teams and projects | ~$12.73/seat/mo yearly | The app |
| Akiflow | Taming a scattered inbox | $19/mo billed yearly | You, quickly |
Sunsama for reference: $22/month, or $17/month billed yearly ($204/year), no free tier, 14-day trial with no credit card.
1. GoodPlans — best if the daily ritual is the problem
GoodPlans
No planning required$4.99/month or $29.99/year · free tier up to 5 active tasks · 7-day unlimited trial, no credit card · iPhone & iPad only
Sunsama's premise is that planning well is a skill worth practising daily. GoodPlans' premise is that for a lot of people it's a tax they eventually stop paying. So there's no morning session: you add tasks with durations and deadlines as they occur to you, set your available hours per weekday once, and the whole week assembles itself — long tasks split into focus sessions with breaks, everything fitted around the events already in your calendar.
It also works ahead in a way Sunsama doesn't. Sunsama warns you that today is overcommitted; GoodPlans measures the slack left before each deadline against the work remaining, so Friday's report starts claiming Tuesday and Wednesday blocks on its own. Then it runs each block — focus timer, lock-screen countdown, Siri — and re-blocks the day in one tap when things break, with no evening routine to sit through.
Strengths
- About a seventh of Sunsama's yearly cost
- No daily planning cost at all
- Deadlines pull work forward automatically
- Focus timer and lock-screen Live Activity
- No account; tasks stay on your device
Weaknesses
- iPhone and iPad only — no desktop, web or Android
- No integrations — nothing pulls from Jira, Gmail or Notion
- No weekly objectives, journaling or guided review
- No sync between your own devices
- No teams
Verdict: the right switch if you loved Sunsama's idea and kept falling out of the habit. The wrong switch if the integrations were doing the heavy lifting. Full GoodPlans vs Sunsama comparison →
2. Structured — best if it was only the price
Structured
Cheapest like-for-likePro around $6.99/month, $29.99/year, or ~$99.99 lifetime · generous free tier · iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, Vision, Android, web
If you liked planning your own day and simply couldn't justify $204 a year, Structured gives you the same hand-built day on the best-looking timeline in the category, for roughly a seventh of the cost — and it's the only app here still offering a lifetime purchase. Tasks and calendar events share one vertical timeline, with sub-tasks, notes and a pomodoro timer.
Strengths
- Dramatically cheaper, with a lifetime option
- Widest platform support on this list
- Genuinely usable free tier
- Sub-tasks, notes and a built-in timer
Weaknesses
- No integrations to speak of — the big loss versus Sunsama
- No workload warnings or overcommitment guardrails
- Calendar sync is a Pro feature
- Day-focused, not deadline-driven
Verdict: the obvious swap for price-driven leavers who still want to plan by hand. How Structured compares with GoodPlans →
3. Morgen — best if you need the integrations
Morgen
Closest feature match$30/month, or $15/month billed yearly · 14-day trial, no credit card · Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, browser
The nearest thing to Sunsama at a lower price. Morgen connects to Google, Outlook, iCloud, Fastmail and CalDAV, plus Notion, Todoist, Linear, ClickUp, Obsidian and more — unlimited integrations on every plan — and its AI planner will lay out your day while letting you overrule it freely. That combination of automatic and manual is exactly the middle ground many Sunsama leavers are looking for.
Strengths
- Keeps most of what Sunsama's integrations gave you
- Roughly $180 a year cheaper
- Auto-planning you can override
- Runs on Linux
Weaknesses
- No free tier
- $30 if you pay monthly
- No guided ritual or shutdown routine
- More setup than a simple planner
Verdict: the safest all-round switch — most of the capability, a large fraction of the price.
4. Reclaim.ai — best free option
Reclaim.ai
Free forever tierFree Lite tier · paid plans from around $10 per seat per month · Google Calendar and Outlook
Now a Dropbox product. Rather than planning tasks, Reclaim defends your calendar — automatically scheduling focus time, habits and buffers around meetings and moving them when meetings collide. If Sunsama was mainly stopping your day being eaten by other people, this does that specific job, and the Lite tier does it for nothing.
Strengths
- Free forever tier — the cheapest exit available
- Excellent at protecting focus time
- Strong Google and Outlook integration
- Works across a team
Weaknesses
- Not really a daily planner or task manager
- Requires Google or Outlook
- Free tier limited to a one-week horizon
- Little help with personal, non-work life
Verdict: try it first precisely because it's free — you'll learn quickly whether calendar defence was the value you were paying for.
5. Motion — best if you also manage a team
Motion
Most powerful$19/seat/month, about $12.73/seat/month billed annually (Pro AI) · 7,500 AI credits/seat/month · no free tier
The heaviest option here: genuine auto-scheduling wrapped in team project management — capacity planning, Gantt charts, dashboards, meeting booking links and an AI chat layer. It's cheaper than Sunsama on annual billing, which surprises people, though the AI credit metering adds a variable you have to watch.
Strengths
- Auto-scheduling plus full project management
- Cheaper than Sunsama on annual billing
- Real team capacity planning
- Every platform, including web
Weaknesses
- AI credits are metered and billable on top
- No permanent free tier
- Far more product than one person needs
- Loses Sunsama's calm, reflective character entirely
Verdict: the move if your job grew into managing others. How Motion compares with GoodPlans →
6. Akiflow — best for a scattered inbox
Akiflow
Fastest capture$34/month, or $19/month billed yearly · 7-day trial · no free tier · desktop and mobile
If the part of Sunsama you'd miss most is the way it pulled everything into one place, Akiflow does that harder — a universal inbox across Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear and more, with a keyboard-driven flow for turning captured items into time blocks fast.
Strengths
- Best-in-class universal inbox
- Extremely fast keyboard workflow
- Sub-tasks, meetings and AI assistant
Weaknesses
- $34 monthly is the highest price here
- No free tier
- Still you doing the planning, just faster
- No calm ritual or reflective layer
Verdict: a sideways move rather than a saving — worth it only if capture, not planning, was the bottleneck.
Before you switch
One honest check: Sunsama's daily ritual works, when you do it. If you've been doing it and it's been helping, price alone is a weak reason to leave — Structured or Morgen will save you money but neither will guide you through the morning the same way. The strong reason to leave is if you look back at the last three months and find the ritual quietly stopped happening in week two, and the tasks have been sitting in a tool you no longer open. That isn't a discipline failure; it's a sign you need the planning done for you rather than prompted.
No ritual. No morning session.
Add your tasks tonight — GoodPlans has the week blocked out before you wake up.
Get GoodPlans free on the App Store
7-day unlimited trial · no credit card · $29.99/year afterwards · iPhone & iPad