A free Sunsama alternative
Sunsama is a guided daily planner: you pull tasks in from your other tools, timebox them on your calendar and close each day with a shutdown ritual. It costs $17 a month billed yearly, or $22 billed monthly, after a 14-day trial.
Plainer is a plain workspace for your notes, documents and files, with a planner view built in. That planner covers the same daily loop (pick today’s tasks, give some of them a time, adjust as the day changes) and puts a project timeline above it. It is free to use. Open Plainer
Side by side
- Price
- Plainer: Free to use. No card or personal AI key. The optional assistant has usage limits.
Sunsama: $17 a month billed yearly ($204 a year), or $22 billed monthly. 14-day free trial, no free plan. - Daily planning
- Plainer: A day list with flexible “No time yet” tasks above a full-day calendar.
Sunsama: Guided daily planning, with a daily shutdown and highlights. - Timeboxing
- Plainer: Drag a task into a time block, or reserve a work block and keep its tasks in a separate work list.
Sunsama: Block time for tasks on your calendar. - Projects
- Plainer: Nested tasks and subtasks on a Gantt timeline, plus weekly goals.
Sunsama: Weekly objectives. Project tasks come in from tools such as Asana, Jira, Linear and Notion. - Calendar
- Plainer: Google Calendar, read-only: Plainer shows your events and never edits them.
Sunsama: Two-way sync with Google, Outlook and Apple calendars. - Assistant
- Plainer: Plan my day, Roll over, Weekly review and your own saved commands. Changes can be undone.
Sunsama: AI features and MCP support in the Pro plan. - Integrations
- Plainer: Google Calendar.
Sunsama: Many, including Gmail, Slack, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Notion, Todoist, Trello and Zapier. - Apps
- Plainer: Runs in your browser.
Sunsama: iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux apps.
Choose Plainer if
- You want a daily planner without a monthly bill.
- Your work is projects with steps and dates, and you want the timeline and today’s list in one view.
- You don’t want every task to become an appointment. Keep a task on a day with no time, and timebox only what needs it.
- You want to shape the tool yourself: open a file as a table, board, calendar or timeline, write your own commands, or install templates from the Marketplace.
Choose Sunsama if
- You need two-way calendar sync, or you plan in Outlook or Apple Calendar.
- Your tasks live in Asana, Jira, Linear, Notion, Gmail or Slack and you want them pulled in for you.
- You want native phone and desktop apps.
- You want a guided planning and shutdown routine every day.
Switching from Sunsama
Open Plainer and connect Google Calendar if you use it. Add this week’s tasks to the days you planned them for, and leave them without a time until they need one. Then ask the assistant to plan your day. You can export your workspace at any time.
Start planning in Plainer. Also comparing other planners? See Plainer and Akiflow or Plainer and Motion. Questions: contact us.
Sunsama prices and features were read from sunsama.com and its pricing page on 31 October 2026 and can change. Sunsama is a trademark of its owner. Plainer is not affiliated with Sunsama.