Looking for a Sunsama alternative? An honest comparison

Of the apps I compare Morrow with on this site, Sunsama is the closest cousin. Both open the day with a short ritual and help you stop in the evening, and if Sunsama already gives you that, I wouldn’t switch for the sake of switching. Where the two really part ways is who walks through the day with you. Sunsama gives you a guided flow and plans your day in hours on your calendar. Morrow gives you a companion, a small cloud that starts and ends the day with you, and it plans what you’ll do today while leaving the when to you.

I make Morrow, so take this as the maker’s view rather than an independent review. The facts about Sunsama come from its own help centre, website and changelog, read on 18 October 2026, and every one links to its page under Sources.

Where Sunsama and Morrow agree

Plenty of task apps start from a list and treat today as a filter on it. Sunsama starts from the day, and so does Morrow. Both assume a day needs a beginning, where you decide what fits, and an end, where you stop on purpose and look at what happened. Neither has a free plan. Sunsama explains its reasons in a pricing manifesto,¹⁰ and I made the same choice for Morrow: a trial, then a price, with no ads and nothing about you for sale.

So if you’re reading this because a guided day appeals to you, both apps will feel familiar. The question is how much of your day you want to plan in advance.

What Sunsama does better

Several things, and I’d rather name them before getting to Morrow. According to Sunsama’s own pages:

• Planning in hours. You tell Sunsama how many hours of work fit in your day. As you plan, it adds up the planned times, and the counter turns yellow and then red when you go over.¹² If your estimates are good, that’s a more precise warning than anything Morrow gives you.
• Time blocks on your calendar. Drag a task onto the calendar and it becomes a block, as long as the task’s planned time.³
• A guided morning. Daily planning takes you through yesterday, the list for today, your workload and your calendar, and it can open by itself at a time you set.¹
• A shutdown with your time in it. At a time you choose, Sunsama reminds you to stop, then shows what you finished and the time it took, and asks you to reflect.²⁴
• The week as well as the day. You set a few objectives for the week and look back on them in a weekly review.⁵
• Your other tools in one list. Tasks from Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Linear, Notion, Todoist, Trello and more, messages from Slack, and calendars from Google, Outlook and iCloud.⁶⁷
• Apps, and room for a team. Desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux, mobile apps for iPhone and Android, and shared workspaces for teammates.⁸⁹
• A trial with no card. Fourteen days, then $22 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly.¹⁰

If your work arrives as Jira tickets and Slack threads, or you plan alongside a team, Sunsama is built for that and Morrow isn’t.

The biggest difference: who leads the ritual

Both apps give the day a beginning and an end, which is exactly why the difference here is easy to miss. In Sunsama, the ritual is a guided flow you step through: yesterday, the list for today, your workload and your calendar.¹ When you stop, its shutdown can draft highlights of your day with AI.¹⁴ It’s thorough, and it’s yours to run.

In Morrow, the day comes with a companion: a small cloud in the corner of the app. I drew it myself, and it’s the voice of the app: a short note at the right moment, with a button that says what it does. You don’t have to remember to ask it anything.

• It opens the day. The first time you open Morrow in the morning, it asks whether you want your brief: what you finished yesterday, where you left off and what’s on today.
• It notices things. A card that hasn’t changed in weeks, with an offer to break it into small steps. A card you keep moving forward. After some time away it says “There you are.” and names the card you last worked on.
• It closes the day with you. At the hour you choose, it offers to close the day, about two minutes, and then it says good night.
• It shows what it’s doing. You can read its mood at a glance: thinking while it reads, a smile when a card is done, asleep when you leave it alone.

Sunsama has an assistant as well. Sunny can create, move and timebox tasks when you type or speak to it.¹³ The cloud works from the other side: it speaks first, says one thing, and leaves the decision to you. Morrow’s AI comes in when you ask, to rewrite or translate a note, organize it, break a card into steps, or suggest a few cards for today with a reason for each. Nothing changes until you say yes, and none of it puts a time on a card. Most of what the cloud says it works out from your own board, on your device, without AI, and it never counts streaks.

Where we part ways: the clock

Sunsama asks for a planned time on each task, and then it does a lot with that number: adds it up, warns you, turns it into a block on your calendar.¹³ I decided early on that a Morrow card would never get a start time. I have nothing against time blocking. My worry is what happens to it on an ordinary Tuesday. A plan with times on it holds until the first call runs over, and then every block after it is wrong. Planning turns into something you do again at two in the afternoon.

So Morrow plans what, and leaves when to you. Today holds a few cards, up to five by default. Your meetings stand beside them, read from any calendar address, with the free time between them and the hours still open before the time you usually stop. You can see whether the day fits without pretending to know the minute you’ll start each thing.

Then two people using Morrow, Nandini and Marco, asked for something that sounded like the opposite. They wanted to drag a card from Today into a gap between two meetings. Not to timebox it up front, just to be able to put it there, and take it back out again. I’d had a rule against cards in the calendar, and their request bent it without breaking the reason for it. A card in a free stretch has no start time and no length. It’s a place in the order of your day rather than an appointment, and when the day changes you drag it back to your list.

Which way is better depends on your estimates. If they usually hold, Sunsama’s calendar of blocks tells you more about your day than a short list can. If they rarely hold, a plan that doesn’t lean on them is easier to keep.

Other ways they differ

A limit you count in cards

Sunsama’s limit is in hours. Morrow’s is in cards: Today holds the ones you put there, up to five by default, and when the day is full, Morrow says so. Adding another means taking one off, or raising the number on purpose, and Morrow remembers the number you pick. You can give a card a rough size, from a quarter of an hour to half a day, but nothing asks you to.

What happens to yesterday

In Sunsama, unfinished tasks roll over to the next day by themselves, and after a number of days you can set, they move to an archive.¹¹ That keeps the morning quick. Morrow slows that moment down a little, on purpose. A card left over from yesterday comes back the next morning, one at a time, with four choices: today, a new date, park it on the board without a date, or done. After a day that went nowhere near the plan, Keep one, park the rest settles the whole pile with one press.

One board for everything

Sunsama is at its strongest when it gathers tasks from the tools you already use.⁶ Morrow is meant to be where the work itself lives: every project on one board, each with its own lists of cards, and Today chosen from it. If your tasks belong in Jira, that’s a good reason to stay with Sunsama. If they mostly live in your head, the board is the point.

A card you can write in

A Sunsama task holds notes and subtasks that you can time and tick off.¹² A Morrow card opens into a page with headings, checklists, tables, pictures and link previews, so the notes from a call, the steps and the document you need can share one card.

The evening looks forward

Both apps end the day deliberately, and they look at different things. Sunsama’s shutdown shows the time your work took.⁴ Closing the day in Morrow takes about two minutes and is mostly about what comes next: you see what you finished, and every card that didn’t get done gets a decision.

Morrow and Sunsama side by side

Sunsama’s prices are in US dollars, per user, as its help centre lists them, and may differ in your country. Check sunsama.com for the current plans.

What Morrow doesn’t do

Morrow has no native apps in the app stores. It’s a web app that installs from your browser on your laptop and phone, with its own icon and window, and it works offline. It doesn’t time block, and it never puts a card on a day by itself. There’s nothing like Sunsama’s weekly objectives. There are no Slack, Jira or Asana connections, and no import from Sunsama. A board is personal, so there’s no workspace to share with a team. And, like Sunsama, it has no free plan once the trial ends.

Which one fits you

Choose Sunsama if:

• you like to see your day as blocks of time, and your estimates mostly hold;
• your tasks live in Jira, Asana, Slack or similar tools, and you want them gathered into one list;
• you want desktop apps, or a workspace you share with your team;
• the weekly objectives and the weekly review are part of how you work.

Choose Morrow if:

• estimating every task feels like work, or your estimates rarely survive the day;
• you want one board that holds all your projects, with a short Today chosen from it;
• you want your notes and your next step in the same card;
• you plan only for yourself and want a lower price for it.

Questions

Can I move my tasks from Sunsama to Morrow?

By hand, yes. Morrow has no direct import from Sunsama, so the brain dump is the quickest way across: paste your tasks as a list, one per line, and each line becomes a card on your board (never on Today, which stays yours to choose). Then give each card a project. If some of your work also lives in Trello or Notion, Morrow can import those boards directly.

Does Morrow have a daily shutdown, like Sunsama?

Yes. In the evening Morrow asks if you want to close the day. You see what you finished and decide what happens to the rest, in about two minutes.

Can I timebox in Morrow?

Not the way Sunsama does. Morrow shows your meetings and the free time between them, and you can place a card in a free stretch. The card never gets a start time or a length.

Is Morrow free?

Not for good. Morrow has a free first month with everything on, counted from the day you sign in. After that it’s €6 a month or €54 a year, and you don’t need a card to start. Sunsama has a 14-day trial.

Does Sunsama have a companion like Morrow’s cloud?

Sunsama has a guided daily planning and shutdown, and Sunny, an AI assistant you type or speak to. Morrow’s cloud is a small companion in the corner of the app that speaks first: it brings your morning brief, notices cards that have been waiting, and closes the day with you. It suggests, and you decide.

Is this comparison independent?

No. The designer who makes Morrow wrote it, and that’s me. To keep it checkable, every claim about Sunsama links to Sunsama’s own help centre, website or changelog, as read on 18 October 2026.