Sunsama alternative: how Prior compares
Prior and Sunsama side by side on daily planning, timeboxing, calendar sync, integrations, platforms and price, with the pages we read on 5 November 2026.
This page sets Prior next to Sunsama as of the date above. Everything about Sunsama comes from Sunsama's own pages, listed under Sources. Prices and plan limits change, so check them before you decide.
Who each one suits
Sunsama suits you if you plan each day deliberately and want the calendar and the task list in one view. It syncs both ways with Google, Outlook, Apple and CalDAV calendars, creates a calendar event when you timebox a task, and pulls in tasks from tools such as Asana, Jira, Linear, Trello, Todoist and Notion. It has iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux apps.
Prior suits you if you want a planner that places your open tasks in the free hours of your calendar by itself, without writing to the calendar, next to habits, notes and flashcards, with a free plan. It runs on the web, macOS, Windows, Linux and Android. It has no iOS app yet: on an iPhone you open the web app in the browser, where reminders only fire while the tab is open.
Side by side
| Prior | Sunsama | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, Android. No iOS app yet. | Web app, iOS and iPadOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux. |
| Offline | Works from a copy on your device and syncs when you are back online. | Not found in the pages we read. |
| Quick add | The title is read in seven languages: date, time, duration, priority, reminder, repeat, #project and @person. | Not found in the pages we read. |
| Recurring tasks | Every N days, weeks, months or years, on chosen weekdays, with an end date, from the due date or the completion date. | Set a task to repeat from its details menu, weekly on chosen days. |
| Calendar | Day, week, month and agenda views. Google Calendar, ICS files and calendar URLs show read-only, next to events you add yourself. | Google, Outlook, Apple (iCloud) and CalDAV, with several accounts. Events sync both ways for calendars you can write to. |
| Time blocking | Automatic on Pro: places all open tasks in your free working hours, re-plans when things change, and never writes to your calendar. You lock a block to fix it. | Drag a task onto the calendar, which creates an event there. Auto-scheduling is triggered per task (press X or choose Add to calendar), within your schedules, and avoids busy events. |
| Habits | A Habits space with schedules, streaks and a history grid, on every plan. | Not found in the pages we read. |
| Focus | A Focus page with a Pomodoro timer and ambient sounds. | Focus mode with Pomodoro timers, app muting and break reminders. |
| Notes | Markdown notes with tables and charts. Project members edit shared notes live. | Tasks carry notes and subtasks. |
| Flashcards | Decks scheduled with FSRS-5, with Anki import. | Not found in its documentation. |
| Projects | Areas, projects, Kanban board, milestones and a budget tab. Scrum and Scrumban on Pro. | Channels, each with its own schedule if you want one, and weekly objectives. |
| Collaboration | Share a project as editor or viewer, assign tasks, comment with mentions. Free: 2 people per shared project and 3 shared projects. Pro: 10 people. | Team workspaces with per-seat billing. |
| AI | Prior AI assistant on Pro and above, with changes you confirm. MCP server on every plan. | "AI + MCP + Zapier" on Pro. Time estimates suggested from your past data. |
| Price, 5 Nov 2026 | Free €0. Pro €8 a month or €72 a year. Team €10 per seat a month or €96 a year. 14-day trial on a first subscription. No VAT added. | In US dollars: Pro $17 a month billed yearly, or $22 billed monthly. Enterprise on request. A 14-day free trial with no card. No free plan on its pricing page. |
Where Sunsama goes further
- Two-way calendar sync. Timeboxing a task creates an event on your Google, Outlook or Apple calendar. Prior reads Google Calendar, ICS files and calendar URLs and never writes to them.
- A guided day. Daily planning that shows how your tasks fit around meetings, with task projections against your shutdown time.
- Tasks from other tools. Integrations with Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Linear, Monday.com, Trello, Notion and Todoist, and with Gmail, Outlook, Slack and Microsoft Teams.
- An iOS app, and time tracking shown on the calendar once a task is done.
What Prior does differently
On Pro the planner takes every open task, its priority, its deadline and your estimate, and fills your free working hours, with lunch, a buffer around events, breaks and a daily cap, without you triggering it task by task. It recomputes when a task, a habit, an event or a setting changes, and every 5 minutes. The plan is derived: it is not written to a task or to your calendar until you lock a block.
Prior also has an evening wrap-up and a weekly review, which work offline. See Time blocking and Evening wrap-up.
Switching from Sunsama
Prior has no Sunsama option in its importer, but Sunsama can export your data. In Sunsama open Account Settings, then Account Management → Export my data, and choose CSV or JSON. Sunsama lists task name, notes, assignee, completed and start dates, due date, subtasks, channel, planned time and priorities among the exported fields, for your primary workspace only.
Then open Settings → Import, choose Other and add the CSV. Prior finds columns by their names and shows the mapping and a preview, so open the file once: where a column is matched wrongly, change it. Channels have no direct match, so map the column to Project if you want them as projects. Nothing is saved until you confirm. The steps are in Import your data.
Sources
Read on 5 November 2026.