The short version
| tidystation | Sunsama | |
|---|---|---|
| A day’s hours | Hours for each weekday; Today and Plan show the load against them | A workload threshold in hours, optionally per weekday, for work tasks |
| Meetings | Meetings imported from Google Calendar or Outlook take their time out of the day | Count once you import them as tasks |
| Unfinished work | Waits for your answer: Today, Pick a day or Let go | Moves to the next day at midnight; archived after several moves without progress |
| Daily ritual | Today is the ordered list; Triage decides open tasks | A guided planning and shutdown ritual, shareable to Slack or Teams |
| Calendar | Read-only; never writes to your calendar | Time-blocks tasks on its own calendar or your Google, Outlook or iCloud calendar |
| Eisenhower matrix | Triage, one task at a time | Priority levels; no matrix view |
| Pomodoro | On the task, with cycles from its estimate | A Pomodoro tab in Focus Mode |
| AI | None of its own; your assistant connects over MCP and applies the decisions you state | Sunny plans your day and moves tasks; Autoplan in beta; an MCP server on the paid plan |
| Apps | A laptop or desktop browser; no phone app | Web, desktop, iOS and Android |
| Price | $7 a month or $60 a year, 14 days free | $22 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly ($204), 14 days free |
What happens to tasks you didn’t finish?
In Sunsama, every unfinished task moves to the next day at midnight with a counter, and after several days without progress it’s archived. In tidystation a task whose day has passed waits on Today for one of 3 answers: Today, Pick a day or Let go. The answer sticks.
Who decides what goes on the day?
In tidystation you do: you build each day’s list, and tidystation shows whether it fits. A connected assistant applies the decisions you state, and nothing in tidystation picks tasks or days for you. In Sunsama, the assistant Sunny can plan your day and move tasks, and Autoplan schedules by rules you set (in beta).
How do the two handle calendars?
Sunsama time-blocks tasks on its own calendar or on your Google, Outlook or iCloud calendar, and lets you edit events from inside Sunsama. tidystation connects to Google Calendar and Outlook read-only: imported meetings take their time out of the day, and it never writes to your calendar.
Who should pick Sunsama?
Anyone who wants a guided ritual every morning and evening, tasks blocked on their calendar, phone apps, or an assistant that plans the day.
Who should pick tidystation?
Anyone who runs several projects or courses toward dates, wants to know in hours whether each one still fits, and wants to decide every open and every slipped task themselves, at $7 a month.
Pricing, as of 2 October 2026
| tidystation | Sunsama | |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | 14 days | 14 days, no card |
| Monthly | $7 | $22 |
| Yearly | $60 | $204 ($17 a month) |
Sources, from Sunsama’s help center and pricing page: Daily planning · Calendar integration · Planned and actual times · Focus mode · Task priority · Sunny · Task rollover · Pricing.