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TimeFlow vs Sunsama

Sunsama's calm daily ritual — at a quarter of the price.

Sunsama

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$17–22/month per user

$17/mo billed yearly, $22/mo billed monthly. 14-day free trial; no permanent free tier.

Strengths

  • The 'daily planning ritual' is genuinely excellent for users who want intentional, slow planning.
  • Beautiful UI; calm, focused product philosophy.
  • Strong integrations with Notion, Asana, Linear, GitHub, plus AI + MCP + Zapier.
  • Now ships on-demand auto-scheduling (press X to drop a task into the next free slot).

Gaps vs TimeFlow

  • Auto-scheduling is user-triggered, one task at a time — it doesn't continuously reflow when meetings move.
  • $17/month even on annual; ~3.4x TimeFlow's beta-locked rate.
  • No habit goals (weekly hour targets) like TimeFlow's.
  • No projects with deadlines + phases.

TimeFlow

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$5/month

Locked for life for beta subscribers. Free during beta. $10/month for new signups at GA.

Strengths

  • Auto-schedules tasks and habits around meetings, reflows when meetings move.
  • AutoScheduler MAX — LLM-driven strategic planner that picks high-leverage placements and explains them.
  • Chat assistant on the calendar; projects with phases; built-in time tracker; habit goals.
  • $5/month, locked for life for beta subscribers — half to a quarter of competitors.

Feature comparison

Capability
Sunsama
TimeFlow
Auto-schedules tasks around meetings
On demand
Sunsama added a keyboard-shortcut auto-place (press X on a task) in 2026 — it picks the next free slot respecting calendar conflicts, but you trigger it task-by-task. TimeFlow auto-places the entire backlog continuously.
Reflows when meetings move
TimeFlow re-runs the scheduler when meetings shift; Sunsama-placed tasks stay where you put them and conflict resolution is on you.
Daily planning ritual
Available, optional
Explainable LLM-driven strategic planner
Chat assistant
Limited
Habit goals (weekly hour targets)
Projects with deadlines and phases
Built-in time tracker
Price (annual)
$17/mo
$5/mo, locked for life

Comparison reflects features advertised at time of writing — competitors update too.

The honest read

Sunsama's reputation is the calm, intentional daily-planning ritual — pick what you'll do today, drag it onto a timeline, mark it done in the evening. That ritual is still the heart of the product, and people who love Sunsama love it for the deliberateness.

What's changed in 2026: Sunsama now ships an on-demand auto-schedule shortcut (press X on a task and it picks the next free slot, respecting calendar conflicts). It's not a continuous reflowing scheduler like Motion or TimeFlow — you still trigger it manually, task by task, and it doesn't reshuffle when meetings move. But the old framing of "Sunsama is deliberately manual" no longer fully holds.

TimeFlow's pitch against Sunsama is two things. First, the auto-scheduler is continuous — your whole backlog stays placed and reflows automatically when reality changes, instead of you reaching for X every time. Second, price: Sunsama is $17/month on annual ($22 monthly); TimeFlow is $5/month locked for life for beta subscribers. If you genuinely love the morning ritual, Sunsama is still the right tool. If you've felt the ritual is overhead, TimeFlow does more of the work for less of the bill.

FAQ

Does Sunsama auto-schedule now?

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Partially. Sunsama added an on-demand auto-place keyboard shortcut (X) in 2026. It picks the next free calendar slot for a single task, respecting conflicts, but it doesn't continuously reflow your whole week the way TimeFlow, Motion, or Reclaim do.

Can I do a daily planning ritual in TimeFlow like Sunsama?

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Yes — review your day, drag tasks around, mark them done. The mechanics are all there. The difference is that you don't *have* to: TimeFlow auto-schedules continuously, so even days you skip the ritual stay planned.

Does TimeFlow integrate with Notion, Asana, GitHub like Sunsama?

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Not natively today. TimeFlow's focus during beta is the calendar and scheduler. Multi-source task aggregation is on the post-beta roadmap.

What does TimeFlow do that Sunsama doesn't?

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Continuous auto-scheduling that reflows when meetings move, habit goals (weekly hour targets), an LLM-driven weekly planner (AutoScheduler MAX), and explicit projects with deadlines and phases. Plus a quarter of the price.

What does Sunsama do that TimeFlow doesn't?

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Multi-source task pulls (Notion, Asana, GitHub, Linear), and a deeply opinionated daily-planning ritual that some users genuinely prefer. If those are the features you need, Sunsama is the better fit today.

Try TimeFlow free instead of Sunsama

Auto-schedules your tasks and habits around your meetings. $5/month locked for life if you subscribe during beta.

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