Both help you get through your day around your calendar. Sunsama guides you through a manual daily planning ritual; Agendara schedules the work for you from an effort estimate. Here is an honest side by side, so you can pick the fit.
Sunsama facts checked live on sunsama.com, sunsama.com/pricing and help.sunsama.com on 11 July 2026. Where a capability could not be confirmed, it is left out rather than guessed.
| Capability | Agendara | Sunsama |
|---|---|---|
| Starting priceSunsama is 25 USD per person/month, or 20 USD per person/month billed annually. It has no free plan. | 2.99 euro / month flat | 20-25 USD / person / month |
| Free tierSunsama offers a 14-day trial with no card, but no free-forever plan. Agendara is fully free during the beta. | Free in beta | Trial only |
| Automatic task schedulingSunsama centers on manual, guided daily planning and timeboxing; it added auto-scheduling. Agendara auto-schedules by default. | ||
| Effort estimate sized into work sessionsSunsama plans tasks by your manual timebox; Agendara plans from an effort estimate per task and splits it. | ||
| Guided daily planning and shutdown ritual | ||
| Google Calendar sync | ||
| Apple Calendar syncBoth connect Apple (iCloud) calendars. Sunsama also supports Outlook; Agendara supports Google and Apple. | ||
| Outlook calendar sync | Google, Apple | |
| Deep task-tool integrations (Asana, Trello, Jira, Todoist) | ||
| Turn email, Slack or Teams messages into tasks | ||
| Focus mode and time analytics |
Comparison is informational and made in good faith from each product's public site. Pricing and features can change; Sunsama details were read from sunsama.com, sunsama.com/pricing and help.sunsama.com on 11 July 2026. Agendara details reflect the current beta.
Sunsama is built around a guided ritual where you plan and timebox each day yourself. Agendara does the placing for you: it reads your calendar and lays your tasks into free time automatically, so you start the day with a plan instead of building one.
Every task carries an effort estimate in minutes. Agendara sizes work sessions from that and splits big tasks across days around your real availability, so a large task is not one block you still have to break up yourself.
Agendara is free during the beta, then 2.99 euro per month, flat. Sunsama has no free plan at all, only a 14-day trial, and then costs 25 US dollar per person per month (20 billed annually). If price is the deciding factor, the gap is large.
Sunsama is a mature, workplace-grade daily planner. Its strengths are the guided planning and shutdown ritual, deep task-tool integrations (Asana, Trello, Jira, Todoist, Notion), pulling email and Slack or Teams messages straight into your day, focus mode, time analytics, and SOC2 compliance for companies that need IT approval. If you want a structured daily ritual and rich integrations and do not mind the price, Sunsama covers ground Agendara does not. Agendara stays focused on one thing: turning effort estimates into an automatically scheduled calendar for individuals and small teams.
Free while in beta, no credit card. Connect your Google or Apple calendar and let Agendara schedule your work around the time it actually takes.