Sunsama alternative
Like Sunsama, but it tells you when your day is full.
Sunsama gives you a calm daily plan. Cupkey gives you a plan that stops at 80% of your real hours, fixes your day when time runs out, and turns finished work into your appraisal story. And the planner is free, forever.
Cupkey or Sunsama? Here’s the honest version.
Pick Sunsama if
- You want 20+ integrations pulling tasks in from Asana, Jira, Notion and Slack
- You love a guided morning and shutdown ritual
- You need native apps on every platform today
Pick Cupkey if
- You want a hard line at 80% of your day, not just a nudge
- You want a planner that's free forever, not a 14-day trial
- You want your finished work turned into posts and appraisal prep
Sunsama vs Cupkey: feature and pricing comparison
Every line checked against Sunsama’s own website in October 2026. Where they do something better, we say so.
| Feature | |
Sunsama |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes, forever. No card | No free plan. 14-day trial |
| Price | $0. Pro is $10/mo | $17/mo billed yearly, $22/mo monthly |
| Plans tasks into your real open hours | Yes | Yes, timeboxing |
| Google and Outlook calendar | Yes, read-only by default | Yes |
| Stops you when the day is full | Hard cap at 80%, you move the line | Workload warning |
| Fix my day when time runs out | One tap: what fits, the rest moves | Roll tasks over to tomorrow |
| Timer with estimate vs actual | Yes | Yes, time tracking |
| Timesheet export (Excel, PDF, link) | Yes, on Pro | Not listed |
| Finished tasks into LinkedIn and X posts | Spotlight | Not listed |
| Career coach for appraisals and interviews | Homer | Not listed |
| Streaks, badges and a community | Cups, every Friday | Not listed |
| Task integrations (Asana, Jira, Notion…) | Calendars today | 20+ integrations |
Prices in USD, checked October 2026. Source: Sunsama pricing. Spot something out of date? Tell us at hello@cupkey.io and we’ll fix it.
Why people switch from Sunsama to Cupkey
Sunsama warns you. Cupkey stops you.
A warning is easy to click past at 9am. Cupkey fills your day to 80% of the time you really have, then moves the next task to the first day with room. You can override it. It'll just remind you on Friday that you did.
A daily planner that can say no.
Tell Cupkey your hours and breaks. Your meetings come in from Google or Outlook on their own. Every task gets a time and drops into a gap that actually exists.
- Stops at 80% of your real hours, so surprises have room
- Move the line any day you like
- Override it any time. It’ll just remind you on Friday
Day running out? One tap fixes it.
You planned ten things and finished four. It happens. Cupkey looks at the time you have left, picks what you can still finish, and moves the rest to tomorrow. No guilt, no late night.
- Re-plans the rest of today in seconds
- Moves leftovers to the next day with room
- Your estimates get sharper every week
Your finished work, ready for your appraisal.
Most planners forget a task the moment you tick it. Cupkey keeps it. Homer turns your history into a performance review self assessment or an interview pitch. Spotlight turns a task into a LinkedIn or X post. Your timesheet fills itself in.
- Appraisal summaries from real projects and real numbers
- Like a brag document that writes itself
- Timesheets as Excel, PDF or a share link
Here’s your quarter in three lines.
- Shipped the new onboarding flow, three weeks ahead of plan.
- Cut the weekly report from 4 hours to 90 minutes.
- Ran 14 client calls, every follow-up sent the same day.
Sunsama pricing vs Cupkey pricing
The Cupkey planner is free and stays free. Pay only when you want more AI and timesheet exports.
Yearly totals at list price, USD, checked October 2026. See Cupkey pricing.
Meet fellow Cups
Cups are people who decided finishing beats cramming. Nobody posts a fourteen-hour day here. Every Friday, Cups share their week: hours, streaks, and the estimate they got embarrassingly wrong. Turns out that’s the flex.
7 of 7 done · 6h 12m logged
94% estimate accuracy
Five days inside the cap.
31 tasks shipped, 0 dragged over.
Moved two tasks to Friday instead of ruining Thursday. Left at 17:44.
Every app I tried was happy to hold more tasks. None of them ever told me the day was full. So that’s where Cupkey starts.Lakshmanan Raman, Founder, Cupkey
Sunsama alternative: common questions
Is Cupkey a good Sunsama alternative?
Yes, if your main problem is planning more than fits. Both plan tasks into your calendar. Cupkey adds a hard cap at 80% of your real hours, a one-tap Fix my day, and AI that turns finished work into posts and appraisal summaries. Sunsama is stronger on integrations and its guided rituals.
Is Cupkey cheaper than Sunsama?
The Cupkey planner is free forever. Pro is $10 a month. Sunsama has no free plan and costs $17 a month billed yearly or $22 billed monthly, after a 14-day trial.
Is there a free version of Sunsama?
No. Sunsama has no free forever plan, only a 14-day free trial. If you want a free Sunsama alternative, the Cupkey planner is free forever with Google and Outlook calendar sync and the 80% cap.
Is Cupkey really free?
Yes. The full planner, the 80% cap, calendar sync, the timer, streaks and your weekly timesheet are free forever. You also get 5 AI credits, one time. Pro is $10 a month for 50 credits and unlimited timesheet exports.
Which calendars does Cupkey read?
Google Calendar and Outlook, read-only. Cupkey writes nothing back until you switch on two-way sync yourself.
Can I change the 80% cap?
Yes, in settings and day by day. 80 is the default because the last part of the day is what absorbs surprises.
Weighing up other planners too?
Plan the day you actually have. Then finish it.
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