Glydin vs. Sunsama: An Honest Comparison for 2026

If you are paying for Sunsama and wondering whether it is still the right tool, this comparison is for you. Sunsama costs about $20 per user per month billed annually, more if you pay monthly, which makes it one of the pricier personal planners around. That money buys a genuinely good product. But it is fair to ask what else it could cover, and whether the daily planning ritual is the part of your system that deserves the whole budget.

One thing up front: we build Glydin, so read this with that in mind. We have tried to keep every claim specific and checkable, to be fair to Sunsama where it is strong, and to be clear about where Glydin falls short today.

What Sunsama does well

Sunsama's core idea is the daily planning ritual. Every morning it walks you through choosing what to work on, estimating how long each task will take, and timeboxing those tasks onto your calendar. At the end of the day, a guided shutdown helps you wrap up, move unfinished work forward, and actually stop working. It integrates with the calendars and task tools many people already live in, and it pulls tasks from those tools into one daily plan.

If your workflow lives inside your calendar and you want software that turns planning into a calm, guided routine, Sunsama executes that idea better than almost anyone. It is a mature, polished product, and none of what follows changes that.

How Sunsama's ritual maps to Glydin

Glydin is not a Sunsama clone. It is a system for your whole day: tasks, routines, and trackers on one shared timeline. Most of Sunsama's daily-ritual concepts have a natural home in Glydin, they just take a different shape.

The honest difference: Sunsama enforces its ritual through the product itself, while Glydin gives you the pieces to build your own. If you need the software to hold your hand every morning, that distinction matters.

Price, side by side

Sunsama has a single plan. Glydin has a free tier and two paid tiers, and everything is free while Glydin is in beta.

For most individuals, the relevant comparison is Sunsama's roughly $240 per year against Glydin Complete at $144 per year, or the free tier if a few routines and trackers are enough. During the beta, every Glydin feature is free.

Feature comparison

These are the same capability rows we publish on our home page, filtered down to the Sunsama column. "Partial" means the capability exists in a narrower form: Sunsama handles tasks and contexts well for the current day and week, but it is not built for long horizons or deep project structure.

What Glydin adds that Sunsama does not have

Sunsama plans your workday. Glydin is built for the whole day, including the parts that never make it onto a work calendar.

• Scheduled routines with streaks. A morning routine, a workout, a weekly review: define the steps once, schedule it, and keep a streak going.
• Reusable ad-hoc routines. Checklists you run on demand, like packing for a trip or closing out a project, without pinning them to a schedule.
• Habit, intake, timer, and sleep tracking. Track water, caffeine, focus sessions, sleep, and habits with one-tap logging, no manual tagging.
• One shared timeline. Tasks, routines, and trackers live in a single column, so your day is one view instead of a planner plus a habit app plus a tracking app.

If you currently run Sunsama alongside a habit tracker and a health or logging app, Glydin is designed to replace that whole stack, not just the planner.

Where Glydin honestly falls short today

• No calendar sync yet. Glydin does not connect to Google Calendar or Outlook today. Calendar integration is on the public roadmap, but if two-way calendar sync is the center of your workflow, that gap matters now.
• No native mobile apps yet. Glydin works in a mobile browser, but dedicated apps are still on the roadmap. Sunsama ships native apps today.
• Glydin is in beta. The core is solid and in daily use, but you will find rough edges, and features are still evolving. Sunsama has years of polish behind it.

Who should stay on Sunsama

Stay on Sunsama if your workflow is calendar-timeboxing-centric: if the thing you value most is dragging tasks onto a synced calendar, having the tool walk you through planning and shutdown every day, and pulling tasks in from the tools your team already uses. You are paying for a mature, focused, polished daily-ritual product, and if that ritual is what keeps your work on track, it is worth the price.

Consider Glydin if the planner is only one piece of your system, if you also track habits, health, or time in other apps, or if the price no longer feels proportional to what you use.

Switching over

There is no automated Sunsama importer yet; import and export tooling is planned. In practice, starting fresh is quick because Glydin setup is light: add the tasks you actually plan to do this week, define one or two routines, and pick the trackers you care about. Most people are running their day in Glydin within an evening, and old Sunsama history rarely needs to come along.

Try it

Glydin is free during the beta, so the cheapest way to compare is to run it next to Sunsama for a week and see which one your day actually lives in. The full comparison table is on our home page, along with plan details.