Every app here owns a slice of your day: tasks, routines, or tracking. Glydin owns the whole column. This page shows exactly where each one is stronger, what they cost, and where Glydin falls short today.
We build Glydin, so read this with that in mind. Every claim is specific and checkable, and rival prices were checked in September 2026.
A dash means the capability exists in a narrower form. Nothing here is a knock on a good product doing its own job well.
Prices are the list price for one person, checked in September 2026. Vendors run discounts, so check their page before you decide.
| App | Price | What that buys |
|---|---|---|
| Glydin | Free in beta | Free tier stays free. Plan or Track $5 / mo each, Complete $12 / mo. Everything is free while Glydin is in beta. |
| Things | $49.99 Mac, $19.99 iPad, $9.99 iPhone | One-time purchase per platform, no subscription. |
| TickTick | $35.99 / year | Premium, billed annually; a free tier covers basic task lists. |
| Routinery | $39.99 / year | Also sold monthly at $7.99; a limited free tier exists. |
| Bearable | $34.99 / year | Also sold monthly at $6.99; discounts appear regularly. |
| Sunsama | About $20 / month | Billed annually, higher monthly. One plan, no free tier after the trial. |
If one of these descriptions is your whole problem, that app is probably the better buy.
A refined task manager for Apple devices
Stay on Things if you live entirely on Apple devices, you want a task manager and nothing else, and you would rather pay once than subscribe.
Their pricing pageCross-platform tasks with a calendar and a habit add-on
Stay on TickTick if you want one cheap subscription for tasks across every platform and the habit list is a bonus rather than the point.
Their pricing pageGuided routines you run on a timer
Stay on Routinery if routines are the whole problem you are solving and you want an app that talks you through every step out loud.
Their pricing pageSymptom, mood and health tracking with correlations
Stay on Bearable if you are tracking a health condition and the correlations between symptoms, medication and sleep are the reason you open the app.
Their pricing pageA guided daily planning ritual on top of your calendar
Stay on Sunsama if your workflow is calendar timeboxing and you want the software to run the ritual for you every morning and evening.
Their pricing pageTasks, routines and trackers on one timeline
Pick Glydin if the planner is only one piece of your system, and you are currently paying for a habit app and a tracking app beside it.
Sunsama is the app people most often replace with Glydin, so here is where each part of its ritual lands. The honest difference: Sunsama enforces the ritual, Glydin gives you the pieces to build your own.
| In Sunsama | In Glydin |
|---|---|
| Guided morning planning | The day view of your timeline, plus a morning routine you define yourself |
| Timeboxing on your calendar | Scheduling tasks on Glydin's own timeline (no external calendar sync yet) |
| Daily shutdown ritual | An evening routine today; a guided end-of-day review is on the roadmap |
| Channels for work contexts | Projects and categories |
| Weekly review | A routine scheduled weekly, with a streak to keep you honest |
The longer write-up lives in Glydin vs. Sunsama.
No calendar sync yet
Glydin does not connect to Google Calendar or Outlook today. It is on the roadmap, but if two-way sync is the centre of your workflow, that gap matters now.
No native mobile apps yet
Glydin runs in a mobile browser and native apps are still on the roadmap.
No importers yet
There is no automated import from these apps. Setup is light enough that most people start fresh in an evening.
Glydin is in beta
The core is in daily use and solid, but you will find rough edges, and features are still moving.
Glydin is free during the beta, so the cheapest comparison is a week of running it next to whatever you use now, and seeing which one your day actually lives in.