Open Sunsama vs Super Productivity

Open Sunsama

• People who want Sunsama-style daily planning with code they can read
• Planning a day through Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client
• Individuals who want to self-host their planner with Docker

Super Productivity

• Developers who plan their day from Jira, GitHub or GitLab issues
• Freelancers who need time sheets from the tasks they tracked
• People who want a free app that keeps data on their own device

Open Sunsama

• The license is non-commercial: personal, educational and non-profit use is free, and for-profit companies need an enterprise license with no public price.
• There is no native phone app yet; on a phone it runs as a mobile web app in the browser.
• The desktop apps connect only to opensunsama.com, so a self-hosted install is used through the web app.
• Team workspaces, auto-scheduling and integrations with Linear, GitHub, Jira and Notion are unchecked roadmap items, not shipped features.

Super Productivity

• The web app is more limited than the desktop app: calendar integration and WebDAV sync are likely to fail in a browser because of CORS.
• SuperSync is labeled beta, and the project's wiki suggests Nextcloud, WebDAV or Dropbox for production use until it is stable.
• Fetching issues and sending work logs needs a network connection, and a failed issue update is not retried automatically.
• The project is maintained by volunteers and funded by donations; help comes from the community on GitHub and Reddit.

Open Sunsama

Kanban board of days

Tasks sit on a board with a column per day and a backlog. Each task can carry a P0 to P3 priority, a time estimate, subtasks, rich-text notes and attachments.

Drag-and-drop time blocking

Dragging a task onto the calendar creates a block linked to that task, and resizing the block sets its length. The calendar has day, 3-day, week and month views.

Calendar sync

Events from Google Calendar, Outlook and iCloud appear next to tasks and time blocks, so a day is planned around existing meetings.

Focus mode and rollover

Focus mode shows one task with a timer and records actual time against the estimate. Unfinished tasks roll over to the next day, and recurring tasks repeat on their own.

MCP server for AI agents

A hosted MCP server with 24 tools lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients read the schedule and create or move tasks and time blocks after an OAuth sign-in.

REST API and self-hosting

A REST API with scoped API keys covers tasks, time blocks and ideas. The app can be run on your own server with Docker Compose, which starts PostgreSQL, Redis, the API and the web app.

Super Productivity

Tasks, projects and boards

Tasks take subtasks, notes, tags, projects and repeat rules, and can be viewed as lists, on a Kanban board, in an Eisenhower Matrix or on boards you build yourself.

Time tracking and time sheets

Starting a task tracks time against it. Tracked time can be turned into time sheets and work summaries for export to a company's time-tracking system.

Focus mode and break reminders

Focus mode offers Pomodoro, Flowtime and countdown sessions, and a break reminder tells you when it is time to step away.

Planner and schedule

The planner lays the day out on a schedule timeline next to calendar events, which come in through Google Calendar or any CalDAV calendar.

Issue tracker imports

Issues assigned to you can be imported from Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and other trackers, with time tracked per issue and work logs sent back.

Local data and optional sync

Data is stored on the device and no account is needed. Devices can sync through Dropbox, WebDAV or SuperSync, the project's end-to-end encrypted service that can be self-hosted.

Open Sunsama

• Non-commercial use$0

  The license provides the software free of charge for personal, educational, non-profit and non-commercial open-source use, and for evaluation.

• Enterprise licenseCustom

  Required for commercial use, including for-profit companies running it in production. Requested by email; no price is published.

Super Productivity

• Free$0

  All features on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and the web, released as open source under the MIT license.

Open Sunsama

• Nonprofit

  Free for non-profit organizations

  The license lists non-profit organization use among the permitted uses that are free of charge, while for-profit companies need an enterprise license.

• Education

  Free for educational use

  Educational use is one of the permitted non-commercial uses that the license provides free of charge.

Super Productivity

No public discounts listed.