| Progress | Sunsama | |
|---|---|---|
| Daily/weekly planning ritual (time-blocked calendar) | No dedicated ritual — kanban board + Google-synced calendar | Yes — its core feature, with a Daily Shutdown review |
| Pull in tasks from other tools (Asana, Trello, Jira, etc.) | No — Progress is the project itself, not an aggregator | Yes — syncs tasks from many popular tools plus email and Slack |
| Kanban board with labels, checklists, milestones | Built in | No native board — a task list, not a project tool |
| Team chat (channels + DMs) | Built in | No — no team chat, just comments on tasks |
| Docs, files, and version history | Built in | No |
| Client-facing meetings, bookings, e-signatures | Built in — guests join, book, and sign with no account | None |
What Sunsama does well
Sunsama's whole design is aimed at one habit: planning your day well, once, and sticking to it. It pulls tasks in from a long list of tools — Asana, Trello, ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Todoist, Linear, Google Tasks, even Gmail and Slack — and lets you drag them onto a real, time-blocked calendar next to your actual meetings. The Daily Shutdown ritual, the weekly planning view, and the built-in focus timer are genuinely well-considered, and its fans are loyal for a reason: for someone whose tasks are scattered across five tools already, Sunsama is the calmest way to see all of them in one place and commit to a realistic day.
Where Progress is different
Progress isn't a layer that sits on top of your other tools — it's meant to be where the work happens in the first place. A client project in Progress already has its board, its docs, its team chat, its calendar, and the client-facing pieces — booking pages, e-signatures, meetings with AI notes — in one place, so there's less scattered across five apps for a planner to reassemble every morning. The honest trade: Progress doesn't have Sunsama's dedicated daily-planning ritual — no time-blocked "plan your day" view, no Daily Shutdown, no pulling tasks in from other tools. If your job is juggling tasks that live in five other systems, Sunsama's calm daily surface solves a real problem Progress doesn't try to solve. If the goal is fewer tools generating those scattered tasks to begin with, Progress attacks it from the other end.
This is the real thing
Actual screenshots from a live Progress workspace — not mockups. Every project ships with all of it.
Looking for a Sunsama alternative?
Be honest with yourself about what's actually frustrating you. If your job is genuinely about planning a day well — you already have tasks flowing in from five different tools and calendars, and what you need is one calm surface to time-block them — Sunsama does that better than Progress does, and nothing here changes that. But if the real problem is the five tools generating those tasks in the first place — a board here, docs there, client calls somewhere else, a scheduling link buried in your email signature — a planner sitting on top of that stack won't shrink it, it'll just make the view of it calmer. Progress is for teams ready to move the actual project — board, docs, chat, meetings, client bookings, e-signatures — into one workspace instead of five. It's free during the open beta, and since there's no importer yet, reach out through in-app support if you want help bringing existing work over and we'll do it by hand.
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