Griply vs Open Sunsama

Griply is a planning app that connects a long-term vision with goals, projects, daily habits, and tasks. Its Life Planner lets users describe a vision and map life areas, while the Goal Planner organizes subgoals, success metrics, projects, tasks, and habits as steps toward goals. Calendar views and time blocking help plan the week around that work. Griply supports recurring tasks and focus sessions, and can show Google or Outlook Calendar events alongside goal work. Task Smart Recognition accepts plain-English entries to capture, schedule, and assign tasks. The app is available in browsers, on desktop, and on iPhone and Android, with MacOS and Windows downloads. The Free plan is free and includes up to 2 goals, 2 habits, and 5 projects, with unlimited tasks. Premium is listed at $2.49 a month. The Premium (Year) plan is listed at $2.49 a year, with $29.99 billed yearly. Griply says it retrieves Google Calendar events in real time with an encrypted OAuth access token and does not store event content or metadata. The company says it is built in the Netherlands.

Open Sunsama is a task manager and daily planner built around a board of days and calendar time blocking. Move tasks from a backlog to a daily board; unfinished work rolls over to tomorrow. Focus mode times a task and tracks actual time against its estimate. It syncs Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCloud, with support for multiple accounts. Time blocks stay in Open Sunsama rather than being copied to Google or Outlook calendars. Its hosted MCP server connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP clients through OAuth and provides 24 tools. The REST API covers tasks, subtasks, and time blocks, with selectable API-key scopes. Users can also self-host the web app, API, MCP server, and PostgreSQL database using Docker Compose. The free plan costs nothing for personal use. The non-commercial license limits production use by companies, and there is no one-click export button. Desktop apps are available for Mac, Windows, and Linux; phones use the mobile web app, as no native phone app is available yet.