Left vs Sunsama

Left is an iOS and macOS time-planning app that shows progress through the year, month, week, day, hour, minute, and life. Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets present those views, while Ahead creates countdowns for custom dates, imported calendar dates, and shared dates with friends. Planner combines Apple Reminders, calendar events, habits, streaks, weather, sleep, and workouts in one view. Users can track habits, streaks, and Aim manually or with Apple Health updates. The app includes an Apple Watch companion, a configurable Pomodoro-style focus timer, and fasting tools with reminders, widgets, Live Activities, history, and watch controls. Mood entries use Apple Health’s State of Mind data, and Left says it never uploads Health history. Widgets work offline; on-device data can sync through iCloud, while shared items use a Left account. The Free plan is free. Left Premium is a lifetime purchase with price shown in-app.

Sunsama brings task management, calendar planning, and daily planning together for professionals. Its hybrid planning method includes recurring tasks, calendar sync, focus sessions, timeboxing, auto-scheduling, Pomodoro sessions, analytics, reminders, and daily shutdowns. It connects with Asana, Jira, Slack, Teams, Notion, Trello, and other services; its Zapier integration connects to more than 9,000 apps. Sunsama runs on iOS/iPadOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is paid, with no free plan. Pricing starts at $17 per user per month with annual billing; the listed monthly plan is $22. A 14-day trial offers unlimited access to all features. Enterprise options include SSO, SAML, SCIM, audit logs, and custom privacy requirements, with no price listed. Added workspace members are billed automatically, with mid-month additions prorated. Users can cancel at any point and retain access through the billing cycle.