Plan7 vs Sunsama
Sunsama is a daily ritual: every morning you pull in tasks, choose what matters and timebox the day yourself, on purpose. Plan7 is an iPhone app that works at the level of the week. It counts the hours you have, builds seven days of time blocks around one goal, your fixed commitments and sleep, and then keeps you on the current block, so each morning starts from a plan that already exists.
Last verified 2026-07-30
They stack cleanly: one sets the weekly structure, the other runs the daily ritual inside it.
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| Dimension | plan7 | Sunsama |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | An iPhone app that plans and runs your week around one 30-day goal | Guided daily planning ritual |
| Planning starting point | One goal, your fixed hours, what you protect and your sleep | Tasks pulled from your tools + calendar |
| Personal assessment | StrongShort onboarding that counts your 168 hours | Not offeredNo life assessment; you plan daily |
| Goals | StrongOne 30-day goal, made measurable | LimitedWeekly objectives you set |
| Responsibilities | StrongFixed hours stay put; protected time is never cut | Not a core featureOnly as tasks you import |
| Sleep | StrongSleep set first; Lights Out at bedtime | Not offered |
| Energy | AvailableYou say when you're at your best; no device data | Not offered |
| Constraints | StrongFixed commitments placed first | LimitedCapacity estimates flag overcommitment |
| Weekly routine generation | StrongSeven days of time blocks with day intensities | Not a core featureWeekly objectives, not a generated routine |
| Daily planning | StrongToday view, Live Activity, Edit day by message | StrongGuided daily plan + shutdown ritual |
| Automatic rescheduling | LimitedYou ask in Edit day; nothing moves on its own | Not offeredManual by design; rolls over unfinished |
| Calendar integrations | LimitedReads your iPhone calendar; never writes | AvailableBi-directional Google/Outlook/Apple |
| Task integrations | Not offeredNo task-tool integrations | StrongAsana, Jira, Notion, Todoist and more |
| Focus tools | StrongScreen Time app and website blocking; focus timer | AvailableFocus mode with Pomodoro |
| Progress tracking | AvailableTune my week reviews 7 days; wake-up streaks | AvailableTime tracking and analytics |
| Team features | Not offered | AvailableTeam workspaces; Enterprise SSO |
| Platforms | iPhone only (iOS 16.4+) | Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android |
| Pricing model | Monthly or annual subscription; no free plan | Subscription only (no free tier) |
| Best for | Fitting one goal into a real week and following it day to day | A daily planning and shutdown ritual |
plan7
Plan7 treats the week as the unit. It asks for one 30-day goal, your fixed commitments, what you protect and your sleep, counts the 168 hours and tells you if the goal doesn't fit. Then it builds seven days of time blocks with an intensity for each day. Daily decisions happen inside that week, and Tune my week rebuilds the next one from how the last seven days went.
Sunsama
Sunsama treats the day as the unit. Each morning you pull tasks from your tools, decide what to do, drag items onto the calendar, and close with a shutdown. It's a discipline more than an engine — Sunsama has said publicly it doesn't want to auto-plan your day, and that intentional, hands-on quality is the whole point for the people who love it.
plan7
You download Plan7 on your iPhone, sign in with Apple or Google and answer questions about your goal, fixed hours, what you protect and your sleep. There are no task tools to connect; reading four weeks of your calendar is optional. After you subscribe, the week takes up to five minutes to build.
Sunsama
Sunsama expects you to connect your calendars and task tools so it can pull work in, then it walks you through your first guided plan. Setup is heavier than Plan7's, and the ritual rewards people who already have tasks living in other apps.
plan7
Plan7 sets the weekly skeleton for you: sleep first, fixed commitments placed, protected time left alone, an intensity for each day. If the goal needs more hours than remain, it tells you how many are missing, and every block can explain why it sits where it does.
Sunsama
Sunsama supports the week mainly through weekly objectives and capacity estimates that warn when a day is overbooked. But the week emerges from your daily choices rather than from a generated structure — the balance is up to you, day by day.
plan7
Plan7 runs the day on your iPhone. Today and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen show the current block, its countdown and what's next. Apps you chose in Screen Time are paused during focus blocks and at bedtime, blocks of an hour or more get a focus timer, and Edit day takes one message when plans change. Reminders prompt you to plan the morning and review the evening, but there is no guided shutdown or reflection like Sunsama's.
Sunsama
This is Sunsama's core strength. The guided daily plan, Focus mode with a Pomodoro timer, and the end-of-day shutdown give the day a beginning and a clean ending. If a reflective daily practice is what keeps you on track, Sunsama does it better than Plan7.
Concrete cases, with the honest pick for each. Sometimes that is the other tool.
The intentional planner
Loves planning by hand each morning, does a shutdown every evening, and already has tasks spread across Notion and Todoist.
This is exactly who Sunsama is built for. The ritual, the integrations and the shutdown fit a person who wants to plan deliberately — not to have the week generated for them.
The overwhelmed newcomer
Has never planned a week, doesn't know where sleep, training and work should sit, and finds a blank daily planner intimidating.
An empty ritual doesn't help someone who doesn't know what the day should contain yet. Plan7 asks about the goal, fixed hours and sleep, and builds the week from those answers, which gives a newcomer a starting point to follow and change.
The budget-conscious solo worker
Wants structure but is wary of paying for a planner subscription month after month.
Both are subscriptions with no free plan, so cost alone doesn't settle it. Sunsama costs $17–22/month and has a 14-day trial with no card. Plan7's price is on the App Store in your currency, with any trial your Apple ID qualifies for. Try the one that matches how you plan: a daily ritual by hand, or a week built for you on an iPhone.
plan7
You cancel from your Apple account, like any other App Store subscription.
Sunsama
Sunsama is subscription-only with no permanent free plan. It costs $22/user/month billed monthly, or $17/user/month billed yearly ($204/user/year). There's a 14-day free trial with no card required, and an Enterprise tier with SSO/SAML is custom-priced.
As of 2026-07-30
Choose Sunsama if you want the discipline of a daily practice (planning each morning, timeboxing by hand, closing with a shutdown), your tasks already live in other tools, or you need it on a computer or Android. Choose Plan7 if you use an iPhone and don't yet have a realistic week to plan inside: it builds the week around one goal, your fixed hours and sleep, and keeps you on it with app blocking and a Live Activity. If you want both the structure and the ritual, let Plan7 set the week and run Sunsama's daily practice for the work blocks.
If you have an iPhone and want a realistic week built for you, then help following it each day, yes. If what you want is the guided daily practice and shutdown, task pulls from your work tools, or apps on a computer, Sunsama is stronger there.
Both are subscriptions with no free plan. Sunsama is $17–22/user/month with a 14-day trial. Plan7 is a monthly or annual App Store subscription; the App Store shows the price in your currency and any free trial your Apple ID qualifies for, and you cancel from your Apple account.
No guided shutdown. Plan7 reminds you to review the day in the evening, and at bedtime Lights Out shows tomorrow's first activity and can pause the apps you chose. The weekly review is Tune my week, which reads the last seven days and rebuilds the next. Sunsama's structured planning and reflection ritual goes further.
Partly. With your permission, Plan7 reads four weeks of your iPhone calendar and proposes repeating events as fixed hours; it never writes to the calendar. It has no task-tool integrations. Sunsama pulls tasks from Asana, Jira, Notion, Todoist and others and syncs your calendar both ways.
Product and pricing claims about Sunsama come from its official pages, verified on 2026-07-30. Plan7 claims are limited to what ships today.
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Download Plan7 on your iPhone, answer the questions, and see whether the goal fits your 168 hours before the week is built.