Comparison
NoRush vs Sunsama
Sunsama is the best-known guided daily planner, and ADHD users praise it often. It is also a bigger, pricier tool. Here is how to choose.
The short answer
Choose Sunsama if your work is spread across email, calendars and project tools and you want one place that pulls it together into a planned day. Choose NoRush if you want something small that keeps one task in front of you, costs much less, and needs no setup.
Who wrote this: we make NoRush. The facts about Sunsama come from its own website, checked on October 2, 2026. Products change, so confirm the details on Sunsama's site.
What Sunsama is
Sunsama is a daily planner that walks you through planning each day and shutting it down in the evening. It pulls tasks in from tools such as Asana, Jira, Linear, Notion, Trello, Gmail, Outlook and Slack, and places them on a calendar. It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android. When we checked, the Pro plan was $17 a month billed yearly or $22 billed monthly, with a 14-day free trial and no free plan.
What Sunsama does well
- The guided daily planning and shutdown rituals. NoRush's plan and close-the-day steps were inspired by them.
- Deep integrations that bring tasks in from where they already live.
- Calendar time-blocking.
- Weekly reviews and planning.
Side by side
| Sunsama | NoRush | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Your whole workday across tools | The one task you are on, plus a short list for today |
| Daily planning | Guided and thorough | A 2-minute version |
| Integrations | Many (email, calendar, project tools) | None. You add tasks yourself |
| Calendar | Yes, with time-blocking | No calendar. A timeline of today's tasks |
| On the page you are working in | No | A floating bubble with your task and timer |
| Setup | Connect your tools and learn the workflow | Install and type a task |
| Price when checked | $17 to $22 a month | $5 a month, $49 a year or $99 once |
Which one should you choose?
Choose Sunsama if
- You juggle tasks from several work tools and a busy calendar.
- You want a thorough planning ritual and weekly reviews.
- The price is fine for you or your employer.
Choose NoRush if
- You want the planning idea without the system around it.
- Integrations and settings are the part you never finish setting up.
- You want to spend closer to $5 than $20 a month.
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Is NoRush a replacement for Sunsama?
Only if you used Sunsama mainly for the daily plan and focus. NoRush has no integrations, no calendar and no weekly review. It is a smaller tool.
Does Sunsama have a free plan?
When we checked on its pricing page, it had a 14-day free trial and no permanent free plan.