Comparison
Simple Goals vs Sunsama
Looking for a Sunsama alternative? Read the first half of this page before the second. Sunsama does several things better than Simple Goals, and pretending otherwise would only waste your time.
For Sunsama
Three real reasons to choose Sunsama
- 01
Timeboxing on a real calendar
You drag each task onto an hour of your day and watch the day fill up. It is the honest way to stop packing twelve hours of work into seven. Simple Goals has no calendar and no timeboxing: you write a week there, not a schedule.
- 02
Two-way sync with a crowded calendar
Meetings land in your plan, and the blocks you draw land back in Google Calendar or Outlook. If other people already own half your day, that sync is most of the job. Simple Goals reads no calendar and writes to none.
- 03
A decade of work behind it
Sunsama started in 2013, shipped in 2018, and has been sanded down every year since. It pulls tasks from more than twenty tools — Jira, Asana, Notion, Slack, Todoist, Linear — and runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. Simple Goals is a web app in beta, and connects to none of them.
Where it stops
Sunsama plans your day. Nothing plans your years.
Sunsama's horizon is today, and its ceiling is the weekly objective. Ask it where you want to be in three years and there is no field for the answer — not a defect, just a different product. The question stays open all the same, and that is the whole reason Simple Goals exists.
For Simple Goals
Three reasons to choose Simple Goals
- 01
A cascade that runs the whole way down
Long term, year, quarter, month, week. Each level breaks down the one above it, so a todo on your Monday can name the three-year goal it serves. When a week goes sideways, you can see which ambition just paid for it.
- 02
Calm, with no asterisk
Nothing syncs, so no other tool pushes work into your week. No AI, so nothing rewrites your plan overnight. No auto-rescheduling, so an unfinished task waits where you left it instead of following you into tomorrow.
- 03
Free for as long as the beta lasts
Simple Goals costs nothing today. Sunsama is $22 a month, or $204 a year if you pay upfront — a fair price for what it does. If the piece you were missing is the cascade, you can find that out this week without a card.
To finish
Which one is for you.
Take Sunsama if your days are made of meetings and the whole fight is fitting work between them.
Take Simple Goals if you keep losing the thread between what you want in three years and what you do this week.
Nothing stops you running both: they work at different altitudes.
Try the level Sunsama does not have.
The beta is free and opens up gradually. Leave your address and a code comes as soon as a place opens. Nothing else, no newsletter.
Written by the person who builds Simple Goals, so read it knowing that. Sunsama's prices, integrations and platforms were taken from their own site in August 2026 — go and check them yourself before you decide.