Sunsama is a calm daily planner: each morning you pull tasks from your tools and time-block them into your day. Pidgy reads your Outlook and Gmail so the tasks pull themselves in, then plans, drafts and chases.
Sunsama is a beautifully made daily planning ritual. It pulls tasks from Asana, Jira, Todoist, Slack, Gmail and more into one view, you estimate how long each takes, drag them onto your calendar, and run an evening shutdown. It is deliberately manual and around $20 a month with no free plan. Pidgy automates the capture step Sunsama leaves to you: it reads your Outlook and Gmail and the email tasks, including your own promises, appear without pulling, then it lays them into calendar blocks with Plan mode and drafts and chases. Pick Sunsama if your work is spread across many tools and you value the daily ritual. Pick Pidgy if your tasks mostly live in your inbox and you want them captured for you.
How Pidgy and Sunsama compare on the things task-driven professionals actually ask about.
| Capability | Pidgy | Sunsama |
|---|---|---|
| Where tasks come from | Auto-extracted from every email |
You pull them in from connected tools |
| Reads your inbox automatically | Yes, continuously |
You convert emails to tasks by hand |
| Captures commitments you made in replies | Promises become to-dos |
Not detected |
| Plan tasks into your calendar | Plan mode: drag into time blocks |
Time-blocking is its core |
| Time estimates and workload warnings | Not offered |
Built in, with tracking |
| Pulls from many tools (Jira, Asana, etc.) | Inbox-first |
20+ integrations |
| Project overview with live progress | Built from your inbox, with % |
Channels, no auto progress |
| Drafts the reply, not just the task | In your voice, you hit send |
Out of scope |
| Chases stalled follow-ups | Queues the chase for you |
Not offered |
| Daily planning ritual and shutdown | Today briefing, lighter |
Guided morning and evening ritual |
| Pricing | Early access |
About $20/mo, no free plan |
Sunsama and Pidgy both turn a busy day into a realistic plan. They differ on how the tasks get there.
Sunsama pulls tasks from your tools into a sidebar, and for email you convert messages to tasks by hand each morning as part of the ritual.
Pidgy reads the inbox continuously, so the email tasks, including the promises you made in a reply, are already there when you sit down. You can still add your own by hand.
Sunsama's guided morning planning, time estimates, workload warnings, evening shutdown and 20-plus integrations across Jira, Asana, Slack, Notion and more are best in class if your work spans many tools.
Pidgy is inbox-first and lighter on ritual. If your tasks come from a dozen places rather than your email, Sunsama aggregates them better.
Both let you block tasks onto a calendar with durations. Sunsama starts from a manual pull across all your tools.
Pidgy starts from the inbox, automatically, then lays those tasks into calendar blocks: drag where they fit, pick a duration, set a reminder, Add to calendar.
Pidgy drafts the reply in your voice and chases the threads that go quiet.
Sunsama is a planner and does nothing about the email itself. For inbox-heavy work, that is the gap Pidgy fills.
Four things happen on their own, from the moment an email lands. This is the part Sunsama leaves to you.
Both are good tools. They start from different ends of the same problem.
The to-dos that write themselves, from the inbox you already live in.
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