Clockify vs Sunsama

Clockify is a time tracking app from CAKE.com, a software company that also makes the Pumble team chat and Plaky project management tools. Its defining trait is a free plan with unlimited projects and tracked time for up to 5 users, which made it one of the most widely used time trackers among freelancers, agencies and companies of all sizes.

People track time with a start-stop timer, manual entries or weekly timesheets, across the web app, desktop and mobile apps, and a browser extension that adds a timer inside tools like Jira, Asana and Trello. A kiosk mode turns a shared device into a punch clock for on-site staff. Reports summarize hours by project, client, user and tag and can be shared or exported. Paid tiers are priced per seat: Basic adds admin controls, Standard adds timesheet approvals and invoicing with billable rates, Pro adds scheduling, expenses and project budgets, and Enterprise covers SSO and custom domains. GPS location tracking is available on higher tiers.

Clockify suits teams that need reliable hours for client billing, payroll or project costing without paying for basic tracking. The interface is denser than Toggl Track, which many users find more pleasant and stronger at reporting, and some admin features sit behind paid seats for everyone in the workspace. Harvest combines time tracking with invoicing for agencies, and Hubstaff is stronger for remote workforce monitoring.

Sunsama is a daily planner for professionals who juggle tasks across many tools. It is built around a guided ritual: each morning you review your calendar, pull tasks from Asana, Trello, Linear, Jira, Notion, ClickUp, Todoist, GitHub, Gmail, Outlook and Slack into today's list, estimate how long each will take and drag them onto your calendar as timeboxes.

As you plan, Sunsama totals your estimated time and warns when you have taken on more than fits in your working hours, which is the core of its approach to sustainable work. Focus mode shows a single task with a timer, a daily shutdown ritual reviews what got done and what moves to tomorrow, and weekly planning and reviews connect daily work to bigger objectives. Calendar sync works with Google, Outlook and iCloud. There is a single paid plan, billed monthly or at a discount annually, with a free trial but no free plan.

Sunsama fits knowledge workers, managers and freelancers who want calm, intentional days and a single view of work scattered across tools. Planning takes a few minutes each day by design, it is not a team project management tool and the price is high for a personal app. Motion automates scheduling with AI instead of manual planning, Akiflow offers a similar task inbox with time blocking, and TickTick is a cheaper all-round planner.