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Sunsama vs Willow

Sunsama and Willow are both personal productivity tools aimed at freelancers and small businesses. Willow costs less, from $15/mo versus $22/mo for Sunsama. Only Willow has a free plan.

Sunsama

Daily planner that pulls tasks from your tools

Willow

AI voice dictation and writing agent that works in any app

PricingPaid · $22Freemium · $15
Starting price$22/mo$15/mo
Free planNoYes
Free trial14 days—
Built forFreelancers, Small businessesFreelancers, Small businesses, Enterprise, Creators
Platformsweb, macos, windows, ios, androidmacos, windows, ios
CountryUS · 2017US · 2025
Rating——

Choose Sunsama if

Individuals who want intentional daily planning across many tools.

  • Encourages realistic days
  • Unifies tasks from many tools
  • Calm, intentional design

Look elsewhere if: People who want automation (Motion) or a free tool (TickTick).

Choose Willow if

Professionals and developers who write a lot of email, chat messages and AI prompts on Mac, Windows or iPhone and want to speak instead of type.

  • Works system-wide, so no per-app plugins are needed
  • Cleans and formats text instead of producing raw transcripts
  • Wally and style memory adapt drafts to email, Slack or prompts

Look elsewhere if: Android users or people who mainly want grammar and style polishing of text they type themselves (Grammarly, Wordtune).

Sunsama vs Willow pricing

Sunsama

  • Pro$22/mo$17 billed yearly; unlimited usage and integrations
  • EnterpriseCustomContact sales

Willow

  • Basic$0Frontier Mini dictation model, 20 Scribe uses per week
  • Pro$15/moPer user; Frontier Pro model, unlimited Scribe; $12 billed annually
  • Business$35/moEnforced zero data retention, HIPAA, admin; $28 billed annually
  • EnterpriseCustomSSO/SAML, invoice billing, MSA and DPA, usage API

Sunsama · Key features

  • Guided daily planning ritual
  • Import tasks from many tools
  • Timeboxing on calendar
  • Workload warnings for overcommitment
  • Daily shutdown and weekly review
  • Focus mode

Cons

  • Single pricing tier, not cheap
  • Manual planning takes minutes daily
  • Not a team project tool

Willow · Key features

  • Hotkey voice dictation into any text field on Mac, Windows and iPhone
  • Automatic filler removal, punctuation and app-aware formatting
  • 100+ languages with switching, plus whisper and offline modes
  • Auto-learning dictionary for names, product terms and abbreviations
  • Scribe drafts emails and replies from a spoken brief or rewrites highlighted text
  • Wally chat agent that iterates on drafts and learns your style per app

Cons

  • No Android app yet; it is listed as coming soon
  • Free plan uses a weaker model and caps Scribe at 20 uses a week
  • Enforced zero data retention and HIPAA require the $35 Business plan

Sunsama vs Willow: FAQ

Which is cheaper, Sunsama or Willow?

Willow starts at $15/mo and Sunsama at $22/mo. Both prices are checked on the vendors' own pricing pages.

Do Sunsama and Willow have a free plan?

Sunsama has no free plan, a 14-day free trial. Willow has a free plan.

Not sure yet?