Motion vs Sunsama: which one fits your team?
This is the clearest fork in the whole category: one of these decides your day for you, the other asks you to decide it. Everything else follows from that.
It turns on whether you want to stop thinking about the schedule, or whether the thinking is the part that makes the day work.
Pick Motion if
your calendar is chaotic, you mostly work alone, and you would rather software reconciled it than do it yourself. Where it stops: the plan is the algorithm’s, and the price is set for people who want that.
Pick Sunsama if
the morning ritual is the thing that keeps you honest, and you plan on your own. Where it stops: it is single player, and it pulls tasks in rather than holding them.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Motion is about $1140 a year, Sunsama is about $1200 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Motion is $60 a year cheaper at that size.
Motion: Around $19 to $29 per seat per month billed annually, more monthly. No free plan. Sunsama: Around $20 per month billed annually, up to $25 monthly. No free plan.
Where they part company
Motion does more on 10 of them
- booking links
- rules that fire on their own
- two way calendar sync
- being the place the tasks actually live
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
- turning meetings into tasks
- docs and a wiki inside
- portfolio and agile reporting
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
Sunsama does more on 2 of them
- turning email and chat into tasks
- being useful before you configure it
Side by side
| What it does | Motion | Sunsama | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Core. The blocks are placed by the algorithm, not by you. | Core | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Core | Core | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Core | Yes | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Yes | Partly. Tasks are mostly pulled in from the tools you already run. | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | Partly | No | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Partly. Team features are layered on an individual first product. | No. Built for individuals. There is no shared team picture. | Core |
| Booking links | Yes | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | Partly | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | No | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | Partly | No | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Partly | No | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Yes | No | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | Partly. The AI schedules the work. It does not do the work. | No | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Yes | Core | Core |
| A free plan | No | No | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 4: time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, linking pull requests to the work and having a free plan.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask sits on the deciding side, with the difference that your decision is visible to your team and the work lives in the same place as the plan.
It does more than both of them on being the place the tasks actually live, dependencies and a timeline, showing who has room, turning meetings into tasks, linking pull requests to the work, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and having a free plan.
Common questions
Motion vs Sunsama: which should I pick?
Pick Motion if your calendar is chaotic, you mostly work alone, and you would rather software reconciled it than do it yourself. Pick Sunsama if the morning ritual is the thing that keeps you honest, and you plan on your own.
What is the biggest difference between Motion and Sunsama?
The clearest gap is booking links, where Motion does more than Sunsama. Underneath that, Motion is software that arranges your calendar for you and defends what it put there, and Sunsama is a place to decide, on purpose, what today actually contains.
Is Motion or Sunsama cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Motion is about $1140 a year, Sunsama is about $1200 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Motion is $60 a year cheaper at that size.
What do Motion and Sunsama have in common?
They answer the same on 4 of our 16 axes, among them time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and linking pull requests to the work. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Motion and Sunsama?
UnaTask does more than both on being the place the tasks actually live, dependencies and a timeline and showing who has room. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked June 2026.