A Sunsama alternative for what you never wrote down
Sunsama and Wasp look adjacent and are solving different halves of the problem. An honest comparison, including where Sunsama is the better choice.
The short version
Sunsama is a guided daily ritual that works beautifully on the days you sit down with it. Wasp is built for the days you do not. Sunsama detects nothing on its own; everything in it arrived because you put it there.
Why people look for a Sunsama alternative
Sunsama is a guided daily planning ritual. Each morning it walks you through choosing what today actually contains, pulling tasks in from wherever you keep them, and asks you to be honest about how much fits.
Sunsama asks you to show up every morning, and the ritual only works on the days you do. People go looking when they notice the week they most needed it is the week they stopped opening it.
What Sunsama is genuinely good at
For people who keep the ritual, it genuinely changes how a day goes, and the deliberately calm, deliberately manual approach is a real philosophical position rather than a missing feature. It has been around a decade and it is stable.
This page is not going to pretend otherwise. If the paragraph above describes your problem, the honest recommendation is to stay where you are.
Where the two diverge
Sunsama is a surface you bring things to. It is excellent at helping you decide what today holds, and it detects nothing on its own: everything in it arrived because you put it there. Wasp is pointed the other way, at the commitments you never brought anywhere.
The deeper difference is what happens on the day you skip. Sunsama waits. Wasp does not, and that is the entire product: it escalates, and it makes you answer rather than letting a date pass in silence.
Wasp reads Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack and on-device capture, and detects commitments as they appear, confidence-gated so low-signal noise never surfaces. It also reads what you send, which is the part nothing else does: a line like "I will get you the numbers by Friday" takes ten seconds to type and is gone from memory in five minutes. Wasp keeps it, then holds you to it.
Wasp and Sunsama, side by side
| Wasp | Sunsama | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Catching commitments you did not record, then making them happen | A guided ritual for planning today |
| Finds work you never entered | Yes, from Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack and the desktop | No, you enter it |
| Reads your outgoing messages for promises you made | Yes | No |
| Escalates when you stall | Yes, four rungs, and it requires an answer | No, it waits for you to come back |
| Learns your personal follow-through pattern | Yes, over weeks | No |
| Auto-schedules your calendar | No | No, deliberately manual |
| Price | Essentials 15/mo, Pro 35/mo | 22/mo, or 17/mo annual |
| Trial | 14 days of full Pro, no card until it ends | Free trial |
| Available today | Pre-launch, waitlist open | Yes |
Sunsama pricing read from their own pricing page on 23 August 2026. Prices move: check before deciding on the strength of this table.
Which one to choose
Choose Sunsama if
Choose Sunsama if you want a calm, intentional daily practice, and you know from experience that you will keep it. Sunsama is a better daily planner than Wasp and does not try to chase you.
Choose Wasp if
Choose Wasp if you have tried planning rituals before and the problem was never the plan, it was the days you did not follow it.
Choose both, honestly
They are not mutually exclusive. Wasp is the layer that catches what never got recorded and then applies pressure, and it is compatible with keeping Sunsama for what it is already doing well.
Where Wasp is today, plainly
Wasp is pre-launch. The product is built and the waitlist is open, and there is nothing to buy yet. If you need to move off Sunsama this week, Wasp cannot help this week, and it would be a poor comparison page that let you find that out later.
There are no customer testimonials on this page because there are no customers yet. Rather than borrow someone else's quotes or manufacture any, here is what can be checked instead: the live demo runs the real interface on invented data with no account needed, and the changelog lists what has shipped and when.
Questions
Is Wasp a daily planner like Sunsama?
No. Wasp keeps a unified list sorted by pressure and chases what slips, but there is no guided morning ritual and no expectation that you sit down with it each day. Wasp is built to work when you do not show up, which is the opposite premise.
Sunsama and Wasp cost about the same. What is the actual difference?
Sunsama helps you plan the work you already know about. Wasp finds the work you did not record, including promises made in your own outgoing messages, and then applies pressure until each one is completed, renegotiated or dropped.
Next
Joining the waitlist puts you in the queue for early access as it rolls out in waves. It costs nothing and there is no card involved.
Other comparisons: all alternatives. Not sure Wasp fits how you work? See who Wasp is for. Still deciding what Wasp actually does? The FAQ is the short version.