Productivity & Collaboration · Personal Productivity & Focus
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Daily planners and time-blocking apps help one person decide what to do today and give each task a place in time next to meetings. Paid tools split into hands-on planners with a morning ritual and drag-and-drop timeboxing (Sunsama, Akiflow, Ellie, Structured, Tiimo), AI schedulers that place and reshuffle tasks for you (Motion, Reclaim.ai, SkedPal, with Morgen in between) and a to-do list with light time blocking (TickTick). Open-source options range from full planners you can self-host (Super Productivity, Open Sunsama, dayGLANCE) to plugins for Obsidian and Emacs and small new projects. This comparison covers ten paid tools and ten open-source projects against the same sixteen capabilities.
Prices and free tiers as checked, dated on each review.
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Todoist is a cross-platform task manager for personal and team productivity.
$5free tierAAny.doShared task board, to-do list, planner, and calendar with AI agents.
$4.99free tierTThingsAward-winning personal task manager for Apple platforms.
—OOmniFocusOmniFocus is powerful task management software for busy professionals.
$9.99free tierAAmazing MarvinHighly customizable task manager for ADHD brains and procrastinators.
$8free tierLLunataskEncrypted to-do list, habit tracker, journaling, life-tracking and notes app.
$6free tierRReclaim.aiAI-powered calendar that auto-schedules tasks, habits, meetings, and breaks.
$12free tierMMorgenAI-powered daily planner unifying calendars, tasks, and scheduling.
free tierFree to use. You run it on your own server.
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An Obsidian plugin for day planning with a clean UI and a simple task format
★ 2.7kFreeTIv1tzor/TimePlannerAbsolutely free, convenient and fast daily task planning
★ 700FreeOBj-palindrome/obsidian-time-rulerA drag-and-drop time ruler combining the best of a task list and a calendar view (integrates with Tasks, Full Calendar, and Dataview).
★ 352FreeWHjameynakama/whatnowExecutive function for the rest of us
★ 291FreeORGleek/org-timegridAn SVG week calendar for Emacs, backed by Org files. Drag to create, move and resize; a read-only day strip for Org Agenda.
★ 189FreeDAkrelltunez/dayGLANCEYour day, at a glance
★ 179FreeOPShadowWalker2014/open-sunsamaOpen-source Sunsama alternative: a daily planner with kanban, time blocking, and focus mode that Claude and ChatGPT can use. One-click MCP connector (OAuth), REST API, web/desktop/mobile apps, self-hostable.
★ 121FreePLdrkokorev/PlanlySelf-hosted, privacy-first day planner PWA for time blocking — an open-source alternative to Sunsama, TickTick and Todoist. Vertical timeline where a task's height is its duration, drag to reschedule, repeating tasks, notes, archive. Offline-first, no accounts. One HTML file, MIT.
★ 13FreeCOadityatawde9699/CognateCognate is a local-first, privacy-focused day planner. It auto-schedules tasks as time blocks, re-flows on disruption, syncs E2E encrypted via CRDTs, and runs AI locally. Your data never leaves your device. Built with Rust, React, and Tauri.
★ 4FreeOne job at a time: the paid tools worth paying for, the free ones you can run yourself, and who should pick which.
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