Best Daily Planner Apps for 2024? Motion vs Sunsama vs Akiflow vs Routine

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💬 *Description*
Not all daily planner applications are created equal, but on the surface it can be a bit difficult to differentiate between them. We'll help! We cover the main differences between Motion, Akiflow, Sunsama, and Routine. In terms of the similarities, Motion, Akiflow, and Sunsama are all daily planner apps that were built for professional use, with a focus on time blocking (where you add and schedule tasks onto your calendar as blocks of time). Routine app is more for personal use and therefore the only free daily planner app mentioned in this best daily planner app review. If you're craving more, make sure to keep reading a deep dive on each tool below ⤵

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🎥 *What We Covered:*
0:00 - We'll Help You Pick a Daily Planner
0:29 - Similarities
0:52 - Motion as Daily Planner + Project Manager
2:19 - When to Use Sunsama & Akiflow
3:22 - Differences between Sunsama & Akfilow
3:52 - How Sunsama Works
4:14 - How Akiflow Works
4:34 - Sunsama vs Akiflow Verdict
5:04 - Manual Task Planning or Automated?
5:55 - Routine (Free)
6:37 - Daily Planner for Personal Use
7:04 - Routine: Limitations For Professional Use
8:16 - Final Verdict: Your Perfect Daily Planner

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[efficientapp]

🙏 for watching! Which tool will you try out? 🤔🚀

[MelconWagner]

Personally, I've found Akiflow to be very user-friendly and best suited for my needs. Sunssama comes in a close second and Routine third, but Motion, which might have tons of complicated features, just feels a little clunky to me. I've used all of them, and the one I'm sticking with is Akiflow. I'm especially pleased that they've begun rolling out the Ai smart scheduling features in their beta. Also, their synced phone app is pretty nice. I'm on a Mac and iPhone, for what it's worth.

[bobDotJS]

Okay, Routine looks really clean, sad to hear that I wouldn't be able to use it with the rest of my team though. We're currently using Asana at our company and I've been looking for a way to better manage my tasks as our Asana environment is a bit of a mess. Going to check out Sunsama and see if our IT dept would be open to trialing Motion

[yrfikkd]

Interesting, never seriously considered using a daily planner but this video opened up my mind to it

[kishagreendimbo]

Thanks for this! I’ve been comparing Motion and Akiflow and was feeling stressed about figuring out which is more effective for me. This has given me exactly what I need.

[bagheera]

You guys are amazing. Discovered u just now and all your vids have been so helpful and informative. Such an underrated channel. More power to you!

[objectivepathology]

Very helpful videos. Would be great to cover Morgen too!

[pauldittus]

Great review! I love that you break down who each of these softwares will be best for 👍

[LouisRaskin]

thanks for this vid. Was looking at motion an love how it automatically creates and rearranges your calendar. Wanted to check out the other options and since they don't automatically move things around I'm gonna go with motion

[arttaverntreats]

Leaving this here: you're my go-to for unfiltered app reviews! Thank you! Please do an AI notetaker/transcription comparison + recommendation video. I'm personally torn between Firefly and Otter.

[kotsbrown]

Really helpful review. Like really helpful! Thanks

[MrProcrastinatorSensei]

That was a great video! Thank you so much for it! ❤
I’m a student and am looking for some time management, task scheduling and productivity apps which I can utilise to schedule my day accordingly. I was mostly attracted to Routine since it was free and gave a basic user interface. But once I installed the app and started scheduling, it started crashing the app. 😢

[TSI-Mike]

Thanks for this review! Just started a business and this helped me choose! Keep up the great work!

[shanicerose]

Using Motion after watching a couple of your videos and curious to know about a couple of things: 1) with recurring events they do not appear in the project, only in the calendar of the person it is assigned to. 2) cannot add more than one assignee to a task, so i am wondering how the cross-functional collaboration happens when there is more than one team member on a project/task. 3) for consulting firms dealing with client work, you seem limited in the way that you can create task templates. Are there limitations on the free trial?

[drwhamp]

This was a very helpful and well-designed video. Thank you. :)

[HippieP]

Thank you for the video. I'm looking at a pretty complex workflow w/ multiple platforms that I'm trying to connect together as much as possible. I really like akiflow, use GCal daily even though it hasn't changed in years, notion and just today started using motion for its ai help. The only reason I've picked asana to help w/ proj / task mgmt is for the gantt chart. As a visual planner, I have to see how projs and tasks are sequenced.

[yumegrade]

Would love to hear your review of Amie Calendar!

[bettysgirl]

I paid for Motion and while I like it, I do wish that it integrated directly with Outlook so that I could see the time blocks in that calendar. Having to have Asana's app open is not realistic when Outlook is my primary way to plan block my time.

[qwerty]

4:54 I've used both akiflow and sunsama, and i can tell you right now that the calendar akiflow provides is on a whole other level compared to sunsama. Timeblocking in sunsama just feels jarring, whereas in akiflow it just smoothly integrates with everything.

[joseanzaldo]

Which one of the apps would best suit a student looking for a great planner?