There are good reasons to choose each of these apps.
Here’s where Sonto fits, and where you might prefer another.
Sonto
Start with what you want from the year. Choose your quarterly goals, make a plan for the week, then decide what to do today. Sonto guides you through each session and reminds you when it’s time to plan again.
Explore the Sonto MethodSonto is a native app on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Each version is designed for the device you’re using, with the same planning tools across all three.
Use calendars already connected to your device, sync through iCloud and add Sonto complications to your Apple Watch face. These are part of how Sonto works on Apple devices.
A coding project might have hundreds of issues. In Sonto, plan time to work on the project. When you start, open Linear to see what needs doing.
Sonto deliberately doesn’t sync tasks from other task managers. You choose what belongs in your plan, without bringing the whole backlog with it. Guided planning helps you make those choices in the context of your longer-term goals.
Sonto and Things
You want a carefully designed Apple task manager, with projects, areas, start dates and deadlines. Things gives you a flexible structure for organising everything you want to do.
You value a native Apple app and would also like guidance on what to put in your plans. Sonto’s planning sessions bring your annual and quarterly goals into your weekly and daily decisions, with tasks and your calendar alongside.
Sonto and Sunsama
You want to plan your workday around tasks from other tools. Sunsama combines guided daily planning, timeboxing and integrations with services such as Asana, Jira and email. It also supports weekly objectives.
You want to plan from your yearly and quarterly goals, without collecting tasks from all your work tools. Set aside time for a project in Sonto; use the project’s own tool for the details. You also get native apps built for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Sonto and Todoist
You need task management across devices, with personal projects and shared work. Todoist supports team task assignment and a broad range of integrations.
You want a native Apple app built around your own goals. Sonto guides you through choosing priorities for the year, quarter, week and day, with your device’s calendars and private iCloud sync.
Sonto and Akiflow
You want tasks from different tools in a universal inbox, with time blocking and an AI assistant to help manage your calendar.
You prefer to leave detailed tasks in their existing tools and decide which work deserves time this week. Sonto guides that decision from your longer-term goals. Its ChatGPT plugin and Claude Connector can help you plan and reflect without an ongoing feed of imported tasks.
Sonto and Routine
You want tasks, notes, meetings and projects in a customisable workspace, with information from connected tools. Routine’s Notion integration, for example, lets you bring databases into that workspace.
You want a place to plan your time while keeping your other tools. Sonto guides you from annual goals to daily tasks, with regular reviews, without asking you to bring your work into a single workspace.
Some apps focus on scheduling your time. Others coordinate a whole team. That can matter more than the length of a feature list.
Motion combines AI task scheduling with project management. It’s worth a look if you want software to build your schedule. Sonto guides you through choosing priorities and making your own plan.
Reclaim automatically finds room for focus time, habits, tasks and meetings. That’s useful when calendar coordination is the problem. Sonto helps you choose the goals and tasks you want to make time for.
OmniFocus offers detailed personal task and project management on Apple devices. Sonto is worth trying if you want guided goal planning and reviews to be part of your everyday task manager.
Trello organises work on boards, on your own or with a team. Sonto takes a different approach: a personal planning routine that connects annual goals to the work you choose each week.
Asana coordinates projects and goals across a team. Sonto is for your own plans and priorities; it can sit alongside a team’s project management system.
ClickUp brings projects, documents, chat and AI into a shared workspace. Sonto focuses on personal goal planning, daily tasks and reflection in an Apple app.
Choose a goal you’ve been meaning to work on.
Plan a few steps towards it, alongside everything else you need to do.
A comparison from Sonto. Reviewed October 2026.
Features and plans can change.
