Compare planners
Which planner shows your day is full before you start?
Most planners help you make a list. The harder question is whether you can see a day is already too full before you commit to it. So that is what we hold each tool against, one at a time.
The one thing we compare on
Capacity, price, and how solo it really is
We are not going to score forty features. Three things decide whether a planner fits a freelancer, so those are the three we hold every tool against.
Capacity you can see
Not whether a tool can warn you about a full day, but where and how. TaskBerry sizes tasks and turns the board red before you start, on the screen you live in.
A price that fits one person
TaskBerry has a real free plan and Pro at €9.95 a month. Most planners aimed at this work charge about $20 a month or more per person.
Built for one, not a team
One screen, one day, one person. No seats, no shared workspace, no project hierarchy. Some tools do teams well, and we say so where they do.
At a glance
Every planner on the two things a freelancer bills on
Read the full comparison for any of them below. This is the short version: what it costs, whether it warns you before the day is too full, and whether your hours ever turn into a client bill.
| Planner | Price | Free plan | Warns before you overcommit | Client billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TaskBerry | €9.95/mo | Yes | Yes, sizes each task and turns the board red before you start | Yes, logged hours become a client report |
| Sunsama | around $20/mo | No | Yes, a workload counter against a daily hour limit | No |
| Motion | $19/seat/mo | No | Reshuffles your calendar to fit, never asks if it should | No |
| Akiflow | $19/mo | No | Time-blocking, no hours budget | No |
| Todoist | $5/mo | Yes | Task durations, but no overload warning | No |
| TickTick | $35.99/yr | Yes | No | No |
TaskBerry
- Price
- €9.95/mo
- Free plan
- Yes
- Warns before you overcommit
- Yes, sizes each task and turns the board red before you start
- Client billing
- Yes, logged hours become a client report
Sunsama
- Price
- around $20/mo
- Free plan
- No
- Warns before you overcommit
- Yes, a workload counter against a daily hour limit
- Client billing
- No
Motion
- Price
- $19/seat/mo
- Free plan
- No
- Warns before you overcommit
- Reshuffles your calendar to fit, never asks if it should
- Client billing
- No
Akiflow
- Price
- $19/mo
- Free plan
- No
- Warns before you overcommit
- Time-blocking, no hours budget
- Client billing
- No
Todoist
- Price
- $5/mo
- Free plan
- Yes
- Warns before you overcommit
- Task durations, but no overload warning
- Client billing
- No
TickTick
- Price
- $35.99/yr
- Free plan
- Yes
- Warns before you overcommit
- No
- Client billing
- No
Prices as of July 2026, linked on each comparison page. Todoist and TickTick cost less than TaskBerry, so we lead on capacity and client billing, not price.
Side by side
Planners we put next to TaskBerry
Each comparison gives the other tool credit where it earns it, then shows where TaskBerry fits a solo day.
The wedge
A full day, before it happens
Nine hours of work does not fit in a six hour day. Your task list does not know that. TaskBerry sizes each task and shows it on a bar that turns red while you are still planning, not at 5pm.
9h planned, 6h in the day. 3h over before you start.
See your own day on the bar
Start free, add a real day, and watch what happens when the plan runs past the hours you have.