Why we built Sunlet, and where it’s going
Sunlet is a calm task planner for people who want less system and more day. Here’s why we built it, what it does today, and what we’re working toward.
Most to-do apps are good at one thing: collecting tasks. Over time, they collect a lot of them. The list grows, the labels multiply, and the app that was supposed to make the day feel lighter becomes one more thing to maintain.
Sunlet started from a simple question: what if a task planner helped you decide what deserves today, and then got out of the way?
Why another task app?
There are excellent task managers. Todoist, TickTick and Things have shaped how millions of people work, and calendar planners such as Morgen and Sunsama made time blocking popular. We use and respect many of them.
But we kept meeting people who hadn’t found a comfortable home in any of them. Some found the powerful apps heavy: projects, filters and labels to configure before writing the first task. Others stayed with Reminders or a paper list, because everything else felt like work about work. And the calendar-first planners often seemed built for a packed meeting schedule, and priced for one.
Sunlet is for the space in between: a planner that is quick to start, calm to look at, and capable enough that you don’t outgrow it in a week.
What we believe
A few principles guide every decision we make:
- Capture in one action. A thought should go from your head into Sunlet in a second. Type “Call Anna tomorrow at 18:00” and Sunlet recognizes the date and time, in English, German, Spanish and Polish.
- Make planning visible and reversible. You should see your day and week at a glance, and moving a task should never feel risky. Drag it, change it, undo it.
- Be honest about your time. Sunlet never implies a task is on your calendar when it only lives in Sunlet.
- Keep you in charge. Our assistant proposes changes, and you review them before anything moves. No silent rescheduling.
- Remove before adding. Less visual weight, fewer settings, more room. Every new feature has to earn its place.
What Sunlet does today
Sunlet already covers the everyday work of planning:
- Agenda, Today, Inbox and Week views, so you can see the big picture or focus on a single day.
- Natural-language quick add that highlights recognized dates, times and durations before you save.
- Lists, tags and subtasks when you want structure, and nothing to set up when you don’t.
- Deadlines, priorities, time estimates and repeating tasks.
- Sync across devices, offline access to saved tasks, and an app you can install on iPhone, Android and desktop.
- A macOS app (in preview) with a global shortcut for capturing tasks from anywhere.
- Export, import and recovery of deleted tasks, because your tasks belong to you.
If you prefer the keyboard, almost everything has a shortcut: N for a new task, number keys to switch views, and ⌘K to search.
Where we’re going
We have a clear direction for the coming months:
- Calendar connection. Starting with Google Calendar, so you can plan tasks around the events you already have, with clear labels for what came from where.
- A careful assistant. Help with capturing, organizing and rescheduling, always as a proposal you can review and undo.
- More platforms. A signed macOS app and a Windows app, alongside the web app you can install today.
- More languages. Italian, Norwegian, Swedish and Hindi are next.
- Fair pricing. Sunlet is free to use today. If we add paid extras, we’ll announce them in advance, and you’ll never be charged unless you choose to upgrade.
Why this blog
This is where we’ll share how we build Sunlet, practical ideas for planning a day or a week without burning out, and what’s new in each release. It’s published in English, German, Spanish and Polish, because Sunlet is too.
If you try Sunlet, we’d love to hear what works and what doesn’t. You can send feedback from Settings in the app; the people who build Sunlet read every message.
Make room for your day.