Leantime vs Sunsama
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Leantime swaps its rich-text engine, ships experimental PostgreSQL, and spends a month fixing the fallout.
Leantime just landed 3.7, which replaced TinyMCE with a Tiptap-based editor across every rich-text surface, redesigned the wiki, and added experimental PostgreSQL support beside MySQL/MariaDB. The three follow-up patches in three weeks are real bug-fix work — PostgreSQL ROUND/GROUP BY errors, ticket PATCH 500s, session lifetime regressions — not cosmetic tidying. The team also pushed accessibility to WCAG 2.1 AA in the prior 3.6 line.
Leantime is mid-modernization: editor stack, database portability, and design-system tokens are all moving at once. The volume of PostgreSQL-specific bug fixes since 3.7.0 suggests Postgres is being driven by real users hitting real edges, not just a checklist item. Editor-related fixes show Tiptap migration is still settling in.
Expect 3.7.4 within a couple of weeks closing the remaining migration-era bugs, then a clearer 3.8 push around design-token rollout or PostgreSQL going non-experimental.
Sunsama ships Task Priority + Auto-Sort and starts wiring Sunny into MCP — daily planning gets opinionated.
Sunsama is in steady weekly-release cadence, with the bulk of recent work concentrated in two places: the Task Priority + Auto-Sort system, which has just graduated from beta into a documented core feature, and the Sunny AI assistant, which is gaining persistent memory and MCP-callable primitives like get_task_by_id. The integration surface continues to deepen — Linear, Todoist, Jira, Asana imports now carry priority signal through into Sunsama's own model.
The product is moving from 'manual daily planner' toward 'opinionated planner that can be driven by Sunny or external agents.' Auto-Sort is the most telling move: Sunsama is now willing to reorder the user's day on its own based on priority and scheduled time, which is a philosophical step away from the manual drag-and-drop heritage. The MCP work signals they want Sunsama to be addressable by other AI tools — not just consumed via the Sunny UI.
Expect the next few weekly drops to expand Sunny's MCP toolset (write actions, not just reads) and to roll priority rollover into more of the integration importers. A 'Sunny plans your day' end-to-end flow that leans on the new priority + auto-sort plumbing is the natural next milestone.
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