Google Tasks is fine for jotting things down. It’s terrible for planning your day. No Today view. No overdue section. No way to see what’s due this week at a glance. Just flat lists. Sunrise is a planner built on top of Google Tasks. See today’s tasks, catch what’s overdue, scroll through what’s coming up, and organize work on a kanban board — all synced with your existing Google Tasks lists. Your data stays in Google.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Sunrise for myself. I rely on Google Tasks every day, but I kept hitting the same wall: it’s fine for jotting things down, terrible for actually planning your day.
Google’s Tasks app is basically a notepad. You add items, check them off, and that’s about it. It can’t answer a simple question like “What do I need to do today?” There’s no overdue view, no day-by-day agenda. Just lists inside lists.
You can get some of this in Google Calendar. Tasks show up there, and you can piece together a view of your day. But Calendar is built for events. Tasks are an afterthought, buried in side panels, awkward to manage, and never the main focus.
So I built the planner I wanted. After using it for a while, I figured others might find it useful too. That’s why I’m sharing it.
Sunrise is a planner for Google Tasks. Sign in with Google and your existing task lists sync both ways. You get:
Today: everything due today, plus overdue items you’ve been ignoring
Upcoming: a rolling view of what’s due day by day
Tasks: your lists, but actually usable for planning
Calendar events show up for context when you need them. But this isn’t a calendar app. The focus is making Google Tasks work the way a task planner should.
What matters to me:
Your data stays in Google. Sunrise is a client, not a second database.
Works with the Google Tasks you already have. No migration, no new task system.
What’s the one thing Google Tasks fails at for your workflow? That feedback directly shapes what I build next.
Thanks for checking out Sunrise 🙏
@cteerakit I liked the simplicity of the product, and this is exactly what seemed missing while using Google Tasks. However, while using Sunrise, I realized that tasks were not getting synched if another tab was open with Google Tasks in it. Great product though, especially the board!
the notepad vs planner distinction is exactly right — capture and planning are completely different jobs that google tasks tries to do with one flat list. does it pull due dates from existing google tasks or do you have to re-enter them in sunrise?
Love that it is a client on top of Google Tasks rather than a second silo, since no migration is the reason I would actually try it. One concrete thing though: Google Tasks basically only stores flat lists plus due dates, so where does the kanban board layout live, the columns and card ordering? If I organize a board in Sunrise and then open plain Google Tasks, does that structure survive, or is the board arrangement Sunrise-side only?
When I`m trying to connect my Google account, Google tells me that Sunrise is not safe because it was not checked by Google. And now I really wonder - is it possible to get official approval from them?
Until today, I didn't even know Google Tasks existed :) Do many people actually use it? Or is it mainly an Android thing? (I use the Notes app on iPhone, and it doesn't have the issues you described.)
I like that existing Google Tasks sync without extra setup. would offline editing with automatic syncing later fit your roadmap? That could help people who travel or work with unreliable connections.
this is exactly the kind of small honest tool i like seeing on here, google tasks really is just a flat notepad and everyone quietly builds their own workaround for it. syncing both ways instead of just reading is the part that actually matters, a read only overlay would've been useless the moment you edit something on mobile. does the kanban board write status back as a change to the task itself or is that just a local view on top
Me using Google Tasks every day makes this feel practical. Would keyboard shortcuts for moving tasks between days speed up planning? I think power users would appreciate that option.
This looks clean. Does rescheduling a task in Sunrise also update the due date back in Google Tasks?
I find the kanban board especially interesting because visual organization works better for me. Have you considered drag and drop scheduling directly into upcoming days? That could make planning feel even faster.
This is exactly the gap I hit with Google Tasks too, everything lives in flat lists and there's no real sense of "what's actually due today" without manually scanning. One thing I didn't see addressed: I run a personal Google account and a separate work Workspace account with tasks split across both. Does Sunrise support connecting more than one Google account at once, or is it locked to a single sign-in? That's usually the dealbreaker for me with tools built on top of Google Tasks.
The "Google Tasks is a notepad, not a planner" framing is spot on. For me the single biggest gap is exactly your Today view, being able to see what's actually due now versus the pile I've been snoozing. Flat lists let you lie to yourself about how much is overdue.
One question: does the two-way sync handle recurring tasks cleanly? That's usually where these Google Tasks layers quietly break for me. Nice, focused launch. @cteerakit@Sunrise
Finally, someone fixed the Google Tasks experience. The overdue section alone is worth the install - I had no idea how much stuff I'd been letting slip.
These planner apps are fascinating me so much lately. Just wanted to ask dies your app also notifies/reminds you of events that you marked in your planner in case you forget to do it
About Sunrise on Product Hunt
“A real planner for Google Tasks”
Sunrise launched on Product Hunt on July 6th, 2026 and earned 188 upvotes and 36 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Google Tasks is fine for jotting things down. It’s terrible for planning your day. No Today view. No overdue section. No way to see what’s due this week at a glance. Just flat lists. Sunrise is a planner built on top of Google Tasks. See today’s tasks, catch what’s overdue, scroll through what’s coming up, and organize work on a kanban board — all synced with your existing Google Tasks lists. Your data stays in Google.
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