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Asana has a free version and offers a free trial. Asana paid version starts at US$13.49/month.
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The starter house of project managment software
I've used Asana for 7 or 8 years and I've never had a bad experience, It's always been good. But the limitations are usually what turns me away
Pros
I love how easy it is to share projects on there, and one of my favorite features is having a template which can be applied to any project
Cons
The limitations as an intitee on a team account
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Indispensable tool for larger projects
I used Asana for various projects in private and business context. Especially in larger teams or teams with agile workflow Asana is a huge help.
Pros
Easy project management with a variety of tools that support with planning and tracking. Easy collaboration and nice views for better insights in current status and ongoing tasks. The comment sections makes it easy to ask questions to other team members.
Cons
Free plan has some limitations. Unfortunately, they discontinued the "free for students" offer. This is a huge drawback since I used to teach my students some advanced aspects of project management using Asana Premium features as an example.
Reasons for Choosing Asana
Project was not suitable for shared access and more complex projects.Switched From
Microsoft ProjectReasons for Switching to Asana
Asana made the best first impression and seemed to have the most useful features at the time.- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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I Truly Tried
Honesty, I have tried 4 different times to like Asana. I was originally introduced to it through a job, and had no control over the setup, look or functioning. It felt cumbersome and inefficient. First impression, hated it. About a year and a half later, I was reintroduced to it, also in a work/team setting. I learned a little more, and was still not a fan. Attempt #3 was on my own. I found a training class and took it, thinking that the more that I knew about the functioning, I would probably like it better. I did, a little bit, but by then I had been introduced to Trello, and Asana did not measure up. I'm currently using it again in a work/team manner, and have come to accept it. I still don't love it based on a few features (for example, if someone assigns me a task, but hasn't tagged what project it is, I am flying blind), but I have, for the most part, learned it and accept it in situations where I don't get to choose.
One feature that I absolutely LOVE about Asana though is contingent tasks. If, for example, I'm waiting for a certain contract addendum, I can put that in as a task, and when it comes in and I click the "completed" button, the next task (that couldn't have been done without the first) shows up. Of course, this is something that has to be set up when the project is created, but it is VERY handy as I'm working my way through.
Pros
Dependent tasks (contingencies). This feature is brilliant.
Cons
Very bland, not hard to use, but not easy, either.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The best way to get your projects done!
The best way to make projects look like a game. You have a nice animations when you complete a task and it really makes doing work more fun.
Pros
The best thing is the free version for small teams. If you are starting your business or you have a smaller team it is the best. Great way to experience how things work.
Cons
From start it was a bit tricky to navigate between free and paid options.
Alternatives Considered
monday.comReasons for Choosing Asana
Keeping track of everything in shared note is not the way to go. Asana makes the work feel more organised.Switched From
Google KeepReasons for Switching to Asana
Asana offered more convenient product plans and was more intuitive.- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Cost effective and Feature Rich
Really positive it is a cost effective while feature rich platform and now has multi use in our org
Pros
Asana is a great customisable project and task management platform with multiple features around lead management, workload management and automation features that really help you manage your organisational goals
Cons
For our use case this product really stands out from its access control decisions to its ease of use there it not much not to like and its an affordable price
- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Asana - it runs my life - and that's a GREAT thing!
Very positive - I've used it while working for three separate organizations, and introduced it to co-workers in two of those organizations, and it has ALWAYS changed the way we work for the better!
Pros
I LOVE how functional it is for small and medium sized teams - even the free portion of it?
Cons
From time to time, Asana does change the URLs of their various tools, which means bookmarking can be a problem.
Alternatives Considered
monday.comReasons for Switching to Asana
Asana's free version is SO powerful, it drew us in!- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Good for teams, a little bit overwhelming
Asana works well for team projects, keeps things organized, but can feel a bit much at times. Good for bigger projects, but maybe overkill for simpler stuff
Pros
I like how easy it is to track projects and see who's doing what. The layout is simple and it keeps everything in one place. Makes teamwork less messy
Cons
Can get a little bit overwhelming with too many tasks and notifications. Sometimes it feels like more work just managing the work
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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A powerful tool but might be too much for small teams/businesses
Overall it's a great app, I think it's just not for me. But I can see why so many businesses use it. It's powerful and capable.
Pros
Asana has a sleek modern interface, is used by many companies, and offers a wide range of tools for task and project management.
Cons
For me personally, Asana always felt like too much to handle. With a lot of tasks on my plate as both an employee and manager using Asana on multiple different occasions, I always felt like the app offers way too much for me to comprehend with my busy schedule and limited resources.
Reasons for Choosing Asana
Trello was way too basic for what we were looking for (more advanced workflows and automation)Switched From
TrelloReasons for Switching to Asana
Initially I tried Asana over other alternatives because it was recommended to me by a friend.- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best product management software
Very easy to setup, and it's quite enjoyable to use.
Pros
Best product management software I've used. It's very customizable and looks great. Marketing-wise I respect them. People are excited when they get a job at a company that uses Asana. That's huge.
Cons
Not many cons, I quite like the software.
Alternatives Considered
monday.comReasons for Choosing Asana
We needed a more marketing-focused project management toolSwitched From
JiraReasons for Switching to Asana
Monday just wasn't as easy to setup. We were able to try Asana and get setup quickly.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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User friendly and fast project manager
A pleasant experience that helped me manage my team's tasks, deadlines and workload
Pros
Ease of use, features and great interface
Cons
Too many features could be confusing at times
Alternatives Considered
ClickUpReasons for Switching to Asana
User friendly interface and smooth user experience with no lag- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Knowing Asana!
I love love Asana! It is a highly organizational and efficient work tool. I can manage the entire team as a project manager from anywhere in the world. Though a bit difficult to navigate, it’s one of the best tools for a project manager
Pros
That I can remotely manage mine and my team schedule. I love the fact that I can collaborate with every member of my team . Finally, I love the flexibility and of the tool.
Cons
It can be a bit hard for one to navigate the software. The software needs proper time to acclimatize.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Asana is a ROBUST platform!
Overall, I had great success staying organized with this project mamagement tool.
Pros
I love how complex of a product Asana is with levels and layers of logic you can built into the tool.
Cons
It took awhile to get familiar with the layout and way the platform worked, as I was used to using Trello and Kanban boards in Confluence.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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My Brain Now Functions in an Asana View
I love Asana, and am a HUGE advocate for it. I am a huge fanatic when it comes to organizing in a way that communicates everything necessary to help understand where something is in a process, without needing to be physically asked, and Asana makes this more than possible. I was introduced to Asana in a workplace, and now utilize it in my own personal life.
Pros
Simply that it exists. The ability to communicate all statuses, efforts, and steps in a process between all departments without needing to literally communicate, is incredible. Including the ability to template processes, and tasks.
Cons
I would appreciate it if it was easier to make sections templated easier. I am sure there may be a way to do that, but I do not know how.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Asana is the app you are looking for
We've been using Asana as the engine that runs our company for several years, I can't imagine working without it.
Pros
Asana is the only project management software I've found that has every feature I need, with the most intuitive user interface.
Cons
Wish it had more third-party integrations, but we found API services to fill that need.
Reasons for Choosing Asana
Asana is purpose-built for project management and team collaboration. Notion is too general to rely on for mission anything mission critical. If you can't trust your systems, you are toast.Switched From
NotionReasons for Switching to Asana
Asana just has all the features we want, in a simple to use format. The UI is great, and each user can customize how they want to view data.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great project management software
Overall, Asana meets all of our needs and the large portion of our wants.
Pros
I love being able to keep everyone on the same page. When implementing our software product, Asana lets each person on the project know what is expected of them and what is expected of others. There is no "I thought you were doing that" or "what are we waiting on". Asana eliminated this. I also love being able to build templates that I can utilize again and again. I don't have to start over each time.
Cons
I wish that Asana had the ability to segment users more. I want complete control over who can comment, who can post, who can complete task, etc. Asana does some of this but it needs to be more granular.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Very Pleased!!
Love it. It's a great product that for me is very dialled in now. I won't be moving unless they start removing functionality and options.
Pros
Asana has a lot of moduality. I'm a very particular person and very systems-minded, and I can really tailor Asana to those specific, high-level needs. That said, Asana manages to offer that power of options without over-crowding the UI/X and making the platform feel sluggish or over-stimulating to view.
Cons
Very few things that are largely insignificant compared to it's strength. There are small details like the pop-up windows from completed, deleted or altered tasks appearing on the left of screen obscuring the menus/ projects. You have to close each one until you can get to click your next project.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Asana - I couldn't work without it
Asana is a huge part of my work experience. I literally spend maybe 15% of my total time at work on Asana, as I work in operations. There are tons of different uses for it, to list a few that I use:
1. Content calendar for email marketing
2. Board for review dates of internal knowledge articles and templates
3. Personal boards for each of our team members listing tasks
4. Team boards that show each team members list of capacity (overlaps with 3)
5. Meeting boards where anyone is welcome to add a card into a 'to be discussed column' where we discuss ideas in a weekly meeting
Pros
I liked the incredible customisability the most about Asana. It's a software that has thousands (maybe a slight hyperbole) of potential uses. We use it for so many things, and it is incredibly integrated into my daily workflow I couldn't imagine working without it.
Cons
Asana is slightly lacking options regarding levels of user access into projects. For example, who can comment, who can view, who can add attachments etc..
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Managing Projects
Overall setting up a really great workflow around tasks works really well. You can set up different projects with a timeline view that I found extremely helpful.
Pros
I love managing social media tasks such as captions and hashtags for various strategies. I can manage the daily grind of social media from anywhere in the app and the notifications let's me stay on track for rolling out promotional marketing on a number of social media platforms. In the projects I can create tasks and lists quite easily.
Cons
It doesn't appear to let me assign another person to a task so the communication function isn't as efficient as I would like.
- Industry: Individual & Family Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Asana changes it workplace for the better
We’re very happy with how asana has increased our team projects work AND individually employee organization. We use it to help manage employees work loads and oversee productivity. This lets us manage without micro managing: so if tasks are getting done and the projects are moving along (as you can see with an “on track” measuring tool) then we are fine trusting our employees to get the work done. This would be much harder to accomplish without a tool like Asana.
Pros
Asana has been instrumental in helping our employees and team at a small nonprofit probe, manage and track individual tasks and team projects. It’s been a dream tool in project management across teams with the ability to establish a project visually to all with individual tasks and the ability to assign tasks to others AND see when tasks assigned to others are completed. We establish at employee KPI’s here at the beginning of the year and the Goals function helps us measure and track these with updates you can do monthly, either manually or have them update automatically, depending on your markers.
Cons
My only complaint is that it has more complexity and capability than we can use without taking the time to really offer trainings in it. So I know we’re using it clumsily and not to full capacity for our event planning for a large fundraising event at the end of the year. But it would take us more time to train using it than we currently have right now.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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A Great Tool for Staying Organized and Collaborative
My overall experience with Asana was positive. It helped me stay organized, meet deadlines, and collaborate efficiently. The platform's flexibility in task management and visual project tracking made content planning easier, though it could get cluttered with larger projects
Pros
I liked Asana's ability to keep projects organized with its task management and calendar views, making it easy to plan content, set deadlines, and track progress. The integrations with tools like Google Drive also streamline sharing and collaboration.
Cons
What I liked least about Asana was the occasional clutter when managing complex projects, as too many tasks and subtasks could make it overwhelming. Additionally, some features felt limited unless you upgraded to the premium version.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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What’s Asana? Experience Based on 7 Years
Workflow automation saves time which I devote in other productive activities mainly in creative writing for the Media & Broadcasting industry.
Pros
Ever since 2018, it has been easy for me in the three current companies to plan, track and manage tasks without involving manual procedures.
Cons
It offers collaboration and instant messaging features but it lack VC capabilities.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Asana is the Best in Task Management
I have enjoyed using Asana both professionally and in my personal task management. It keeps me organized and ensures my team completes projects on time. We build full process maps that outlines exactly who is responsible for what at every stage of a project.
Pros
I love the ability to organize projects with tasks, sub-tasks, and even sub-sub-tasks. We can assign people to each task with specific due dates. My whole team is always on the same page because of this task management system.
Cons
The only con is that I would love to have more flexibility on how I organize the projects, because my company has quite a few and they can be cumbersome to locate at times.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft To DoReasons for Switching to Asana
It offered more features for a better price.- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Why Asana is the Best for Instant Messaging, Live Chat and PPM
Pros
Asana has a wide range of features that streamlines business task management, team collaboration and file sharing in real-time.
Cons
I am experiencing zero flaws on my end when using Asana ever since the vendor fixed the bug I was encountering on my iOS App.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Fantastic task management program
Asana helps us to manage tasks with multiple steps and multiple stakeholders need to collaborate and accomplish the task in timely manner.
Pros
I like that it allows my team members to collaborate by commenting on tasks and sharing details on the project which ensures smooth workflows.
Cons
So far i have no complaints about the product.
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A prestigious product for managing our team projects. Asana has no match
It has been a very special experience getting to manage our team projects with Asana. Our team has been able to work more closely together which has enabled us to get our tasks completed in the right time and with the best results. Asana task planner has been assisting us to keep focus on our project objectives.
Pros
Asana has a very user-friendly collaboration space that makes it easy for the team to work together. It has amazing project management tools which makes it so easy to plan, track and control our project activities from start to the very end. Asana work automation tools allows us to save time performing the repetitive tasks by automating them.
Cons
Asana has not had any major issues to complain about. The support team has also listened to our requests and act instantly.