What is Asana and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to Asana
- Trello
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process. ...
- Basecamp
Basecamp is a project management and group collaboration tool. The tool includes features for schedules, tasks, files, and messages. ...
- Slack
Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together. ...
- Jira
Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster. ...
- Airtable
Working with Airtable is as fast and easy as editing a spreadsheet. But only Airtable is backed by the power of a full database, giving you rich features far beyond what a spreadsheet can offer. ...
- daPulse
daPulse connects everyone in the company around topics, or Pulses. These are rich collaboration spaces where everyone can share files and images ...
- monday.com
A tool that simplifies the way teams work together - Manage workload, track projects, move work forward, communicate with people - Adopt a management tool that people actually love to use, one that's fast, and easy to use. ...
- Wrike
Cloud-based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. ...
Asana alternatives & related posts
- Great for collaboration716
- Easy to use627
- Free574
- Fast375
- Realtime347
- Intuitive237
- Visualizing215
- Flexible169
- Fun user interface126
- Snappy and blazing fast83
- Simple, intuitive UI that gets out of your way30
- Kanban27
- Clean Interface21
- Card Structure18
- Easy setup18
- Drag and drop attachments17
- Simple11
- Markdown commentary on cards10
- Integration with other work collaborative apps9
- Lists9
- Satisfying User Experience8
- Cross-Platform Integration8
- Recognizes GitHub commit links7
- Easy to learn6
- Great5
- Versatile Team & Project Management4
- Better than email4
- Effective3
- Trello’s Developmental Transparency3
- and lots of integrations3
- Easy to have an overview of the project status2
- Agile2
- Powerful2
- flexible and fast2
- Easy2
- Simple and intuitive2
- Kanban style1
- Personal organisation1
- Customizable1
- Email integration1
- Great organizing (of events/tasks)1
- Name rolls of the tongue1
- Nice1
- Easiest way to visually express the scope of projects0
- No concept of velocity or points5
- Very light native integrations4
- A little too flexible2
related Trello posts
So I am a huge fan of JIRA like #massive I used it for many many years, and really loved it, used it personally and at work. I would suggest every new workplace that I worked at to switch to JIRA instead of what I was using.
When I started at #StackShare we were using a Trello #Kanban board and I was so shocked at how easy the workflow was to follow, create new tasks and get tasks QA'd and deployed. What was so great about this was it didn't come with all the complexity of JIRA. Like setting up a project, user rules etc. You are able to hit the ground running with Trello and get tasks started right away without being overwhelmed with the complexity of options in JIRA
With a few TrelloPowerUps we were easily able to add GitHub integration and storyPoints to our cards and thats all we needed to get a really nice agile workflow going.
I'm not saying that JIRA is not useful, I can see larger companies being able to use the JIRA features and have the time to go through all the complex setup to get a really good workflow going. But for smaller #Startups that want to hit the ground running Trello for me is the way to go.
In saying that what I would love Trello to implement is to allow me to create custom fields. Right now we just have a Description
field. So I am adding User Stories
& How To Test
in the Markdown of the Description
if I could have these as custom fields then my #Agile workflow would be complete.
#StackDecisionsLaunch
For Etom, a side project. We wanted to test an idea for a future and bigger project.
What Etom does is searching places. Right now, it leverages the Google Maps API. For that, we found a React component that makes this integration easy because using Google Maps API is not possible via normal API requests.
You kind of need a map to work as a proxy between the software and Google Maps API.
We hate configuration(coming from Rails world) so also decided to use Create React App because setting up a React app, with all the toys, it's a hard job.
Thanks to all the people behind Create React App it's easier to start any React application.
We also chose a module called Reactstrap which is Bootstrap UI in React components.
An important thing in this side project(and in the bigger project plan) is to measure visitor through out the app. For that we researched and found that Keen was a good choice(very good free tier limits) and also it is very simple to setup and real simple to send data to
Slack and Trello are our defaults tools to comunicate ideas and discuss topics, so, no brainer using them as well for this project.
- Team collaboration (non-tech)71
- It's simple and intuitive39
- Great UI24
- Plain, simple20
- Very fast15
- Clear pricing12
- Super fast task creation9
- Integration with external services7
- iPhone app4
- Frequent + awesome updates4
- Remote management1
- As close to an all-in-one tool that is client friendly1
- Team collaboration1
- Team and client collaboration1
- Plays nice with Google Apps1
- Basic3
related Basecamp posts
As a small startup we are very conscious about picking up the tools we use to run the project. After suffering with a mess of using at the same time Trello , Slack , Telegram and what not, we arrived at a small set of tools that cover all our current needs. For product management, file sharing, team communication etc we chose Basecamp and couldn't be more happy about it. For Customer Support and Sales Intercom works amazingly well. We are using MailChimp for email marketing since over 4 years and it still covers all our needs. Then on payment side combination of Stripe and Octobat helps us to process all the payments and generate compliant invoices. On techie side we use Rollbar and GitLab (for both code and CI). For corporate email we picked G Suite. That all costs us in total around 300$ a month, which is quite okay.
- Easy to integrate with1.2K
- Excellent interface on multiple platforms877
- Free849
- Mobile friendly694
- People really enjoy using it690
- Great integrations331
- Flexible notification preferences315
- Unlimited users198
- Strong search and data archiving184
- Multi domain switching support155
- Easy to use82
- Beautiful40
- Hubot support27
- Unread/read control22
- Slackbot21
- Permalink for each messages19
- Text snippet with highlighting17
- Quote message easily15
- Per-room notification14
- Awesome integration support13
- IRC gateway12
- Star for each message / attached files12
- Good communication within a team11
- Dropbox Integration11
- Jira Integration10
- Slick, search is great10
- New Relic Integration9
- Asana Integration8
- Great communication tool8
- Combine All Services Quickly8
- XMPP gateway7
- Google Drive Integration7
- This tool understands developers7
- Awesomeness7
- Replaces email6
- Twitter Integration6
- BitBucket integration6
- Google Docs Integration6
- Jenkins Integration5
- Guest and Restricted user control5
- GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback5
- GitHub integration4
- Gathers all my communications in one place4
- Clean UI4
- Excellent multi platform internal communication tool4
- Mention list view4
- Android app3
- Visual Studio Integration3
- Easy to start working with3
- Perfect implementation of chat + integrations3
- Easy3
- Easy to add a reaction3
- Timely while non intrusive3
- Great on-boarding3
- Threaded chat3
- So much better than email2
- Markdown2
- Great interface2
- Message Actions2
- Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations2
- Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams2
- It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC2
- Simplicity2
- Great Channel Customization2
- API1
- Easy remote communication1
- Get less busy1
- Targetprocess integration1
- Archive Importing1
- Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock1
- Better User Experience1
- Multi work-space support1
- Travis CI integration1
- It's the coolest IM ever1
- Dev communication Made Easy1
- Community1
- Integrates with just about everything1
- Great API1
- Very customizable1
- I was 666 star :D1
- Flexible and Accessible1
- Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT1
- Great Support Team1
- Easy to useL0
- Platforms0
- Can be distracting depending on how you use it13
- Requires some management for large teams6
- Limit messages history6
- Too expensive5
- You don't really own your messages5
- Too many notifications by default4
related Slack posts
Sentry has been essential to our development approach. Nobody likes errors or apps that crash. We use Sentry heavily during Node.js and React development. Our developers are able to see error reports, crashes, user's browsers, and more, all in one place. Sentry also seamlessly integrates with Asana, Slack, and GitHub.
Using Screenhero via Slack was getting to be pretty horrible. Video and sound quality was often times pretty bad and worst of all the service just wasn't reliable. We all had high hopes when the acquisition went through but ultimately, the product just didn't live up to expectations. We ended up trying Zoom after I had heard about it from some friends at other companies. We noticed the video/sound quality was better, and more importantly it was super reliable. The Slack integration was awesome (just type /zoom and it starts a call)
You can schedule recurring calls which is helpful. There's a G Suite (Google Calendar) integration which lets you add a Zoom call (w/dial in info + link to web/mobile) with the click of a button.
Meeting recordings (video and audio) are really nice, you get recordings stored in the cloud on the higher tier plans. One of our engineers, Jerome, actually built a cool little Slack integration using the Slack API and Zoom API so that every time a recording is processed, a link gets posted to the "event-recordings" channel. The iOS app is great too!
#WebAndVideoConferencing #videochat
Jira
- Powerful309
- Flexible254
- Easy separation of projects149
- Run in the cloud113
- Code integration105
- Easy to use57
- Run on your own52
- Great customization39
- Easy Workflow Configuration38
- REST API27
- Great Agile Management tool12
- Integrates with virtually everything7
- Confluence6
- Complicated4
- Sentry Issues Integration3
- Rather expensive8
- Large memory requirement5
- Slow2
- Cloud or Datacenter only1
related Jira posts
So I am a huge fan of JIRA like #massive I used it for many many years, and really loved it, used it personally and at work. I would suggest every new workplace that I worked at to switch to JIRA instead of what I was using.
When I started at #StackShare we were using a Trello #Kanban board and I was so shocked at how easy the workflow was to follow, create new tasks and get tasks QA'd and deployed. What was so great about this was it didn't come with all the complexity of JIRA. Like setting up a project, user rules etc. You are able to hit the ground running with Trello and get tasks started right away without being overwhelmed with the complexity of options in JIRA
With a few TrelloPowerUps we were easily able to add GitHub integration and storyPoints to our cards and thats all we needed to get a really nice agile workflow going.
I'm not saying that JIRA is not useful, I can see larger companies being able to use the JIRA features and have the time to go through all the complex setup to get a really good workflow going. But for smaller #Startups that want to hit the ground running Trello for me is the way to go.
In saying that what I would love Trello to implement is to allow me to create custom fields. Right now we just have a Description
field. So I am adding User Stories
& How To Test
in the Markdown of the Description
if I could have these as custom fields then my #Agile workflow would be complete.
#StackDecisionsLaunch
Last time we shared there information about our decision about using YouTrack over Jira actually we found much better solution that our team have loved. Linear is a minimalistic issue tracker that integrates well with Sentry, GitHub, Slack and Figma which are our basic tools. I would like to recommend checking out Linear as a potential alternative to "heavy" issue trackers, maybe at enterprises that may not work but when we're a startup that works awesome!
- Powerful and easy to use19
- Robust and dynamic8
- Quick UI Layer6
- Practical built in views4
- Robust API documentation3
- Great flexibility0
related Airtable posts
If you're a developer using Google Docs or Google Sheets... just stop. There are much better alternatives these days that provide a better user and developer experience.
At FeaturePeek, we use slite for our internal documents and knowledge tracking. Slite's look and feel is similar to Slack's, so if you use Slack, you'll feel right at home. Slite is great for keeping tabs on meeting notes, internal documentation, drafting marketing content, writing pitches... any long-form text writing that we do as a company happens in Slite. I'm able to be up-to-date with everyone on my team by viewing our team activity. I feel more organized using Slite as opposed to GDocs or GDrive.
Airtable is also absolutely killer – you'll never want to use Google Sheets again. Have you noticed that with most spreadsheet apps, if you have a tall or wide cell, your screen jumps all over the place when you scroll? With Airtable, you can scroll by screen pixels instead of by spreadsheet cells – this makes a huge difference! It's one of those things that you don't really notice at first, but once you do, you can't go back. This is just one example of the UX improvements that Airtable has to the previous generation of spreadsheet apps – there are plenty more.
Also, their API is a breeze to use. If you're logged in, the docs fill in values from your tables and account, so it feels personalized to you.
related daPulse posts
monday.com
related monday.com posts
I was wondering about the pros and cons of ClickUp and monday.com. We have a multi-level department that needs to communicate in their respective teams and with the rest of the department.
Hi to decide on which tool to use, think about Lattice as a performance management tool built using monday.com i.e. a workspace with limited features built using a customisable tool. If you are looking to build a tool to manage people's performance like goals, performance, feedback then Lattice is the tool but if you want the tool to do more than these features then you need tool like Monday.com which is 100% customisable.