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Alternatives to Asana

Trello, Basecamp, Slack, Jira, and Airtable are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Asana.
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What is Asana and what are its top alternatives?

Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work. From tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish--and get results. Available at asana.com and on iOS & Android.
Asana is a tool in the Project Management category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Asana

  • Trello
    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

    Basecamp is a project management and group collaboration tool. The tool includes features for schedules, tasks, files, and messages. ...

  • Slack
    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

    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
    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

    daPulse connects everyone in the company around topics, or Pulses. These are rich collaboration spaces where everyone can share files and images ...

  • monday.com
    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
    Wrike

    Cloud-based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. ...

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Trello

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PROS OF TRELLO
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    Great for collaboration
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    Easy to use
  • 574
    Free
  • 375
    Fast
  • 347
    Realtime
  • 237
    Intuitive
  • 215
    Visualizing
  • 169
    Flexible
  • 126
    Fun user interface
  • 83
    Snappy and blazing fast
  • 30
    Simple, intuitive UI that gets out of your way
  • 27
    Kanban
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    Clean Interface
  • 18
    Card Structure
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    Easy setup
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    Drag and drop attachments
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    Simple
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    Markdown commentary on cards
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    Integration with other work collaborative apps
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    Lists
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    Satisfying User Experience
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    Cross-Platform Integration
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    Recognizes GitHub commit links
  • 6
    Easy to learn
  • 5
    Great
  • 4
    Versatile Team & Project Management
  • 4
    Better than email
  • 3
    Effective
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    Trello’s Developmental Transparency
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    and lots of integrations
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    Easy to have an overview of the project status
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    Agile
  • 2
    Powerful
  • 2
    flexible and fast
  • 2
    Easy
  • 2
    Simple and intuitive
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    Kanban style
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    Personal organisation
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    Customizable
  • 1
    Email integration
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    Great organizing (of events/tasks)
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    Name rolls of the tongue
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    Nice
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    Easiest way to visually express the scope of projects
CONS OF TRELLO
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    No concept of velocity or points
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    Very light native integrations
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    A little too flexible

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Johnny Bell

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

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Francisco Quintero
Tech Lead at Dev As Pros · | 13 upvotes · 1.1M views

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.

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Basecamp

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PROS OF BASECAMP
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    Team collaboration (non-tech)
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    It's simple and intuitive
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    Great UI
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    Plain, simple
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    Very fast
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    Clear pricing
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    Super fast task creation
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    Integration with external services
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    iPhone app
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    Frequent + awesome updates
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    Remote management
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    As close to an all-in-one tool that is client friendly
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    Team collaboration
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    Team and client collaboration
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    Plays nice with Google Apps
CONS OF BASECAMP
  • 3
    Basic

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Kirill Shirinkin
Cloud and DevOps Consultant at mkdev · | 12 upvotes · 668.4K views

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.

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Blair Gemmer
Software Engineer at VYNYL · | 2 upvotes · 47.3K views
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Jira is better than any other project management tool I've used, including Basecamp Asana and Trello . However, Trello has a much different purpose to me and is still amazing!

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Slack

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PROS OF SLACK
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    Easy to integrate with
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    Excellent interface on multiple platforms
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    Free
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    Mobile friendly
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    People really enjoy using it
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    Great integrations
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    Flexible notification preferences
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    Unlimited users
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    Strong search and data archiving
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    Multi domain switching support
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    Easy to use
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    Beautiful
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    Hubot support
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    Unread/read control
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    Slackbot
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    Permalink for each messages
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    Text snippet with highlighting
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    Quote message easily
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    Per-room notification
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    Awesome integration support
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    IRC gateway
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    Star for each message / attached files
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    Good communication within a team
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    Dropbox Integration
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    Jira Integration
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    Slick, search is great
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    New Relic Integration
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    Asana Integration
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    Great communication tool
  • 8
    Combine All Services Quickly
  • 7
    XMPP gateway
  • 7
    Google Drive Integration
  • 7
    This tool understands developers
  • 7
    Awesomeness
  • 6
    Replaces email
  • 6
    Twitter Integration
  • 6
    BitBucket integration
  • 6
    Google Docs Integration
  • 5
    Jenkins Integration
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    Guest and Restricted user control
  • 5
    GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback
  • 4
    GitHub integration
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    Gathers all my communications in one place
  • 4
    Clean UI
  • 4
    Excellent multi platform internal communication tool
  • 4
    Mention list view
  • 3
    Android app
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    Visual Studio Integration
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    Easy to start working with
  • 3
    Perfect implementation of chat + integrations
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    Easy
  • 3
    Easy to add a reaction
  • 3
    Timely while non intrusive
  • 3
    Great on-boarding
  • 3
    Threaded chat
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    So much better than email
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    Markdown
  • 2
    Great interface
  • 2
    Message Actions
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    Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations
  • 2
    Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
  • 2
    It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC
  • 2
    Simplicity
  • 2
    Great Channel Customization
  • 1
    API
  • 1
    Easy remote communication
  • 1
    Get less busy
  • 1
    Targetprocess integration
  • 1
    Archive Importing
  • 1
    Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock
  • 1
    Better User Experience
  • 1
    Multi work-space support
  • 1
    Travis CI integration
  • 1
    It's the coolest IM ever
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    Dev communication Made Easy
  • 1
    Community
  • 1
    Integrates with just about everything
  • 1
    Great API
  • 1
    Very customizable
  • 1
    I was 666 star :D
  • 1
    Flexible and Accessible
  • 1
    Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT
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    Great Support Team
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    Easy to useL
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    Platforms
CONS OF SLACK
  • 13
    Can be distracting depending on how you use it
  • 6
    Requires some management for large teams
  • 6
    Limit messages history
  • 5
    Too expensive
  • 5
    You don't really own your messages
  • 4
    Too many notifications by default

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Lucas Litton
Founder & CEO at Macombey · | 24 upvotes · 205.4K views

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.

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Yonas Beshawred

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

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Jira

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PROS OF JIRA
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    Powerful
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    Flexible
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    Easy separation of projects
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    Run in the cloud
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    Code integration
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    Easy to use
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    Run on your own
  • 39
    Great customization
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    Easy Workflow Configuration
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    REST API
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    Great Agile Management tool
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    Integrates with virtually everything
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    Confluence
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    Complicated
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    Sentry Issues Integration
CONS OF JIRA
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    Rather expensive
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    Large memory requirement
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    Slow
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    Cloud or Datacenter only

related Jira posts

Johnny Bell

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

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Jakub Olan
Node.js Software Engineer · | 17 upvotes · 309.1K views

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!

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Airtable

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PROS OF AIRTABLE
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    Powerful and easy to use
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    Robust and dynamic
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    Quick UI Layer
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    Practical built in views
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    Robust API documentation
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    Great flexibility
CONS OF AIRTABLE
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    Jason Barry
    Cofounder at FeaturePeek · | 10 upvotes · 229.4K views

    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.

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    daPulse

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        monday.com

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            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.

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            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.

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