Asana

Track, manage, and connect your projects across any team

4.6•82 reviews•

1.3K followers

Track, manage, and connect your projects across any team

4.6•82 reviews•

1.3K followers

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Stay on track, keep projects organized, and hit deadlines. See project progress, track individual tasks, plan sprints, integrate with other tools, and achieve successful launches.

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4.6

Based on 82 reviews

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Reviewers mostly see Asana as a reliable, easy-to-use project hub for assigning tasks, setting deadlines, tracking progress, and collaborating across teams or with outside partners. Timeline, dependencies, multiple views, subtasks, dashboards, and templates come up often as practical strengths, especially for keeping many projects organized. The main complaints are usability friction as work scales: some features feel hidden or less intuitive, large projects can get overwhelming, mobile can be uneven, and requests for more customization and faster product improvements persist. Some also find it expensive or less suited to software development and mixed Agile-Waterfall workflows.

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Pros

project management (32)

task management (26)

intuitive interface (20)

team collaboration (17)

integration with other tools (6)

notifications (5)

variety of views (4)

customizable workflows (3)

clean layout (2)

complex workflows (2)

Cons

expensive pricing (5)

overwhelming for large projects (4)

complex setup (2)

intuitive interface (2)

slow response to user requests (2)

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•5 reviews

What's great

project management (32)

Asana keeps everyone on the same page without needing a status meeting. Tasks are clear, ownership is clear, and nothing falls through the cracks. The interface is clean enough that even less organized people on the team actually use it.

What needs improvement

expensive pricing (5)overwhelming for large projects (4)

Pricing jumps fast once your team grows and you need the features that actually matter. It can also get overwhelming on complex projects with a lot of nested tasks. The mobile app works but feels like a step down from desktop.

vs Alternatives

Looked at Trello and Monday. Trello gets messy fast beyond a certain scale. Monday felt overbuilt for what we needed. Asana hit the right balance of structure without being overkill.

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•6 reviews

What's great

team collaboration (17)customizable workflows (3)task management (26)project management (32)integration with other tools (6)notifications (5)

I love the ability to organize anything at any level of depth. The ability to create timelines and link tasks to multiple projects is so useful. The permissions structure and ability to use anything as a template work exactly as I would want.

What needs improvement

User accessibility is very difficult because so much of the app's functionality is hidden behind hover actions

vs Alternatives

Jira

Feels lighter weight
Customization is more intuitive
Collaboration outside of my org is easier

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17 views2mo ago

•2 reviews

What's great

team collaboration (17)task management (26)intuitive interface (20)project management (32)

Used Asana for 3+ years managing automotive R&D projects. The timeline view and dependencies were crucial for stakeholder reporting and critical path analysis.

However, I consistently ran into the same problem: engineering teams wanted Kanban flexibility for daily work, but leadership needed Gantt precision for planning. Asana forces you to choose - you get great timeline OR great board, never both on the same data.

That methodology lock-in is actually why I'm building SAFYRO - to give teams true hybrid flexibility.

Asana is solid for pure Waterfall or pure Agile teams. But for complex organizations with mixed methodologies? The forced choice becomes painful.

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22 views4mo ago

•5 reviews

What's great

project management (32)

What needs improvement

expensive pricing (5)overwhelming for large projects (4)

vs Alternatives

Looked at Trello and Monday. Trello gets messy fast beyond a certain scale. Monday felt overbuilt for what we needed. Asana hit the right balance of structure without being overkill.

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Value for money

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2 views23h ago

•6 reviews

What's great

team collaboration (17)customizable workflows (3)task management (26)project management (32)integration with other tools (6)notifications (5)

What needs improvement

User accessibility is very difficult because so much of the app's functionality is hidden behind hover actions

vs Alternatives

Jira

Feels lighter weight
Customization is more intuitive
Collaboration outside of my org is easier

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Reliability

Value for money

Customization

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17 views2mo ago

•2 reviews

What's great

team collaboration (17)task management (26)intuitive interface (20)project management (32)

Used Asana for 3+ years managing automotive R&D projects. The timeline view and dependencies were crucial for stakeholder reporting and critical path analysis.

That methodology lock-in is actually why I'm building SAFYRO - to give teams true hybrid flexibility.

Asana is solid for pure Waterfall or pure Agile teams. But for complex organizations with mixed methodologies? The forced choice becomes painful.

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Ease of use

Reliability

Value for money

Customization

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22 views4mo ago