Best Asana Alternatives Of 2025

While Asana offers a large suite of project management tools, where it falls short is in collaboration. That, however, is where ClickUp shines. You’ll find powerful collaborative documents that allow teams to create everything from project plans to wikis, whiteboards for brainstorming, mind maps for creating critical path method plans and a robust image proofing tool. ClickUp also provides users with an instant messenger that supports voice, text and video.

ClickUp’s instant messenger supports text, voice and video messages.

ClickUp’s task management tools—which include intuitive Kanban boards, Gantt charts that support dependencies, simple to-do lists and calendars—work like a charm, too. All the tools, whether you’re using them on the web or through ClickUp’s desktop and mobile applications, work smoothly thanks to a simple drag-and-drop mechanism. Adding task details, assignees, due dates, color codes and attaching files takes no time at all. I also appreciate how easy ClickUp makes it to configure integrations, automated workflows and recurring tasks.

ClickUp offers boards, lists, Gantt charts (pictured) and calendars to manage tasks.

Regarding plans and price, ClickUp bests Asana here, too. ClickUp’s free plan supports unlimited users and myriad tools. Asana’s free plan only supports 10 users. ClickUp’s paid plans are also far more affordable. ClickUp’s prices range from $10 to $19 per person when billed monthly, compared to $13.49 and $30.49 for Asana. ClickUp, like Asana, also offers an Enterprise plan for those needing advanced security and access controls.

Learn more: Read our full ClickUp vs. Asana comparison.

I have used Asana off and on to manage projects for many years, and, for the most part, I find it easy to use. But no platform for project managers and scrum masters (and their teams) is more user-friendly than monday.com. The software is beautifully designed. The menus follow a logical order, making it easy to choose tools. The automation builder and integration features are straightforward, offer plenty of guidance, and can increase efficiency. The task views, which include Gantt charts, lists, boards, calendars, and a map view, are also beginner-friendly.

The customizable templates monday.com offers can help new teams hit the ground running.

Perhaps the biggest feature that makes monday.com so user-friendly is its library of project and task templates. Whether I’ve needed help creating workflows for HR projects, content production, event management, or operational activities, I’ve always been able to find what I need to get a project up and running quickly. I also appreciate that monday.com’s templates are customizable. Those working in software development, construction, education, design industries and sales will find plenty of templates, too.

The task management tools on monday.com are well-designed and easy to interact with.

If you take a look at our Asana pricing guide and then look at monday.com’s plans, you see that the latter is cheaper. I will note that Asana’s free plan is far superior to monday’s.com’s, which only supports two users and minimal tools. However, monday.com’s paid plans—apart from the $12 per user per month Basic plan, which offers little value—are exceptional. The Standard and Pro plans cost $14 and $24, respectively, when paid monthly, and offer some of the best value in the project management space.

Learn more: Read our full monday.com vs. Asana comparison.

While Asana supports teams using predictive methodologies, such as Waterfall and agile frameworks such as scrum, Teamwork.com serves all ways of working better. In my opinion, Teamwork.com’s resource management and budgeting tools, which can help fight scope creep (broken timelines and budgets), are far better than those found in Asana. In Teamwork.com, I find it easy to create invoices, track time, and manage workloads. In comparison, you cannot easily manage budgets in Asana and its resource management tools aren’t as user-friendly.

Teamwork.com’s interface is beautiful and all tools are easy to use.

I like that Teamwork.com’s Kanban boards are customizable, support subtasks, and that tasks can be color-coded and quickly filtered. Its Gantt charts support milestones and dependencies, and sliding tasks to new dates is intuitive. Its to-do lists and calendars are also on par with those found in Asana and all of the tools are just as beautifully designed and as easy to use as those found on monday.com. It would be remiss of me not to mention that Teamwork.com’s collaborative notes and its chat tool are also far more powerful than those in Asana.

Tasks can be color-coded and filtered so you can find what you need.

Honestly, if not for the cost of entry, Teamwork.com would sit higher in this list. You’ll find a free plan that supports five users and multiple tools, which is great. However, the paid plans range in price from $13.99 to $69.99 per user when billed monthly. Asana is expensive, but the Teamwork.com prices make Asana look like a bargain comparatively. Also, keep in mind that all of Teamwork.com’s plans have minimum user requirements. I think Teamwork.com is a fantastic platform, but I can’t help but feel SMBs will balk at the price.

Learn more: Read our full Teamwork.com review.

I don’t think too many people complain about how Asana looks and feels to use. This is good, because it’s not the most customizable project management software. You can create custom workflows and change a few colors here and there, but that’s it. Coda, on the other hand, is completely customizable, offering integrations, automations, AI tools and form-building features. In my opinion, it’s doing a great job trying to revolutionize the way people approach work.

In Coda, you start with a blank page and can build the workspace that suits your needs.

What makes Coda so unique is that it offers users collaborative workhubs that house every task management tool (Kanban boards, Gantt charts, lists), calendars, work updates, team rosters, reports, collaborative documents and everything in between. Coda is one of the best platforms for remote teams because every member of the team works on the same page. While getting used to fully customizable workhubs takes some getting used to over siloed tools, once you get the hang of it, you’ll wonder how you worked any other way.

Whether you want to create a work update and notification hub or create a full-blown, end-to-end work management space, you can make it in Coda.

It’s hard to compare Coda’s pricing to Asana, because, like its workspaces, its pricing structure is unique. In Coda, you only pay for doc makers (those who own the workspaces); every other editor (user) is free. There is a free plan that supports one doc maker and unlimited editors and limited tools. Coda’s paid plans for doc makers range from $12 to $36 per person when billed monthly, making it an attractive option for SMBs. Especially if you don’t need many doc makers.

Learn more: Read our full Coda review.

If you handle large datasets, spreadsheets are still the best tool for the job in my experience. I can also tell you that I have not used a platform that does spreadsheets as well as Smartsheet. Smartsheet allows users to leave comments and attach files to individual cells and tasks, use formulas, and link cells across multiple sheets. In addition, Smartsheet offers Kanban boards and Gantt charts, though they are not as capable as those found in the other alternatives listed here. Still, they’re nice to have and will make the platform appeal more to agile teams.

Smartsheet offers Gantt charts and boards, but its spreadsheets are the star.

Unlike traditional spreadsheet software, such as Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet supports fully automated workflows, integrations, reporting tools, and even provides users with a proofing tool and a file manager, and a handy AI assistant that can summarize data, generate text and create complex formulas. Project templates are also included for teams working in operations, marketing, sales, IT, education and HR. I really appreciate that you can pick templates based on the methodology or agile framework you’re using. It’s a nice touch.

Smartsheet’s Kanban boards are certainly serviceable but are lacking features compared to those in many other platforms.

Regarding pricing, while Smartsheet looks more affordable than Asana on the surface, dig a little deeper and you’ll find that pricey add-ons for features Asana includes in its plans can raise the cost of Smartsheet significantly. There is a very limited free plan for two people. The paid plans that many SMBs will be interested in cost between $12 and $24. There are also two enterprise-level plans for those who need extra security and advanced privacy tools.

Learn more:Read our full Smartsheet vs. Asana comparison.