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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Asana Review for Task management
Reviewed on 3/11/2023
Asana is a reliable, easy-to-use project management solution that can accommodate the needs of most...
Asana is a reliable, easy-to-use project management solution that can accommodate the needs of most users. Its UI is a major selling factor for users who are unfamiliar with this kind of software, even though it isn't quite as powerful as some of its rivals.
Pros
Asana easily provides one of the best services when it comes to free plan and with Payment you unlock several benefits that can make your life much more easier. Asana delivers so much features some of my personal bests are Process management automation, Multiple Project view and powerful integration like dropbox, google drive etc.
Cons
There's very less to dislike about Asana but I think it's expensive as compared to other similar softwares.
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Asana in short rentals
Reviewed on 7/11/2023
Overall my experience has been good and has certainly helped me to keep better control and...
Overall my experience has been good and has certainly helped me to keep better control and scheduling of projects, also making it easier for my team to follow and recognize their tasks and objectives.
Pros
The best thing about Asana is how it allows you to easily and simply embark on project scheduling with your team, where it is easy to distribute the different tasks and follow up on them to see their status, while sharing information internally on how each task is going.
Cons
The negative point of Asana is that if you have other software or systems already active, it can be a bit complicated to make them coexist so that the workflow is as smooth as possible. Mainly through the calendar, since at the moment there are no integrations with Google or Outlook so that everything can be centralized.
Alternatives Considered
TrelloReasons for Switching to Asana
It looks like more userfriendly and plan prices were a bit low.- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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I find it more confusing than helpfyl
Reviewed on 4/11/2023
A company I freelance for uses Asana and thus I do. It keeps me apprised of the projects I'm...
A company I freelance for uses Asana and thus I do. It keeps me apprised of the projects I'm assigned from this company, but other than that I don't find it very useful.
Pros
The messaging function in Asana is ok--it's fairly easy to use.
Cons
I find the interface impossible to read and make sense of. There is way too much going on; I can't really put my finger on it, but it just seems unintuitive to me. I never know if I'm supposed to check off tasks that I've completed or if my supervisors are (they are the ones managing the tasks, after all).
- Industry: Online Media
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
This is a great software but has a lot of setup involved and requires constant maintenance.
Reviewed on 18/9/2023
I like Asana because I see how useful it is for better creating strategies for how I spend time on...
I like Asana because I see how useful it is for better creating strategies for how I spend time on different tasks and how useful that time ends up being. I mainly use it as a complement currently to the main software I use for task management because I don't want to spend the necessary time setting this software up extensively until I see more of a use with it that I need to spend that time doing that. I do like just going through the minimal things I utilize with it now though because it ultimately helping me get used to the software and learn little by little as I go so hopefully that help me eventually be able to use all the extensive features that offer once I finally feel confident enough about how to use each one. It has been consistently over the course of a little over a year now the task management software that I refuse to give up on. I think eventually it will be what I use to manage the majority of things for my business but until I scale that doesn't seem to be something that I should spend a lot of time implementing right now. I hope they will release more clear resources that will help me understand how to setup and use the software easier as time goes on which would be the biggest help and thing they could change in my opinion that would make a world of a difference when using their software.
Pros
I like the collaboration and communication features as they help work with your team on tasks very easily and keeps information in one easy to access place so no one ever has trouble finding something they need to complete work again and also the timeline view is great to help plan work so that you can make sure important work gets finished before starting work that you shouldn't start before something else is completed so that you have all the necessary things available when it's time to do the task. The ability to update the status and progress of projects and goals is helpful so that you can get an overall general idea of where work needs to be picked up and what work is going well so you can adjust the time that is spent on those things to get the work that is lacking up to speed and progressed with where other work is at so you don't fall behind in one area. I like how much information and elements I can add to tasks using this software because it helps me make sure that everything about a task and all the information and resources to complete when it becomes time can be added and available when that time comes which helps keep everything super organized and helps you spend less time locating these things since it is all already added to the task information on a task's panel and you can begin working right away. This software overall helps improve time management and also helps when working with others which makes it extremely useful for many businesses.
Cons
I don't like the complexity of implementing Asana as a software you are planning to use for your organization or business. There is a lot of setup work involved when trying to use this software to manage everything on a project level for your business. It also requires a lot of time to keep up with maintenance and updates to everything you create for it to keep it up to date and useful to everyday use for organization and task management. I would say this software is better for larger organizations, teams, or businesses with project managers on their staff that would be in charge of overseeing the upkeep for this software so that it would always be able to be used for the current time for what your team is working on. If it falls behind even a little bit it is hard to catch it back up and takes a lot of time that smaller businesses with less resources don't need to spend their time focusing on as their time would be better spent doing tasks that will provide benefit to them in the long run. It is also very hard to learn the best ways and the correct ways to use some features and the education is not clear enough that they offer to assist with this so it is really hard if you're not a experienced project manager to understand this software as well as I would like someone to able to understand. The time spent working on keeping this software updated is just much better spent in most cases on the work that would be more valuable to work on and get done.
Reasons for Switching to Asana
The monday.com software was offering many of the features as Asana but Asana does offer a lot more than monday.com offers so I chose Asana so I could have the ability to use all the different aspects of their software instead of being limited in some areas. I chose Asana over Trello because Asana uses easier to understand terminology for what they call different features and things on their software and Trello uses confusing terminology to distinguish their features and software to be unique but ultimately a simpler to understand software seems more valuable to me so I went with Asana so that the better terminology that use that makes more sense when they refer to different features they offer to remain clear when starting to learn how to use this software.
- Industry: Animation
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
One of the Greatest Project Management Software!
Reviewed on 10/11/2023
Pros
Multiple project management, team collaboration, task tracking, sub-task features, file sharing, and so many other great things I like about Asana that it's difficult to mention all of them here.
Cons
I've been using Asana for at least 2 years now and I couldn't find anything to complain about!
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Project Management tracking portal
Reviewed on 6/11/2023
It was easy to set up but we were not able to keep with this portal for project management as we...
It was easy to set up but we were not able to keep with this portal for project management as we found an alternative at the time about 4+years ago that offered integration options that we were able to use. As well as setting up tags and sorting by priority.
Pros
Ease of set up and use online, easy to share with staff
Cons
At the time when we used Asana it did not provide enough integration and ability to sort and track. I am not sure if these features have been added as we no longer use this service.
Reasons for Choosing Asana
The prior portal used for the firm ended its service and we were interested in trying an online portal that was more user-friendly.Reasons for Switching to Asana
We chose Asana first due to pricing and the online ease of use. However, we did not stay with the product long as we found another product with more features and integrations.- Industry: Writing & Editing
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
The best task management app
Reviewed on 5/11/2023
M overall experience with Asana has been amazing especially in my remote work as a virtual...
M overall experience with Asana has been amazing especially in my remote work as a virtual assistant.
Pros
What I loved the most about Asana is its ease of navigation. The many different features also increase its effectiveness in task management, especially when collaborating with teams.
Cons
I love everything about Asana, I just wish the price was more pocket-friendly, especially for solo-preneurs.

- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Become a Project Management EXPERT with Asana
Reviewed on 1/11/2023
Really good. It is one of if not the best Project Management apps out there
Really good. It is one of if not the best Project Management apps out there

- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Amazing software!
Reviewed on 2/11/2023
My overall experience with Asana is amazing. I'll continue to use it.
My overall experience with Asana is amazing. I'll continue to use it.
Pros
Everything, but the time tracking is very convenient.
Cons
I haven't found anything I don't like yet.

- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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best project management software
Reviewed on 9/11/2023
Pros
Asana also facilitates a number of automated procedures and integrations that can increase the productivity of your team. In Slack, you can set up deadlines and receive alerts automatically when a project component is completed. It will be easy for your team to cascade into the following project phase.
Cons
You can only give a team member one task at a time in Asana. You'll need to convey information differently if a project involves more than one worker for any given area.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great Baseline Project Management Software
Reviewed on 4/2/2021
Overall, we've been very pleased with Asana for our agency. While working remotely during the...
Overall, we've been very pleased with Asana for our agency. While working remotely during the pandemic, it's been an invaluable resource to make sure our team is all on the same page across clients and projects. Custom fields, statuses, and comments have kept us all connected and allowed us to continue work just as if we were in the office together.
Pros
I love Asana because of the easy to navigate interface, visual organization, and ability to create custom fields that allow my agency to get the most out of our project setups. The ability to perform advanced searches is invaluable to our team. We create reports based on those searches to allow us to better track progress on certain projects and initiatives.
Cons
One major pitfall of Asana is the "Template" feature. With their templates, you have to create an entirely new project within a team in order to use a template you've created, drag the tasks to an existing project, and delete the new project you just made. It's essentially rendered this feature more of a hassle than a help.
We would love to have the ability to choose a template and insert it into an existing project with ease. Also, a simple task template would be helpful, so that for routine tasks you perform for different clients, you could go to templates, tasks, and apply just ONE task to an existing project.
- Industry: Commercial Real Estate
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Do you like lists? WOULD YOU LIKE MORE LISTS?
Reviewed on 27/1/2021
We tracks projects/Deals over 5 teams with lots of timescales and deliverables. We are trying to...
We tracks projects/Deals over 5 teams with lots of timescales and deliverables. We are trying to cut down on tools because we are spread across too many of them. In the beginning, there was order and decorum, right now, it's hard to find things, and silo'ed departments are doing better than cross-functionals.
Pros
We spent about 4 months talking about the move from Trello to Asana, and about 2 months implementing it. Asana has a great project tracking abilities, and for us, the ability to put the same projects in different portfolios (think folders) was key as many different departments need vision into the same projects, but don't want to organize/think like a different department. I like the integration with slack.
Cons
Right now we are in list overload. I literally have over 200 tasks overdue in Asana right now, and it can stress you out so much, you just want to avoid the whole thing all together. Also, if you company likes to iterate a lot, it can be hard to find what you're looking for, because rules keep changing. Right now it's a mess, and I'm sure that has more to do with us than Asana. We're 80 people, we're on the way to be 200, and I'm worried about how much crazier it will get. Also, I don't like that everyone has full view into all my tasks. Somethings would be nice to be private.
Reasons for Choosing Asana
No reporting, no historicals.Reasons for Switching to Asana
cradle to grave project management and recall. And Product team was already using it.- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Asana is the one!
Reviewed on 5/12/2020
Pros
Asana is super easy to use. We have been using it for a few years now. I did a free trial for Monday.com, Smartsheet and Asana. After testing all three the choice was obvious and clear. Asana was the best in my mind. From it being so easy to learn how things work and the way everything looks in Asana vs the other tools I tried, Asana was the no brainer. We are on the Business plan which I would advise anyone to use. The rules are simple to create for automation of task assignments, statuses and lots of other things.
Cons
There really isn't anything I don't like about this software.
Reasons for Choosing Asana
Asana is way easier and the outline of they way things are is superior.Switched From
monday.comReasons for Switching to Asana
I feel Asana is superior to all these. There may be some aspects that Asana can't do that the others can. But I feel Asana is so much easier to learn than the other ones. So I felt it would be easier to get the rest of my team onboard. I think the company has a great vision for what the future of team collaboration looks like.- Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A must have for geographically disperse teams
Reviewed on 1/10/2020
Love it! Can’t live without it. I’m better at my job and better at working with my team because of...
Love it! Can’t live without it. I’m better at my job and better at working with my team because of it.
Pros
I use this tool to stay organized and provide visibility to my teammates with my individual work. I also use it to implement processes for planning and task management for a team that sits across three different regions in the world. It really helps keep us all on the same page.
Cons
It is easy to get disorganized with this tool. You really need to manage what you create. It can get messy and confusing if you don’t use the features intelligently.
Alternatives Considered
TrelloReasons for Choosing Asana
I found Wrike to be less user friendly. I was not as impressed with the interface. Wrike just feels more difficult to navigate and it doesn’t point you in the right direction like Asana does. Asanas templates are a game changer.Switched From
WrikeReasons for Switching to Asana
Trello was too simplistic and couldn’t fit all of our needs for the different types of project planning we wanted to do.
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great task-management and collaboration tool
Reviewed on 11/6/2019
It's a breeze to use and it enables our busy publishing team of 10 to collaborate and stay on top...
It's a breeze to use and it enables our busy publishing team of 10 to collaborate and stay on top of our day-to-day. It also gives me the paper trail I need for quarterly and annual reporting. Highly recommended.
Pros
It's very easy to implement and to onboard new users. The interface is attractive and very intuitive. New features are appearing every few months - the recently added Portfolio/Workload feature is brilliant. Now I get the Gantts I need to monitor my team's workload and our many projects.
Cons
Being able to estimate hours per task would make Workload even more useful. Keyword search (for completed tasks/projects etc.) can be a little flakey.
Alternatives Considered
JiraReasons for Choosing Asana
Ease of use and functionality.Switched From
Claris FileMakerReasons for Switching to Asana
Jira was over-engineered for our requirements.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
A useful management tool for demanding organizations
Reviewed on 22/6/2022
The tool helped the teams organize their tasks in a comprehensive manner that allowed them to be...
The tool helped the teams organize their tasks in a comprehensive manner that allowed them to be more efficient and effective.
Pros
The features available and theability to integrate external tools.
Cons
The interface is something I amnot used to and had to make some adjustments in the way I work in order to comply to the needs of the tool.
Reasons for Choosing Asana
Theorganization needed a tool that had more options to change the way the projects were organized and the way different tools can be integrated. Therefore, the needs of the team changes and we had to adapt.lSwitched From
ClickUpReasons for Switching to Asana
Due to the characteristics of the project and the strucutre of the team, Asana was the most suitable tool at that time.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10
Efficient Task Management: A Review of Asana
Reviewed on 26/3/2023
Many users of the platform, both individuals and teams, express satisfaction with it overall....
Many users of the platform, both individuals and teams, express satisfaction with it overall. Customers value the intuitive design, user-friendly interface, and customised processes because they help them stay organised and handle duties well. The ability to assign tasks and comment on projects, as well as other collaborative capabilities, are highly regarded. Asana has been praised by users for helping them stay on top of deadlines, monitor project progress, and communicate with teammates. The majority of users have a favourable opinion of Asana, despite a few users reporting minor technical flaws such a lack of customization choices for reports or sporadic glitches.
Pros
Asana's features include a user-friendly interface, adaptable workflows, teamwork tools, and tool integration. People laud Asana's ability to keep them organised, prioritise activities, and monitor project progress. The mobile app for Asana is also praised by many users for being convenient and simple to use. In general, Asana is a well-liked option for people and teams searching for a flexible and successful task management application.
Cons
Asana's drawbacks include its few options for report customization and absence of a timer or time-tracking function. In addition, some customers think Asana's pricing is a bit high, especially for bigger teams or businesses. Others have spoken about the software occasionally having faults or difficulties. It's important to keep in mind that these problems may differ based on user preferences and use scenarios and are not always encountered. Despite a few small flaws, Asana is still a well-liked and respected task management programme among its users.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great tool for task management and team collaboration.
Reviewed on 9/3/2019
Based on my experience, Asana is a great tool to coordinate small teams (or startups) and be more...
Based on my experience, Asana is a great tool to coordinate small teams (or startups) and be more productive while keeping an eye on progress and bottle necks.
Pros
Asana has a great team behind its product that constantly updates the platform to meet customer demand.
The user interface is very modern and easy to use while the user experience is very well thought out with great micro interactions that make the whole product experience very delightful. It's easy to navigate from one section to another with colored elements to highlight important aspects of the UI.
It has useful features like subtasks, boards view and calendar view. You can also view the overall progress per project or team. With the portfolio function, you can view the status of all your current projects in real time, so you can keep everything on track and easily report on progress. They recently added a Gantt chart feature named "Timeline" that can help project managers.
You can create templates for different tasks and projects, so you and your team can be more efficient. Priority makes it easy to give attention to tasks that need urgent attention. Integration with different services (Slack, Harvest, Dropbox, GitHub, etc) makes Asana be even more helpful. There is also an open API for more sophisticated applications.
Cons
As with all services there is a learning curve to actually becoming proficient in using Asana, but that can be easily accomplished with a bit of time and practice.
The only thing I want to mention as a negative is the lack of option to hide team members from the side bar, because they are shown on top of each project. If you are a startup or a small team, and most of the team is on each project, it becomes irrelevant to actually see the same team members again and again. This would make the side menu / list a bit shorter to navigate through.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
A review of Asana by a Creative Director of a Marketing Agency
Reviewed on 20/3/2019
A very useful - maybe even invaluable - tool for busy workplaces. Decent looking UI and colour...
A very useful - maybe even invaluable - tool for busy workplaces. Decent looking UI and colour scheme, clear lists but not so clear Project Views - not very good for visual people. Annoying notifications - but maybe I should just try and reduce the number of concurrent tasks!
Pros
There is something very satisfying about having a digital to do list, saved in the cloud, updated automatically and reminding you of key dates, comments and edits. There is something even more satisfying about being able to finally click a little tick button and have an animated unicorn fly across the screen as a reward. It is very useful to be able to keep ALL correspondence relating to a particular task or project in the same thread. This includes text messages, copy, images, PDFs, etc. - all easily downloadable. It's fairly intuitive - looming deadlines are highlighted in red, you can order tasks how you'd like them, you can tag people using the @ symbol like in Gmail and on social media. So, when you are in Asana, all is fine - you can see all your tasks as a list, a project as a whole or separated into Elements. You can even see your team-mate's projects too. Oh, also, adding sub tasks to tasks and sub tasks is very useful. It's not a nice feeling knowing that you can't tick something off your list until it's sub tasks sub tasks have been done, but that's not Asana's fault! It's nice that it emails you to notify you of key events, but this does have a downside. It's good that it ties in with Time Tracking software too.
Cons
So, we have to talk about emails. I, as I'm sure many others do too, have a huge number of tasks assigned to me on Asana. Many of these involve other people - clients, team members, project managers, etc. They all have different deadlines and start dates. Every single action involving you, by default, generates an email. Even after turning many of these notifications off, the Updates folder in my inbox is still so full or notifications, it's very common to miss more important ones. Also, the very fact that there is an Inbox IN Asana itself, means that you are notified of everything twice. This aspect doesn't quite feel right or logical. It also quite frequently logs me out, forcing me to log back in again.
- Industry: Import & Export
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Amazing control with Asana
Reviewed on 13/5/2022
From my personal experience, I managed the marketing and sales team at Indaxia for three years...
From my personal experience, I managed the marketing and sales team at Indaxia for three years across the Asana platform including social media and the company website.
Asana allowed me to save a lot of time and cost since our eight sub-centers are hundreds of miles apart, and I was able to juggle different tasks such as supervising contract graphic designers, reviewing sales reports for sales staff and even running various meetings with the help of the Zoom platform
During the pandemic, unlike many companies, our company's performance never declined because we were used to working across Asana before the Covid pandemic and in great coordination, so we were fully prepared to deal with such a situation.
With the exception of some minor modifications, I see Asana as one of the most prominent platforms that provide the user with an integrated and exceptional experience in its category.
Pros
In fact, the most distinctive thing about Asana is its integration as an application, which allows it to have complete control over all aspects of your projects and even your personal life, arranging your priorities and organizing your time and work team as you see fit.
The interface of the application is very beautiful and distinctive, easy to use, whether from the phone or the computer, a very consistent design and a very successful selection of colors, which creates visual comfort.
Multiple options in organizing and categorizing your documents, enabling linking to websites and social networking sites and managing them through the platform is very useful for emerging businesses or even large organizations to save time and costs and ensure timely commitment in performing the required work.
Asana's performance reports are really impressive, and allow you to monitor your performance and that of your team as a whole and easily diagnose and remedy problems if any exist.
Cons
In such applications, I really like that there is flexibility in controlling the background and modifying it to suit the tastes of users, and the point here is that the application allows the user to add pictures of his company or his work team or anything related to the user as a background to the application, this really enhances the sense of belonging to users
I really hope that in the future Asana will devise a way to remind users of upcoming deadlines through automated phone calls, as email is often not useful in circumstances of heavy tasks and messages
I also like to always remind the importance of direct linking with other business platforms such as delivery platforms, freelance, and others, in order to meet all the needs of users through the platform, and this will be by investing strongly in the development of suggestion and recommendation systems because it is really a necessary feature for this type of platforms
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Asana General Review
Reviewed on 15/8/2018
Overall I really love working in Asana. It's easy to use, very intuitive, and solved a huge...
Overall I really love working in Asana. It's easy to use, very intuitive, and solved a huge business need, which was really streamlining our project process and organizing team assignments. I think there's tons of room for growth. I also really like all the online resources they provide - I bookmark articles and tips all the time.
Pros
The collaboration opportunities this platform offers is excellent. I also really like being able to assign users are contributors or comment-only. That has been helpful when working with clients who get a little overzealous with their task assigning. Obviously the look and feel are great - it's very intuitive to someone who uses collaborative tools (ie. similar to Basecamp). I also love the drag and drop file archive - we use this feature even more than Dropbox because all aspects of the project can live in one place. The more I can keep my team in this system working, and finding what they need independently, the better.
Cons
Not being able to assign the same task to two people is a pain. I don't want to duplicate the task because that clutters up my project space and can cause confusion (esp when I have a ton of moving parts). . So the option to have two people responsible for the same task would be ideal.
I've had issues with the dependency feature as well. It's not super intuitive - though it's a feature I'd like to use because I'd like to trigger team members to start on certain work once a task is completed - it would make my job as the Sr. PM easier. Maybe blowing out the dependency functionality is something to look into.
One thing I hear ALOT from clients and team members is accessing links from their Asana email notifications. They will click a link and be taken to just that specific task, but they don't understand where that task lives because the project tags aren't obvious enough. If the links could open up the full project with the list or kanban view on the left, and the open task on the right, that would be hugely helpful.
Resourcing is a huge issue for our company so I would love to see something about resource management implemented in the future. I would pay double to have a solid resourcing/traffic view in Asana.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The organizational tool to keep your life colorful and carefree
Reviewed on 19/11/2019
I'd recommend Asana to anyone who asked because I have not yet found a software that I like as...
I'd recommend Asana to anyone who asked because I have not yet found a software that I like as much. It's colorful, inviting, and friendly. It makes you feel encouraged to look at your long list of things to do, rather than fill you with dread. In my job, I have many hats to juggle, and Asana helps to take care of it all. It's the sticky note of the internet, and I am a grateful user.
Pros
I am a sticky note person. I have sticky notes everywhere, but the problem is that sticky notes can't remind you of your tasks, notify you if you've missed a deadline, or post comments to your coworkers to find out if they've completed their portion of the task. Asana does all of that.
I can organize my work life down to the millisecond if I wanted to, but that's a little overkill. Everything in Asana is clearly displayed and labeled. Our staff uses the system together, so I can keep track of what my coworkers have on their plate. It helps me to know if/when I can interrupt them or ask to assist on a task. The deadlines are helpful as well and intuitive. If you miss a task, it goes red. Check off a task, and the funniest thing happens. A unicorn shows up to congratulate you. I appreciate the humor of the software developers. It reminds me that we are all human and just want to laugh sometimes.
If you have a task that needs to get done, but a coworker is the person who has to do it, no problem! Simply assign a task to them, and they will get a notification. No more tracking down staff in the office just to ask them to do something. It's a very efficient tool, and I am very happy.
Cons
There is no messaging component that allows for live chat conversations. That is the only downside. If I want to have a conversation with a coworker on a project, I have to create a comment and tag them in it- real Facebook style. If I could have a chat button to work in real time with my coworkers, I'd get rid of Slack in a heartbeat.
Also, sometimes categorizing the section entitled "My Tasks" can be tricky. There are so many settings that you have to be very specific, like assigning a date and a person to the task (like yourself). If you accidentally write a task, but don't assign a date or person, that task could disappear somewhere into your growing list of things to do. It can be easy to lose a task if you're not careful.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great at workflow and project management
Reviewed on 20/5/2022
Pros
The first thing you notice is its clean and modern UI. Don't let that fool you, because once you start playing around, you will notice that it's feature-rich. It covers most project/task/workflow management and tracking needs. Even after using it on daily basis for almost 2 years, I am still finding new functionality that greatly enhances the user experience. It is also highly customizable for your needs. The best feature it offers is the timeline view that allows managing dependencies a breeze.
It has free and paid versions. For small teams or for personal use, you can easily get away with the free version with pretty much all the same features as the paid version.
Cons
One thing I hate about Asana is email notifications. While you can customize them, they feel very spammy when you start out and they are not well organized. They make finding relevant information hard enough that you are better off visiting the full website instead.
You can have nested subtasks, which is a great feature. However, organizing and sorting them is not possible without 3rd party assistance. This makes it pretty much unusable if you are dealing with hundreds of subtasks.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best in class product
Reviewed on 25/3/2020
Pros
While my head of product can speak more to the specifics, we felt that of all the many products we've evaluated in this market, Asana solves those use cases best and provides a lot of flexibility at a very reasonable cost.
Cons
Not everything is perfect, but newer versions started limiting some functionality about how we represent data about specific items on the task list. Sometimes I wish tasks could be tracked in a more storyboard format, but that was less for the use case of software development, and there are other platforms for that.
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Basecamp is terrible and confusing.Response from Asana
Hi Eddie, thanks so much for your feedback and detailed review!
We're always looking into new ways to improve Asana, we'd love to invite you to share these on our community forum (forum.asana.com)! We already have a few existing threads that you can upvote, but don't hesitate to create new ones, if you're thinking of a specific request that doesn't exist already.
We look forward to hearing from you!
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Asana makes task management a whiz!
Reviewed on 17/4/2017
Our team has been using Asana for over 6 months now and it has made our task management and...
Our team has been using Asana for over 6 months now and it has made our task management and workflow so streamlined! My favorite features of Asana are:
- Integrations. I use TMetric for time-clocking and the seamless integration with Asana is so handy.
- Inbox feature. You can stay up to date with any mentions or questions other team members might have for you by checking your inbox. It also reminds you of upcoming tasks and alerts you when new tasks are created in projects you follow. So helpful for staying in the loop!
- Well-designed. The flow of comments on Tasks and the way their is a Conversation and Calendar section as well as Task List is so beautiful. Oh and Files too! There is more to list here than I have space for!
- Fun. Tab+B makes my day. The occasional "celebrations" make checking off tasks a joy!
- Multiple teams. This is super handy for when you need projects that aren't involving everybody on the Team. And yet tasks from all projects show up together in your "My Tasks" view!
- Use of tags, mark-as-waiting-on, custom fields and more features in the paid version that we couldn't live without! But the free version is amazing as well.
In short, Asana is the best task management software for teams I've ever seen. I highly recommend it to anyone to increase productivity.
Pros
- Inbox feature. You can stay up to date with any mentions or questions other team members might have for you by checking your inbox. It also reminds you of upcoming tasks and alerts you when new tasks are created in projects you follow. So helpful for staying in the loop!
- Well-designed. The flow of comments on Tasks and the way their is a Conversation and Calendar section as well as Task List is so beautiful. Oh and Files too! There is more to list here than I have space for!
- Fun. Tab+B makes my day. The occasional "celebrations" make checking off tasks a joy!
- Multiple teams. This is super handy for when you need projects that aren't involving everybody on the Team. And yet tasks from all projects show up together in your "My Tasks" view!
- Use of tags, mark-as-waiting-on, custom fields and more features in the paid version that we couldn't live without! But the free version is amazing as well.
Cons
There is not a lot that I don't like about Asana. They are always rolling out new features. There are some small nitpicky things, like no ability to add your own sorters in "My Task" view, but those are way overshadowed by the positives.