An Asana Alternative for Small Teams

Why small teams look for an Asana alternative

Asana is a capable work manager, with goals, portfolios, rules and reporting built for large organisations. Small teams often need less of it, and they notice three things: the timeline view is on a paid plan, the free plan is for two people, and the bill grows with every person who joins.

A board, a chat and a calendar, ready on day one

A Glidely workspace starts with a kanban board and a #general channel. Cards carry an owner, a due date, a checklist, labels and files, and team chat opens beside the board, so a question about a card gets answered next to it. There are no portfolios or custom workflows to set up before the team can start.

Timeline and calendar on the free plan

Every Glidely board switches between Board, Table, Calendar and Timeline on every plan, Free included. Asana’s free Personal plan has list, board and calendar views; its timeline and Gantt views start on Starter.

One price for the account, not per person

Asana is priced per user: Starter is $10.99 and Advanced $24.99 per user per month billed yearly ($13.49 and $30.49 billed monthly). Glidely is priced per account: Pro is $8 a month for up to 15 people per workspace, and Max is $20 a month with no member limit. For a team of 10, Asana Starter comes to $109.90 a month billed yearly; Glidely Pro stays $8.

Where Asana is the better fit

An honest comparison has two sides. Asana’s free plan has unlimited tasks and projects, and its paid plans add automations, reporting dashboards, goals, portfolios and more than 100 integrations, with apps for iOS and Android. Asana also has messages for team conversations. Glidely Free has 1 workspace with 1 board and 50 cards, and Max has 5 workspaces with 4 boards each. If you run many projects across a large company and report on them to leadership, Asana may suit you better. If a small team wants its board, chat and calendar together at a flat price, try Glidely.

Glidely and Asana side by side

• Kanban board: both
• Timeline view: Glidely on every plan; Asana from Starter
• Calendar view: both, on their free plans
• Team chat: Glidely has channels, private channels and direct messages beside the board; Asana has messages in projects and teams
• Pricing: Glidely is a flat price per account; Asana is priced per user
• Free plan: Asana has unlimited tasks and projects for 2 people; Glidely has 1 board for up to 3 people, with chat and every view
• Goals, portfolios and reporting: Asana goes much further

Moving your work over

1. In Asana, open the project’s menu › Export/Print › CSV.
2. Sign up free for Glidely and open a board.
3. Open the board menu › Export, import and share, and drop the CSV file into Import. Sections become lists, and task names, notes, tags and due dates come across; tasks marked complete go to Done.
4. Invite your team and open chat beside the board.

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