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Gantt, dependencies and portfolios — without Premium
Timeline and dependencies are Premium-only in Asana. In Easylim Gantt, dependencies and planner are available without an upgrade.
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Comparison
Easylim vs Asana
Asana is powerful, but most of the genuinely useful features sit behind higher-priced plans. Easylim gives you the same project depth without upselling at every step.
TL;DR: when Easylim beats Asana
If you care about Gantt, dependencies, dashboards, custom fields, time tracking and AI — in Asana that path leads to Business or Enterprise. In Easylim it's already in the standard plans.
- Your team needs Gantt and dependencies without an upgrade
- You don't want to pay extra for time tracking
- You need docs and a wiki next to projects
- You want AI without a separate subscription
What you get in each tool
Best choiceEasylim
Asana
Views
Kanban board
Yes
Yes
Task list
Yes
Yes
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Gantt chart
Yes
Paid only
Daily planner
Yes
No
Dashboards
Yes
Paid only
Working with tasks
Subtasks
Yes
Yes
Task dependencies
Yes
Paid only
Time tracking
Yes
Paid only
Custom fields
Yes
Paid only
Custom statuses
Yes
Paid only
Recurring tasks
Yes
Yes
Knowledge & docs
Documents
Yes
No
Wiki / Knowledge base
Yes
No
Whiteboard
Yes
No
Screen recording
Yes
No
AI assistant
Yes
Paid only
Collaboration & integrations
Forms → tasks
Yes
Paid only
Public link sharing
Yes
Paid only
Automations & rules
Yes
Paid only
Project templates
Yes
Yes
Integrations & API
Yes
Yes
Why teams move to Easylim
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Time tracking built in
Asana time tracking is Business-only. Easylim has it from Basic up, with estimates and reports.
03
Docs and wiki in the same workspace
Asana relies on comments and attachments. Easylim keeps documents, pages, notes and whiteboard next to tasks.
04
AI without an extra subscription
Asana Intelligence is a paid layer on higher plans. Easylim AI is included in the Business plan.
05
Simple, predictable pricing
No multi-tier maze and no "Enterprise only" surprises. You know what you get and what it costs.
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Fast start with no onboarding
Asana needs setup and training. Easylim is usable in 5 minutes — the interface is obvious from the first click.
Deep dive
Easylim vs Asana — an honest comparison, not a sales deck
5 chapters
Asana is a well-built tool with mature UX and a deep integration library. The catch: most of what people love about it lives on the Advanced tier at $24.99/seat. If you're already invested and your team is trained, stay. If you're choosing a PM tool and don't want to hit an upsell wall every other click, Easylim solves the same problem at $7/seat with no tier games.
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Розділ
What Asana actually is — and who it clicks for
Asana launched in 2008 as a list-first tool: one task per row, with assignee, due date and comments. It's not kanban-first like Trello and not the everything-store ClickUp tries to be — it's a working list that renders nicely in several views.
It found its audience in marketing and agencies for a reason. "My Tasks" is inbox-style: everything assigned to you, in one list, draggable into "today / this week / later". For anyone used to a Gmail-style workflow this is a familiar model, not a new paradigm to learn.
Asana is honestly strong at two things: default UX (a new hire can produce work inside half an hour) and a deep template library for product launches, content calendars and agency campaigns. If you're a marketing team of 8–15 with a typical process, Asana turns on fast.
- Model: list-first, inbox-style "My Tasks".
- Sweet spot: UX polish and templates for marketing/agency.
- Four default views: list, board, timeline, calendar.
asana · my tasks
ListBoardTimelineCalendar
Q3 launch briefOn trackAM
Blog calendar SepAt riskJK
Webinar promoOn trackSL
Customer story · AcmeOff trackNM
Event landingOn trackAM
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Розділ
Where Asana honestly wins — no sugar-coating
I'm not going to pretend Easylim already beats Asana on every dimension. Asana wins on UX micro-details: hovers, view transitions, drag-and-drop in timeline. Not deal-breakers, but nice every day.
Asana's mobile apps are among the best in the category. Genuinely native, offline-capable, push notifications that actually fire. If your team is on the road and edits tasks from the phone, that's not a small thing.
Integrations: 300+ native, plus Asana Connect API. Salesforce, Adobe Creative Cloud, Tableau, Figma, Loom — all plug in without Zapier duct tape. Goals and Portfolios for C-level — also a mature feature: an exec sees status across 12 quarterly goals on one screen.
- Polished UX and best-in-class mobile clients.
- 300+ native integrations, especially Adobe / Salesforce.
- Goals and Portfolios — mature exec-level surface.
where asana honestly wins
Polished UX, low click-cost
Marketing & agency templates
Mature iOS / Android apps
300+ native integrations
My Tasks inbox-style workflow
Goals & portfolios for execs
6 honest reasons teams pick asana
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Розділ
Where Asana hurts — concrete numbers and feature gates
The first and most painful problem is tier segmentation. The free plan only gives you list and board. Timeline (Gantt-like) is Starter at $10.99/seat. Dashboards, custom fields, workflow builder, time tracking — that's Advanced at $24.99. The real Asana you see in demos is $25/person.
Second: custom statuses are workspace-level, not per-project. If marketing needs a "waiting on copywriter" status and engineering needs "waiting on code review", you either compromise or do project-by-project workarounds. Easylim keeps statuses per-project with no shared-namespace pain.
Third: no documents or wiki inside. Asana comments and "Project briefs" don't replace Confluence or Notion. Teams end up paying for a separate Notion or Google Docs and effectively pay twice. Math: $25 (Asana Advanced) + $10 (Notion) = $35/seat/mo. On a 25-person team that's $10 500/year vs $2 100 on Easylim.
- Useful features (dashboards, timer, custom fields) = Advanced $24.99.
- Custom statuses are workspace-wide, not per-project.
- No native docs — you'll need a parallel Notion/Confluence.
feature gates · per seat / mo
Personal · free
$0
Lists
Timeline
Dashboards
Custom fields
Starter
$10.99
Lists
Timeline
Dashboards
Time tracking
Workflow builder
Advanced
$24.99
Lists
Timeline
Dashboards
Time tracking
Most useful PM features start at Advanced ($24.99/seat).
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Розділ
What Easylim does differently — concretely, no "all-in-one" slogans
Every feature in every tier. It's the simplest difference but it changes the economics. Easylim's free plan ships Gantt, time tracker, documents, AI on trial credits. The $7 plan is the same without the limits. There's no Advanced or Enterprise wall — there's nothing on the other side of one.
Documents inside the workspace. Easylim Documents aren't "comments under a task" — they're proper pages with formatting, embeds and links to tasks. You can link "Q3 Strategy" to 8 tasks and from any task jump back to its strategic context.
Per-project custom statuses: marketing project uses "brief / in design / awaiting approval / in production", engineering uses "backlog / WIP / code review / QA / released". No workspace-wide reconfigure, no cross-project spillover. It's not a new paradigm — it's Asana without the artificial constraints.
- $7 with everything vs $24.99 for "real Asana".
- Documents + tasks in one workspace.
- Custom statuses and fields are per-project.
same features · two pricings
EasylimAsanaTimeline / Gantt$7$10.99Dashboards$7$10.99Custom fields$7$24.99Time tracking$7$24.99Workflow rules$7$24.99AI assistant$7$24.99
one tier · all features
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Розділ
When you should honestly stay on Asana
Honest advice: don't switch if your team is 6+ months in and you've built 5+ custom templates. Retraining 20 people costs more than the tier savings you'd see in a year. Migrations cost 2–3 weeks of productivity drop — if there's no real pain point, don't.
Stay if you actively use Goals and Portfolios at C-level with established OKR rituals. Easylim has dashboards but not a separate "Portfolios" entity — for 200+ people teams that may be critical.
Stay if a key agency client lives in Asana and shares projects with you. Asana cross-workspace collaboration is better, and breaking a client workflow for internal cost savings is a bad trade.
And the biggest mistake people make migrating from Asana is trying to mirror all the workspace-level configs 1:1. Easylim is a different model (project-level fields), and a copy of Asana ends up worse than the original. Better to rebuild from scratch — it takes a week, but you get a cleaner workspace out of it.
- Stay if the team is 6+ months in with custom templates.
- Stay if Goals + Portfolios are part of your weekly C-level rhythm.
- Don't migrate 1:1 — rebuild from the process up.
stay or switch · 30s test
Stay on Asana
- 5+ Asana templates locked in
- Team trained 6+ months
- Heavy Goals/Portfolios use
- Agency client uses Asana
Try Easylim
- Paying for unused tiers
- Need Gantt + docs together
- Per-seat cost > $200/mo
- AI is a regular workflow
Switch if 2+ on the right match you.
Quick takeaways
- 1Asana is honestly strong on UX, mobile and marketing templates.
- 2"Real Asana" (Gantt + dashboards + time tracker) costs $24.99/seat.
- 3Easylim ships the same feature set in one $7 tier — plus documents in the same workspace.
- 4Don't switch if you're invested in templates, Goals and Portfolios.
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