Asana is one of the friendliest project management tools on the market — clean design, sensible defaults, great mobile apps. The frustration only appears when you hit the paywall stairs: custom fields on Starter, time tracking and workload on Advanced, and per-user prices that climb accordingly.
The Advanced-tier tax
Asana’s pricing splits its best ideas across tiers. Custom fields, timeline view, dependencies, and rules need Starter; time tracking, goals, and workload need Advanced at roughly $25 per user per month. A 15-person team that just wants to track billable hours ends up paying for a lot of features it didn’t ask for.
TskVlo doesn’t play that game. Custom fields, all six views, automation rules, dependencies, and time tracking are on every board, free during the public beta with unlimited users.
Familiar where it counts
Coming from Asana, you’ll recognize the essentials immediately: tasks with assignees, due dates, and sub-tasks; sections (item groups in TskVlo); a My Tasks view aggregating your work across boards; threaded comments with @mentions; and rules that move items and set fields automatically. Recurring tasks work out of the box — daily, weekly, monthly, or custom intervals, with dates shifted forward automatically on each completion.
What you gain in the switch
Time tracking without a tier upgrade. A server-side timer on every task, manual entries, and a report modal with date-range filtering, per-member and per-task totals, and CSV export for invoicing.
AI with real hands. TskVlo ships a full MCP server, so Claude and other AI assistants can create, update, and query tasks directly. The built-in assistant answers questions about a board’s workload and deadlines, drafts tasks from a description, and summarizes long comment threads — powered by an AI endpoint you choose and control.
Git integration. Link GitHub and GitLab PRs, issues, and commits to tasks, see merge and CI status on cards, and trigger automations when a linked PR merges.
Where Asana keeps the edge
Asana’s portfolios, goals, and workload views are genuinely useful for leadership tracking dozens of projects across teams — TskVlo has no equivalent modules today. Its native mobile apps and integration catalog are also more mature. If those are your daily drivers, Asana earns its price; if boards, fields, time, and automation are what you actually use, you’re paying Advanced prices for Starter needs.
Switching from Asana
Export each project as CSV and import it in TskVlo under Board Settings → Import / Export. Sections become groups, assignees become person fields, and your team is working the same day.
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