Switch from Asana to Workel. Your tasks, with the team's chat and calls beside them.
Asana is deep work management for teams that plan in detail. Workel is for smaller teams that want tasks, chat, docs, files, a calendar and calls in one app, with one bill.
Which one fits your team. An honest answer, both ways.
Pick Workel if
- You want team chat, with channels and direct messages, beside your tasks instead of in another app
- You want video calls built in: one-to-one on every paid plan, groups on Max
- You keep files in folders, inside the project they belong to
- You want a shared calendar for the team's events, next to the work
- You're a small team and want one price for all of it: Pro is $8 a person a month ($7 billed yearly)
Stay with Asana if
- You run on rules: when a task changes, Asana acts for you, even in Slack, Gmail or Jira (Starter and up)
- You plan on a timeline, a Gantt chart with task dependencies (Starter and up)
- You set goals and watch the health of many projects at once in portfolios (Advanced and up)
- You connect a lot of other tools: Asana lists more than 200 apps
What Workel doesn't do yet: time tracking, rule-based automations, guest accounts for people outside your team, or phone apps (iOS and Android are coming soon).
Workel and Asana, side by side. What each covers, and what it costs.
Checked on 19 October 2026
Workel
Asana
Plan the work
Boards and lists
Tasks on a calendar
Import from other tools
Talk
Team chat, with channels and direct messages
Video calls
Keep it together
Docs you write together
Files in folders
A shared team calendar
AI assistant
Price
Free plan
Cheapest paid plan
A team of 10, a month
Asana's plans, prices and features were checked on 19 October 2026 on its own website (pricing, messages, pages in asana, csv importer) and may have changed since. Prices are a month, in US dollars. Workel's come from our pricing page.
Moving over from Asana. Bring your projects and tasks with you.
Do it yourself
We do it for you
Or let us move it.
Years of history or a messy setup? Send us your Asana export. We'll map it, run the move, and walk through the result with you before your team logs in, free.
Switching from Asana? Straight answers, before you start.
Yes. Export a project from Asana as a CSV, then import it in Workel under Settings, Import / export. Sections become board columns, tasks keep their descriptions, due dates and assignees (matched by email), and finished tasks stay done. Do it once per project, or send us the files and we'll move them for you.
Workel is free for up to 2 people, with no card needed. Pro is $8 a person a month ($7 billed yearly). Asana's cheapest paid plan was Starter, $13.49 a person a month ($10.99 billed yearly) when we checked its pricing page on 19 October 2026.
No. Workel has no rule-based automations, goals or portfolios. If your team plans around those, Asana is the better fit, and we'd rather tell you now.
For many small teams, yes. Workel has boards, lists and a calendar for tasks, plus team chat with channels and direct messages, docs, files in folders and video calls. Calls come with paid plans and group calls with Max ($12 a person a month). The AI assistant is included in every plan but Student.