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Asana vs Trello

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Asana

Asana is a work management platform that helps teams organize, track, and manage their work and projects. It offers multiple project views including lists, boards, timelines, and calendars, with features for task dependencies, custom fields, and workflow automation.

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Trello

Trello Visual kanban board tool for organizing tasks and projects using cards, lists, and boards.

Quick Facts

Asana

CompanyAsana
Year Launched2012
Pricing ModelFreemium
Open SourceNo
CategoryProject Management
PlatformsiOS, Android, Web

Trello

CompanyAtlassian
Year Launched2011
Pricing ModelFreemium
Open SourceNo
CategoryProject Management
PlatformsmacOS, Windows, Web

Key Differences

Complexity

Asana

Simple Kanban

Trello

Full project management suite

Scaling

Asana

Works for small projects

Trello

Scales to large teams

Features

Asana

Cards and lists only

Trello

Timelines, dependencies, portfolios

Pricing

Asana

Freemium

Personal: 0

Starter: 10.99/monthly per seat

Advanced: 24.99/monthly per seat

Enterprise: contact per seat

Enterprise+: contact per seat

Trello

Freemium

Free: $0/monthly

Pro: Custom/monthly per seat

Why People Switch

AsanaTrello

Trello's simplicity is sometimes enough

Asana overkill for simple Kanban

TrelloAsana

Trello is great until your project gets complex

Asana handles dependencies and timelines

Need to track blockers and critical path

Trello doesn't scale past small projects

Based on publicly available community discussions and migration patterns.

Community Data

What practitioners say

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