Asana is powerful, sometimes more than a team needs, at a price to match. Taskly gives you the structure teams actually use (lists, boards, subtasks, recurrence, a real team model), with Otto turning plain English into tasks you approve, free while in early access.
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Powerful, but the feature surface gets overwhelming fast.
The jump from the free plan to paid is a big price step.
Simple teams end up paying for project-management depth they don’t use.
Rolling it out to a whole team takes real onboarding time.
Taskly is the lighter, AI-native alternative to Asana: the structure most teams actually use (lists, boards, subtasks, recurrence and a real team model), with Otto turning plain English into tasks you approve, and free while in early access. Less to learn, less to pay, and the AI does the busywork.
| Taskly | Asana | |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | Focused on the essentials | Broad and deep, can feel heavy |
| Setup & learning | Minutes | Moderate: many features to learn |
| AI assistant | Otto drafts & edits real tasks from plain English, approve every change | Asana AI / “AI teammates” assist; capable, on higher tiers |
| Best fit | Teams wanting simple + AI-organized work | Cross-functional PM with timelines, portfolios and goals |
| Privacy | Teammate emails are never sent to the AI model | Standard SaaS data handling |
| Entry price | Free during early access | Free Personal plan (small teams); Starter $10.99, Advanced $24.99/user/mo billed annually (2026) |
Taskly is free for the whole product while in early access. As of 2026 Asana has a free Personal plan for a small team, then $10.99/user/mo on Starter and $24.99/user/mo on Advanced billed annually (about $13.49 and $30.49 billed monthly), with Enterprise plans above that. Check Asana’s pricing page for current rates.
We’d rather be honest than oversell: it’s your team’s call.
Start a Taskly workspace and bring over only your live work: recreate it in minutes, or tell Otto what each project needs and approve the tasks it drafts. No need to migrate archives of completed Asana projects.
Taskly offers the structure most teams use (lists, boards, subtasks, recurrence and a real team model) without Asana’s broader feature surface, plus an AI assistant (Otto). It’s free while in early access.
Yes. Otto creates, edits, reprioritises and assigns real tasks from plain-English requests and shows a before/after diff you approve. Unlike many tools, teammate emails are never sent to the AI model.
Taskly is currently free for the entire product, including Otto, during early access. Asana is free for small teams and charges per seat above that, so for most paying teams Taskly is less expensive today.
If you need timelines, portfolios, goals and advanced workflow automation for large cross-functional programs, Asana is more mature in those areas. Taskly is for teams that want lighter, AI-organized task management.
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