In this video, I'm comparing Asana and Monday.com. If you're
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Let's talk about Monday and Asana. I'm going to take some
notes on how you can compare the different areas of these two
apps, which to be honest, a pretty neck and neck that have
some unique features about each one individually.
Now we'll start with user interface. Both apps make it
easy to add new tasks to projects. But I started off as
a, let's say, more intuitive interface. I personally prefer
the keyboard shortcuts of Asana, there's a few less button clicks
to get around. And I like how Asana can expertly link between
different tasks and between different projects. It makes it
really easy to find things. And I also like that you can go lots
of layers deep with the subtasks with Asana. It makes it really
simple.
Next up is to move on to templates. Both apps include
templates, but Monday's templates are a little bit more
robust. And there's a lot more kind of like real-life content
Examples of different templates that are available there. I do
like the templates that are in Asana, but as a company that
don't seem to be focused on templated tasks, it's really
more about the actual task functionality as projects are
built out. Let's move on to that.
Task management is the next one. And Asana you know, really, they
give you the fastest and most streamlined task creation.
Monday can be a little bit clunkier. But Monday really does
give you more details, Monday has got some great grid views,
which allow you to have extra pieces of data in there like
date fields and styles and colors and other things that
Asana just doesn't quite happen the same way. If you do pay for
Asana premium, then you get the option to do custom fields. And
you can kind of create a similar kind of setup that you would
have inside of Monday. But I think Monday is more visually
appealing, particularly seeing things like progress bars in
Monday, whereas in Asana, you'd have to do that using the
portfolio view. I think Monday is a winner here overall with
task management. But what I do like about Asana is the
conversation flow and communication. And we're going
to come back to communication in a few moments.
Now with team management, Asana has some more advanced team
management features. Really, Asana is designed not just for
small teams, but also for growing businesses and large
enterprises as well. And we've had Asana implemented into
literally hundreds and hundreds of businesses, if not 1000s of
companies that we've worked with over many years. One of the
things I love about Asana is the amazing communication. In the
actual thread of an individual task. You can mention a project,
you can mention other tasks, you can mention other commenters,
and kind of all brings it into one place that works nicely with
the mobile app and even with email as well, if you want to
use tasks in email, even though I don't recommend it. Whereas,
you know, Monday will let you comment on tasks, but it doesn't
quite have all of the same features. The thing I love about
Asana, and you know, here's where some of my bias starts to
come in here is that we have completely removed any need for
internal email or internal chat inside our business while we're
using Asana for tasks. It makes it nice and easy.
Next, moving on to the visualization of your work. You
know Asana gives you more kind of advanced visualization
features. It's got amazing things like Gantt charts and
calendars or other bits and pieces, but for visualizing on
an individual task level or individual project level. As I
mentioned earlier, things like the progress bars, Monday really
takes the cake there. I do like Asana and the ability to you
know, create custom fields and have different colors for those.
Asana really feels to me more like a souped up spreadsheet
when I'm in those views. Whereas Monday actually feels like an
app that I've created and is fun to use.
How do you make a choice between the two? Well, if you are
working with any technology implementation, I recommend you
watch our video on how to choose the perfect technology tool for
your business. There's lots of different criteria for you to
think about when you're choosing a tech tool to make sure that
you're making a great, you know, great choice for your business.
Both of these apps though, both asana and Monday, are very
strong project management apps. They're going to help you
organize your work and communicate with your team. Now
if you have a complex project and you have multiple internal
external collaborators, Asana is basically the clear winner. It
centralizes everything in one place. And there's advanced
features portfolios, you know, workflow that allow you to do
resource allocation.
I really like Asana for its integrations as well as
third-party integrations with Asana, you know, effectively
allow you to enhance the functionality we use a lot of
Zapier zaps, to go back and forth with creating tools and
creating tasks inside of Asana. So that's really useful. And
there's a thriving add-on marketplace for Asana, which
basically gives you an open door to lots of different tools and
resources there.
Now Monday is really great for smaller projects, to-do lists,
you know, working with smaller teams, maybe less external
contractors. I found using Monday, every time we added a
person, we had to have them licensed. Whereas Asana is a
little bit more flexible with that using the team's feature
will get you access to kind of more people if you're still
using the free plan.
But Monday really wins when it comes to, you know, being able
to have your projects and tasks look prettier, and have more,
you know, let's say visual elements to the way that you're
working. So if you're more of a visual worker, you may choose to
work with Monday. If you're looking for something with a bit
more power, I'd say go for Asana.
Asana is certainly a more established product, more users
more growth, I assume more revenue in the business as well.
It was literally founded by ex-Facebook and ex-Google
employees. So it's got a really amazing team there. But Monday
had been making massive strides in the industry to really, you
know, chase down those coattails of Asana and Monday have built a
really solid product as well.
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