Timeline is not a premium upsell
Gantt, dependencies and critical path are in Starter. Asana puts Timeline behind Starter and Portfolios behind Advanced.
Comparison
Taskzin vs Asana
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Asana
AsanaThe short answer
Choose Taskzin if your team needs sprints, dashboards and docs without paying for the Advanced tier. Choose Asana if your work is mostly cross-functional task coordination and you value its Goals and Portfolios model. Taskzin includes Timeline and reporting from the first paid plan; Asana keeps Timeline, Portfolios and advanced reporting behind Starter and Advanced tiers.
Feature by feature
Every row checked against Asana’s published plans, not marketing copy.
| Capability | Taskzin | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Board, List, Calendar | ||
| Timeline and Gantt | All paid plans | Starter+ |
| Portfolios / multi-project | Business | Advanced |
| Sprints, velocity, burndown | ||
| Docs and wiki | ||
| Dashboards and reporting | Business | Advanced |
| Time tracking built in | Advanced | |
| Unlimited free guests | ||
| Automations on Free plan | ||
| Median view load time | Under 200ms | 1–2s |
| Goals and OKR roll-up | ||
| Workflow bundles |
Where Taskzin wins
Four things we do better than Asana.
Real sprint mechanics
Velocity, burndown and capacity are built in. Asana asks engineering teams to approximate sprints with sections and custom fields.
Docs in the same workspace
Specs sit next to the tasks. Asana project briefs are thin by comparison and most teams still keep a separate wiki.
Guests never hit the bill
Comment-only stakeholders are free and unlimited on every Taskzin plan.
The other side
Where Asana is genuinely better
- Goals and Portfolios are mature and well designed for large programme reporting.
- Workflow Bundles make rolling one process across many projects genuinely easy.
- A larger partner and consultancy ecosystem for enterprise rollouts.
- Rules and forms have had more years of polish for non-technical operators.
If those matter more to you than speed and a single bill, Asana is the better buy. We would rather say so now.
Migration
Moving off Asana takes about an hour.
Read-only on the source, sandboxed on the target, reversible at every step.
1
Connect the old tool
Authorise read access with OAuth. Nothing is written to your existing workspace at any point — the importer is read-only on the source.
Typical time: 2 minutes2
Map the fields
Projects, statuses, custom fields, assignees and comment history are mapped automatically. You review the mapping and override anything that looks wrong.
Typical time: 15 minutes3
Dry run and preview
The import runs into a sandbox workspace first. Walk through the result with your team before a single task lands in the real one.
Typical time: 30 minutes4
Go live, or roll back
Promote the sandbox to your live workspace. If anything is off, one click reverses the whole import and you carry on where you were.
Typical time: 5 minutes“We were about to upgrade to Advanced just to get Timeline. Switching cost us less and we got sprints thrown in.”
Marcus KellHead of Delivery, PeaklineQuestions before switching
Yes. The importer maps projects, statuses, custom fields, assignees, comments and attachments from Asana, runs into a sandbox first, and can be rolled back in one click. Most teams finish in under an hour.
Usually, because guests are free and features are not spread across tiers. The honest answer is that it depends on your mix of editors and viewers — the pricing page shows the full breakdown with no "contact us" gaps.
Yes, and we recommend it for one sprint. Nothing is deleted from Asana during import, so both tools stay usable while your team settles in.
Then use it. The section above lists exactly where it wins. We would rather you pick the right tool than churn in three months.
Other comparisons
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