ClickUp vs. Asana: Which tool is right for you?

Once upon a time I was working in the tech stack consulting biz, which is basically a fancy word for saying you have a problem, you're looking for technology here. I'll be your little matchmaker. And once upon a time I was doing that work while managing my own business inside Asana. I really liked Asana. I thought I did a lot of things right, but I was also working with clients who used Trello or Wrike or Monday or eventually when ClickUp came out. Click ClickUp. And over time, I personally chose to switch my own business from Asana to ClickUp for some of the reasons I'm going to talk about in this video. But I'm letting you know about that bias because even though I have since gone pretty far down the ClickUp geek path, like a little bit down that, if you look at the YouTube channel at all, I still do not think ClickUp is the best project or task management tool for everyone. I just don't. I think there are a lot of factors at play, including your own personality type, which I include up in this video here, that can help you figure out what type of tool is going to work for you. However, once we get past the basics of what tools are going to work for your personality type and you start to find Asana and ClickUp both seem like they're going to work, which one is better? For me, that's when it's time to evaluate a video like this. So to today I'm going to be walking you through the key differences between Asana and ClickUp. I'm going to talk about not just like pricing and that kind of topical stuff, but we're also going to go inside the tools today. I'm going to show you some of the functional differences between these because they are extremely different tools if you actually zoom in. So with that, I want to remind you that we have links to everything we're talking about in the description, including timestamps for you to skip to what you actually care about. You don't have to watch all this if you don't want to, but let's start off with the first thing that I'd like to compare between these two tools, which is the overall design and aesthetics. All right, so to get us started, we've got both ClickUp and Asana open here. Asana is on the left side of the screen and ClickUp is on the right. As we're going through here today, we're going to keep this side thing consistent, so if you get confused as to which we're talking about look for the logos in the top corner. Or just remember ClickUp is right and Asana is left. Okay, awesome. Let's dive in with a comparison of our first key feature which is home. We're going to start off with a tour of Asana, just to give you a sense of how it all looks and feels. Asana has a left navigation bar with a few key sections that we'll talk about in detail later on. We have our teams, which is our main hierarchy. Inside of Asana, our teams are these collapsing areas which are intended to be groups of people to represent a team. Inside our team we have projects which we can create for all sorts of applications, including things that aren't actually projects. If we go inside a project we have a bunch of views available, including the overview view, which is very nice. And when we go into any of our regular task views, we can see our tasks and create tasks by typing right into this spreadsheet esque really fast Interface Similar to Monday.com, when we click on a task we see a left sidebar up here and we are able to add more details at that time. Up in the top right of any task we have our additional options including liking, linking and dependencies, depending on the plan that you're on. And at a quick glance, that's a overview of the kind of look and feel you get with Asana. Very snappy, very simple, very straightforward. If we go over here into ClickUp, things look a little bit different from first glance. There's a lot more going on. We've flipped through things like notifications, our goals, and the favorite section in ClickUp. Below that we have our spaces which are equivalent to teams in Asana, and we have lists and folders which can roughly be considered the same as the projects we just saw in Asana. Beyond that though, the Asana to ClickUp comparison becomes quite different in areas like Dashboards, which simply do not exist inside Asana, and Documents, which is kind of in Asana, but not really. That's kind of an overview of what ClickUp looks like. To give you an example of what tasks look like. Here we have a list in ClickUp, again equivalent to a project in Asana, we have a whole lot of views to choose from, quite a few more than Asana currently has. And when we click on a given task, we see details appear in a modal overlay on top of where we're currently navigating, and all of our options select similar to Asana are in that top right corner. Depending on your screen size, they Might be slightly adjusted, but you get what I'm saying. Inside these tasks we can create subtasks just like Asana, and that's kind of how we go about our day. Looking at these side by side. Even at this kind of overview level, there is clearly a lot in common. Especially if I go ahead and make ClickUp have a dark sidebar, these start to look very similar. However, when we start looking feature by feature or section by section, I think the interface will start to look a little different to you. So let's actually go through a few of those key areas. First off, home in ClickUp, which I flipped through, and Home in Asana, Looking at Home with Asana on the left and ClickUp on the right, they both have this personal My work section, with it being a small section of Asana's to do list area and a rather large focus of ClickUp's to do list home area on the right side. We have an agenda mode inside ClickUp, which can either be a true agenda or a calendar. We don't have quite the same thing in Asana. By default to the right we have projects in Asana, which are places we've been recently working inside Asana, and we have a similar thing in ClickUp. If it ever loads here, where we have trending tasks that we've been working on that show up there below that, we have people that we've recently worked with inside Asana, and we do not have an equivalent to the that in ClickUp. The other nice thing about Asana, which I think is something that I hope ClickUp will one day have, is this my week summary. This kind of sense of accomplishment of showing what you've done and gamifying productivity in ClickUp. We do have ways to get to that using things called dashboard widgets. But right now ClickUp's home is quite set, it's stock and it does not change, although they have hinted to that changing in the future. At this point though, Asana is ahead of the curve and does allow us to customize our home with background colors, different widgets that we'd like to add, and so on, which is something that I'm actually surprised we didn't see come out of a ClickUp. First, it seems like something you would do, but that's a really nice benefit of Asana, just starting off with your day. That is the home area of ClickUp and Asana. Functional differences, but most importantly aesthetic differences that can really affect how you focus when you're getting ready to start start working. I should point out that Asana also has an area called My Tasks, which is very similar to Home, except that for my task we are just focused on tasks, which is what my work slash Home is in ClickUp. So there's kind of two tabs in Asana to equal the one in ClickUp. Next up we have Notifications or Inbox. So this is what Inbox looks like in Asana. Very similar. And we've got ClickUp notifications on the right. One thing that you'll notice stands out with Asana is the messages I've sent in area where you can actually send messages or notes through Asana, which is really cool. We'll just do full screen here and you can see kind of this chat back and forth. The messaging feature inside Asana found under the Send Message button right here is a really nice way to be able to send messages privately or relative to a team. This is what makes Asana, I think, a pretty viable alternative to something like Slack. Because the structure of Asana is very similar to the tool Slack. We do not have a comparison for that in ClickUp. Below that we have a few different reporting things. So both of these tools have a goals feature of some kind. Not remarkably different between the two. Asana has a standardized reporting feature here under the Reporting tab, whereas ClickUp has flexible dashboards like I talked about before, to the left in Asana we have the Portfolio option in order to report on groups of projects in ClickUp, we tend to do that in a dashboard itself. If we go into Asana further down and we start looking at where tasks actually live, this is the overview of a team. Inside of Asana, we've got the overview of what projects are contained in it, who's in it, a messaging area and a calendar to show the stuff that's going on. If we flip over to ClickUp and try to replicate this same kind of structure, we would click on the space in ClickUp to equate to the team. We'd see the stuff inside. But the interesting thing about ClickUp is that there is no overview page by default. However, you can add these things in to make it look a lot more like Asana if we just go ahead and add these views in. So now all of a sudden we have a document to start our space, our overall team in this case, where we could provide that same amount of overview information if we wanted to. But it is far less automatic than Asana's kind of forced team overview structure. Another thing I should say is this messages thing is super nice at the team level. ClickUp can replicate that using different views such as the chat view. And I apologize, this is a little small when we're showing these side by side and flipping between, but it's the same kind of thing, except not quite as easy as that Asana messaging feature, which is just really well done. Here you can see a side by side of two nonsense messages sent to a team or a space, and you can kind of compare the difference overall. Not too dissimilar when it comes to actually messaging on tasks or looking at the information you have in ClickUp. If we go on any of these, let's go to our task called Task one. We've got one in here called Task one. Here's the difference. In Asana we've got again that sidebar I showed you earlier. Here's all of our good stuff in our description where we can add all sorts of information including embedding video clips, which is nice. So that is kind of the task in Asana we've got our description area with tons of formatting including the ability to mention other information. Subtasks go here with assignees and dates quickly added and we can also comment on a specific task, add additional notes such as these kind of weird emoji things. There we go. And we can also go inside our subtasks which you can see the nesting up here and add similar notes in about those subtasks. On every single task and subtasks you can see this reminder of who your collaborators are. You can pop up and down between tasks and subtasks here, here, and it all stays stationary on this right sidebar so you can focus on where the task is as well as what you're working on. If we do the same thing over in ClickUp Land, we've got our task our description here. Unlike Asana, we have quite a few more options when it comes to formatting our task descriptions, including embedding outside information, which is pretty nice to have Google Docs, all that good stuff. In addition to that, we have the option to do some hotkey activity to be able to assign things to me while I'm at it. There we go. Without having to use my mouse. I can also add comments just like I could Nasana paste them in. Again, we have the option to add different information into here such as clip in ClickUp. We also have the nice little bonus feature of being able to email out of ClickUp directly as well as just commenting inside. And again, if we have a subtask like this one here, we can click on it, go inside and do whatever the heck we want, just like we would with a task pretty much. I mean, pretty similar overall, but the overall look is quite different when we're comparing that centralized modal to the sidebar. Now let's just compare a few other small features to help you see the difference between these two. In Asana, your custom fields are set up using the plus sign to the right. Multiple ways to do it, but that would be the most common way. Very similar in ClickUp with that + sign to the right, although a few more options here. When it comes to ClickUp, your automations can live at every space, folder and list at different layers and you can add your automations and and build them like this. If we go over to Asana, when we're looking to do any kind of automation, we're going to be looking most likely under workflows and this is where we're going to be building things out. An interesting thing to compare these two automation tools is that ClickUp automations tend to be Let me just show you one task to another. It's usually always one task impacting the same task or another task in ClickUp, whereas with Asana we are a little bit more focused on organization. In some ways, yes, tasks trigger other tasks, but as you might have guessed with the name Workflows, with Asana we're focused more on moving tasks and organizing tasks. Not as much or as singularly focused on just tasks affecting other tasks like we are in ClickUp. I just use the word tasks a whole lot, but hopefully you know what I mean. The other cool thing about Asana is workflows here is that we have some more options around rules, fields, apps and forms. It's just a really nice way to go about it, particularly the apps side of the equation. What is built in directly to Asana is really, really nice, whereas with ClickUp the external integrations that are there from the get go are very, very limited. Seems to be just limited to tools that ClickUp maybe use is in house or has developed an automation for in some way. Doesn't mean you can't automate other tools with ClickUp, but the native ones that are just, you know, one click and there you go. Very limited versus Asana. Another point of comparison I want to make between Asana and ClickUp before we move on to the next section is just the profile feature. Asana does a really nice job of this, of when you hover over a person, you can send them a private message. Again, we've talked about that already. View the tasks they have on their plate. You can also see their local time, their email address and all that other good stuff, including their bio, which is really nice to have. These are the kind of little features that we start to see as tools get a little more mature that Asana definitely has covered. If I click on the pencil as the person who is the person I'm clicking on, you'll see the different details about that profile, including the option to show as offline or away, which is really nice. So that is the Asana side. If I were to look at the same information over in ClickUp land hover over person, I do indeed see the same kind of profile. Little slower on the load. I think it's a slightly nicer interface. And if you click on View Profile from ClickUp, you see a lot more information than just someone's general data. You can see the activity that people have done in ClickUp, the work they have assigned, a calendar of the tasks that you have visibility into that they're working on, and more, including what teams they're on. A little bit more information when it comes to the ClickUp side of the equation, as well as the ClickUp Verified logos, for whatever that's worth. The one thing to know about ClickUp though is that there is not that private messaging feature quite yet. I've been waiting for it, people. Eventually I feel like it should be here. It's such a logical expansion of profiles, but that is definitely a huge edge for Asana. So when it comes to this whole design and aesthetics equation, which of these two tools is going to be the winner? Well, I would give this one to Asana just because it just feels a little bit cleaner and nicer to use. But ultimately this is going to be probably down to personal preference, depending on what you find more comfortable. Next up, I want to talk about another meaty topic when it comes to comparing these two, which is features. The feature differences between ClickUp and Asana are really where the separation becomes quite obvious. Even though Asana has several really nice, well thought out features that ClickUp doesn't have. And including messaging like I've highlighted so far overall, pretty much any feature you're comparing between the two of them, ClickUp is going to have either more of or more variety of than Asana. And this is where it starts to be clear that we're doing an apples to oranges comparison, because Asana is not trying in many ways to be the tool that organizes everything. It's a great tool, it integrates with a lot of things, but it's sticking to its lane of being a great task and collaboration management tool. ClickUp as a company is taking a very different perspective where they don't want to be a task and project management tool. They want to be the tool that rules everything, the tool that replaces everything, the only tool you'll ever use. Because of that difference in philosophy, ClickUp tends to develop a lot of features in house from scratch, whereas Asana has a lot of integrations with different things. Click ClickUp develops a lot of features. So some of the features that you will have inside ClickUp that are not or are not close when it comes to Asana are things like give you a quick tour documents in ClickUp, although we can get close to this sort of with the overview area, this is definitely a big difference between these two. Another standout feature for ClickUp, although I would argue it's not quite that standout yet, is their whiteboard view. So their ability to have whiteboards directly inside ClickUp, eventually perhaps being a competitor for Lucidchart or Miro or any of those other tools, definitely not there yet. Very incomplete feature at this moment in time. Next to that, we also have templates. While both of these tools have templates, ClickUp sophistication around remapping templates, meaning you have a template with certain dates, but when you apply it, it can shift your dates in multiple directions to shift everything based on say a start date. Um, that's something where ClickUp's just a little bit more powerful and more established than Asana. When it comes to things like views, ClickUp just has more of them. So timeline box scant things that you wouldn't even think that you would need necessarily, ClickUp has it. And if you want to take any of those views and change your mind and turn them into a different kind of view later, ClickUp allows you to do that. These are just the features that we just would not have in a tool like Asana that is really focused on doing a few things really well. Other feature differences between ClickUp and Asana is that ClickUp does have that feature I've talked about in the past of being able to email and receive email from ClickUp. Also the ability to have email templates directly from ClickUp. Huge time saver for anyone who is also using email alongside their project management tool. Another standout feature is ClickUp's quick, Quick Create menu down here, where you can create information in ClickUp without having to go to a specific area. Asana, much like our other tools, tend to require you to go to where you want to go and then create the thing. It's just a difference. ClickUp also has the ability to create relationships, which is a feature that I feel like we're still kind of waiting on when it comes. On the Asana side, if I wanted to say my task, Task one is connected in some way to task two, I can build these custom relationships like we see in tools like Notion and Coda. We can build that inside of ClickUp, which we just can't have inside of Asana at this point in time. And I know this sounds like a lot of features, but I should highlight that I'm really only scratching the surface at the time of recording. ClickUp has 39 different modular features you can turn on or off. And when we turn all of these up on, the volume of features versus Asana is just very, very different, that it makes it hard to do a comparison. But the quality of features in Asana is really where the difference comes. Because I could turn off all of these features, all these bonuses go off one by one, keep them really simple. And if I look at the bare bones of Asana versus ClickUp, we're going to find that Asana performs a lot more consistently, right? It does the things that it does really well, really solidly, no issues, very snappy. Because Asana has chosen to focus, they've gotten really good at what they're good at, and ClickUp tends to take a bit more of a decentralized approach. Now, I don't want to just sit here and, you know, get all excited about ClickUp, because, yes, while ClickUp tends to stand apart for its feature set, Asana has some great features baked in, including the ones that I've already told you about, like that private messaging that is some such a game changer for so many teams. The other feature that I feel like Asana does really well, that we don't give enough credit to, is their ability to have these kind of overview areas and their visualization of who is on each team. These kinds of details aren't really. I mean, they are features, but they're a lot more subtle and they're the things that give Asana that refinement that other tools are constantly chasing. In addition to the actual functional tool features, Asana also has an upper hand versus quantity ClickUp on things like security and insights. I think Asana does a great job and unfortunately it's still being calculated here, but they have a good way of measuring engagement inside the platform by default. Whereas in ClickUp, yes, you can track some of that with some Accuracy, but you always have to build things out custom, it's not pre built and ready for you. And the security options are also really good inside Asana. Again a feature, but not really a feature. The ability to review different pieces of information here all in one place is really nice to be able to cut down Asana to focus in on certain areas. We do have those permissions in ClickUp, but they are more limited even at the enterprise plans than what some users might expect. Yes, there's a lot of toggles here, but they don't actually equate to a lot of meaningful restrictions to ClickUp. So in some ways Asana does feel a little bit easier to get your team moderated and using frequently, which I would consider partially a feature. And as one more non feature feature, Asana has a lot of integrations. I mean, let's just keep harping on that. If you have any tools you're looking to use alongside your task management tool, and you don't want to mess with Integromat or Zapier or Integrately or any of those other third party automation options, Asana has a lot of great ways to connect Asana with other things without having to go through a third party. Whereas ClickUp, you can do it in a lot of different ways, but it's still a little bit behind because, well, ClickUp's just a lot newer than what Asana is. So overall these two tools just seem to view the quantity of features in a very different way. Asana, high quality, low quantity. ClickUp high quantity, pretty good quality. And the winner in this category, I would definitely say, is ClickUp, but this is definitely area that I would want to keep my eye on if I were you over the coming years, because we have seen some nudges on Asana's side to get a little bit faster and at the same time we're seeing ClickUp go a little bit slower. So the difference between these two I think in two years will be a lot smaller. So if you're watching this in 2024 or beyond, definitely leave me a comment. We'll have to do a part two by that point because things are definitely going to change based on what we're seeing today. All right, so moving on, I want to compare just briefly the mobile experience of Asana versus Cloud ClickUp, because this is a feature that usually is a deciding factor for me when folks are trying to find the right tool. Simply put, Asana's mobile experience is just a lot cleaner than what Clickups is today. Now this is one if we were to picture this as a race, you know, the ClickUp horse is going really, really fast, but the Asana horse is just so far ahead in the race that today Asana definitely has the better mobile app. It does more, it looks cleaner, it's snappy and fast. It makes sense. But ClickUp is developing their own mobile app further really, really fast. So by next year this equation could be very different. But at this point in time, both Asana and ClickUp have good functional mobile apps, but Asanas is just a little bit better. So if you are someone who's going to be primarily working on your phone as your main tool, or maybe your team is primarily on their phone, Asana is definitely going to have an edge for for this one. I should also say ClickUp has technically two apps, two and a half apps. So you can go up here if you want to get the inside scoop on the whole ClickUp app situation as to which app you need. But if you are deciding between these two and your mobile first, Asana definitely wins this category and I would recommend you check out that path first. Now that we've talked about accessing these tools on the go, I want to talk about accessing these tools for people who are need different ways to access these tools. For this accessibility comparison, I'm going to be talking about things like language, voice dictation and so on. So this is another kind of night and day comparison between these two. And for this section I want to shout out Lorianne, who left this comment on our Monday vs. ClickUp video, who recommended we include this segment in this video. Thank you Lorianne. And let's actually go through the comparison now of accessibility for Asana and ClickUp. We're going to start off with the baseline access which is just language. Do we have language accessibility in these two tools? ClickUp currently has its interface in English and French and that's it. So if your team is not comfortable working in English or experiencing an interface that is written in English, you might have a hard time in ClickUp because it is so word driven and again not translated. ClickUp support is also primarily in English, which is surprising for a company that is based in California where there are a lot of non English speakers. But that is where ClickUp is today. We should see that change hopefully very soon, but status quo, definitely not great. If we flip over to Asana as the more mature tool of these two, they have definitely invested more resources into this kind of accessibility and they now support English traditional Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Swedish, Korean, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese in their interface and their support resources. So that is a really nice benefit for Asana. If your team does not feel comfortable working in a workspace with terms and jargon in English, well, Asana is going to take the cake. Beyond language accessibility, I also want to talk about things like color. So when it comes to Asana and we go into my settings, we do have the option to change our display from light to dark or to just sync with our system settings. We also have the option to have a compact mode or a colorblind friendly mode to give us even more options inside our display settings in Asana, if we flip over to ClickUp, we have similar options here in the ability to switch to dark mode entirely, or in part by adjusting just our sidebar individually if we wanted to. We do also have the option to change the density of ClickUp, but that is primarily for the sidebar options and not for the interface itself itself. ClickUp, generally speaking, has quite a small font size and it is a little bit difficult to navigate. You see, there are a lot of tiny icons that only appear when you hover over them and that makes ClickUp just, I think, a little bit harder to find your way around. There is no colorblind mode in ClickUp either as of this point. When it comes to reading or dictating information out of both of these tools, Asana does have the ability to dictate information out of Asana. I am not yet aware of that ability in ClickUp, but please someone correct me in the comments comments if you found a nice way to do that. And when it comes to dictating information in to either of these tools, there is options for both of them. Although Asana's does seem a little bit more developed and just based on this article from Asana, Asana definitely is taking the Accessibility piece seriously. But I do want to just give credit where credit is due and say that ClickUp is a much newer, younger tool. So they have made a statement saying that they are working on accessibility and that it's a priority for them and if we browse ClickUp's candy board where they actually allow people to vote and kind of campaign for new features. We have received an update as recently as March 2022 from one of the product managers at ClickUp who describes some of the activities ClickUp is working on. So all that to say ClickUp is very much aware that they are behind the curve and for this section we're going to make our winner Asana. Now moving on, I want to talk A little bit about pricing between these two tools, namely to say that they're pretty darn close. If we look at Asana here, our plans vary from $0 US to $25 US or 30 and a half dollars if we are billing monthly. If we look at ClickUp, we are looking at a free plan just like Asana. And if we go up to our highest monthly plan, we are at $30 overall. These two tools are at a very similar price point. However, if we really zoom in on what features are included on each of these plans, much like our other comparison videos, ClickUp tends to include a lot more features on their free plan and a lot more features just in general. So you need to really be on the business plan of Asana to equal the business plan of ClickUp. And please note the price difference between those two. So while at first glance the price of these two tools is very comparable, because so many of you are going to be able to get away with a very low or free plan on ClickUp, whereas you would need to be on at least a paid plan of Asana, one would argue that ClickUp is actually cheaper just because you don't need as much to get more, if that makes sense. So when it comes to pricing, when give this one to ClickUp, this tends to be a strong category for them in general. Now the last feature I want to compare between ClickUp and Asana, which is a night and day difference really between the two, is the hierarchy of both of these. So with Asana, we basically have. Here, let me just zoom in. We've got these kind of discrete teams, team for product. This is a team and we just keep adding teams and projects inside them. And with this structure, pretty much everything is per project. We go to click on launch a new website to see where that stands. We go over here to another project and it's always kind of one thing at a time. And it's very similar to Trello in some ways, if you're familiar with that, Trello boards, it's very similar. And if we go to tasks or home, we do get to see a bit of a summary and maybe even in reporting we can get to a bit of a summary, but it's not built into the tool to have kind of a summary of all of our teams. You know, how's everybody doing? It's hard to get to that without again leveraging some of that advanced reporting, which does require a higher paid plan and a little bit of customization to really see what you want to see in this way. I would really call Asana's hierarchy very, very compartmentalized and vertical. Meaning we've got this and this and this, and we go to one category and we switch to the other. Everything is mutually exclusive. If we flip over to ClickUp, things are very, very different. Even though ClickUp visually looks quite similar when it comes to the organization of tasks with ClickUp, there are really two hierarchies to organize information, whereas Asana is kind of these categories that you click on. ClickUp is more of a matrix. We can have things in categories this way, and we can also have things in categories this way. I know it's kind of weird, but if I have this one list, which is maybe a project for something, I can also put it in a folder. And if I put two of these projects in a folder and click on the folder, all of a sudden I'm able to see views that summarize all contents of this folder. If I go up to the space, I can summarize all contents of this entire space. And that's why ClickUp's hierarchy is really interesting, because everything nests together. Yes, that means there are more things to click on and get lost on, but it allows you to really summarize how is your overall business, your overall project, your overall department, how is it all really working? Now, notice I said that we could organize this way and this way. Well, what about the this way part of the equation? That's where these views become really interesting. Because in Asana, when we're looking at our views, it's primarily showing us just this one project in a way that we like to see that information. But if we switch over to ClickUp and use our views, views in ClickUp tend to do they tend to be more for focusing down. So in this case, I've decided to alter this view to show me just tasks that are not in my personal life area that are grouped by due date. And maybe I also want to only show things assigned to me. I'm just going to call this view just my work and I can continue to do this for all of my other views, creating a bunch of different ways to chunk and group this information to summarize where things stand. Maybe I just want to see the key milestones that are assigned to me in a gantt view. Maybe I just want to see what activity has happened inside this space and filter it down that way. This kind of stuff summarizing happening at every single layer in ClickUp is really unique and is a big feature difference and complexity difference between these two tools. Obviously this comes with trade offs because it makes ClickUp harder to learn, but it allows you to summarize things. Whereas with Asana's setup it's a lot easier to learn, but it becomes very hard to summarize things and instead you get more silos. So you get a trade off here. But I want to make sure I look at these side by side so you can see how these hierarchies really make a difference in how you use the tool. And with that, let's transition over to the overall summary. We've talked through a ton of different things here. Who is the winner? Well, here is time for me to give you a little wet blanket and tell you that none of these are the whole question of which tool is better is a silly question. Okay, we actually have a whole video on the channel about it up here where we talk about why your software is not your system and why having the shiniest software and the most features doesn't necessarily guarantee anything other than you're going to be spending $19 more a month than you would have if you didn't have that fancy software. But cynicism aside between these two tools, I think it really depends on who you are as to which of these is going to be the better fit for how you work. Asana tends to be better for people who want to just get to work, right? They don't want to spend a lot of time learning tools. They don't want to spend a lot of time dealing with bugs. For all of those reasons, Asana really has an edge over ClickUp. Asana has fewer features, and in that way, the features that they do have tend to be very solid. Asana also doesn't really release features unless they're working perfectly or working pretty well. And so the amount of bugs or issues or weird glitches you're going to find in Asana are relatively less than you would if you were to work in ClickUp. And again, because Asana has less features in general, learning how to use all of what Asana can give you is going to be a lot faster than if we were to be working inside ClickUp. With their complex hierarchy that nests together in all those shiny 39 clickapps that I talked about before. In addition to just the simplicity factor, the ease of use, and the stability, I would also encourage folks to consider Asana if they are looking to work with folks who want to be primarily mobile first clients. ClickUp just hasn't got that down yet. And the last one is, if you're not in English Right, English or French? That's all we got. And really, English or English if you're talking about support. So if you are not an English speaking team or would prefer not to be English first, Asana is again a little mature in that regard and would be a better fit for what your team needs. If this describes your team, skip the bells and whistles of ClickUp, maybe revisit this in a few years when they mature, but feel focus in on Asana for now and get the work done that you need to get done. However, there are definitely people in this audience, including myself, for whom ClickUp still has an edge despite being glitchier. It's a little bit more buggy despite having tons of features and slightly less pretty of an interface. ClickUp has tons of features for a relatively lower cost with a lot more power packed under the hood. And while that learning curve then becomes a little bit slower, steeper than what we would have in Asana, that means once you get to the top of the learning curve, what you're able to build in ClickUp is a lot more powerful than what you'd be able to build if you say mastered Asana, right? There is nothing yet that I have found that I have not been able to recreate from Asana in ClickUp. ClickUp can pretty much do everything Asana can do. It just does it in a little bit more of a hodgepodgey way. And ClickUp is maturing, it is a younger business, so maybe those bugs will be working themselves out sooner rather than later. But even in the interim for certain people, getting that lower price, more features, more power, more complexity is actually desirable for certain subsets of users, especially if you're primarily going to be on your computer and you feel comfortable working in English in a professional setting. And I should also say for these ClickUp folks, you do have to be willing to put a little bit of time in to get it set up the way you want. Not as much as like infusionsoft or Jira or any of that stuff, but it does take a little bit more time. However, just a little pro tip, if you are going down the ClickUp path, disabling those bonus features like clickapps and you know, looking at videos like ours, or taking our course where we talk about setting up ClickUp, there are ways to set up ClickUp without it taking a lot of time. It's just because of how much ClickUp can do and how flexible it is. It can be really beneficial for ClickUp to get help versus just trying to guess and figure it out. You can do that in Asana. Guess, figure it out. There's only so many options, so you're going to get it right eventually. With ClickUp, there are a lot of options, which is why people like me exist, to help it make more sense so you can get up and running faster. But once you're set up, you can do a lot more. So I still like both of these tools. I still think both of them have their place, and I'm really excited to see where each of these are going in the future. As like I said before, each of them seem to kind of be coming to this kind of overlap here in the future. If you guys have made a decision based on this video as to whether you're going to do ClickUp or Asana or something else, please drop me a comment below and let me know. And if there's a point of comparison you'd like to make sure we highlight in maybe a part two or future comparisons, maybe there's another tool you want to make sure we compare with a ClickUp or Monday or Asana or whatever, drop me a comment with that as well. While you're down there, be sure to like and subscribe. And thanks so much for taking the time to have an open mind and explore some of the cool task management tools that are out there. Until next time, thanks for watching and enjoy the process. 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