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

Great video Layla; you really outline the differences exceptionally well. I now understand why I still prefer to work in Asana! It's quick and easy and intuitive, and as you say, it has less features. But what they do have, they do well. ClickUp feels too cluttered for me and not as "clean" looking as Asana.

So between these two, I would lean toward Asana based on our needs. I don't really need a ton of features - I need a project view for internal and external client stakeholders, I want tasks, reminders, notes, chat, document shares, and real time collaboration. It's important to me to have different views for internal resources (deeper detail, tasklists, checklists) and external clients who only require a simplified view of their tasks, as well as an overall high level glance at progress. The most important thing however, is I want to create templates for certain types of projects...so as I hire new PMs, they will have a playbook for how we run a project. All of this possible w Asana?

This was fantastic! I am about to watch your best software for your personality video but I am already guessing you're an INTJ. Your Te is far to advanced for an INTP and I don't see you being ENTJ or ESTJ, definitely getting introvert vibes. I'm an INTJ and curious to see how your analysis stacks up with my experience/opinion on the software for personality video. As far as your question, I've been an Asana user for several years but this video clenched it for me. I'll be sticking with Asana. Thank you! Subscribed!

I ruling a French team who needs project management tool which does the job in security. so I went for asana but I keep an eye on click-up because it represents feature according to me. It a bit confusing some time using many tools : notion for note an asana for project. So when clic-up will be ready to perform as we can expect, I'll be ready to switch.

so grateful for this video.

After many years of analog work, it was time to switch to time and task management applications and now, after two weeks devoted to research, it is time to make the final decision. Your material helped to confirm the decision I had already made. Asna suits me better, although ClickUp has many functions but is too intrusive for me.
Thank you Geberally, I'm super satisfied. By the way (this is not an advertisement, I am not associated with this company), but I am curious if you have come across the Nozbe application? It is not as extensive as Asana or ClickUp, but it is nice and works efficiently.
I also adore your speaking style is very hypothetical - don't take it the wrong way - consider it a compliment from a gentleman, not a chauvinist.

Excellent video yet again! Your insights of ClickUp are spot on!. Excellent video yet again! Your insights of ClickUp are spot on!.

would love to see how you do sprint management in each

just what i was looking for - thank you so much for this beautiful and helpful comparison Layla!

ClickUp is the way to go!

I always say once you get past the ClickUp learning curve, your life is going to change

Clickup is still slow. When I do operation like moving task, converting something, etc. then I need to wait sometimes even 30 seconds for it to complete and refresh.
Sometimes its easy to pin task into other projects, sometimes it is not possible and I don't know why.
If that would't be a problem, I would go to ClickUp, because of some other cool features.

Amazing analysis! Today is the day I begin my ClickUp journey then. As an innovator-type of business owner, I love features and customization which Asana had but ClickUp has even more of. Excited to go down the rabbit hole of learning and watching your advanced ClickUp videos Layla. Geek out time

Hi Layla! Your video was super usefull, thank you! Note: i do not speak very goodenglish, sorry if i explainmyself not good. I just have a very easy question.. I can see on your Asana's left menu, that you have your projects inside each team, but in my asana version, i have a huge list of all the projects, and just below, on a separate item, i have the list of all the teams i use. I can see every project assigned to a team when i click on the project, but i have to do that to know which projects are "inside" each team.. How did you organized the projects inside the teams file? I wish you could recive screenshots to explain me better, because my view and your view of asana is totally different and i do not know why :') Thank you for your time and wait for your answer! XOXO

Hello Layla!
I was just wondering if you could share with me how you managed to make your sidebar dark while keeping the rest of the interface in light mode on ClickUp.
I'm really curious about it. Thanks!

Thank you very much for taking the time to make such a detailed comparison of both products. Amazing & Helpfull video!

Asana won't allow one seat- I think that's a big loss for them - I changed to clickup becuase of this- well that's one reason- I think clickup is more advanced too

I just came across your channel. This review was unbiased and truly amazing. I’m going to watch some of our more recent click up videos to see how they have evolved before I make a decision. Thanks again this was fantastic.

Hi Layla, I found your channel recently and have been binge-watching! I love everything you have put out and I wish I had found you earlier because I went through a stage in the beginning of my business jumping from PMT to PMT trying to find what worked for me and even back to some I started with and then finally I stopped and am using ClickUp thanks to you because I was really looking for something that I could use for both business and personal and your playlist of that is amazing! If I had found a playlist like this one earlier, I would have saved so many hours trying to learn each new software every time I changed. Thank you for putting out such great content!!

Its a very loading video considering the options and hypothetical projections, having explained by with so much authenticity and cuteness helps a lot..!
My Pick - Start with Asana and consider Clickup in the future as the team has more specific needs.

I like that in asana I can put tasks onto more than one board/list and the status for that task changes to the list it is on.

For example... one list that is Email and Content. And another list that is a Project. BUT a project has emails and content that are part of it.


I'd like to have those emails on both lists, with separate status and custom fields, instead of it carrying over from the parent list.

And on the project list the email status would be : IN PROGRESS
In the email list the status would be : TO WRITE and them move to the status TO REVIEW.

And once it gets to SCHEDULED in the email list then in the project list I could move to DONE from IN PROGRESS or something.

Any way to make this work or a cool work around you have?

Great videos!

Currently looking at switching to ClickUp from Asana. We have tons of projects (50+) at a time on a team and one of the biggest frustrations is the incapability to organize your projects. You cannot alphabetize them and you cannot click on a "See All" button. To go to a team and have to click "show more" and "show more" and "show more" has felt like so much wasted time. I went on the hunt in their forums and found that this has been an issue since 2018 and it seems to be falling on deaf ears. Would like to hear your thoughts on Asana's project organization. Thanks for your videos, they are very informative!

Thanks you so much for just great comparison.

Great breakdown, coming from Jira in corporate and now working on solo projects I was checking ClickUp and after watching this video I am convinced it is the right tool for me to tinker around.

Click up is for me

What do you think about Taskade? I just found it and it seems very cool and fun (which lightens up the boredom of going through a task list…)

Ever heard of Nozbe? It’s what I’ve used but now that I’ll soon have teams for the first time, maybe I’ll need one of these.
If you’re familiar with nozbe how does it compare?

As a user of both tools, Asana is better to do work and Clickup is better to manage work

I find Asana works better with my thought process. By breaking it down into roles I can sort my tasks by where/what type of work I am doing - in the garage / in my craftspace / at my computer, etc.

Excellent video yet again! Your insights of ClickUp are spot on!

Hi, using the white background makes it really hard to see what you are talking about. Try to switch to dark view/night view for more readable videos please.

honestly, clickup's marketing is a massive turnoff. the product looks super promising, but I've just upgraded my asana due to us needing more than 15 seats.

Spaces ≠ Teams in Asana IMO

same here, working with Asana, and well, I want two person on a task, or views in my way > OK going to clickup 😅

I really like the ability to create tasks in calendar view on clickup...and have it synch with my Google calendar seamlessly.

I think you just convinced me to use Asana! Simple workhorse that just let's me get in and get work done. I LOVE that. I'm going to learn more about it. I'm only using clickup minimally right now (2 use cases) and I'd like to get my other projects in a tool, but clickup is overly complex for my needs. And as siimple as it is, I love that I can see the task details on the sidebar instead of in an overlay!

We found that Asana does 'task management' exceptionally well but clickup does 'project management' much better. We outgrew asana but grateful to it for getting us going

can you make a video on "how to use inventory management using click up"

Clickup was an awful experience for me. I'm now with Asana, and things get done, and it works perfectly well and smoothly. I think a mobile app cannot be ignored, and I have the feeling Clickup ignores it. Also, Asana is integrated with all my apps excellent, and it is very important for me. So, I think for the average people Asana is the preferred software to get things done. (by the way, nice haircut, big dramatic change )

And to answer your question, we use Asana because of the simplicity. I really love the features of clickup! Plus the pricing is epically better. Lol but Asana has a legit free plan and it isn’t a large learning curve. So it gets the job done. Love the videos!

I love your videos! I’m an Asana user. But enjoy hearing about all the things. Something that you CAN do in Asana is add a task to anywhere! You just do it from “my tasks.” You do not have to go to a project to create something for that project. Just being picky… ;)

Honestly, me and my team had a very bad experience with clickup. We used it for almost 4 years. It’s heavy platform with tons of unnecessary features, slow and buggy. Before few months we “escaped” and found Asana. Very happy customers now.

Thank you very much for taking the time to make such a detailed comparison of both products. Excellent video!

Hi Layla, thanks for one more excellent video. Our team used Asana and we moved to Clickup 4 years ago. I think you left out one issue that really annoyed all of us concerning Asana - they are COMPLETELY INSENSiTIVE to their customers, they don't even care to answer or listen to anyone, even in their own forums. I was so pleasantly surprised to see the IMENSE RESPECT AND RESPONSIVENESS that Clickup team, in general, has for their customers. I told them, in the beginning, that we would not be moving from Asana to Clickup until they developed certain features, and even while we were not their customers, they gave us tons more of respect and attention than we ever had as Asana users. A company that does not care to respect or to listen to their own customer base does not deserve our respect as well, or our business for that matter. We are DELIGHTED to finally work with a Company that respects us, listen to us and work hard as hell to be always improving their tool in a REMARKABLE WAY.