Asana is a good fit for organizations that want portfolios, goals and cross-project reporting. Roomwork is the better fit when the work around the task matters as much as the task: the discussion, the meeting, the hours, the delivery, and an assistant that already knows all of it.
Not a feature count, but the decisions that change which one fits your team.
| Decision area | Asana | Roomwork |
|---|---|---|
| Primary orientation | Projects, portfolios and goals across teams | Connected work: rooms, tasks, time and delivery |
| Views | List, board, calendar, timeline and Gantt | Grid, Kanban and Gantt task views, saved Views with subscriptions. No portfolios or goals rollups today |
| Conversation | Comments and status updates on tasks and projects | Project rooms with chat, Jams and client messaging, linked to the tasks they create |
| Meetings | Outside the product | Meeting capture: summaries, decisions and action items filed into the project |
| Time tracking | Listed on higher-tier plans, with integrations for other timers | Roomwork Time: desktop clock-in agent, screenshots every 5 minutes, AI review of each session, hour and dollar budgets with runway alerts, payroll |
| Guests and clients | Guest access for vendors and partners | Internal and external room modes, with client messaging in the project |
| Automation | Rules and workflows, with AI Studio for building AI automations | Slash commands, Rōrk actions, and Alva following up on overdue or stuck work |
| AI approach | AI features and AI Studio across plans | AI-first: Rōrk, Alva and Sten are part of the room, not a bolt-on |
| Best fit | Larger organizations that need portfolio and goal tracking | Teams wanting one place for conversation, execution, time and verification |
A task is overdue. In a work management tool, someone notices, or someone is chased. In Roomwork, Alva asks the owner for an update, reminds them, and tells the manager if there is still no reply. The discussion, the hours and the answer all sit next to the task, and Rōrk can summarize it all.
Nothing here asks you to relearn how your team works. The concepts map over directly.
| Capability | Asana | Roomwork |
|---|---|---|
| Projects | Projects with tasks, subtasks and sections | Projects with rooms, tasks and Canvas |
| Task views | List, board, calendar, timeline and Gantt | Grid, Kanban and Gantt, saved Views |
| Portfolios and goals | Portfolios and goals on higher-tier plans | Not offered today |
| Forms | Forms with branching | Email help@ becomes a ticket in the right client project |
| Chat | Comments on tasks and projects | Persistent rooms with internal and external messaging |
| Live calls | Outside the product | Jams, recorded into room history |
| Meeting notes | Outside the product | Meeting capture to Canvas, with PDF and Word, and action items turned into tasks |
| Time tracking | Higher-tier plans, plus time tracking integrations | Native Roomwork Time: screenshots every 5 minutes, AI session review, hour and dollar budgets, payroll |
| GitHub | Through integrations | Native issue creation and commit activity |
| Security checks | Not a focus | Sten runs Flaw.co Detect scans and Code reviews |
| AI | AI Studio and AI features on paid plans | Rōrk, Alva and Sten built in, with sources from your own rooms |
References: Asana pricing and plans, Asana help center: features. Asana is a product of Asana, Inc.. Competitor details reflect public information as of November 2026 and change over time, so check the vendor's own site for current plans and pricing. All product names are trademarks of their respective owners, and Roomwork is not affiliated with or endorsed by Asana.
Asana lists portfolios, goals and time tracking on its higher-tier plans, and it points to integrations for connecting other time tracking tools.
Roomwork is free with every Paying.co engagement, and in limited beta for new teams. Chat, Jams, tasks, time tracking, Rōrk, Alva and Sten are built in, not sold as add-ons, so there is no stack of extra subscriptions to stitch together.
Start a room and bring your next project conversation, task, and delivery into one connected place, with AI built in from the start. Roomwork is free with every Paying.co engagement, and in limited beta for new teams. It replaces separate chat, project, issue-tracking, time-tracking and video-calling subscriptions.
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