Asana: organize your client projects without losing track

Asana is a project and task management tool. You create one project per client or assignment, break it down into tasks with an owner and a due date, then track progress in the view that suits you best: list, kanban board or calendar. Comments, files and status updates stay attached to the task, which spares you endless email threads.

Freelancers managing several client projects at once who need an overview: independent project managers, consultants running a collective, developers or designers working with one or two subcontractors. The free plan covers a solo freelancer or a duo. If you want an all-in-one tool with built-in documents and time tracking, look at ClickUp. If you just need a clean to-do list, Todoist or Trello will do the job with less friction.

• Organize without limits: unlimited tasks and projects from the free plan, with subtasks, due dates and owners.
• Switch views: list, board and calendar on the free plan; the timeline (Gantt) and dashboards come with Starter.
• Keep your clients informed: concise status updates on what is done and what is left.
• Invite outsiders: on paid plans, free and unlimited guests for your clients and subcontractors.
• Automate routine work: rules to assign tasks, send alerts and update statuses (paid plans).
• Connect your tools: over 100 free integrations, including Slack, Google Drive, Zoom, Microsoft 365 and time tracking tools.
• Store your files: unlimited storage, 100 MB maximum per file.

• Personal: $0, free forever for 2 users. Unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, status updates, over 100 integrations.
• Starter: $10.99 per user per month billed yearly, or $13.49 monthly. Unlimited members, timeline, automations, unlimited free guests, Asana AI included with a request quota.
• Advanced: $24.99 per user per month billed yearly, or $30.49 monthly. Everything in Starter, plus portfolios, workload management and advanced automations.
• Enterprise and Enterprise+: priced on request, for large organizations.

Prices in dollars, excluding tax. Prices checked on asana.com in November 2026.

At FreelanceKit, we picked Asana for its readability: it is the project management tool your clients understand without training, and that matters when you share a schedule with someone who has never opened this kind of tool. The free plan is not crippled on the essentials (unlimited tasks, three views, integrations), and the free guests on paid plans settle the question of the client who wants to follow along without you paying for them.

The weak point to know: the free plan stops at 2 users. The day you work with two subcontractors, you move to Starter, billed per user in dollars, and the bill climbs fast for a small structure. And for a solo freelancer managing three clients, Asana remains oversized: you will spend time organizing the tool instead of doing the work.

If you are hesitating between ClickUp, Trello, Notion and Todoist, see our page on alternatives to Asana.