Asana vs Platform
Asana and Platform are both project management software. Asana is a commercial product from Asana, Inc. Platform is open source under EPL-2.0, with 28k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Asana when
- Marketing, operations or cross-functional teams want a clear project and task tool that non-technical staff use.
- Pick Platform when
- Only for existing installs; new users should look at the Platform-Collective fork.
Side by side
Work management for tasks, projects, timelines, portfolios and goals, with automations and AI features.
Huly, an all-in-one workspace combining issue tracking, chat, documents, HR, recruiting and CRM.
Key features like portfolios and workload sit in expensive tiers.
This repository is frozen and no longer maintained, per its own notice.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript and Svelte
Closed source, sold by Asana, Inc.
Open source, EPL-2.0 (weak copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
4.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
28k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v0.7.426.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.