Best Asana Integrations for Project Management

Asana is one of the most popular project management apps on the planet. One of the best things about Asana is how flexible it is and therefore how much freedom it gives you. 

A by-product of this open-ended approach is that you’ll often need to integrate Asana with complimentary apps, both to make it a better fit for you and your team and to connect it into your wider tech stack.

There are so many Asana integrations available, it can feel truly overwhelming. It can be really time consuming to find the right Asana integration for your team to use or to know which one will solve your specific challenges. For example, do you want a to integrate with customer support, or need a solution to master capacity planning in Asana?

I’m a long-time Asana user. I’ve used it in different roles and different organizations. I’ve also tried and tested a huge number of Asana integrations. 

In this blog I’ll give you my pick of the best Asana integrations for project managers. These are apps that will help you take your Asana instance to the next level, and keep your projects on track, running faster and more smoothly than ever. 

Visor

Visor enables you to display, share, and modify your Asana projects (including project portfolios) using a wide range of views (spreadsheets, Gantt charts, dashboards, boards, and timelines) that are much more accessible and visually appealing than Asana’s native offerings. 

You can use Visor to perform bulk updates easily, collaborate with team mates, stakeholders, or clients that don’t have access to Asana, and present or share your Asana projects in visually stunning formats, with different levels of information for different people or groups. 

Gantt chart in Visor using live Asana data

Visor has the best two-way integration with Asana on the market. Unlike other apps, it keeps your Asana parent tasks and subtasks nested together and respects Asana field character limits, dropdown options, and other restrictions, so that you don’t run up against sync errors. 

You can also incorporate multiple Asana projects and roll them up into a single view. This is great for tracking your own projects, your team’s tasks across projects, or to provide a high level view of project movement across an organization. It’s also ideal if you’re working with clients as a consultant or agency. 

A dashboard built in Visor that provides crucial, real time updates on Asana projects:  

Visor also integrates with other apps like Jira and Salesforce (for free), so you can combine tasks from every system to create cross-functional project views, and collaborate with teams using different apps.

A Visor Gantt chart bringing together live data from Asana and Salesforce:

Visor is a must-add integration to your Asana instance if you want to impress, inform, and align stakeholders faster and with less effort. 

Visor Pricing

These are the pricing plans for Visor, the Asana integration is free to use on any plan level (no additional cost): 

• Free: $0 
• Pro: $9 per editor per month
• Ultimate: $18 per editor per month

Visor Reviews and Ratings

• G2: 5 out of 5 
• Capterra: 4.5 out of 5

Slack

Slack is a wildly popular communications and messaging app. It’s used by millions of people everyday to chat with colleagues, collaborate in dedicated channels, and conference over audio and video in Slack ‘Huddles’. 

So why should you integrate Asana with Slack? If you’re using Asana to manage projects and Slack for general communication then you’re going to benefit from connecting them. Mainly so that Slack conversations about tasks can be linked right to the task in Asana. 

If you’re using another communication app and Asana, you may want to look into making a switch to Slack, because its Asana integration is very well developed. 

Here’s some of the things you can do with the Asana-Slack integration:

• Create and assign Asana tasks via Slack
• Turn Slack messages into Asana tasks
• Complete Asana tasks via Slack
• Add comments on Asana tasks via Slack
• Link Slack channels to Asana projects to get automatic updates

Slack Pricing

Here’s the pricing for Slack. Asana’s integration with Slack is available on all plan levels, but there are limits on the number of rule runs you can do each month depending on your plan tier.

• Free
• Pro: $8.75 per person per month
• Business+: $15 per person per month
• Enterprise: Pricing on request

Slack Reviews and Ratings

• G2: 4.5 out of 5
• GetApp: 4.7 out of 5 

Clockwise

Clockwise is an AI-powered calendar optimization and scheduling app which uses AI to make calendar organization much less of a drag on you and your time. 

Rather than being a standalone calendar, Clockwise works with apps like Google Calendar and Outlook to optimize them. 

Clockwise can automatically block out focus time in suitable places, schedule and reschedule when conflicts arise between meetings that you’ve defined as flexible, and help you find the best time to schedule new meetings with colleagues. 

If you integrate Clockwise with Asana it will automatically add tasks from Asana into your calendar and block out the amount of time you’ve allocated to that task.

Do you (or your team members) keep having to push tasks back because meetings are crowding out work time? Or are you someone who frequently adds focus time blocks to your calendar? 

If yes, then adding Clockwise and integrating it with Asana could take care of those tedious tasks, and ensure you and your team have the time you need to get your work done. 

Asana reports that over 1,000 businesses use the Clockwise integration. It also integrates with Slack to help create a sealed Asana-Calendar-Slack loop. The Asana integration is included with their free plan too, so there’s no cost to give it a try. 

Clockwise Pricing

• Free
• Teams: $6.75 per user per month
• Business: $11.50 per user per month
• Enterprise: Pricing on request

Reviews

• G2: 4.7 out of 5
• Producthunt: 4.8 out of 5

Everhour

Everhour is a leading time-tracking tool, which integrates with project management apps like Jira, Asana, Monday.com, and Notion.

Everhour’s native integration with Asana means you can enable and analyze time-tracking and billing directly in Asana, instead of switching tabs and apps. You can run reports that split work and billing based on Asana custom fields, tags, and other parameters. 

You can also create custom billing rates for projects and generate invoices using different units, such as fixed fee or hourly. Notifications when you hit thresholds, for example a percentage of total project hours or cost consumed, reduce the amount of manual oversight needed on projects.

Everhour’s time tracking works really well with Asana and is much better than Asana’s own offering. However, when integrated with Asana it will cost you a minimum of $42.50 per month (for five users): 

Everhour Pricing

• Free: (Does not include integrations – with Asana or any other app)
• Team: $8.50 per month per seat (minimum of 5 seats)

Reviews

• G2: 4.6 out of 5
• Getapp: 4.7 out of 5

Whimsical or Miro

Whimsical and Miro are both ideation tools, used to create mind maps, wireframes, flowcharts, and other visual ways of getting your ideas out of your collective brains and into something organized and workable. 

Flowchart in Miro:

Both have a fairly simple Asana integration, enabling you to embed your brainstorms, wireframes and so on, directly into your Asana projects, both tools allow you to set permissions in Asana to view or modify whatever you’ve embedded. 

Flowchart in Whimsical:

Which is better? That really depends on exactly what you want from the tool itself. Their integrations with Asana are very similar and not complex, but effective. So if you’re using either Miro or Whimsical already (and are happy with it) I wouldn’t recommend switching. 

If you aren’t using Whimsical or Miro already, but want a tool like them, then I’d recommend you just compare which is best for you independent of the Asana integration, because the integration itself won’t add much differentiation. 

Pricing

Miro

• Free
• Starter: $8 per user per month
• Business: $16 per user per month
• Enterprise: Pricing on request

Whimsical

• Free
• Pro: $10 per user per month
• Org: $20 per user per month

Reviews

Miro

• G2: 4.8 out of 5
• Getapp: 4.7 out of 5

Whimsical

• G2: 4.6 out of 5
• Getapp: 4.6 out of 5

Harvest

Harvest is a light and easy to use time and budget tracking app. It includes features for time-tracking, invoicing and payment management, budget monitoring, cost tracking and more. 

Unlike Everhour, you access Harvest’s Asana integration via a browser extension. You can’t use it within Asana itself. This doesn’t quite have Everhour’s native, embedded feel, but still enables you to set up time tracking and budgets on projects and tasks without having to leave Asana. 

Reminders and alerts for projects that have hit time or budget thresholds are easy to set up, and help make those aspects of project management much easier. 

Task expenses and other variables can be built into generated invoices. Integrations with payment tools like PayPal and Stripe are also a bonus, particularly for projects with small deliverables for lots of different clients, where bank transfers and invoice hounding can become a cash-flow impediment. 

Harvest Pricing

• Free: Maximum of one seat and two projects
• Pro: $10.80 per seat per month (unlimited projects)

Reviews

• G2: 4.3 out of 5
• Getapp: 4.6 out of 5

Zoom

I probably don’t need to tell you what Zoom is. After all, once your product name becomes a verb you know you’ve arrived. 

On the off chance that you don’t know what Zoom is, it’s a conferencing app you can use to have video meetings, with some additional collaboration tools like whiteboards included. 

If your team uses Zoom there are a few important benefits to integrating it with Asana. Creating the link between Asana projects or tasks and Zoom meetings means you can:

• Create Zoom meetings directly from Asana tasks
• Add agendas and attachments to Zoom meetings via Asana
• Pull Zoom recordings and transcripts directly into Asana
• Create tasks and action items in Zoom meetings which then feed through to Asana

This can help you keep your projects, tasks, and their associated meetings cohesive, in one place. Making it easier to go back and find past conversations or details that might be useful further down the project timeline. 

If you’re using another app for virtual meetings this might spark your interest in checking out Zoom and seeing if its Asana integration can help you get more done, and avoid dropping any of those action items that pop-up before and during meetings. 

Zoom Pricing

• Basic: (free)
• Pro: $13.32 per user per month
• Business: $18.32 per user per month

Reviews

• G2: 4.6 out of 5
• Getapp: 4.6 out of 5

Adobe Creative Cloud/Adobe XD

This is one for all the designers, video editors, animators, and other creatives out there. Whether you’re in-house, or an agency, integrating Asana and Adobe Creative Cloud can save you time, free you from tedious tasks, and prevent work getting missed or duplicated.

There’s also an Asana integration for Adobe XD to help UI/UX designers work more easily with teams that manage their work in Asana. 

Connecting Asana with Adobe Creative Cloud/XD allows you to manage Asana tasks directly in your Adobe apps. This means you can do all the following to Asana tasks directly within Adobe products:

• Update descriptions and due dates
• Add subtasks to existing tasks (e.g. for approval and feedback) 
• View all projects/tasks you have access to
• Add attachments to tasks

You can also add rules to automate workflow in Asana, based on actions taken in your Adobe apps.

Adobe Creative Cloud Pricing

• Single App: $37.99 per license per month
• Creative Cloud All Apps: $89.99 per month

You’ll also need to have an Advanced, Enterprise, or Enterprise+ Asana subscription to use this integration.

Reviews

• Capterra: 4.7 out of 5
• TechRadar: 4 out of 5

Google Workspace

Asana can integrate with your Google workspace, including apps like Google Calendar, Drive, Slides, and Docs, enabling you to close workflow gaps between actions that take place in Google apps and Asana. 

Each Google app’s integration with Asana has different features and benefits, here are some examples:

Google Drive (including Docs, Slides etc.):

• Search for Google Drive files within Asana tasks to add attachments faster
• See recent activity on Google Drive files within Asana
• Get notified of changes, comments, and other activity on Google Drive files

Gmail

• Complete and add comments to Asana tasks directly in Gmail
• Sync email threads into Asana tasks
• Create rules to send automatic emails when certain task or project criteria is met

Google Calendar

• Automate meeting creation using Asana rules
• Automatically schedule focus time for tasks using Asana rules
• Add events into Asana tasks as widgets

Google Workspace (Business) Pricing

Here’s the pricing for Google Workspace’s business tier plans:

• Business Starter: $6 per user per month
• Business Standard: $12 per user per month
• Business Plus: $18 per user per month

Reviews

G2: 4.6 out of 5

Gartner: 4.6 out of 5

What’s The Best Asana Integration for Project Management?

The ideal set of Asana integrations for each project manager will depend on what types of project they manage, any tools they use already and can’t or won’t part with, and which apps teams they consistently work with use.

Not every Asana integration is created equal. For example, in my opinion, Slack’s integration with Asana is better than Teams. 

Will this make Microsoft-geared organizations switch?

Probably not, but if you’re at the point where you can choose your organizational operating systems, it makes sense to take a holistic view, and really consider how your tech stack can become an eco-system of integrated software that can support and enhance the other apps you use.

Visor is an app that plays really well with your other software. It gives you new abilities to control and visualize your Asana projects (including portfolios of multiple Asana projects). This helps you show your projects in the best light to stakeholders, make bulk updates, and collaborate more easily.

You can also use Visor as a way to combine data from different SaaS apps, like Jira, Salesforce, and of course, Asana.

This means you can bring those apps, and the teams that use them together in one shared space, both to collaborate and create powerful visualizations of your collective work. 
Visor is free to use and easy to get started with. Try Visor For Free Now!

James Taylor

James Taylor

Senior Digital Marketing Manager

James Taylor is Visor's Senior Digital Marketing Manager. Originally from the UK, he has 8+ years experience writing about all things software and technology, project management and organizational processes. When he's not working you'll find him hiking a hill, attempting to cook ambitious recipes, or gorging on hours of history podcasts and documentaries.