Asana vs Teamwork

This is the single biggest functional gap between these two tools. Teamwork lets you track time, mark it billable, and generate invoices without leaving the app. Asana has no billing layer whatsoever. For an agency that bills 10 clients a month, that's the difference between one tool and three duct-taped together. If you don't bill clients, this difference is completely irrelevant — but if you do, it's decisive.

Asana was built around the idea that tasks have relationships — one can't start until another finishes, milestones gate entire phases, approvals block downstream work. These aren't add-ons; they're core to how the product thinks. Teamwork has Gantt charts and task dependencies, but the r/projectmanagement community consistently describes Asana as the tool when structured project logic actually matters. If your projects are sequential and complex, Asana's model will save you from a lot of manual coordination.

Teamwork was designed from the ground up for teams that work with external clients — granular permission controls, client-facing views, and proofing tools are all native. Asana can share projects with guests, but it's not optimized for the agency workflow where a client needs to see progress, approve deliverables, and stay out of your internal conversations. Reddit users running multi-client operations point to Teamwork specifically for this reason.

Multi-homing — the ability for a single task to live in multiple projects simultaneously without duplicating it — sounds like a minor feature until you're managing a task that belongs to both a product roadmap and a sprint board. In Asana, updates sync everywhere automatically. In Teamwork, you're either duplicating tasks or choosing one home and losing visibility in the other. For internal teams running cross-functional work, this is a daily quality-of-life difference.