# Akollo vs Asana: when to choose which

> Asana makes it easy to see work in lists, boards and timelines, and adds timesheets and budgets as an add-on. Akollo builds them in, together with leave, capacity, self-hosting and a Turkish interface.

## Choose Akollo if

- Timesheets and budgets should be part of the product, not an add-on
- Leave and the org chart belong next to capacity
- You need your own servers or a Turkish interface

## Choose Asana if

- Teams want to switch freely between list, board, timeline and calendar
- You want AI teammates and a no-code AI workflow builder
- You work in one of the 14 languages Asana offers

## Akollo and Asana, area by area

Akollo compared with Asana on ten areas. Asana information is from its public website, as of October 2026; features vary by plan.

| Area | Akollo | Asana |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Projects, boards and timelines | Built in: Boards, backlogs, sprints, timeline and approvals. | Built in: List, board, timeline, Gantt and calendar. |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Built in: Timesheets with approval, plus a desktop app that measures time. | Add-on: Estimated and actual time on Advanced and up; timesheet approval in an add-on. |
| Resource and capacity planning | Built in: Planned against available time, per team and period. | Built in: Workload on Advanced; universal workload on Enterprise. |
| Budgets and profitability | Built in: Budgets, cost rates, budget vs actual and profitability. | Add-on: Timesheets and Budgets add-on. |
| HR basics: people and time off | Built in: Employee records, org chart, leave requests and approvals. | No: No HR module on Asana's feature pages. |
| CRM: accounts and pipeline | Built in: Accounts, contacts, pipeline and activities. | No: No CRM; Salesforce is an integration. |
| AI assistant | Built in: Admins decide who uses it; it answers within each person's permissions. | Built in: AI Studio and AI Teammates. |
| Self-hosting on your own servers | Built in: Our cloud, or your own data centre or cloud account. | No: Asana says it does not offer an on-premise version. |
| Product in Turkish | Built in: Turkish, English and German, written natively. | No: Not among the 14 interface languages. |
| Choice of where data is stored | Built in: Self-hosted, the data stays where you install it. | Add-on: US, EU, Japan or Australia; an add-on on Enterprise. |

## The work, the hours and the people behind them

Asana is about coordinating work. Akollo coordinates it too, and keeps the hours, the cost and the people who do it in the same records.

- **Approved hours become cost** — People log time on tasks or let the desktop app measure it. Managers approve the week, cost rates price it, and budget against actual updates on its own.
- **Capacity that knows about leave** — Employee records, the org chart and leave approvals are part of Akollo, so workload shows who is actually available, not just who is assigned.
- **AI with your rules** — Admins choose who may use the assistant, set monthly limits or switch it off. It answers only within each person's own permissions.
- **On your servers, in Turkish** — Run Akollo in our cloud or in your own data centre or cloud account. Every screen is written in Turkish, English and German.

## When Asana is the better fit

Asana is polished and widely used for cross-team coordination. If hours, leave and self-hosting are not on your list, it may suit you better.

- Teams that value switching views on the same project above everything else
- You want 30+ prebuilt AI teammates and a no-code AI builder
- You connect many tools, from Google Workspace and Microsoft to Salesforce and Slack

## Move from Asana in four steps

Asana exports projects as CSV. Akollo imports a CSV of up to 5,000 rows per file and shows a dry run before anything is written.

- **Export from Asana** — Export your projects and tasks from Asana as a CSV file.
- **Map the columns** — In Akollo, match each column to a work item field. A key column updates items you imported before.
- **Dry run first** — See how many items would be created, updated or skipped before anything is written.
- **Move team by team** — Start with one team, add timesheets and capacity, then bring the rest across.

## Questions about Asana and Akollo

### Is Akollo an Asana alternative?

For teams that want projects together with timesheets, capacity, budgets and HR basics in one product, yes. For coordinating work across many teams without those, Asana is a strong choice.

### How do we move our Asana projects?

Export each project as CSV from Asana, map the columns to Akollo fields and check the dry run before importing.

### Does Asana have timesheet approval?

According to Asana's site, timesheets and budgets come with a separate add-on. In Akollo, timesheet approval is part of the product.

## See your Asana projects in Akollo

Bring a CSV export to the demo and we will show it with timesheets, capacity and budgets around it.

- [Book a demo](https://akollo.com/en/demo)
- [Read the docs](https://docs.akollo.com)

## Sources

Information about Asana is taken from its public website and help centre, as of October 2026. Plans and features change, so check with Asana before you decide. Product names are trademarks of their owners.

- [Asana: Features](https://asana.com/features)
- [Asana Help: Time tracking in Asana](https://help.asana.com/s/article/time-tracking-in-asana)
- [Asana: Timesheets and budgets](https://asana.com/features/resource-management/timesheets-budgets)
- [Asana Help: Portfolio and universal workload](https://help.asana.com/s/article/portfolio-workload-and-universal-workload?language=en_US)
- [Asana: AI](https://asana.com/product/ai)
- [Asana Help: Privacy and security](https://help.asana.com/s/article/privacy-and-security?language=en_US)
- [Asana Help: Display settings (languages)](https://help.asana.com/s/article/display-settings?language=en_US)
- [Asana Help: Data residency](https://help.asana.com/s/article/data-residency-for-asana)
- [Asana Help: Project importing and exporting](https://help.asana.com/s/article/project-importing-and-exporting?language=en_US)


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