Asana vs Redbooth: Which is a better fit?

Ellenore K.: My name is Ellenore. I'm an administrative assistant at Equipter, which is a manufacturing company with about 70 employees, and I would give Asana five stars. Well, we are mostly an in-person company, but we have three separate buildings that people are working in. It's a fairly large campus, and people are working in many different departments, and we needed a way to bring everybody's work together so we could all see what we're working on, be able to assign things to other people, and mostly just keep everyone on the same page, because without some kind of system like this, it's chaos. I think the biggest thing that I appreciate about Asana is the visibility that it gives me for other teams and for my team. I think without this, it's just me running around to people's desks, asking questions in different buildings, making sure that we're all understanding things. With Asana, it means that I sort of have eyes on what everyone is doing and can keep track of how I need to fit into that. We have had some limited issues with our dependencies on recurring tasks. We have a fairly substantial, a large task that happens about once a week, and for a while we had dependencies set up so that we couldn't move ahead too quickly in the process before the earlier tasks were done. After a couple of months of that working with one of the more recent updates, we lost the ability to do that. That's a little unfortunate. It's not a huge deal because the people who were involved know what has to happen first, but that was a nice feature that we liked that hasn't been working so well for us recently.

Drew D.: Hi. My name is Drew and I work as a video producer at a nonprofit and I give Redbooth four out of five stars. The business problem that I'm solving with Redbooth is bringing together our entire marketing team of graphic designers, photographers, videographers, copywriters all together in one place to manage our projects and to be able to keep tabs on where everyone else is in the different stages of our projects. What I like about using Redbooth first of all is the horizontal column structure, the flexibility of moving tasks from one column to another, adding extra columns if you want to just break your project down even further. The organization options are super great, super flexible, and it just makes sense to me when we're organizing our projects. I also really like the flexibility for tagging different tasks so that I can look at just tasks that I'm tagged in, just tasks that my team is tagged in. I also like the notification options, because I can have Redbooth notifications come straight to my email inbox or I can have them as push notifications on my desktop so that I don't constantly have to have the website open and I'm also not afraid that I'm going to miss something when I'm not looking at the website. What I don't like about using Redbooth, first of all the calendar view leaves a lot to be desired. I really want to be able to sort my tasks that I'm tagged in or tasks that my team is tagged in into a nice calendar just so I can look ahead at the deadlines that I have upcoming or the tasks that are coming up maybe in the next couple of months. However, while the calendar has gotten better since we starting using it about a year ago, it just doesn't really... It doesn't work natively as well as we would like it to. Something else that's also been an issue that I've experienced has been previewing Microsoft Word documents in Redbooth. The previews, most of the time they don't work and I have to download the document and then open it and then go back to Redbooth. The same thing with dropbox previews. Sometimes images show up weird, the aspect ratios are off, and so you either get somebody telling you, "Oh, the image looks wrong," when it's right but Redbooth is displaying it wrong, or you then have to download it and then open it up again to get a sense of the image and then go back into Redbooth to get feedback, approve it, whatever you're doing with that image. So that's just another step that is a little bit frustrating and I wish was something that Redbooth would improve upon so that I didn't have to spend the extra time and have extra files floating around, when I'd love to be able to just preview all my files correctly with them with web interface.