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Phabricator vs Asana: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 18th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 970 reviews from IT Project Management users.
% Fit
Missing features
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Feature ratings
Task Management
5.0
Workflow Management
NA
Task Scheduling
NA
Status Tracking
NA
Prioritization
5.0
% Fit
High performer
Feature ratings
Task Management
4.7
Workflow Management
4.5
Task Scheduling
4.6
Status Tracking
4.4
Prioritization
4.5
User satisfaction
4.1
User reviews17
Ease of use
4.1
Functionality
3.9
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
3.7
4.5
User reviews13,326
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.3
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Free version
Free trial
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Free version
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Designed for software developers, it is an IT project management solution that offers activity revisions, audit source codes, business rules, plotting warns, and more.

Teams across all industries looking for a collaborative project management tool.

User reviews
pros & cons
1 / 4
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1 / 4
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Justin S
Senior DevOps Engineer
2.0

Justin: Hi. I'm Justin, DevOps engineer, and I give Phabricator a two out of five. For more reviews like this click below. At the time, we looked to GitLab and a couple of similar products and considering Phabricator, as well. We ultimately decided on Phabricator because it had the features we wanted at a price tag that we could afford. We mainly chose Phabricator because of its Mercurial integrations. We use the Mercurial version control system at my company and not a lot of other companies supported it. That plus the price tag, plus some additional capabilities around code review, gave us what we were looking for. Getting started with Phabricator is definitely not an easy process. The only documentation they have is their official documentation, which is a little bit spotty. Phabricator is installed by cloning to Git Repository. There are no system packages or anything like that. It was a little surprising because packages like GitLab, which are considerably bigger, have everything consolidated into a single package. After the repository is installed, you need to manually install, configure a variety of different services. It took quite a while, and it was a very difficult process to finish. If you're thinking about getting Phabricator, be aware of the company that develops it, Phacility, is largely a one-man operation. While Evan Prieslty is definitely a very capable developer and Evan Priestly's been able to make, I would not personally interest my company's productivity to something that's backed by more or less a single person. Consider it, too, that the overall trajectory of Phabricator is geared more toward paying customers. If you're not paying for their support, you are not going to get any feature requests or support of any sort.

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Ellenore K
Doula
5.0

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.

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Phabricator

12/38
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Budget Management
  • Calendar Management
  • Customizable Templates
  • Document Management
  • For IT Project Management
  • Gantt/Timeline View
  • Issue Management
  • Kanban Board
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile App
  • Percent-Complete Tracking
  • Portfolio Management
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Project Tracking
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Release Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Resource Management
  • Status Tracking
  • Supports Scrum
  • Task Scheduling
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time & Expense Tracking
  • Workflow Management
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Change Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Drag & Drop
  • Prioritization
  • Project Planning
  • Requirements Management
  • Search/Filter
  • Task Management
  • Testing/QA Management
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Asana

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36/38
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Phabricator
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Asana
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Phabricator
  • By Phacility
  • Located in United States
Asana
  • By Asana
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2008
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