Shaire vs Asana

Asana coordinates work across whole companies. Shaire puts a team's tasks and docs in one tool for €20 a month.

Last updated 3 September 2026. Every price and figure below links to its source.

Is Shaire a good alternative to Asana?

Shaire is a good alternative to Asana for a software team of five to twenty-five that plans its work and writes it down in one place. Asana Starter is $10.99 per user per month billed yearly, so $109.90 for ten people; Shaire is €20 a month for the whole workspace at that size, with a block editor beside the tracker. Asana adds portfolios, goals, workload planning, an automation engine, SSO and a mobile app for work that spans departments.

What ten people cost

Shaire

Team plan

€20 excl. VAT a month

for the whole workspace, up to 10 people

Free tier: up to 2 people, every feature, no card

See our pricing

Asana

Starter plan

$109.90 a month

$10.99 per user / month billed yearly, $13.49 billed monthly

Free tier: up to 2 users, in Asana's own words

See Asana's pricing

Both free plans stop at two people, so the same two people can try each one. Asana's Advanced plan is $24.99 per user per month billed yearly: $249.90 for ten people.

Asana's figures were read from their own pricing page on 3 September 2026. Prices change; ours are in euros and theirs are quoted in whatever currency their page shows, with no conversion applied.

Feature by feature

What each product offers today, row by row.

Feature	Shaire	Asana
Tracking work
List and board views	Yes	Yes
Sub-tasks and dependenciesShaire's relations are typed — blocks, blocked by, relates to, duplicates.	Yes	Yes
MilestonesShaire's span lists and roll up what is under them, with an at-risk breakdown.	Yes	Yes
Sprints or cycles with capacity	Yes	No
Estimates and points-based reporting	Yes	Partly
Recurring tasks and templates	Yes	Yes
Custom fieldsTyped columns a list owner adds from the grid, with no migration and no administrator.	Yes	Yes
Rules and automationRecurring tasks that create themselves on a schedule, and workflow rules that constrain which status may follow which. There is no trigger/condition/action builder.	Partly	Yes
Calendar, timeline and Gantt viewsA draggable month and week calendar by due date, and a timeline with dependency arrows. Both are view modes on a list, beside list and board.	Yes	Yes
Portfolios and goals across projects	No	Yes
Documentation
A documentation tool in the same productAsana has project briefs and descriptions. It is not a wiki, and teams pair it with one.	Yes	No
Nested page tree with sub-pages and backlinks	Yes	No
Diagrams and maths in documents	Yes	No
Live task lists embedded in a page	Yes	No
Promote a checklist item into a task	Yes	No
Realtime collaborative editingTwo people can type in the same page, on a Yjs document the server writes back, and presence avatars say who else is on a list, a task or a page. There is no comment or suggestion mode, and a task description is not a shared document.	Yes	Yes
Share a page publicly	No	Yes
Reporting
Workload per person	Yes	Yes
Burndown and velocity	Yes	No
Custom dashboards	No	Yes
Access and administration
Per-folder and per-list permissions	Yes	Yes
Grant access to a team once	Yes	Yes
SSO and SAML	No	Yes
Audit log you can readSettings → Audit. Workspace-wide and filterable: tasks, pages, milestones, the trash lifecycle and the workspace itself all write to it.	Yes	Yes
Platform
GitHub and GitLab branch and pull-request linking by task keyAsana connects to GitHub through an integration. Shaire links the branch or pull request to the task by its key and can move the task when the work moves.	Yes	Partly
Mobile app	No	Yes
Public APIScoped personal access tokens and 152 documented endpoints, at developers.shairelabs.com.	Yes	Yes
WebhooksSigned, retried and logged. An admin registers the endpoint in Settings; a delivery names what changed and you call the API for the detail.	Yes	Yes
Email notificationsShaire sends a daily or weekly digest once you switch it on, plus account email: address confirmation, password reset and invitations. Comments, mentions and assignments arrive in the in-app inbox. There is no per-event email.	Partly	Yes
Import from another tool	No	Yes
Export your data	No	Yes
Price
Free tierBoth stop at two people. Ours carries every feature; theirs is the Personal plan.	Yes	Yes
Priced per workspace rather than per seat	Yes	No
Every feature on every paid plan	Yes	No

What Asana does well

Portfolios and goals

Asana connects work across departments to company goals. Portfolios, timelines and capacity planning cover a whole organisation. A manager can see what forty people in marketing, sales and operations are doing this quarter.

An automation engine

Asana rules combine triggers, conditions and actions, with approvals and proofing built in. Teams use them to route work from one department to the next.

A platform for large organisations

Asana offers SSO, custom dashboards, a mobile app and AI features. Its interface is familiar to non-technical teams, so marketing, operations and HR can work in the same tool.

What Shaire does well

Tasks and docs in one place

A milestone page holds a filtered task list that stays current. You can promote a checklist item in a project brief into a task, and the task links back to the line it came from. The documentation lives in the same workspace, with no second subscription.

Built for software teams

Sprints carry capacity limits and roll unfinished work forward. The GitHub and GitLab integrations link branches and pull requests by task key and can move the task when the work moves.

Calendar and timeline views on every list

Switch any list to a calendar or a timeline. Draw dependencies as arrows on the Gantt chart, or drag tasks across a month. Nothing needs to be configured first.

Asana helps an organisation see what every department is working on and when it will be done. Portfolios, goals and timelines give managers that view across marketing, sales and operations.

Shaire is built for a team of five to twenty-five that plans its work and writes it down in the same place. Tasks and documentation share one product, one search box and one permission model.

Tasks and docs in one product

Asana tracks work through tasks, project briefs and descriptions. For longer writing, such as architecture decisions or onboarding runbooks, teams usually pair it with a second tool like Notion or Google Docs. That means two subscriptions, two permission models and links pasted by hand between them.

In Shaire, the block editor, the page tree and the task board are one product. A project brief holds a filtered task list that stays current. A line in a spec can become a task that links back to where it came from. A milestone carries the writing that explains it.

One price for the whole team

Asana charges per seat. Starter is $10.99 per user per month billed yearly, which is $109.90 a month for ten people. Advanced is $249.90 for the same ten people.

Per-seat pricing puts a price on every invitation: the designer who wants to follow one task, the freelancer joining for six weeks, the support person who needs a technical note. When each seat costs money, those people often stay out, and the context moves to a chat thread.

Shaire prices by the workspace. Team is €20 a month for up to ten people, with 10 GB of storage. Growth is €59 a month for up to twenty-five, with 50 GB, so the eleventh person moves the workspace to the next plan. The plan sets how many people the workspace holds and how much storage it has. Every feature is on every plan, including the free one.

When storage is full, new uploads stop and every file already there stays readable.

Ready for software teams on day one

A new Shaire workspace starts with six statuses. Workflow rules and custom fields are there when a team wants them, and nothing needs to be set up before work starts.

Shaire includes sprints with capacity limits that roll unfinished work forward, burndown charts, point estimates, and branch and pull request linking for GitHub and GitLab. Calendar and timeline views are available on every list.

How to choose

Choose Asana if

You coordinate non-technical teams across several departments.
You need SSO, data export or an importer for your existing projects.
Your workflows rely on multi-step automation with conditions and approvals.

Choose Shaire if

You are a software team that wants tasks and documentation in the same tool.
You want sprints, point estimates and branch tracking that work without setup.
You want a flat €20 a month, so inviting a freelancer costs nothing extra.

Common questions

How is Shaire different from Asana?

Asana coordinates work across departments, with portfolios, goals and an automation engine. Shaire is built for a software team of five to twenty-five. It puts a task tracker, with sprints, point estimates and GitHub and GitLab linking, in the same product as the team's documentation, with one search and one permission model.

Is Asana free for small teams?

Yes. Asana Personal is free for up to two users, and so is Shaire's free plan. Asana keeps some features for its paid tiers. Shaire includes every feature on every plan, including the free one. A smaller plan has less storage, not fewer features.

Can I import my Asana projects?

Shaire has no importer, from Asana or from any other tool. Projects you bring across are moved by hand.

What does it cost for ten people?

Asana Starter is $10.99 per user per month billed yearly, which is $109.90 a month. Shaire Team is €20 a month for the whole workspace, up to ten people. Going from three people to ten does not change the invoice, so inviting a designer or a support agent to read a technical note costs nothing extra.

What happens if I want to leave Shaire?

An owner can close a workspace at any time. On day zero, Shaire cancels the Stripe subscription, removes our webhooks from your git provider and hides the workspace. On day thirty, it destroys the data. In between, the workspace can be recovered by hand. You do not need to file a support request to leave.