Asana alternative
Love Asana? You might just need less of it.
Asana shines when a project needs structure. For a founder or a five-person team, the structure itself can become the job: projects, sections, custom fields, rules and status updates all need someone to keep them current.
Carry isn't trying to out-feature Asana. It's a different tool for a different job: a calm place to put what you're holding and hand it to your team, with no setup and nothing to keep tidy.
Where Asana is genuinely great
- Big, multi-step projects with many owners
- Timelines, dependencies and portfolios
- Teams with someone whose job is to run the process
If that's your world, stick with Asana. Keep it if you run long projects with many moving parts and a person who owns the process.
Asana and Carry do different jobs
| Asana | Carry | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | The project | The person carrying the work |
| Before it's useful | Set up your structure first | Type one thing and it's held |
| Handing off | Assign inside a project | Hand to one person, a few, or everyone in a tap |
| Following up | Comments, updates, meetings | One gentle Ping, and Carry remembers you sent it |
| Upkeep | Someone keeps it tidy | Nothing to maintain |
| Best for | Structured projects | The small, constant stuff in between |
Try Carry if most of what you juggle is small, fast and personal: follow-ups, favours, little jobs you hand to Sam on a Tuesday.
Empty your head
Brain-dump anything in two seconds. It lands in your Inbox until you have a minute.
Hand it off for real
Give a task to one person, several, or the whole team. Each gets a banner on their phone.
Stop chasing
See who's carrying what. If something goes quiet, one Ping. No status meetings.
Questions about switching
Is Carry a replacement for Asana?
Not always. Asana is built to manage projects. Carry is built to manage what you and your team are holding. Keep Asana if you run long projects with many moving parts and a person who owns the process. Try Carry if most of what you juggle is small, fast and personal: follow-ups, favours, little jobs you hand to Sam on a Tuesday.
Can I use Carry and Asana together?
Yes. Keep Asana for the big plans and use Carry for everything in between: capture it, hand it off, and get a gentle nudge when something goes quiet.
How long does Carry take to set up?
There is no setup. Download the app, type the first thing on your mind, and invite a teammate when you are ready to hand something off.
How much does Carry cost?
Carry is free for one person. Paid plans start at $19 a month for two people, and everyone you invite rides free on the owner's plan.
Keep Asana for the big plans. Let Carry hold the rest.
Comparing other tools? Trello, ClickUp, Monday, Todoist. Or read why we think mental load is the real problem.