An Asana alternative for one office and one payment.
Asana is built for coordinating projects across a company, mostly across the internet, mostly for people who live in a browser all day. If your team is twelve people in one building doing jobs that arrive one at a time, you are paying every month for most of a product nobody there opens.
Projects, or jobs.
Asana's unit is a project: something you lay out, break down, assign across and then maintain. WorkQueue's unit is a job somebody does today. There is no plan to draw, no timeline to keep current and no dependency to model — you type what needs doing, pick whose screen it goes to, and it is timed from the second it lands there.
That is a smaller idea and it does not stretch. If a real part of your work needs planning weeks ahead, WorkQueue will feel thin, and it is meant to.
What you get for the smallness is that nobody has to be taught it. The employee's entire interface is a strip at the top of the screen with their current job on it and a Complete button.
Side by side.
| WorkQueue | Asana | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Jobs handed out in one office | Projects coordinated across a company |
| How you pay | ₹14,999 once, whole company | Per user per month, with a free tier for small teams |
| Cost of hiring five more | Nothing | Five more seats |
| Where the data lives | A PC in your office | Asana's cloud |
| What an employee opens | Nothing | The web or phone app |
| Time tracking | Automatic, two timestamps a task | On higher plans, or manual |
| Timelines, portfolios, goals | None | All of it |
| External guests and clients | No — it is not on the internet | Yes |
| With the internet down | Keeps working on the office network | Stops |
| Mac, Linux and phones | Dashboard yes, strip Windows only | Everywhere |
Asana's plans change; check the current ones yourself. What is compared here is the shape of the two tools.
Which way you should go.
Stay on Asana if
- You run projects, not jobs. Anything with phases, milestones and dependencies is the thing Asana is for.
- People work from everywhere. Different cities, different devices, clients in the workspace — none of that is WorkQueue's shape.
- You need reporting across teams. Portfolios and goals have no equivalent here at all.
- Your team is not on Windows. The strip needs Windows 10 or 11 on each employee PC.
Move to WorkQueue if
- The per-seat bill is the problem. Ten people at ₹600 a month is about ₹72,000 a year, every year, for a product most of them barely open.
- Work arrives one job at a time. Orders, service calls, deliveries, batches — no plan required.
- You want timings for free. Response time and work time on every job, with nobody logging hours.
- Everyone is in one building. That is the case this is built for, and the only one it is good at.
The things people ask about this
Can I import from Asana?
Not automatically — there is no importer today. Teams making this move are usually changing how tomorrow's work is handed out, not carrying a project archive across.
Can clients or contractors see a task?
Only if they are on your network. The dashboard is not published to the internet — that is the whole design — so there is no guest link to share. People outside the office can be brought onto a private network during setup, and that is included, but it is your network they join, not a public workspace.
Does it have a phone app?
The dashboard is a web page and opens on any phone on your office Wi-Fi. The employee strip is a Windows program and has no phone version, because it is docked into the desktop the way the taskbar is.
We are ten people. Is the maths really better?
Over three years, on a ₹600-per-person figure, ten people pay about ₹1,08,000 for a per-seat tool against ₹14,999 once here. Check it against your actual invoice rather than ours — and if most of those ten never open the tool, that is the more interesting number.
Try it on your own team for thirty days.
Every feature, unlimited PCs, no card and nothing to cancel. We will help you install it, and if it does not fit, nothing of yours has left the office.