I’ve been searching for a tool to help me keep track of a variety of workstreams across my professional and personal life for the past several months. I’ve tried multiple products (Monday, Trello, etc) and I’ve run into the same problem everywhere: after the free trial the product is geared exclusively towards multiple user accounts. I thought Asana would be the the solution but alas their pricing model does the same thing. In order to upgrade I’d need to pay double the price per seat than a team would to use it for myself.
I’m just not willing to pay twice the money for a productivity tool. Seems to defeat the point. Asana (and their competition) is boxing out an entire category of users by forcing single-person-team users to pay higher prices. It’s a shame because I love the product but I would rather build the needed functionality myself in Google Sheets than pay double the money for the same value. It’s not right.
If you were to ask me if Asana is the best project management tool, I would answer with a resounding “yes” a thousand times over.
You don’t need to try to convince me with any mathematical examples.
However, what you may not be aware of is that there are many individuals who use Asana in their companies and organizations,
and then have realized its potential as a personal productivity tool as well.
Currently, I am testing Asana with the aim of using it for my own company.
I fully intend to subscribe to the premium plan for at leat 10 seats as soon as I am ready.
The reason I asked about a paid individual plan is because I have friends who are using the basic Asana plan.
They don’t work from home, but they still love using Asana at home and are hesitant to pay for two seats.
I’m sure they would upgrade to the premium plan immediately if they could.
I’m not saying that Asana isn’t worth the cost, but I want to say that there are also students and others who are sticking to the basic plan because they are only using it for personal purposes,
and the two-seat premium plan may be a bit over budget for them.
Thank you for your prompt response.
I appreciate your generosity and open-mindedness.
I recently started learning Asana throughly after using Monday.com and have come to understand why my colleagues recommended Asana as the better option.
After watching many tutorials on YouTube and Udemy, I was impressed by the continuous improvement and development efforts made by the Asana team.
Regarding the math above, I completely agree, but let add one more thing here.
By offering solo plans, you’ll not only help students/individuals on a budget, but also enable them to quickly grow their businesses and increase/upgrade their plans sooner.
It’s truly a win-win situation.
I’d like to add that there are many other applications and services that started with a narrow/different target audience but have since expanded, such as Unity and Discord.
I shared your comment with a friend of mine and they were equally impressed and they mentioned that they’ll definitely upgrade to a premium plan once it becomes available.
Once again, thank you for taking the time to listen to our thoughts and concerns.
You are truly great.
Since all the other posts regarding solo plans have been closed by Asana I just wanted to add somewhere on the forum that I have actually cancelled my Business plan because of the two-seat issue. I required the Business plan only as I needed the portfolios to get the additional layer of hierarchy (portfolio > project > sections > tasks > subtasks). Asana is the only tool with a native integration to some other vital tools I use so it was the ideal option for me and it’s a shame I no longer have that synchronicity. It’s really disappointing that solo users continue to be ignored by Asana. If I needed Premium I could have perhaps managed to pay for two seats as there are other Premium features I used, but it’s just not justifiable at Business level when I only need the ‘portfolio’ feature from that level. I still have my account in the hope Asana may address solo users better at some point in the future but currently have moved my task management elsewhere.
I emailed their sales team but it was suggested I post on here too. Rather than start a thread I will jump on this one.
I fully get the intent as a team collaboration tool. I hope my meager little startup idea requires multiple seats some day. In the meantime Asana is an amazing tool for managing the many simultaneous streams that a solopreneur / new founder has to go through. I’m sure it’s wonderful for bringing multiple people together on tasks but the product team needs to consider the (apparently overwhelmingly popular) “person doing it all and needing to keep it straight” use case. It seems like it would just be one more option in the subscription drop down, so likely not too hard to implement.
Asana, please make single-seat an option, or figure out some way to otherwise make the pricing model work for us soloists. None of us want to pay for multiple seats unnecessarily and based on what I’ve read, there are a lot of people who would gladly subscribe to one seat subs but are paying zero dollars because we’d be forced to oversubscribe. The ROI to set aside a little time in a sprint to accomodate this one seems like a no brainer.
Hello, I was wondering if there were any updates on the possibility of Asana introducing a single-user plan.
I have seen individuals who have been requesting a single-user plan from Asana for years and have recently switched to ClickUp, which offers similar features.
I have also heard that Monday.com is considering introducing a paid plan for a single user.
I understand that developing new plans can be a complex process, and I don’t mean to rush or complain about it.
Personally, I do not appreciate Monday.com’s cluttered design, and I find that ClickUp’s reliability and performance do not measure up to Asana’s standards.
As a devoted Asana fan, it saddens me to see potential customers being overlooked due to underestimation.
When you made the above comment one month ago, I had mentioned to some ClickUp users in various forums that Asana might be introducing a single-user plan in the future. However, I was unable to provide a timeframe, and now I am uncertain if it will happen at all.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to any updates you may have.
To be clear, @Bastien_Siebman was referring to a third-party solution he was working on providing via his company, not a single-user plan coming from Asana itself which has not announced any such plan.
I understand, and I’m truly disappointed to hear that.
Regrettably, without a 1-seat plan, it will be difficult for me to recommend Asana to individuals and students in my network anymore.
While I have watched the YouTube video above, I’m not entirely convinced why Asana underestimates single users out there, unlike its competitors.
Adding a 1-seat plan could help prevent individuals who are currently on a 2-seat plan from switching to other competitors like Notion, ClickUp, Trello, and Monday.com.
Additionally, it could serve as a type of marketing by introducing and familiarizing individuals with Asana before they start their own companies in the future, instead of spending money on promoting Asana through other channels.
It is disheartening to give up hope on this subject, but I feel like there’s nothing else to say.
Thank you for your time and consideration.