Looking for an Asana alternative that gives you more than task management?
Starbrix brings project planning, portfolio visibility, team collaboration, client participation, and time tracking together in one connected environment.
See every project across your organization. Give teams, customers, and suppliers the information they need. Plan complex schedules with Gantt charts while keeping everyday work simple with Kanban boards, calendars, and personal task lists.
And if your business needs more, Starbrix Flex connects project delivery with resource capacity planning, purchasing, financial management, and invoicing.
Starbrix offers two solutions:
- Starbrix Core – Comprehensive project management, collaboration, time tracking, and portfolio visibility.
- Starbrix Flex – End-to-end project and business management, connecting project delivery with resources, purchasing, finances, and invoicing.
Both solutions can support organizations of different sizes. The right choice depends on your business processes, not how many employees you have.
Why Choose Starbrix Instead of Asana?
Asana is a capable work management platform, offering project planning, collaboration, automation, and portfolio management.
But choosing a project management system is about more than comparing individual features. What matters is how effectively the platform connects your organization's projects, people, information, and processes.
Here are four reasons why Starbrix deserves a closer look.
1. See Your Entire Project Portfolio in One Place
Managing individual projects is only part of the challenge. Management also needs to understand what is happening across the entire organization.
Both Starbrix Core and Starbrix Flex provide organization-wide project portfolio views as a standard capability.
You can monitor projects, schedules, progress, responsibilities, and upcoming work from a central overview.
Unlike portfolio structures that require projects to be added to specific groups, Starbrix provides an overview of the organization's projects by default, subject to user permissions.
For more focused management, you can also organize work into:
- Workspaces in Starbrix Core, allowing teams, departments, and other groups to follow their projects and activities.
- Operational Areas in Starbrix Flex, providing focused operational and financial monitoring for different parts of the organization.
This supports project management at every level.
Executives can monitor the company-wide portfolio. Department managers can focus on their areas. Project managers can concentrate on individual projects.
Everyone gets the perspective they need, while working with connected project information.
2. Bring Teams, Clients, and Suppliers Together
Projects rarely involve only internal employees.
Customers may need to review progress, participate in decisions, or provide information. Suppliers and subcontractors may need to coordinate deliveries. Employees often work across multiple projects simultaneously.
Starbrix brings these participants into a connected project environment.
With appropriate permissions, external participants can collaborate on relevant projects, tasks, documents, and communication.
What makes Starbrix particularly useful is that project information can be followed from several perspectives:
- Personal views show employees their responsibilities, tasks, and upcoming activities.
- Team Workspaces bring together relevant projects and work across the team.
- Customer and supplier views help users monitor projects and activities associated with individual business partners.
- Organization-wide views give management visibility across the complete project portfolio.
Consider a project involving a project manager, several employees, a customer, and an external supplier.
The project manager needs to monitor the schedule. Employees need to follow their assignments. The customer may need to review progress, while the supplier focuses on a particular delivery.
Starbrix allows everyone to work around the same project information while accessing what is relevant to their responsibilities.
Documents, discussions, and activities remain connected to the work itself.
The benefit is more than communication. It is better coordination between everyone involved in delivering the project.
3. Combine Powerful Planning with Everyday Simplicity
Project managers and team members often need very different ways of working.
A project manager may need detailed schedules, dependencies, critical path calculations, and baselines.
A team member may simply want to know what needs to be done today.
Starbrix supports both without requiring separate systems.
Both Core and Flex include:
- Gantt charts for detailed scheduling, dependencies, and critical path analysis.
- Kanban boards for visual task management.
- Calendar views for scheduled work and deadlines.
- Personal task lists for everyday responsibilities.
- Time tracking and approvals for recording and reviewing working hours.
- Document management and communication connected to projects and tasks.
- Project templates for establishing consistent working practices.
These capabilities work together.
A project manager can maintain a structured Gantt schedule while team members follow their responsibilities through Kanban boards or personal views.
The information remains connected, regardless of which view people prefer.
This is especially valuable in organizations where some projects require detailed scheduling while others are managed through more flexible workflows.
Starbrix gives project managers the control they need without making everyday work unnecessarily complicated.
4. Go Beyond Project Management When Your Business Needs It
For many organizations, comprehensive project planning, collaboration, and portfolio management are exactly what they need.
That is where Starbrix Core fits.
But in some businesses, project management is closely connected to sales, purchasing, resource allocation, costs, and customer invoicing.
A customer project may begin with a quotation, require employees and purchased materials, involve subcontractors, and ultimately generate invoices.
Starbrix Flex connects these processes around the same projects.
It supports:
- Sales opportunities and quotations.
- Project planning and execution.
- Resource and capacity management.
- Purchasing and materials.
- Project budgets, costs, and profitability.
- Time tracking and approvals.
- Project invoicing and accounting integrations.
- Financial reporting and cash flow forecasts.
Instead of treating project delivery and business operations as separate activities, Flex provides a connected environment for managing both.
Project managers can follow progress and resource requirements, while management can monitor costs, income, profitability, and financial performance across projects.
With Starbrix, you can choose comprehensive project management with Core or connect project delivery to broader business operations with Flex.
Asana vs. Starbrix: Key Features Compared
Asana and Starbrix share many project management capabilities. The differences become clearer when considering which features are included in different subscription plans and how far the platform extends into business operations.
Comparison based on Asana's published product and subscription information, October 2026. Asana's features vary by plan, product offering, and optional add-ons. Starbrix features and pricing depend on the selected solution and subscription.
Asana provides a broad range of work management features, including advanced capabilities on its higher subscription tiers.
Starbrix offers a different combination of strengths: comprehensive project management, organization-wide visibility, flexible views of connected information, and the option to extend into integrated business operations.
The right choice depends on what your organization needs to manage—and how you want those activities to work together.
Which Starbrix Solution Is Right for You?
Both Starbrix Core and Starbrix Flex support project planning, collaboration, time tracking, and portfolio management.
The main difference is how far your project management requirements extend into other business processes.
Starbrix Core: Comprehensive Project Management
Starbrix Core is an excellent choice when your priority is managing projects, coordinating teams, and keeping everyone informed.
It brings together detailed scheduling, everyday task management, documents, communication, time tracking, and portfolio monitoring.
Core is particularly suitable for organizations that want to:
- Plan and manage projects of different types and complexity.
- Monitor all projects across the organization.
- Coordinate employees, teams, customers, and suppliers.
- Use Gantt, Kanban, calendars, and personal task lists.
- Track and approve working hours.
- Establish consistent project management practices.
Core can support organizations of different sizes, from small teams to large organizations managing extensive project portfolios.
And you can get started with a free plan for up to three members.
Starbrix Flex: Project Management Connected to Your Business
Starbrix Flex is designed for organizations that want project management to extend beyond planning and delivery.
It connects projects with commercial, operational, and financial processes.
For example, a customer project can begin with a quotation, continue through project planning and resource allocation, involve purchasing and material usage, and end with invoicing and financial follow-up.
Throughout this process, project information remains connected.
Flex is particularly valuable for project-driven organizations that need to manage both project execution and financial performance.
It also offers extensive configuration possibilities, allowing workflows, terminology, and information structures to reflect how the organization actually operates.
Built on More Than 30 Years of Project Management Experience
Starbrix has been developed since 1995, shaped by the practical requirements and feedback of customer organizations.
During these decades, project management has evolved from relatively isolated project plans into an increasingly connected part of everyday business operations.
Starbrix has evolved alongside these changes.
Some customer relationships have continued for decades, through changes in employees, management, organizational structures, and business processes.
This long-term experience has reinforced an important principle: project management software should adapt to the organization, support different ways of working, and continue providing value as requirements change.
Choosing a project management platform is an important long-term decision. It is worth considering not only what the software can do today, but also how well it can support your organization in the future.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Starbrix a good alternative to Asana?
Yes. Starbrix is worth considering if you need comprehensive project planning, portfolio management, client collaboration, and time tracking.
Starbrix Core focuses on project management and collaboration, while Starbrix Flex also connects projects with resource capacity, purchasing, financial management, and invoicing.
Does Starbrix provide project portfolio management?
Yes. Both Core and Flex provide organization-wide portfolio views as a standard capability.
You can also create Workspaces in Core or Operational Areas in Flex for more focused management.
Can customers and suppliers collaborate in Starbrix?
Yes. External participants can receive controlled access to relevant projects, tasks, documents, and communication.
Starbrix also provides customer- and supplier-related views that help internal users monitor associated activities.
Does Starbrix support Gantt charts, Kanban, and time tracking?
Yes. Both Core and Flex include Gantt scheduling, Kanban boards, calendar views, task management, time tracking, and approval workflows.
These features are connected, allowing different users to work with the same project information through different views.
Is Starbrix Core suitable for large organizations?
Yes. Starbrix Core can support organizations with many users, teams, and projects.
The free plan is available for up to three members, while paid plans support larger teams.
The choice between Core and Flex depends primarily on your business requirements rather than organization size.
What is the main difference between Starbrix Core and Flex?
Core focuses on comprehensive project management, collaboration, time tracking, and portfolio visibility.
Flex extends these capabilities into resource capacity planning, quotations, purchasing, project financial management, and invoicing.
Ready to Discover a Better Way to Manage Projects?
If you are evaluating alternatives to Asana, consider what your organization needs from its project management platform.
Do you want better visibility across all projects? Easier coordination between teams, customers, and suppliers? Powerful scheduling that remains practical for everyday users? Or a closer connection between project delivery and business operations?
Starbrix offers two solutions designed around these needs.
Starbrix Core brings comprehensive project management, collaboration, time tracking, and portfolio visibility into one connected environment.
Starbrix Flex extends these capabilities into broader operational and financial management.
Both build on more than 30 years of project management experience.
Ready to Discover a Better Way to Manage Projects?
Experience how Starbrix can help your organization plan projects, collaborate more effectively, and gain better visibility across all your work.
Starbrix Core – Start free with comprehensive project management, collaboration, time tracking, and portfolio visibility. Free forever for teams of up to three members.
Starbrix Flex – Explore end-to-end project and business management, from planning and resource allocation to purchasing, financial management, and invoicing. Try all features free for 60 days.
