Asana alternative · updated 2026-08-03
The honest Asana alternative for small teams
Lyto is an Asana alternative for teams of one to ten people who don't want their tasks living in a silo. Lyto Workstream handles projects and tasks inside one suite with CRM, invoicing, helpdesk and time tracking, at €13 per seat per month — €10 billed annually. Asana starts at $10.99 per user per month for Starter and $24.99 for Advanced (July 2026), for project management alone. Lyto ties the same task to the client who requested it and the invoice it feeds.
Lyto · all 7 apps
from €10 / seat / mo
billed annually · €13 monthly
Asana · project management
Starter $10.99 / user / mo annual billing
Advanced $24.99 / user / mo annual billing
Enterprise Custom contact sales
prices as of July 2026
How does Lyto compare to Asana?
| Lyto (Workstream) | Asana | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | €13 / seat / mo, or €10 billed annually — tasks plus six more apps | $10.99 / user / mo (Starter) — project management only |
| What connects to the work | The client (Pipeline), the invoice (Sum) and the hours (Tally) — one record | Integrations and syncs to separate CRM, billing and time tools |
| Scope of the tool | Focused task and project tracking, on purpose | Deep PM with rules, portfolios and goals across higher tiers |
| Time tracking | Built in via Tally — hours feed invoices in the same suite | Add-on or third-party integration |
| Billing the work | Tasks and time flow into Sum invoices directly | Export or integrate to an external invoicing tool |
| Free trial | 14 days, card required — disclosed up front | Free Personal tier; paid tiers billed per user |
Competitor prices checked July 2026; see their pricing page for current figures.
Why look past Asana at one to ten people?
Asana is a genuinely good project-management tool. For a small team, the question is not whether it manages tasks well — it does — but what sits around it. Asana is a PM silo by design: the tasks live there, while the client who asked for the work lives in a CRM, the hours live in a time tracker, and the invoice lives in a billing tool. Each is a separate subscription with its own login, and keeping them in step is a chore that falls on someone.
The deeper tiers add another cost. Rules, portfolios and goals are powerful, but a five-person team rarely uses them and still pays for the surface area at the Advanced tier.
How is Lyto Workstream different?
Workstream is the tasks-and-projects app inside the Lyto suite, built for one-to-ten-person teams:
- Tasks connected to the business. The project links to the client in Pipeline, the hours in Tally and the invoice in Sum — one shared record, not four synced tools.
- Focused, not sprawling. Boards, lists and clear ownership without a configuration project.
- Time and billing built in. Track hours against a task and turn them into an invoice without leaving the suite.
- Flat per-seat pricing. €13 per seat, or €10 billed annually — tasks plus the other six apps.
Where is Asana still the better pick?
If project management is the centre of your world — cross-team portfolios, complex dependencies, workload balancing across dozens of people — Asana’s depth outruns Workstream, and we would rather say so. Lyto trades PM depth for connectedness: the point is not the most powerful task tool, it is that the task you finish is already tied to the client and the invoice.
What does the suite change day to day?
Finish a task in Workstream and the hours are already in Tally, the client is already in Pipeline, and the invoice is one step away in Sum. One login, one customer record, one flat bill — instead of a PM tool that needs three other subscriptions bolted to its side to describe a whole project.
Questions people ask about switching
Is Lyto Workstream as deep as Asana for project management?
No, and that is deliberate. Asana is a mature, deep PM tool with portfolios, custom rules, goals and workload views built up over years. Lyto Workstream is focused task and project tracking for small teams, without the configuration surface. The trade is breadth: your tasks in Lyto connect to the client, the invoice and the tracked hours in the same suite, so the work is joined up even if the PM feature list is shorter.
What do I save switching a small team from Asana to Lyto?
It depends on your stack, but the saving is rarely just Asana's seat. Most small teams pair Asana with a separate CRM, an invoicing tool and a time tracker. Lyto folds task management, CRM, invoicing and time tracking into one €13 seat (€10 billed annually), so you are usually replacing three or four subscriptions with one, not swapping like for like.
Can I track billable time against tasks in Lyto?
Yes. Tally, the time-tracking app in the suite, records hours against the work in Workstream, and those hours flow into a Sum invoice for the client the project belongs to. In Asana you would add a time-tracking integration and an invoicing tool to do the same, then keep them in sync. In Lyto it is one connected record.
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