Asana vs Height

Asana is a work management platform founded in 2008 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, headquartered in San Francisco and listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2020. It helps organizations coordinate projects and programs across departments, connecting day-to-day tasks with company goals.

Work lives in projects that can be viewed as a list, board, timeline, Gantt chart or calendar, with custom fields, dependencies, milestones and forms for intake. Portfolios roll up the status of many projects for leadership, Goals link work to company objectives, Workload shows team capacity, and approvals handle sign-off. Rules and the workflow builder automate assignments, handoffs and status updates, while integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace and many other tools keep work connected. Asana AI summarizes projects, drafts updates and, through AI Studio, lets teams add AI steps to workflows. The free Personal plan covers one or two people; Starter adds timeline and the workflow builder, Advanced adds portfolios, goals and workload, and Enterprise tiers add security and admin controls.

Asana is strongest for marketing, operations, product and cross-functional programs where clarity of ownership matters more than heavy customization. Costs rise noticeably at Advanced, where the planning features live. monday.com is more visual and flexible for building custom boards, ClickUp packs more features per dollar but requires more setup, and engineering teams usually prefer Jira or Linear for software delivery.

Height was an AI-powered project management tool that aimed to automate the busywork of tracking tasks. It combined a fast, keyboard-friendly interface with list, kanban, calendar and Gantt views, chat threads on every task, GitHub and Slack integrations, and an AI layer that triaged incoming bugs, wrote status updates and groomed backlogs.

The company announced in March 2025 that it would wind down, and the service went offline on September 24, 2025, roughly seven years after it started. Customers were given several months to export tasks and projects before the shutdown; no acquisition was announced, and the product is no longer available to new or existing users. Before closing, Height 2.0 had repositioned the product around autonomous AI features, with agents meant to handle project chores in the background.

This page remains as a record and to help former users choose a replacement. Linear is the closest match for engineering teams that liked Height's speed and keyboard-driven design. Shortcut, which published a guide for teams leaving Height, is a close alternative for product and engineering teams that work with stories, epics and iterations. ClickUp suits teams that want an all-in-one workspace with docs and goals, Asana suits cross-functional teams, and Plane is an open-source option that can be self-hosted, so a vendor shutdown cannot take your project data offline again.