Alternative to Asana
The best Asana alternative for customer-facing teams (2026)
BlueHill is the customer-ops-focused Asana alternative for teams running onboarding, project delivery, support, and billable work. Native customer record, email, portal, time tracking → invoices.
Why teams switch from Asana to BlueHill
Asana is a beautiful general-purpose project management tool. For internal team coordination and OKR tracking, it's excellent. For customer-facing operations, customer-success teams keep running into the same gaps:
- No first-class customer object — just tasks with custom fields
- No native email integration on the customer record
- No branded customer portal — only public task shares
- Time tracking is a 2024 beta feature; invoicing requires integrations
- Internal-only notes require a private-task workaround
BlueHill is the customer-ops-specific Asana alternative.
What BlueHill does that Asana doesn't
- Customer record as a first-class data model
- Native Gmail/Outlook → customer email lives on the customer
- Branded portal with per-customer logins
- Time tracking with QuickBooks invoice export, native on all plans
- Onboarding templates with relative-date scheduling
- Explicit internal-notes layer
Pricing
| Plan | Starts at | |---|---| | Starter | $29/user/month | | Professional | $79/user/month | | Enterprise | Custom |
Migration steps
- Export each Asana project to CSV
- Map your client column to BlueHill's Customer object
- Rebuild templates as BlueHill relative-date onboarding plans
- Wire email + invoicing
Typical time: 1–3 days for 10-person teams.
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