Asana is a work management tool for planning projects and tasks across teams, with lists, boards, timelines and goals. Asana, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco. The same list works if you're replacing monday.com and ClickUp. The European alternatives that replace it best are awork (Germany) for agencies planning team workload across client projects, MeisterTask (Austria) for teams that want simple boards with EU hosting and Teamwork.com (Ireland) for agencies that track billable time per client project.
European alternatives
12
From 8 countries
Keep data in Europe
9
By default, no setting needed
With a free plan
7
No time limit
Open source
1
Can run on your own servers
Asana alternatives from Europe, compared
Best first for someone replacing Asana. Headcount and founding year come from LeadWave's database; prices, hosting and G2 ratings from each company's own pages and G2, checked in November 2026.
Work management for agencies and service teams: tasks, project timelines, team workload planning and time tracking. Hosted in Frankfurt, with importers for Asana, monday.com and Jira.
Compared with Asana: Covers tasks, timelines and team workload like Asana, with time tracking built in and a focus on agencies. Hosted in Frankfurt, from €5 per user. No free plan, unlike Asana.
Built-in Asana importer for projects, tasks, comments and dependencies.
Agencies planning team workload across client projects
2. MeisterTask
Kanban task management hosted in Germany
Board-based task and project management from Meister, the maker of MindMeister, with automations, time tracking and reports. Data is hosted in Germany. A free plan covers up to 3 projects.
Compared with Asana: Simpler, board-first work management with automations and time tracking. Hosted in Germany. Free plan for up to 3 projects; Pro from $7 per user.
Project management and time tracking for client work
Project management for agencies and service teams that bill clients: tasks, Gantt and board views, time tracking, budgets and resource planning. Accounts can be hosted in the US or the EU.
Compared with Asana: Project management for client work: tasks, Gantt and board views, time tracking and budgets. Free plan; paid from $9.99 per user. Hosting in the EU or the US.
Agencies that track billable time per client project
4. Zenkit
Tasks as boards, lists, Gantt or calendar
Project management from Karlsruhe that shows the same tasks as kanban boards, lists, Gantt charts or calendars, with team chat built in. Data is hosted on AWS in Frankfurt.
Compared with Asana: Board, list, Gantt and calendar views of the same tasks, with team chat built in. Hosted on AWS in Frankfurt. From €8 per user; no free plan.
Small teams that switch between board and Gantt views
5. Stackfield
Encrypted team chat, tasks and documents in one workspace
A collaboration workspace that combines team chat, task boards, documents and video calls, with end-to-end encryption available. Data is stored in German data centres; an on-premise edition exists.
Compared with Asana: Combines team chat, task boards, documents and video calls, with optional end-to-end encryption. Data in German data centres; an on-premises edition exists. No free plan; from €9 per user.
Teams that want chat and tasks under German data protection
6. factro
German project and task management for SMEs
Cloud project management from a Bochum consultancy: project structure plans, Gantt charts, Kanban boards and task lists. Data is stored in a German data centre. The interface and support are German-first.
Compared with Asana: German project tool built around project structure plans, with Gantt and kanban views. Free for up to 3 users; Business from €19.99 per user. Interface and support are German-first.
Headquarters
Bochum, Germany
Founded
1994
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €19.99/user/month
Free plan
Yes
Best for
German-speaking SMEs planning projects with structure plans
7. OpenProject
Open-source project management, cloud or self-hosted
Open-source project management with Gantt charts, agile boards, work packages, time tracking and wikis. The Community edition is free to self-host; paid plans add enterprise features, support and EU cloud hosting.
Compared with Asana: Open-source project management with Gantt, boards, time tracking and wikis, self-hosted or in an EU cloud. More oriented to classic project plans than Asana's task lists.
Teams that want planning software they can self-host
8. Nozbe
Team task manager with built-in task discussions
Task and project app for small teams, built around shared projects and comment threads on each task instead of email. Data sits on Hetzner servers in Germany.
Compared with Asana: A lighter task manager for small teams, with a discussion thread on every task. Data on Hetzner servers in Germany; Premium from $9 per user.
Project and task management with Gantt charts, kanban, time tracking and project budgets. Data is kept in data centres in EU countries.
Compared with Asana: Projects, tasks, Gantt charts, time tracking and budgets, with data in EU data centres. From $3.75 per user. Contracted through an Estonian company.
Small and mid-size teams tracking time and costs per project
10. Productive
Projects, budgets and resourcing for agencies
Agency and consultancy platform that combines projects and tasks with time tracking, resource planning, budgets and invoicing. Run from Zagreb; the contracting entity is a Delaware company.
Compared with Asana: Built for agencies: projects and tasks tied to time tracking, budgets, resourcing and invoicing. Run from Zagreb, from €9.50 per user. Hosting region not published.
Tasks, time tracking and invoicing for small teams
Project management for small agencies and freelancers that combines tasks, kanban and Gantt views with time tracking, resource scheduling and client invoicing.
Compared with Asana: Tasks, kanban and Gantt plus time tracking and invoicing for small agencies and freelancers. Run from Oradea, Romania; data on AWS, region not stated.
French collaboration suite with projects, files and chat
Collaboration suite with tasks, project calendars, shared files, chat and video, hosted in France on SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure. Aimed at companies and public bodies with sensitive data.
Compared with Asana: French collaboration suite with tasks, project calendars, files, chat and video, hosted in France on SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure. Wimi Projects costs €12 per user.
French organisations that need SecNumCloud hosting
Why look for a European alternative to Asana?
Asana is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. These are the reasons buyers in Europe most often give for looking elsewhere:
Asana is a US company, headquartered in San Francisco.
Asana has data centres in Europe, Australia and Japan, but choosing where data is stored is part of its top Enterprise+ tier.
monday.com (Tel Aviv, Israel) and ClickUp (San Diego, US) are not European either, so moving between the three does not change the vendor's home country.
How this list was made
A company counts as European if it's headquartered in Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. Headquarters means where it's run from, not a registered office. Companies founded in Europe but headquartered elsewhere today are listed separately, and a non-European owner is always named.
Each company was checked against its own legal notice, pricing page and data-processing terms, and its G2 page. Headcount, funding and founding year come from LeadWave's database of SaaS companies. No company paid to be listed or ranked.
It depends on what you use Asana for. Awork (Germany) for agencies planning team workload across client projects, MeisterTask (Austria) for teams that want simple boards with EU hosting and Teamwork.com (Ireland) for agencies that track billable time per client project. All 12 on this page are headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.
MeisterTask, Teamwork.com, factro, OpenProject, Nozbe, Worksection and Paymo have a free plan with no time limit.
awork, MeisterTask, Zenkit, Stackfield, factro, OpenProject, Nozbe, Worksection and Wimi store customer data in Europe by default. Teamwork.com lets you choose a European data region.
Yes: OpenProject. Open-source tools can also be self-hosted on your own servers in Europe.
awork, MeisterTask, Teamwork.com, Nozbe and Worksection document an import from Asana; the details are under each one below.
No. Asana, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
It can. Asana has data centres in Europe, Australia and Japan, but its pricing page lists data residency, the choice of region, as an Enterprise+ feature.
No. monday.com Ltd. is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and ClickUp is run by Mango Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, California. The European tools listed here replace them in the same way they replace Asana.
