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Asana vs Huly
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Asana and Huly — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Asana vs Huly: at a glance
What is Asana?
Asana is spending its fall on governance: permissions, compliance, and admin plumbing.
Asana's last month of releases is dominated by control-plane work rather than new surfaces. Automation rules now run with their owner's live permissions, HIPAA arrived for Asana Gov, and the Admin Console was reorganized with AI settings broken out as their own section. Collaboration got one long-requested piece, threaded comments, alongside approval and sharing fixes in the Timesheets and Budgets add-on and Portfolios.
What is Huly?
Huly ships near-weekly builds, but its release notes say almost nothing about what changed.
Huly's GitHub releases are a steady run of s0.7.x tags, roughly one every few days through July, each published as a bare 'merge develop' note. The only titled entries are a package update and a test fix. Readers get a cadence signal, not a feature signal.
Asana vs Huly: editorial side-by-side
Asana
5.0PMCOLLAB
Asana is spending its fall on governance: permissions, compliance, and admin plumbing.
◆ Current state
Asana's last month of releases is dominated by control-plane work rather than new surfaces. Automation rules now run with their owner's live permissions, HIPAA arrived for Asana Gov, and the Admin Console was reorganized with AI settings broken out as their own section. Collaboration got one long-requested piece, threaded comments, alongside approval and sharing fixes in the Timesheets and Budgets add-on and Portfolios.
◆ Where it's heading
The summer sparks (AI Teammates with skills, agent-built rules, Pages, teamless projects) widened what Asana can do; this stretch makes those capabilities safe to roll out in regulated and multi-product enterprise domains. Giving AI its own admin section and tying automation to current permissions both point the same way: Asana is preparing admins to approve more autonomous behavior across the workspace.
◆ Prediction
Expect admin-level controls for AI Teammates and automations — scoping, audit trails, or per-product policies — to land inside the new Admin Console sections. Whether Asana Gov gets the AI features themselves is not clear from these entries.
Huly
0.0PM
Huly ships near-weekly builds, but its release notes say almost nothing about what changed.
◆ Current state
Huly's GitHub releases are a steady run of s0.7.x tags, roughly one every few days through July, each published as a bare 'merge develop' note. The only titled entries are a package update and a test fix. Readers get a cadence signal, not a feature signal.
◆ Where it's heading
The tag stream shows active development on the 0.7 line, but the releases record no user-facing changes, so the direction of the product cannot be read from them. The feed also goes quiet after 1 August, which is either a pause in tagging or a move to a different release channel.
◆ Prediction
The entries do not support a confident call on Huly's next feature; the clearest observable signal would be whether s0.7.x tagging resumes after the August gap.
Alternatives to Asana and Huly
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Asana or Huly.
Planka
Planka's release feed tracks its Helm chart, not the board app itself.
Hive
Hive keeps sanding down daily friction, now in timesheets and AI connection settings.
Camunda
Camunda's 8.10 RC train turns into a bug sweep while 8.7 Optimize stays on CVE duty.
SmartSuite
SmartSuite opens its workspace to AI assistants through a hosted MCP server that acts as the user.
Fibery
Fibery is letting AI build the entity page itself, not just the apps around it.
Recent activity from Asana and Huly
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 13h agoAsanaA clearer way to find your Admin settings 🧭
- 5d agoAsana🔐 Automation rules now use their owner’s current permissions
- 24d agoAsana🗂️ Bulk-add from Portfolio now works for editors and admins!
- 25d agoAsanaNo more stringing you along, Threaded Comments are now LIVE 🧵
- 26d agoAsana🔒 HIPAA is now available for Asana Gov customers
- 28d agoAsana🎉 Multiple approvers are now live in Timesheets and Budgets add-on (TBAO)
- 2mo agoHulyDevelop-branch merge build s0.7.437
- 2mo agoHulyDevelop-branch merge build s0.7.436
- 2mo agoHulyDevelop-branch merge build s0.7.435
- 2mo agoHulyDevelop-branch merge build s0.7.434
- 2mo agoHulyDevelop-branch merge build s0.7.433
- 2mo agoHulyDependency package updates for v0.7.432
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Asana and Huly?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Asana is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Asana better than Huly?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Asana is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Asana?
Top Asana alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Asana alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/asana for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Huly?
Top Huly alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Huly alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/huly for the full list with editorial commentary on each.