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Asana vs Immich
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Asana and Immich — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Asana vs Immich: at a glance
What is Asana?
Asana Tables puts vendor and asset records next to tasks, and AI Teammates can read them.
Asana has added a new object type. Tables, live on Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise+, stores reference data such as vendors and assets as records with custom fields, linked to tasks, projects and other tables. It follows a fall of structural and control work: subtask types set by the parent, Subtask Date Rollups, automation rules running on their owner's current permissions, and a reorganized Admin Console.
What is Immich?
Immich's v3.2 RC ships a new search UI and face clustering, advancing self-hosted photo discovery.
Immich is in active release cadence: v3.0 landed workflows, plugins, mobile editing, HLS streaming, and OCR; v3.2 is now in its third RC with a new search UI, face cluster groups, and a rebuilt search API. The RC turnaround pace suggests the team is in cleanup mode ahead of a stable release. It's a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with a large community of contributors across server, mobile, and web.
Asana vs Immich: editorial side-by-side
Asana
6.3PMCOLLAB
Asana Tables puts vendor and asset records next to tasks, and AI Teammates can read them.
◆ Current state
Asana has added a new object type. Tables, live on Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise+, stores reference data such as vendors and assets as records with custom fields, linked to tasks, projects and other tables. It follows a fall of structural and control work: subtask types set by the parent, Subtask Date Rollups, automation rules running on their owner's current permissions, and a reorganized Admin Console.
◆ Where it's heading
The fall's hierarchy cleanup now reads as groundwork for a broader data model: Asana is moving from tracking work to also holding the records work refers to. Tables feed AI Teammates and Asana Dash directly, so structured data becomes context for the agents launched over the summer. Asana is drawing the limit itself, saying Tables won't replace a CRM or a formula-heavy spreadsheet.
◆ Prediction
Expect Tables to gain richer lookups between records and more ways for rules and AI Teammates to act on them. The entries don't show whether Tables will reach lower plans.
Immich
6.3COLLAB
Immich's v3.2 RC ships a new search UI and face clustering, advancing self-hosted photo discovery.
◆ Current state
Immich is in active release cadence: v3.0 landed workflows, plugins, mobile editing, HLS streaming, and OCR; v3.2 is now in its third RC with a new search UI, face cluster groups, and a rebuilt search API. The RC turnaround pace suggests the team is in cleanup mode ahead of a stable release. It's a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with a large community of contributors across server, mobile, and web.
◆ Where it's heading
The product is moving from Google Photos parity toward differentiation through extensibility and AI-assisted organization. Workflows and plugins opened the automation surface in v3.0; the new search UI and cluster groups in v3.2 close the discovery gap. That combination — automation plus better semantic search — is the basis for a self-hosted photo library that replaces cloud products in daily use rather than just archiving them.
◆ Prediction
v3.2 stable will ship within days given the current RC pace. After that, expect the workflow engine to get additional triggers and actions, and possibly AI-assisted album creation tied to the new cluster groups and search API.
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Recent activity from Asana and Immich
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoAsanaIntroducing: Tables ⚡
- 17d agoAsana:puzzle_piece: Subtask types now follow their parent, across projects
- 24d agoAsana🗓️ Subtask Date Rollups: bring your parent dates up to date
- 27d agoAsanaA clearer way to find your Admin settings 🧭
- 1mo agoAsana🔐 Automation rules now use their owner’s current permissions
- 1mo agoAsana🗂️ Bulk-add from Portfolio now works for editors and admins!
- 1mo agoImmichv3.2.0 RC3: bug fixes before stable release
- 2mo agoImmichv3.2.0 RC2: search UI and face merge bug fixes
- 2mo agoImmichv3.2.0 RC1: new search UI, face cluster groups, memories view ⚡
- 2mo agoImmichv3.2.0-rc.0: fix: build release branch images instead of re-tagging main (#31064)
- 4mo agoImmichv3.0.0 RC3: webhook actions and bug fixes
- 4mo agoImmichv3.0.0 RC2: bug fixes ahead of stable release
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Asana and Immich?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Asana and Immich are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 6.3 vs 6.3, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Asana better than Immich?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Asana and Immich are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 6.3 vs 6.3, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Asana?
Top Asana alternatives in Collab 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 Immich?
Top Immich alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Immich alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/immich for the full list with editorial commentary on each.