Asana vs aCalendar

Asana has fantastic mechanisms for dealing with team collaboration. Not only can tasks be assigned to team members, but Asana lets users follow tasks and use hyperlinks to refer to team members within a task.

The Asana task workflow within a project is broken down into "Today," "Upcoming," and "Later." The tasks themselves have the status of either done or not done. There is also a subtask feature to group tasks together. Tasks can be assigned to other team members and are stored in the "Inbox" view for processing. This replaces email for some team communication.

Teams can have private (only visible to project members) and public (visible to anyone in the team) projects. Each member can also have their own personal projects.

Tasks can be viewed in list and calendar views. It's possible to display only the tasks assigned to the user or tasks organized by project or team. Single tasks can exist in multiple projects. Lists of tasks can be divided into sections and organized in many different ways – tasks that still have to be done, tasks that have been completed, by due date, by assignee, by popularity, etc.

Expanding a task will allow adding things like subtasks, tags, and attachments, as well as comments. Users can also subscribe to a task via RSS from this view. There's a separate view specifically for attachments.

Search lets you find what you’re looking for quickly.

The tagging system enables project managers to easily filter tasks.

There are many videos, tutorials, and reference documents to help you get up and running.

Asana provides a list view and a Kanban view which can be selected if a new project is created.

Keyboard shortcuts all involve the Tab key, so it is unlikely that they will interfere with shortcuts that have already been established.

It's possible to have tasks appear in a Slack channel.

Tasks get shown in the calendar, although there is also a separate tasks view. It supports Google Tasks and recurring tasks.

Switching from day<->week<->month views by swiping laterally is a powerful feature.

The settings menu is rather detailed and includes a good selection of color themes to choose from, possibility to adjust font-size, set beginning and end of day, ability to choose what views to use and more.

aCalendar is an Android app that comes in free, ad-less version as well as this paid version.

This paid version aCalendar+ adds more features like agenda view, home screen widget and the ability to manage Google Calendars. The developer also donates some of the profits from this Pro version to help protect the endangered mountain tapir.

The three views are very convenient, particularly the week view, which shows the week position inside the month

The app has widgets for day, week and month views.

The app has 48 calendar and 12 event colors.

For the 30+ available languages for the app, there are holiday calendars available to be added.

aCalendar can be set up to use a calendar based on cycles of the lunar phases.

Its week overview is very well suiting for tasks and all day events. It shows everything at once.

Drag'n'drop functionality is available in day view with this paid version of the application.

By utilizing a three finger tap shortcut users can easily got to the today view from anywhere in the app.

There are 3o user made translations available for the app, making for a good calendar to use in different countries.

Using both QR codes as well as NFC, users can share events wirelessly and easily