When comparing Casual vs Axosoft, the Slant community recommends Casual for most people. In the question“What is the best task management software for small teams?” Casual is ranked 26th while Axosoft is ranked 33rd.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Tracks task dependencies using a graph
Pro Great to-do templates
Every to-do list & project can be saved as an amazing template that you can re-use in the future.
Pro Offers a high-level overview of projects
The workflow with dependencies shows where the things are at a glance. No more frustrations of how your project is going and who is doing what.
Pro Sync deadlines to Google Calendar
To-do items can be integrated with your day-to-day schedule using Google Calendar.
Pro Visual way of organizing your work
The workflow includes dependencies and shows you where things are at a glance.
Pro Helpdesk functionality
Turn emails into support incident tickets. A brandable self-service portal can be created for customers to create and edit tickets without using paid Axosoft accounts.
Pro Extremely fine-grained control over the lifecycle of each task
Tasks are divided into categories and each category can have one or more workflows which are followed by tasks belonging to that category until their completion.
In other words, workflows are used to set each step tasks need to take in order to be completed. Axosoft lets users have extremely fine-grained control over workflows and by extension, the whole lifecycle of each task. Each step in a workflow can be named and you can choose which fields are updated when a step is complete. This way you can automatically tweak tasks as they progress (you can set tasks to belong to different users once a step is complete, you can even change workflows for a task if a certain step is taken).
Pro Items can be exported as PDF
Each item has a PDF
button (among others) which lets you export all the information related to that particular item in PDF format.
Pro Allows you to view only the most useful information at a given time
Axosoft lets users pretty much create custom dashboards any time they want to view only a specific part of the project data and information.
You can choose which tabs to keep open and even how tasks are shown and what kind of data is shown for each task. This way you can see for example how much time is left in a sprint, or how much capacity the team has left to finish the project.
Cons

Con Price
At its cheapest level, Casual is $9 per month for two users and two GB of storage. The trial period is short and there is no free version.
Con Can get rather expensive quickly
Axosoft can get pretty expensive pretty quickly for large teams and/or large projects. The cheapest tier allows for a maximum of five users and costs $20/month. However, for larger teams and larger projects it can easily go into the thousands of USD per month.
