ASANA ALTERNATIVE
The visual planning that happens
before the Asana task list.
Asana is a leading way to track tasks, projects, and deadlines, and it is genuinely great at it. Storyflow is a different thing: the visual canvas where the creative work gets planned first. Brainstorms, moodboards, and campaign and production plans on one infinite canvas, laid out by AI. For tracking work, keep Asana. For planning it visually, this is where the ideas come from. The two pair well. Free forever, no credit card.
Free plan, no object cap
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Used by creative professionals at:
Artlist
Pixar
Nike
Red Bull
The North Face
Porsche
Start from a ready-made template
Pick a board, then let AI fill it in. Every template is a real, editable starting point on the same infinite canvas.
What can you use alongside or instead of Asana?
Asana is a leading work and project management tool, and it earns that. Tasks, subtasks, assignees, due dates, timelines, dependencies, workflows, and reporting that scale across a whole company. If your job is to know who owns what, when it is due, and whether the project is on track, Asana does that job about as well as anything on the market, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. It is trusted by teams everywhere for exactly that reason.
But a task list answers a narrow question: what needs doing and by when. It does not hold the thinking that produces the work. Before a campaign becomes fifteen Asana tasks, someone has to brainstorm the concept, gather the references, build the moodboard, and shape the plan. That messy, visual, pre-task stage rarely fits into rows and cards, so it ends up scattered across a whiteboard tool, a doc, a slide deck, and a folder of screenshots that never quite connect to the tracked work.
Storyflow is not a task tracker, and it does not try to be one. It is the visual creative-planning canvas that comes before the task list. On a truly infinite canvas you brainstorm, pin the moodboard, and lay out a campaign or production plan, and the AI arranges a full board of cards from a single prompt. So the honest split is simple: for tracking tasks and deadlines, use Asana; for planning creative work visually, use Storyflow. Many teams do both, shaping the plan here and then handing the deliverables to Asana to execute.
HOW IT WORKS
Shape the plan on a canvas, then hand tasks to your tracker.
Do the visual, pre-task thinking here: brainstorm, moodboard, and plan. Then take the deliverables into Asana to track.
01
Open a free canvas
Start in the browser with a free account. No app to install, no card to enter, just an infinite canvas ready for the first brainstorm or moodboard.
02
Describe what you are planning
One sentence is enough: a product launch, a brand campaign, a video shoot. The AI reads the current canvas as context and lays out a full board of cards for the plan.
03
Pin the creative around it
Drop the moodboard, the references, the brief, and reference frames grabbed from YouTube and Vimeo next to the plan, so the thinking and the visuals sit together in one view.
04
Hand off and share
Turn the finished plan into the deliverables you track in Asana, share a view-only link so anyone sees the plan without an account, or export the board as an image or PDF for a deck.
The visual-planning stage a task tracker was never built for.
Asana tracks the work. Storyflow is where the work gets imagined, gathered, and planned before it becomes a task at all.
A full plan from a single prompt
AI lays out the board, you refine it
A task tracker starts as an empty list you fill row by row. Describe the project and Storyflow's AI lays out a full board of cards on the canvas: phases, ideas, and a plan you can rearrange, so you begin from a filled board instead of a blank one.
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The thinking, not just the task about it
Brainstorm and moodboard beside the plan
In Asana a task links out to the creative that lives somewhere else. In Storyflow the brainstorm, the moodboard, and the references sit on the same infinite canvas as the plan, so the concept and its plan are never in separate tools.
See visual collaboration →
One board becomes the next
Turn a brainstorm into a campaign plan
A row in a tracker stays a row. In Storyflow a mind map or moodboard can become a campaign board, a content calendar, or a production plan on the same canvas, so the plan grows out of the ideas instead of starting from a blank template.
See mind mapping →
Room to plan a whole project
An infinite canvas, no free object cap
The pre-task stage spreads: dozens of references, several concepts, a full plan. Storyflow's canvas is truly infinite and the free plan has no object cap, so the campaign board, the moodboard, and the schedule keep growing without a limit pushing you to upgrade.
See the online whiteboard →Free forever. No object cap.
Plan real creative projects on the free plan. Unlimited boards on an infinite canvas with no object cap and no time limit, so the whole plan fits without watching a counter.
Unlimited boards and objects on an infinite canvas
Basic AI usage to lay out plans and boards from a prompt
Attach briefs, images, PDFs, video, and links, plus 20 file uploads
Unlimited collaboration and shared boards, plus view-only links
BEFORE THE TASK LIST
Made for the visual planning that feeds your tracker.
Keep Asana for who-owns-what and by-when. Keep the brainstorm, the moodboard, and the plan on a canvas where AI does the layout.
Plan visually, not in rows
A canvas for the pre-task thinking
Brainstorm without a form: Sketch concepts as cards you group, recolor, and move on the canvas, instead of forcing an early idea into a task row before it is ready to be one.
AI lays out the first pass: Instead of a blank board, the AI proposes a full plan from your prompt: phases, ideas, and a board you can rearrange. Keep what fits, delete the rest, add your own.
Plan without limits: No object cap on the free plan means a plan can hold every concept, reference, and note that earns a place, not a trimmed version that fits a fixed template.
Context from the board you are working on
AI that builds on what is already there
Reads your active board: The AI uses what is on the board you have open, so the plan it lays out matches the concept and direction you have already sketched, not a generic outline.
@-mention your sources: Add up to one Tactic and three documents as context: a creative brief, a scope doc, or research the plan should grow from.
Re-prompt to reshape: Ask for a tighter set of phases, an extra concept, or a different breakdown. The AI reworks the plan while keeping the edits you already made.
The creative sits with the plan
Moodboards, references, and frames in one place
Moodboard beside the plan: Pin the moodboard, the references, and the brief next to the plan, so the team plans against the actual creative instead of a task that only describes it.
Frames from video: Grab stills straight from YouTube and Vimeo onto the canvas when a reference frame explains an idea better than a note, then plan the work right beside them.
Boards become plans: Turn a mind map or a moodboard into a campaign board, a content calendar, or a production plan on the same canvas, so the plan grows from the creative, not a blank list.
Clients and teammates in the loop
Share the plan, then hand off the tasks
View-only client links: Send one link and a client sees the plan and the creative in the browser with no account and no login needed to view, before a single task lands in your tracker.
Collaborate on the free plan: Unlimited collaboration and shared boards come with the free plan, so the whole team can shape the plan on one canvas from day one.
Roles when you scale: As the studio grows, Max adds a team workspace with roles and permissions on top of everything the free plan already gives you.
WHO IT IS FOR
Who plans creative work alongside Asana?
Teams who track execution in Asana but need a visual place to plan it first.
Marketing teams planning campaigns
Brainstorm the concept, build the moodboard, and lay out the campaign plan on one canvas, then hand the finished deliverables to Asana to schedule and track.
Creative agencies pitching work
Give every client its own canvas with no object cap, shape the concept and plan visually, and share it as a view-only link before it becomes a tracked project.
Film and video teams
Plan a shoot where the shot list, references, and storyboard sit beside the plan on one canvas, then push the production tasks into your tracker.
Content creators and channels
Brainstorm a series, pin thumbnails and reference clips, and turn it into a content calendar on the canvas before the individual videos become tasks.
In-house creative teams
Keep the messy pre-task thinking, briefs, and moodboards in one visual place, so what lands in Asana is a clear set of deliverables, not a half-formed idea.
COMPARED
Storyflow vs Asana, Notion, and Miro.
These tools solve different problems. Asana wins on task and project tracking, timelines, and workflows. Storyflow is the visual canvas for the planning that comes before all of that.
Storyflow
Recommended
An infinite visual canvas for pre-task planning
An AI that fills a plan board from a prompt
Brainstorms and moodboards on the same canvas
Task and project tracking, timelines, and workflows
Asana
An infinite visual canvas for pre-task planning
An AI that fills a plan board from a prompt
Brainstorms and moodboards on the same canvas
Task and project tracking, timelines, and workflows
Notion
An infinite visual canvas for pre-task planning
An AI that fills a plan board from a prompt
Brainstorms and moodboards on the same canvas
Task and project tracking, timelines, and workflows
Miro
An infinite visual canvas for pre-task planning
An AI that fills a plan board from a prompt
Brainstorms and moodboards on the same canvas
Task and project tracking, timelines, and workflows
What creators are saying
Join early creators getting structured workspaces and AI that remembers their projects
“Storyflow has sped up my workflow by at least 3x, which means more flow state and more projects I can actually ship. It truly changed the way me and my team create.”
Reilin Joey
Director & YouTuber
“One prompt gets me a structured board. But the tactics are my favorite. I run my YouTube scripts through them and my intros and retention got better. It's amazing.”
Justkay
YouTuber & Freelance Filmmaker
“I used to juggle five apps to plan a project. Now I describe what I am making and get boards, lists, and a schedule. All in one place.”
George
@fernwehchronicles
Asana alternative questions, answered.
Everything people ask when comparing Storyflow with Asana.
Honestly, no, and it is not trying to be. Asana is a leading task and project tracker with timelines, dependencies, workflows, and reporting, and it is excellent at that. Storyflow is a different category: the visual canvas where creative work gets planned before it becomes a task. Many teams keep Asana for tracking and add Storyflow for the brainstorming, moodboarding, and planning that comes first.
Plan the creative work first. Track it in Asana after.
Brainstorm, moodboard, and let AI lay out the plan on an infinite canvas, then hand the deliverables to your tracker. Free plan, no credit card.