The Best Asana Goals Alternative for OKR Management in 2026

Asana is excellent at what it was built for: managing complex work across teams with portfolios, dependencies, and timelines. The Goals module — added to address the OKR market — connects nicely to that project context. But "connects nicely to projects" and "drives excellent OKR outcomes" aren't the same thing. And at $24.99/user/month for the Business plan where Goals lives, you're paying a lot for a goal tracking feature on top of a project management tool.

Updated May 2026 · Okiar vs Asana Goals

Okiar vs Asana Goals: feature comparison

Feature	Okiar	Asana Goals
AI check-ins	✓Voice → AI extracts KR values and blockers from natural speech	Asana AI helps write goal descriptions — no AI in progress updates
Voice input	✓Native voice capture in check-in workflow	No voice input
Quarter-end projection	✓Automatic velocity-based projection per KR	Goal progress bars — no projection layer
Task-to-goal connection	OKR-only — no native task layer	Native — Asana tasks directly connected to goals; completion can auto-update progress
Pricing	✓Free during beta	Goals available from Business plan at $24.99/user/month (annual)
Project management	Not included	Industry-leading project management, portfolios, timelines, workload
OKR hierarchy depth	✓Objectives, sub-objectives, KRs with full tracking	Goals with sub-goals — lightweight vs dedicated OKR tool
Check-in frequency tracking	✓Check-in rates tracked — team health signals from update frequency	No check-in cadence enforcement or visibility

Asana's genuine advantage: task-to-goal linkage

Here's where Asana genuinely pulls ahead: if your team already lives in Asana for daily task management, connecting Asana projects to Goals gives you automatic progress updates. A project that's 60% complete can auto-update a connected KR. That's a real time-saver, and it's something Okiar doesn't offer.

For teams where most KR progress is project-completion-based (not metric-based), this auto-connection means you're not doing double entry. Your work updates your goals. That's the ideal OKR workflow, and Asana executes it reasonably well.

Where the Goals module falls short

The Goals module in Asana is a secondary feature on a platform built for task management. Asana's primary navigation, notification model, and interface are optimized for project work — not goal tracking. Finding your OKRs, understanding pacing, and doing a weekly update all require more clicks than they should.

There's no voice input. No AI that extracts progress from a spoken update. No projection that tells you where KR2 will land in six weeks. And critically, there's no check-in cadence tracking — Asana doesn't tell you that three of your eight KRs haven't been updated in two weeks. Okiar does.

The pricing problem

Asana Goals is locked behind the Business plan at $24.99/user/month (billed annually). For a 30-person team, that's $8,996/year — and that assumes they were already on a paid Asana plan. If you're adopting Asana primarily for OKRs, that's a very expensive way to get goal tracking.

The more common scenario: teams that already pay for Asana Business use the Goals module because it's "included." Whether it's the best OKR tool for them is a separate question. If check-in rates are low and risk visibility is poor, the fact that Goals is bundled isn't a good reason to keep using it.

When each tool wins

Use Asana Goals if your team already runs daily work in Asana, most KRs are project-based, and auto-updating from project completion is more valuable than voice check-ins
Use Okiar if OKR check-in quality is a problem — low completion rates, manual updates that don't happen, or no visibility into quarterly trajectory
Use Okiar if your KRs are metric-based rather than project-based (retention rate, revenue, NPS) — these don't auto-update from Asana tasks anyway

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