Six comparisons on one page, against Miro, Asana, monday.com, Notion, ClickUp and Trello, all scored on the same 22 criteria, with every price per user per
month, billed yearly, and checked on 3 August 2026.
Free forever plan · No credit card · Works offline
All seven, side by side
22 criteria, the same for every tool. A tick is a full yes and counts a
point, a half circle is a partial yes with the caveat written under it and
counts nothing, a dash is a no. Every column answers for the plan named at
the foot of it — including this one — so the switch moves all seven scores,
not only Ceyu's.
Which plans?
Ceyu compared with Miro, Asana, monday.com, Notion, ClickUp and Trello across 22 criteria
Criterion
WinnerCeyuWinnerCeyu
Miro
Asana
monday
Notion
ClickUp
Trello
Planning
Infinite whiteboard
✓✓
✓
–
–separate product
–
–Business plan✓
–
Kanban board
✓✓
◐sticky notes, not a board
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Gantt or timeline view
–Pro plan and up✓
–
✓
–Standard plan and up✓
–Business plan✓
✓
◐through Power-Ups
Capacity and workload planning
–Pro plan and up✓
–
–Advanced plan✓
–Pro plan✓
–
✓
–
Time tracking built in
✓✓
–
–Advanced plan✓Advanced
–Pro plan✓
–
✓
◐through Power-Ups
Canvas and planning in one product, on one bill
✓✓
–
–
–
–
–no canvas on this plan✓
–
Automation rules
–Studio plan✓
–
✓
–Standard plan and up✓
◐database buttons
–Business plan✓
✓Butler
Working together
Real-time editing with visible cursors
–Pro plan and up✓
✓
–
–
✓
✓
–
Comments attached to the thing they are about
✓✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Version history you can roll back
✓✓
✓
◐task-level only
◐activity log
✓
✓
◐activity log
Read-only link for clients who take no seat
–Pro plan and up✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Single sign-on and SCIM on an enterprise plan
◐Enterprise plan◐Enterprise plan
◐Business plan and up✓
◐Enterprise plan✓
◐Enterprise plan✓
◐Business plan and up✓
◐Enterprise plan✓
◐Atlassian Guard, billed apart✓
On the canvas
Video, PDF and 3D as first-class canvas objects
✓✓
◐embeds, not objects
–
–
◐embeds in a page
◐attachments
–
Frame-by-frame video review
✓✓
–
–
–
–
–
–
Imports Miro, FigJam, Mural and Excalidraw boards
✓✓
◐migration tools
–
–
–
–
–
Where the work lives
Opens and edits with no network at all
✓✓
–
–
–
◐recent pages
◐limited mode
–
Files on your own disk by default
✓✓
–
–
–
–
–
–
End-to-end encrypted sync
–Pro plan and up✓
–
–
–
–
–
–
Workspace-wide local-only policy for admins
✓✓
–
–
–
–
–
–
Usable without an account
✓✓
–
–
–
–
–
–
Reach
Free plan with no time limit
✓3 boards, 3 projects✓3 boards, 3 projects
✓3 editable boards
✓up to 2 users
✓up to 2 seats
✓
✓
✓10 per workspace
Native desktop app for Windows and macOS
✓✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Criterion
Ceyu
Miro
Asana
monday
Notion
ClickUp
Trello
Score
15 / 2221 / 22
7 / 228 / 22
7 / 2210 / 22
5 / 2210 / 22
7 / 229 / 22
10 / 2214 / 22
6 / 227 / 22
The plan this column answers for, per user, billed yearly
$5.83Plus$20.83Studio
$8.00Starter$20.00Business
$10.99Starter$24.99Advanced
€9.00Basic€19.00Pro
€9.50Plus€19.50Business
$7.00Unlimited$12.00Business
$5.00Standard$17.50Enterprise
Every figure checked on 3 August 2026 against the vendors' own pricing pages:
Miro,
Asana,
monday.com,
Notion,
ClickUp,
Trello.
monday.com and Notion quote in euro on the pages we checked and price by
billing country. Prices change; theirs is the figure that counts.
A comparison whose method is hidden is an advertisement. This one is on the
page, and so is what every tool here does better than Ceyu.
The same 22 rows for everyone
Nothing is scored for one tool that is not asked of the other six, and where
Ceyu answers no it is marked as missing in its own column rather than left
off the list. Single sign-on is the clearest case, because it needs an
Enterprise plan and is marked as a partial yes on both Ceyu plans.
Every column answers for its plan, not its product
A tick means the plan named under that column has it. ClickUp Unlimited has
no whiteboard, monday.com Basic has no timeline and no automations, Asana
Starter has no workload view — all three are marked missing on the entry
setting and ticked on the top one, exactly as Ceyu Plus is. The alternative,
crediting a product with a feature its cheap plan does not sell, flatters
every vendor on the page including this one.
Only a full yes counts a point
A partial yes is a half circle with the limitation written under it —
“timeline view only”, “limited offline mode”,
“through Power-Ups”. It scores nothing, and it is never hidden
behind a symbol you have to interpret.
Every price is sourced and dated
Read on 3 August 2026 from each vendor's own pricing page, linked above.
monday.com and Notion quote in euro and price by billing country, so their
figures stay in euro rather than becoming an invented conversion.
Every comparison names what it loses
Each of the six panels below ends with what that tool does better than
Ceyu, and the closest competitor is named as such. A comparison that
concedes nothing is not a comparison.
The 22 criteria in full
Planning · Infinite whiteboard
Planning · Kanban board
Planning · Gantt or timeline view
Planning · Capacity and workload planning
Planning · Time tracking built in
Planning · Canvas and planning in one product, on one bill
Planning · Automation rules
Working together · Real-time editing with visible cursors
Working together · Comments attached to the thing they are about
Working together · Version history you can roll back
Working together · Read-only link for clients who take no seat
Working together · Single sign-on and SCIM on an enterprise plan
On the canvas · Video, PDF and 3D as first-class canvas objects
On the canvas · Frame-by-frame video review
On the canvas · Imports Miro, FigJam, Mural and Excalidraw boards
Where the work lives · Opens and edits with no network at all
Where the work lives · Files on your own disk by default
Where the work lives · End-to-end encrypted sync
Where the work lives · Workspace-wide local-only policy for admins
Where the work lives · Usable without an account
Reach · Free plan with no time limit
Reach · Native desktop app for Windows and macOS
What a board and a plan cost together
Per user, per month, billed yearly. Two products means two bills, and this
is what the pairing costs once both are on the invoice.
Ceyu Plusone product, both modules$5.83
ClickUp Unlimitedone product, both modules$7.00
Ceyu Proadds multiplayer and encrypted sync$12.50
Trello Standard + Miro Startertwo bills$13.00
Asana Starter + Miro Startertwo bills$18.99
Asana Advanced + Miro Businesstwo bills$44.99
A team of five on the Asana + Miro pairing pays $1,139.40 a
year. The same five on Ceyu Plus pay $349.80, a difference
of $789.60, and that difference is the part of the budget
that buys something else.
Short answer: Ceyu. Miro is a whiteboard and nothing else, so the plan that comes out of the board has to live in a second product on a second bill. Ceyu has both in one workspace for less than Miro alone, and it imports your Miro boards, so switching does not start from an empty canvas.
Ceyu compared with Miro
Criterion
Ceyu
Miro
What it is
Whiteboard and project planning in one product
Whiteboard
Entry paid plan, billed yearly
$5.83 per userPlus · Studio is $20.83
$8.00 per userStarter · Business is $20.00
Free plan
3 boards and 3 projects
3 editable boards
Project planning included
✓
–
Video, PDF and 3D as canvas objects
✓
◐embeds
Frame-by-frame video review
✓
–
Works with no network
✓
–
Usable without an account
✓
–
Files on your own disk
✓
–
End-to-end encrypted sync
✓
–
Imports your existing boards
✓
◐migration tools
Where Miro is ahead
A template and integration library built over more than a decade, apps for the phone, and a public API Ceyu has not shipped yet. Facilitation features Ceyu does not have, such as voting sessions, timers and Talktrack recordings. And an ecosystem advantage: most people you invite have used Miro before, so nobody needs onboarding. If the whiteboard is the entire job and you run facilitated workshops for a living, Miro is the better tool and this page says so.
Short answer: Ceyu. Asana plans work that has already been decided. Ceyu covers the part before that as well, the canvas the plan came off, and it does so at roughly half the entry price and without a second subscription for the whiteboard.
Ceyu compared with Asana
Criterion
Ceyu
Asana
What it is
Project planning with a whiteboard in the same workspace
Project management
Entry paid plan, billed yearly
$5.83 per userPlus · Studio is $20.83
$10.99 per userStarter · Advanced is $24.99
Free plan
3 boards and 3 projects
Personal, up to 2 users
Whiteboard included
✓
–
Video, PDF and 3D as canvas objects
✓
–
Board plus plan on one bill
✓
–needs Miro beside it
Works with no network
✓
–
Usable without an account
✓
–
Files on your own disk
✓
–
End-to-end encrypted sync
✓
–
Capacity and workload planning
✓
✓Advanced plan, $24.99
Where Asana is ahead
Portfolio and goal reporting across dozens of parallel projects, which Ceyu does not attempt. Hundreds of integrations, a public API most tools already speak, and apps for the phone. And a track record at organisations far larger than Ceyu has been tested at. If you are coordinating departments rather than a team, Asana is the safer choice.
Short answer: Ceyu. monday.com is a platform you configure into the shape of your process, and configuring it is a project of its own. Ceyu is narrower on purpose and useful on day one, with the canvas included rather than sold as a separate product.
Ceyu compared with monday.com
Criterion
Ceyu
monday.com
What it is
Whiteboard and planning, ready to use
Configurable work platform
Entry paid plan, billed yearly
$5.83 per userPlus · Studio is $20.83
€9.00 per userBasic · Pro is €19.00
Free plan
3 boards and 3 projects
Up to 2 seats
Whiteboard in the same workspace
✓
–separate product
Video, PDF and 3D as canvas objects
✓
–
Useful without a setup project
✓
◐templates, then configuration
Works with no network
✓
–
Usable without an account
✓
–
Files on your own disk
✓
–
End-to-end encrypted sync
✓
–
Automation rules
✓
✓Standard plan and up
Where monday.com is ahead
Automations and custom boards that model processes far beyond anything Ceyu can express. A large app marketplace, a mature API and apps for the phone. Views, dashboards and permission models built for organisations with hundreds of people in them. If your process is unusual and you have someone whose job it is to build it, monday.com will bend further than Ceyu will.
Short answer: Ceyu. Notion is a very good place to write things down and a poor place to draw them: there is no infinite canvas, and scheduling stops at a timeline view. Ceyu gives you the board, the Gantt chart and the capacity plan, and keeps the whole thing on your own disk.
Ceyu compared with Notion
Criterion
Ceyu
Notion
What it is
Whiteboard and project planning
Documents and databases
Entry paid plan, billed yearly
$5.83 per userPlus · Studio is $20.83
€9.50 per userPlus · Business is €19.50
Free plan
3 boards and 3 projects
Free plan, unlimited pages
Infinite canvas
✓
–
Capacity and workload planning
✓
–
Time tracking built in
✓
–
Video, PDF and 3D as canvas objects
✓
◐embeds in a page
Frame-by-frame video review
✓
–
Works with no network
✓
◐recent pages
Files on your own disk
✓
–
End-to-end encrypted sync
✓
–
Documents and linked databases
◐notes on the canvas
✓
Where Notion is ahead
As a company wiki it is in a different class: linked databases, relations and rollups, and a writing experience Ceyu does not compete with. Apps for the phone and a public API, both of which Ceyu still owes. If what you need is documentation the whole company edits, keep Notion for that and use Ceyu for the work the documents describe.
Short answer: Ceyu, and this is the close one. ClickUp is the only other tool here with whiteboards and full planning in one product, and it scores highest of the six. The catch is that its whiteboard, its automations and its API all start at Business, $12.00, while Ceyu Plus costs $5.83 and has all of that in the box. The difference is where the work lives: ClickUp is a cloud service that holds your files and your keys, and it stops when the connection does. Ceyu's boards are files on your disk, and it is cheaper.
Ceyu compared with ClickUp
Criterion
Ceyu
ClickUp
What it is
Whiteboard and planning, local-first
Whiteboard and planning, cloud
Entry paid plan, billed yearly
$5.83 per userPlus · Studio is $20.83
$7.00 per userUnlimited · Business is $12.00
Free plan
3 boards and 3 projects
Free Forever, 60 MB storage
Whiteboard and planning in one product
✓
✓Business plan, $12.00
Opens and edits with no network
✓
◐limited offline mode
Usable without an account
✓
–
Files on your own disk
✓
–
End-to-end encrypted sync
✓
–
Video, PDF and 3D as first-class canvas objects
✓
◐attachments and embeds
Frame-by-frame video review
✓
–
Imports Miro, FigJam, Mural and Excalidraw
✓
–
Where ClickUp is ahead
More views, more automations, more custom fields and a much larger integration catalogue, plus the API and the phone apps Ceyu has not shipped. It is the closest thing here to Ceyu's shape, and on breadth of features it is ahead. If you want every dimension of the work configurable and you have the patience to configure it, ClickUp offers more surface than Ceyu does.
Short answer: Ceyu. Trello is a kanban board, and a very good one, but a card list is the whole product: no canvas, and scheduling only through Power-Ups you add and pay attention to. For $0.83 more per user than Trello Standard, Ceyu adds the whiteboard, the Gantt chart and the capacity plan.
Ceyu compared with Trello
Criterion
Ceyu
Trello
What it is
Whiteboard and full project planning
Kanban boards
Entry paid plan, billed yearly
$5.83 per userPlus · Studio is $20.83
$5.00 per userStandard · Enterprise is $17.50
Free plan
3 boards and 3 projects
10 collaborators per workspace
Infinite whiteboard
✓
–
Gantt or timeline view
✓
◐Power-Ups
Capacity and workload planning
✓
–
Video, PDF and 3D on the canvas
✓
–
Works with no network
✓
–
Usable without an account
✓
–
Files on your own disk
✓
–
End-to-end encrypted sync
✓
–
Automation rules
✓
✓Butler
Where Trello is ahead
Nothing on this page is simpler to start. A Trello board is understood in about fifteen seconds by anyone who has ever seen one, and for a small list of things to do that simplicity is a feature rather than a limitation. It also has apps for the phone and a public API. If the work never needs a picture or a schedule, Trello is enough.
What is the best Miro alternative that also does project management?
Ceyu. Miro is a whiteboard, so you have to buy a project tool beside it. Ceyu puts an infinite canvas and full project planning in one workspace from $5.83 per user per month billed yearly, against $8 for Miro Starter plus $10.99 for Asana Starter. Ceyu also imports Miro boards directly, so the move does not start from a blank canvas.
How do the seven tools score against each other?
Ceyu leads both settings of the switch across all 22 criteria, which fall into five groups. Planning, working together, what goes on the canvas, where the work lives and reach. On the top plans Ceyu Studio scores 21 of 22, then ClickUp 14, Asana 10, monday.com 10, Notion 9, Miro 8, Trello 7. On the entry plans Ceyu Plus scores 15, then ClickUp 10, Miro 7, Asana 7, Notion 7, Trello 6, monday.com 5. Every column answers for the plan named under it rather than for the product, which is why the numbers move when you switch. Ceyu does not score full marks on either setting, because single sign-on needs an Enterprise plan.
Why does ClickUp score lower on the entry setting?
Because ClickUp Unlimited at $7.00 is not the plan its feature marketing describes. Its own pricing page puts Whiteboards, Automations and the public API under Business at $12.00, and SSO under Enterprise, so on the entry setting ClickUp scores 10 of 22 rather than 14. The same rule costs monday.com Basic its timeline, automations, workload view, time tracking and API, Asana Starter its workload view and time tracking, and Notion Plus its timeline. It also costs Ceyu Plus six rows. Nobody on this page is credited with a feature their cheapest paid plan does not sell.
What do the two switch positions compare?
The first paid plan of each product, and the dearest plan each one publishes a price for. The entry plans are Ceyu Plus at $5.83, Trello Standard at $5.00, ClickUp Unlimited at $7.00, Miro Starter at $8.00, monday.com Basic at €9.00, Notion Plus at €9.50 and Asana Starter at $10.99. The top plans are ClickUp Business at $12.00, Trello Enterprise at $17.50, monday.com Pro at €19.00, Notion Business at €19.50, Miro Business at $20.00, Ceyu Studio at $20.83 and Asana Advanced at $24.99. Free plans are deliberately left out, because this compares what you pay for. Where a product quotes its highest tier only on request, the dearest published tier is used and named.
What is the difference between Ceyu Plus and Ceyu Studio?
Six of the 22 rows. Plus at $5.83 per user per month billed yearly gives you both modules, unlimited boards and projects, every file format, video and 3D, board import and time tracking, which comes to 15 of 22. Studio at $20.83 adds Gantt, timeline and capacity planning, real-time multiplayer, read-only links for clients who take no seat, end-to-end encrypted sync and automation rules, which comes to 21 of 22. Single sign-on and SCIM need Enterprise on either.
Is Ceyu cheaper than Miro, Asana, monday.com, Notion, ClickUp and Trello?
For a whiteboard and a project tool together, yes. Ceyu Plus is $5.83 per user per month billed yearly and covers both. The cheapest comparable combination elsewhere is ClickUp Unlimited at $7.00, Stacking two products costs from $13.00 upward, which is Trello Standard at $5 plus Miro Starter at $8, or $18.99 if you want Asana Starter at $10.99 next to that same Miro. Prices checked 2 August 2026.
Which of these tools work offline?
Only Ceyu opens and edits a board with no network at all, because a Ceyu board is a file on your own disk rather than a row in someone else's database. Miro, Asana, monday.com and Trello need a connection. Notion and ClickUp have partial offline modes that cover recently opened content.
Which tool comes closest to Ceyu?
ClickUp, and it is not close between it and the rest. On the top plans it scores 14 of 22 against 8 for Miro and 7 for Trello. ClickUp Business is the only other plan here with a whiteboard and full planning in one product on one bill, and that is exactly the point about its cheaper plan. ClickUp Unlimited at $7.00 has no whiteboard, no automations and no API, which is why it drops to 10 on the entry setting. What separates the two at any tier is where the work lives. ClickUp is a cloud service holding your files and your keys, while Ceyu keeps boards as files on your disk and syncs them end to end encrypted.
Can I import my Miro or FigJam boards into Ceyu?
Yes. Ceyu imports boards from Miro, FigJam, Mural and Excalidraw, and images, SVG and PDF as canvas objects. Complex embeds and app-specific widgets do not survive the trip and need redrawing. There is no direct task importer for Asana or monday.com today, so task lists move by CSV.
Which of these tools offers end-to-end encrypted sync?
Ceyu is the only one of the seven. On Ceyu Pro and above, boards are encrypted on your device before they are synced, so the server stores ciphertext it cannot read. Miro, Asana, monday.com, Notion, ClickUp and Trello encrypt in transit and at rest, which is not the same thing, because they hold the keys.
Do I need a whiteboard and a project tool, or just one?
If the plan comes out of the drawing, you need both. A concept board that becomes a shot list, a brief that becomes a sprint. Buying the two separately means two bills, two logins and a copy-paste seam between them. If you only ever need one of the two, compare that one directly, because the gap narrows and the specialist may win it.
Is Ceyu a good Asana or monday.com alternative for a small team?
Yes, particularly under about ten people. Asana's free plan stops at 2 users and monday.com's free plan stops at 2 seats, so a third person means a paid plan for everyone. Ceyu Plus is $5.83 per user per month billed yearly, includes the whiteboard, and a single person can subscribe.
How is this comparison scored, and is it fair?
Every tool is measured against the same 22 criteria, and only a full yes counts a point. A partial yes is marked with a half circle and the caveat is written under it, so nothing is hidden behind a symbol. Every column answers for the plan named under it rather than for the product, and that rule is applied to all seven alike. Ceyu Plus loses Gantt and multiplayer, ClickUp Unlimited loses the whiteboard and the API, and monday.com Basic loses timelines and automations. On the top plans it scores 21 of 22 against ClickUp's 14, and on the entry plans 15 against 10. Every price and every plan boundary was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 3 August 2026 and the sources are linked, and every comparison ends with what that tool does better than Ceyu.
What do these tools do better than Ceyu?
Every comparison on this page names it. Miro has a far larger template and workshop library. Asana has deeper portfolio reporting. monday.com models processes Ceyu cannot. Notion is a better wiki. ClickUp has more views, automations and integrations. Trello is simpler to start. Ceyu is narrower on purpose, and wins where the board and the plan belong together.
Can I try Ceyu for free before switching?
Yes. The free plan does not expire and does not ask for a card. You get three active boards and three active projects, both modules, with the files on your own disk. Import a board from your current tool and see whether it survives the trip before anyone pays anything.
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