18 Best Inoffice Alternatives - Features, pros & cons, pricing | Remote Tools

Softros LAN Messenger is an application for instant messaging, chats, file transfers and remote assistance over the office network. Protect your employees from wasting time on various Internet messengers and prevent your business network from online attacks. The LAN messenger doesn’t require a dedicated server or the Internet connection and works as P2P-solution

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Our application offers secure messaging, files transfer and remote desktop assistance for office users. The messenger uses an encryption algorithm and doesn't require an Internet connection. It helps to avoid external attacks, viruses and exploits from 3rd parties. Moreover, the users can't spend their time talking with friends and won't get a suspicious attachments from external sources. This way we help to keep office communication safe and productive

Softros LAN messenger has the remote desktop access feature for workers

Scyre was made for the startup community - allowing you to discover other founders and startups, share experiences, test products, exchange advice, and to provide support.

• Free

Scyre helps those in the startup community connect with each other. Whether that means you're a founder, engineer, developer, or investor, you can join in to help create and be part of a motivating community in the startup world.

Many talented people in the startup community don't live in a tech hub or a startup region, which makes collaborating difficult - even if you do live in a startup region, finding the right people to work with incredibly hard. Scyre allows you to connect with those in the startup community from anywhere in the world.

Oneteam simplifies communication and collaboration between remote teams so that productivity and engagement are never compromised. Ideal for small and medium businesses as well as enterprises, Oneteam enables teams to stay in touch, exchange ideas and resources within a secure environment

• Oneteam is free during beta
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When you need a secure team collaboration platform to help team members communicate effectively and securely within a single workflow application

Oneteam offers effective communication, document exchange, conferencing, and real-time assistance which diminish collaboration obstacles in remote and decentralized teams. Companies can keep all of their employees on the same page, save time and money, and identify problems at an early stage

Disorganized communications in your growing team is slowing you down. Recover and surpass the speed you once had with Ensembl Talk, a text-based communications tool built specifically for async workflow In Ensembl Talk, communication happens inside talks. Each talk is a mini collaboration area, equipped with a talk proposal and a dedicated comment thread

• Free forever for early startups, free trial for others
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When you need mini collaborative spaces for focused team communications

Remote teams are most strategically situated to take advantage of async communications. It allows remote workers to move faster with parallel async talks

Twake is an open source collaborative workspace. It can be self-hosted and easily integrated into your teams. Twake offers all the features for collaboration : - Team chat - Storage space - Team Calendar - Todo list - Video call

• Free for self-hosted version and up to 5 members in SaaS
• € 7.20 per user, per month
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If you need to collaborate with your team and don't want to deploy 5 different tools at the same time

All your teamwork is centralized in Twake, you can discuss, share and edit documents, schedule your teamwork, all on one tool

Echoes enables remote teams to communicate seamlessly and quickly through a walkie-talkie-like experience, just like sitting next to teammates, thereby facilitating collaboration and speeding up decision-making No matter what app you are working on, you can always speak directly to your teammates

• Free trial

Echoes can be used when working remotely and having casual conversations. Focus on stress-free and fatigue-free communication, just like sitting next to teammates

Remote teams can communicate without fatigue and bring the team closer and speed up decision-making

With Flujo you can — - Have one-one-chat and video calls with your teammates - Create any number of teams for focussed discussions - Schedule meetings with native Calandar - Store any number of files with a native drive that offers 100 GB of storage - Manage projects with native Kanbans - Connect your favorite apps with an ever-growing pool of integrations and a lot more form a single, easy to use interface.

• Free 90 day trial to begin with, priced at $3/ user/ mo
• 12 month unconditional free trial for early stage startups, non-profits and female led startups
• We'd be happy to offer an additional 3-month worth of credits to remote.tools audience essentially bringing the free trial to 180 days
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Whether you're a chain of grocery stores in a suburb or a creative agency with offices spread across continents — Flujo can do wonders to the way you work and train new members of your team.
Flujo is designed to scale as your teams grow so that the knowledge within your teams is easily accessible by anyone who joins your teams in the future

Flujo takes away the pain of having your team knowledge and workflows being scattered across multiple business tools as everything you need to stay connected with your teams is available in one single place

Peer.Page is the platform for better conversations and informar one-in-one interactions, collaborations, networking, and match-making for group of any size.

• We believe that a good conversation shouldn't cost more than a cup of coffee. Yes, we have Free trial
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Peer.Page is used mainly by corporates and events to create informal connection.

Think of the moments around the coffee machine at the office.

Other way to use our product is for idea generation within big teams.

Last but not least, business speed dating.

Peer.Page is a great solution to increase sense of belonging, to interact/connect in an informal way and "take a break" from the "Zooms and Teams" of this world.

Humble Dot Workflows allows teams to save hours by replacing meetings while making communication more efficient. Pick from our library of templates to get started in a flash. Examples include weekly status meetings, project retrospectives, 1:1s, and many more!

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Humble Dot is a tool that builds efficient and high-quality communication without endless meetings.

Humble Dot will keep your team or department aligned across time zones and locations.

Most teams, especially remote ones, spend a significant amount of time going back and forth across meetings, email, and chat to get work done. And team conversations get spread across channels. Clergo helps teams eliminate this and execute faster

• Early adopters get to use the product for free

If your remote team spends a significant amount of time going back and forth across meetings, email, and team chat to get work done.

With teams being spread across different geographies, communication is the key for being outcome driven. With Clergo, remote teams can reduce zoom fatigue and communicate asynchronously with their team simply by starting threads, have contextual discussions, decision logging and setting action items

Tangle brings the presence and casual comfort of the office to remote work. Lightweight, always-on-top avatars display office goings-on and relationships without the need to manage a window/dashboard, and voice-channeling allows users to talk to 1 or many colleagues, impromptu, without so much as a click

• Freemium

Close-knit teams of up to 10, collaborating on projects or shooting the breeze

Tangle is specifically designed to fill in the gaps between DMs and videochat

Equip your team with the right collaboration tool. Brosix has two enterprise plans available for its users: Business and Premium. The Business plan includes app features, a private team network, as well as a host of enterprise tools such as chat history archive, user feature control, and much more. The Premium plan contains all of the available app and enterprise features plus advanced control options for more focused and secure team communication and collaboration.

• Premium - $6
• Business - $4
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For remote teams and businesses that are ready to make Brosix their daily communication tool. - For companies that want full control over their remote team and the complete feature package.

We provide a secure communication for remote teams and easy way to manage them.

Happeo brings together an intranet, collaboration features, and social networking into one unified solution. Happeo helps in unlocking the value of a few enterprise priorities, such as employee engagement, internal communication structure as well as employee productivity

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Happeo suits any sized companies using G Suite. It fits with businesses that aim to structure their dispersed tools by centralizing them into one solution and help connect the entire workforce

Happeo allows remote teams to align, connect, and collaborate on a global scale

LocalBrackets has a very sleek, minimal and easy to use design - ensuring maximum usability. At the same time, it has tons of new features since the original 'LocalLink'. Security has also been a major concern for the developers. To ensure maximum safety, and minimum Spam, several security features have also been incorporated.

• Free forever, for everyone

The ultimate vision is to get this platform to every kid (and even adults) in every locality, to help them know others better and to help meaningful brackets (communities) flourish - creating a healthy, playful and learning experience for all. LocalBrackets can also be used in large/small organizations to connect members/employees so that they are able to help each other out while being fully collaborated. LocalBrackets can also help increase productivity of new startups and entrepreneurs by connecting them easily to partners, suppliers, etc. Large manufacturers can use LocalBrackets to connect to smaller retailers as well.

Useful for allowing people to find others who share their interests and socialise productively, or for simply allowing better collaboration over a definite motive. As for any other user, for the remote.tools community, LocalBrackets is free, forever.

Unit.chat collects messages and reviews from your customers at various sites or social media (f.e. Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, etc) and sends all the information into one Slack interface, from which you can quickly and easily respond to any request.

• Free
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It is used by agencies who need to track and respond to reviews and questions from customers in many different social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, etc).

By using Unit.chat it is possible to keep under control all the social media communications with the customers and it is surely possible to do remotely or on the go.

Teams have hundreds of conversations happening at once – spread across inboxes or jumbled together in chats. Keeping up with it all is overwhelming. Unlike antiquated email and chaotic chat apps like Slack, Twist keeps team conversations organized, on-topic and easily searchable (forever). Twist is thread-based and asynchronous-friendly so that people can focus on work without feeling like they'll miss something important. Created by Doist – the fully remote team of 60+ people in 20+ countries.

• Free
• $5/user/month for Unlimited
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- Fully remote teams
- Remote-friendly teams
- Teams of any size

- Twist was created by a fully remote team, for remote teams.
- It's a tool that is built especially for the unique challenges of remote work.
- Because Twist is thread-based (and not chat-based) it gives teams an asynchronous way to collaborate across multiple timezones.
- Threads plus powerful search allow remote teams to unearth any topic or decision – even years later.
- Twist was ranked the #1 communication app for distributed teams by PCMag.

Slack scheduler schedules messages from your own profile using the simple /schedule command. You can quickly schedule a message using /schedule hello in 1 hour. Or for more detailed messages you can use our advanced scheduler which allows you to send messages to a specific timezone and to multiple channels.Your messages are never stored outside of Slack, and we're constantly adding new features to make your communication easier through Slack.

• 30 day unlimited free trial. Pricing from $7 per month.
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If you're a Slack team with any remote worker's, you'll find Slack Scheduler valuable. Large teams use it to schedule announcements across teams. Smaller teams use it to help that one remote employee communicate easier, or so that any late night announcements don't disrupt the team.

We built Slack Scheduler with remote teams in mind as it was a problem I personally faced. Our biggest use case is helping people avoid late night pings, although we've seen the product used in a variety of other ways.

Friday makes it easy to understand what's going on at work in less time. We can help you run more efficient 1-1s, daily standups, weekly updates, and any other recurring communication you can think of. We end up playing a complementary role to Slack and other noisy communication tools and we're used by leading distributed teams.

• We offer a free forever plan with some restrictions. Our paid plans start at $6/mo per employee.
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The best distributed teams create process to how they communicate and share information. Friday makes this easy and effortless, saving you time in update meetings.

Friday helps you in understanding better on what's going on (as well as who you work with) in a way that's less noisy than Slack.