30 Best Microsoft Teams Alternatives - Features, pros & cons, pricing | Remote Tools

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

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.

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.

Chat is perfect for in the moment, but important team updates and news often get lost in the noise. Teams use Carrot to make sure everyone sees what matters most.

• Free to get started
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- Replace meetings
- Enable asynchronous communication
- Track who viewed what communication

Post important updates, news, decisions and stories that nobody should miss — perfect for remote teams.

Live voice conversations your teammates can see and join immediately. Any participant can switch an ongoing conversation into a private mode. A new conversation can always be started privately. All conversations are recorded and be played back if you missed a meeting. Voice messages and video messages for async as well as screen recordings, channels and more

• Free account available
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Great for small teams (4-17 people) working in hybrid & remotely who in addition to text want to exchange voice and video notes, screen recordings and join unscheduled calls or listen to recordings of missed calls

Stork is being developed by a hybrid team for hybrid asynchronous teams. Stork makes it easy and fun for remote teams to engage in passive collaboration which is essential to remote work's long-term success

Through a wide range of features, Crisp offers the ability to build the right customer experience through a personalized approach. With a CRM, a Knowledge base, a Chatbot, and many other great features, companies can easily improve their customer service.

• Free live chat
• 14 days free trial
• Flat price
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Our software fits with every company. It does not depend on the stage as every company needs a good customer service tool.

We offer 30% off on the Unlimited plan for startups.

Whether you’re part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, Discord makes it easy to talk every day and hang out more often. Discord also allows users to voice- and video-chat, as well as livestream games and other programs from their computers

• Nitro at $9.99 per month, $99.99 per year
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Use Discord daily to communicate within your team.

Remote teams can stay connected with each other using Discord.

Hyperinbox for Teams helps remote teams to make asynchronous work sustainable and more productive. Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly go through all of your threads and notifications from Github, Gitlab, and Figma and keep your inbox clean!

• Free trial and Early Access Pricing
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To help remote teams to make asynchronous work sustainable and more productive

Hyperinbox for Teams is specifically designed to fit the needs of remote teams

HipChat is a private group chat and IM network that provides real-time collaboration features for companies and teams.

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Use HipChat to communicate with your team more efficiently

Connect to your team with ease using HipChat

- More than messaging: With a variety of calling and messaging features, you have endless options when it comes to expressing yourself. - The New Social: Communities on Viber bring people together — Take part in a conversation on any topic you’re passionate about. - Always secure: Your privacy is protected so you never have to think twice about what you can or can't share when you're using Viber.

• Calls are priced at a few cents/min depending on the country you call to.
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Use Viber to stay connected to your friends, family and colleagues at any time.

Remote workers can stay connected with anyone from across the world using Viber's services.

Using Troop Messenger, you can send or receive text, files, images, media, and other important data seamlessly. Without hassles, this tool lets you assign the work to the remote teams, track the progress, monitor and manage all your teams wherever you are. Besides, this remote working tool is accessible over the web and mobile apps (both Android and iOS) that eases any task in a fly.

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It used for Team communication and collaboration

Troop Messenger is a compact remote work tool for small, medium, and large enterprises. This high functionality, low-complexity tool addresses various domain specificities. Team members can interact via instant messaging, audio and video calling, location and file sharing, and by creating unlimited groups on the go.

AgilityPortal is the best intranet software for all your communication and collaboration needs.  Work is changing. People are working remotely and from everywhere. Co-workers are more distributed now. So we built AgilityPortal for your teams to connect, communicate, and collaborate all in one platform.

• $499.00
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HR managers, for connecting and communication with remote teams.

AgilityPortal is specifically designed to help remote teams communicate better.

Asynchronous communication allows for a calmer, more inclusive dialogue. Perfect for distributed teams who require a space for making decisions without leaving anyone out.

• Free

For distributed teams across time zones.

We're building Scenery with remote-first companies in mind, as it helps distributed teams across time zones communicate.

Commons helps remote teams synch up succinctly. Small teams that are highly collaborative us it for quick, casual check-ins that don't devolve into endless Slack threads or unnecessary Zoom meetings. Our customers are using Commons as an alternative to Zoom for internal meetings

• Free currently

To resolve issues faster via instant, real-time conversation

For impromptu conversations with your remote team

Internal is a Slack bot that facilitates emotional communication for remote teams. All users take twice daily questionnaires to check in at the start of the day and reflect at the end of their day. Overall scores are reported to a public channel so that coworkers gather the same emotional insights that they would from body language in a physical setting. Reflections are used to track personal emotional fitness overtime.

• Free or $45/Month Manager Subscription
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Remote teams with about 10 employees who are just starting to implement stable processes and know they'll be alive within the next month

Internal facilitates the emotional insights that would be gathered through body language in physical interactions, but virtually

A chatbot that collects and processes in-chat data to build comprehensive performance reports and improve people culture. It lifts up the team morale while providing valuable insights for the leaders.

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Karmabot is a chatbot for better people culture and performance tracking on Slack, MS Teams and Telegram. We utilise the universally accepted '++' in-chat command upvoting. A concept very similar to Reddit karma: anyone can upvote anyone on chat. Applied to business chats the upvoting data provides valuable insights on team dynamics. Good vibes for the team and performance reports for the managers.

- Inclusivity for a distributed team of 20+ people (average Karmabot customer) is a tough topic. Karmabot encourages recognition and appreciation within a team.
- Use code "remote25" for 25% discount (yearly subscription)

Just Ask is a free-to-use Q&A tool to help make remote meetings & events more productive. You can ask questions anonymously, upvote/ downvote questions in real-time, and see all other questions from fellow participants. Go try it for yourself and your team!

• Free for 2020
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If you want to improve audience interaction in your meetings and events, you can use Just Ask for AMAs to get better engagement in remote meetings.

Since we're all in a remote-first world now, getting people to engage with the host of an event in a remote meeting can be tough. Just Ask helps them do this with its anonymous questions feature.

Real-time team collaboration is the foundation of an engaged workforce. Your team should collaborate in one central place. Zoho Cliq helps teams collaborate effectively while seamlessly connecting them to the tools they use every single day.

• Freemium version available. Free trial of unlimited version for 14 days
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Zoho Cliq is typically used by mid-size and large teams who want to keep their workplace communication, access to all their workplace tools in one place!

Remote Work in Cliq is here to bring your office into Cliq with check-in, check out, group calls, auto status sync and more!

A Q&A moderated chat for moderated discussions where the admin of a group chat approves every message before it is sent to all. With moderated chat, one can control the conversation, prevent spammer and trolls and answer only the messages you choose to. Perfect to add a moderated chat for Q&A sessions, online live events or educational websites.

• Free account with an option for premium features, starts at $0/mo with $25/mo for small community.
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The RumbleTalk group chat platform can be used for live online events, private groups, Q&A sessions or as a social chat.

Embed the chat anywhere and for free, we also have a special min-site page for every chat in case you do not have a website. You can monetize the chat with various in-chat payments and have a live one-on-one video calls.

Chatwee is a live chat app used to facilitate real-time communication between members of online communities, teams, virtual event attendees, counselors and individuals seeking online support via private, public, and group conversations. It offers an extensive set of features and advanced customization options. Add a dynamic social hub to your site today and see the engagement rise!

• Free account available
• $19 - Standard
• $29 - Pro
• $69 - Ultimate
• Custom Pricing - Enterprise
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Chatwee is used by online communities for virtual events and team communication.

Chatwee focuses on connecting large numbers of people together, online.

Visually manage your Trello projects from Slack ProjChat allow you to visually manage your Trello board from Slack (web). Some of the main Features * Notification - See latest notification and be notified in real-time * Drag & Drop cards * Assign users * Upload files from local computer * Create/Manage checklists * Tagging * Add (or reply to) comments * Set due date

• 100% Free

Slack and Trello users

Improve your productivity

Safely meet new people online through Monkey Chat's video chat feature. It's a free to use app available on web abd Android. Find people among millions of users and make friends and form new connections. You can also send and receive messages during video chat.

• Free to use.

Find amazing people online through Monkey Chat and have fun through Monkey chat. Use it on your Android device or directly on any browser on your computer by just logging in through a few clicks.

Meet people from all over in just a few clicks through Monkey.