8 Best Alternatives to Standups - Remote Work Products

Run asynchronous standup meetings in Slack! Non-intrusive chat reports that bring transparency to your team and keep everyone focused on the real tasks, regardless of whether your team is on-site, distributed, or remote.

• $3/user/month
• Complete Pricing

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When you need to keep your team focused and safe from interruptions. Geekbot allows users to post updates asynchronously with Slack standups, instead of having to attend actual in person meetings.

With today’s workforce spread across the globe, trying to work synchronously is rather impossible. Teams nowadays are consisted of night owls or people in different timezones from different places in the world. Geekbot allows teams to keep everyone in the loop since it can run each member’s standup asynchronously.

With remote work, meetings have increased significantly. Most of these meetings didn't have to be meetings, as they were just "routines". Neo solves this problem by creating a structure of agenda points + discussions along with notes and action items. Many templates like one-on-ones, daily standup, sprint retrospective, sprint planning, etc. are available for you to save time

• Free account available

If you want to save time in meetings and automate your daily routines

Neo will help remote teams save time in meetings and communicate asynchronously

How it works: 1) Pick 3 priorities/goals for each day and report them to your team with a single click of a button. This forces you to be intentional with your day. 2) Work on these 3 goals and drag them to the "Done" column one-by-one. This sends an automatic alert to your team's dashboard that you have achieved something and improves the team's transparency

• Free basic workflow for up to a 10 person team
• Optional premium features might be added in the future

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For small teams that are working remotely

Helps remote workers avoid burnout by having a clear and mindlessly simple workday structure and improving the team transparency in the process

Standuply is a digital Scrum Master for Slack. It automates all the Agile processes like standup meetings, retrospectives, backlog grooming, planning poker and more. It's the #1 Slack Productivity App.

• $2-4 per seat; free up to 3 seats
• Complete Pricing

Remote teams and Scrum Masters use Standuply to coordinate the work their teams need to do.

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Olaph brings collaborating teams closer together and encourages communication and exchange by facilitating stand-ups for you. With Olaph your teams can hold stand-ups directly in their Slack channel or use it as a preparation for the actual face-to-face stand-up.

• Free
• Complete Pricing

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When you work in an agile environment with remote teams, Olaph is your bot!

Stand-Ups for remote teams are difficult. Olaph can support you by facilitating your stand-ups inside of Slack.

Tatsu allows conduct asynchronous standups through Slack and the report is visible to the team through a channel.

• Free 14 day trial
• Complete Pricing

When you have a highly motivated team who needs to update each other rather than manage.

None

• Notifications on web and mobile through Slack.
• Completely integrated with Slack.

• Only for Slack
• Does not come with detailed reports etc.
• Is a new product with limited functionalities

Jell has features such as daily standups, check-ins, goal tracking and mobile notifications. This along with integrations with Jira, Trello, Slack, Github, etc. enables teams to have standups seamlessly.

• Free 14-day trial
• Complete Pricing

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When having a remotely distributed workforce is the way forward for your team and you want to make daily reporting a core part of the team culture.

None

• Large number of integrations with third-party apps.
• Numerous customizations available.

• Might be a bit too complex to use due to multitude of features.

I Done This is an email-enabled daily work tracker for remote distributed teams for whom conducting all hands daily meetings is difficult.

• Free 3-day trial
• Complete Pricing

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When you are managing large remote distributed teams and need regular continuous updates.

None

• Simple to use
• Tracking and update sharing is straightforward.
• Excellent for team building and communication.

• Product is slightly buggy.