# Geekbot Reviews **Vendor:** Geekbot **Category:** [Productivity Bots Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/productivity-bots) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 164 ## About Geekbot Geekbot is a software tool designed to facilitate asynchronous team communication through standups, polls, surveys, retrospectives, and other workflows. Integrated with Slack and Microsoft Teams, Geekbot enables over 200,000 users at companies like GitLab, Netflix, and Shopify to stay organized and connected, regardless of location or work environment, whether office-based, hybrid, or remote. By automating the process of collecting and sharing responses, Geekbot helps organizations streamline team updates and improve efficiency. Try Geekbot for free today! ## Geekbot Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Geekbot to be **extremely easy to use** , integrating seamlessly with Slack for effortless updates and team alignment. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless Slack integration** of Geekbot, enabling effortless asynchronous updates and improving team collaboration. (3 reviews) - Users find Geekbot to be a **powerful tool for daily updates** , enhancing team alignment and easing communication significantly. (2 reviews) - Users enjoy the **seamless Slack integration** of Geekbot, enabling effortless asynchronous updates without the need for meetings. (2 reviews) - Users praise the **reliability** of Geekbot, noting its consistent automation and clarity for team collaboration and alignment. (2 reviews) - Simple (2 reviews) - Users value Geekbot for its **time-saving automation** , eliminating daily meetings and enhancing team productivity and alignment. (2 reviews) - Automation (1 reviews) - Easy Setup (1 reviews) - Users commend Geekbot for its **efficiency** , promoting better communication, productivity, and team alignment effortlessly. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **difficult settings** for customizing question flows and reports can complicate the effective use of Geekbot. (1 reviews) - Users find that **inadequate reporting** hinders customization and depth in analytics, requiring effort to set up effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find **limited customization** in Geekbot, requiring trial and error for advanced setup and reporting adjustments. (1 reviews) - Users face **login issues** with Geekbot, needing to repeatedly log in via Slack to access the dashboard. (1 reviews) ## Geekbot Reviews ### 1. Great standup tool for global teams **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff Zhifan C. | Chief Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** The ability to set timezones is tantamount for our global teams to do their standups and end of days on their own timelines. Geekbot makes it easy. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** It's kind of randomly unresponsive at times. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** - remote standups and end of days - all possible timezones ### 2. Geekbot review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruvil S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Configurability: ability to set questions, cadence of standup, etc. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Wish it had more options for encouraging discussions **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Team standup ### 3. Works flawlessly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Moritz K. | PM, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Geekbot is easy to use, comes with local timezones and allows to create reminders. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** have not yet encountered sth. that I dislike. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are looking for a way to keep all team members informed. Organizing a stand-up call is difficult across different time zones. ### 4. Nice tool to work with! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** To have the team's daily status in the morning! **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** It should have the closing status on the same thread. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives notification to team mates in the morning to write what has been done yesterday and what they will work today, that gives recap of each one ### 5. LOVE GEEKBOT FOR YOUR PLANNING NEEDS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raquel N. | Supervisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I absolutely love Geekbot! It has made my passdowns so much easier. I love how it generates the questions that I need to passdown to my fellow colleagues to run their next shift! I would highly recommend this to anyone needing to send in a checklist for the day on what worked and what did not. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** I dislike that I can not add questions unless I create or generate it in the actual bot when I am writing in my answers to the Geekbot questionaire at the end of the day. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving my daily reports and passdowns in a great order. Normally I would have to add my plan and a daily recap at the end of the day and it takes up so much time because I still need to get my warehouse floor cleaned and in order to set upthe next team for success. Anyone can refer to the geekbot to plan out their day and also end of day conclusions. ### 6. Saving 30 minutes a day! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit P. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Personalization, Report, Design, Friendly to use. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** There is nothing to dislike at the moment. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were spending 30 minutes daily for standup meeting just to check what team has been upto. But with this we are now having standup in async and it takes only 2-3 minutes to read all the updates. And our 30 minutes meeting we use to discuss the bottlenecks. ### 7. Easiest version of Standup everyday **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anjali D. | Human resource Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Setting up this tool is easy to use and effective. Another best about this platform is its excellent user interface. Also, easy to generate reports. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Everything looks good on the platform. No such points here as of now **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily Standup, and it's effectively helping us for the workflow. ### 8. “Geekbot is now a must-have for our Stand-ups!” **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arzu . | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Increases our team’s engagement A good overview of people’s daily activities. It allows you to keep track of tasks. Slack is used with Geekbot to get feedback from our employees. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** It’s difficult to find any cons when it’s that user friendly and customizable. It works perfect. If there is a way to add Geekbot in Jira software it would be better. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall, we were struggling to work as a remote team, but Geekbot saved the team spirit. It’s very simple to set up and use, thanks to its customizable features. It allows our team to keep track of what everyone is working on on a daily basis. Also very useful when we run Scrum, Agile methodologies for our projects. ### 9. Great stand-up software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maksim A. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** - Easy to use - Pretty flexible to setup with timezones - Pretty simple to administrate - Nice UI **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** The only things that is lacking is ability to have multiple engagement summary's based on timezones **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Knowing what everyone is working on and staying on the same page with the team ### 10. Great experience for automating Standups! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Felix L. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I love that Geekbot is able to help me run standups automatically and bring the team together in a less pushy way, it helps improve productivity overall! **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Honestly nothing - I generally love using this product and want it to continue growing! **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being less pushy as a human to run sprints so this is really good, it feels natural and optimized. ### 11. Such a cute little tool for Slack! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kayte M. | Paralegal, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I can create firm surveys, send them out in the channel of my choosing, add participants, and then track who's completed the survey and what the winning responses are. I love it! **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** It appears that you have to do most of the creating on a web page rather than directly in Slack, and then Geekbot will start sending Slack messages. I would prefer a central location for creating my surveys but this works just fine too. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating firm surveys, keeping track of responses, checking in on the team, gathering feedback, and teaching team members how to use the out of office feature, so we know when everyone is in or out of the office or working from home! ### 12. A no-brainer for team daily standups on Slack **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mai L. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Our team uses Geekbot daily to improve team collaboration and productivity. We have been using Geekbot for a few months now, and I can share with you what we like about it: 1) It's straightforward to use with a web interface. The interface is intuitive, and there are no complications in setting up standups or managing them. I have tried a few other purely Slack-based tools (e.g. Simple Poll) but found them too complicated. 2) It integrates with Slack, a messaging app that our team uses for internal communication and collaboration on projects within the company. This allows us to integrate standups easily into our daily workflow and start straight away without any difficulties or delays in integration - this has made our sync-up processes more efficient and productive! 3) It has analytics and reporting features that allow us to see how people interact with the bots and the surveys to optimize the effectiveness of the process. 4) The customer service provided by Geekbot is also excellent - they were prompt and helpful in responding whenever I had any questions or issues. They responded very quickly every time I reached out for help until the problem was resolved! So far, we're quite happy. If there are any updates on the app, I will update my review accordingly. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** We really like the features and flow of Geekbot overall, but there are a few things that could be improved: 1) Firstly, we can't nudge participants of anonymous surveys to complete the survey. We have a low anonymous survey participation rate because there's no nudge for people to complete them once we've sent off the survey, so it's difficult to gather all responses. Can Geekbot team consider adding this feature? 2) Secondly, Geekbot can be expensive for large teams because they charge per user, not a flat fee per month. For instance, if we have multiple interns or temp users at any given time (we currently have 23), then we're paying a lot more than a team of <10 (which is free). It would be helpful if Geekbot offered a pricing plan where there's a cap on how much companies paid beyond a certain point, just like the pricing structure of Simple Poll. However, these are minor issues. I really appreciate all the work that they do, and I think that what they're doing is really great. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Geekbot to do daily standup updates. The main problem to be solved here is that standups are complicated to organised as our team are working remote around the world (across 5 different timezones). I can share some of the benefits we've seen. Geekbot has helped us in several ways. For example, when we use it, our team can work together better because they can see each other's progress and collaborate on projects asynchronously. We also appreciate how easy it is for everyone on the team to participate in standups because it’s so quick and simple with Geekbot. That means more participation from people who would otherwise be too busy working or working from different locations. Overall, the teams have collaborated better, and we can get the work done more efficiently. ### 13. One of the best ways for team communications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lyudmila S. | HR Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Caring and fast support team Clear payment system User-friendly interface User customization **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Sometimes bot works with failure like posting twice daily stand up meeting **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working communications has became more clear and fast ### 14. Great for automated daily check-ins **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** The automated check-in feature is nice for sending daily check-ins to hold my colleagues accountable in meeting their long-term professional writing goals. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** That I must buy a subscription to use the one simple tool that I'd like to use (automated check-ins to facilitate an annual 2-week long professional writing challenge). I have no need for the other tools that are offered. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily accountability and motivation for my team members. It's a great way to see what other people are working on and encourage reaching long term goals that don't have immediate deadlines. ### 15. Geekbot for the Win **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sierra B. | Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Our team of 4 enjoy using Geekbot for asynchronous sprint stand-ups and retrospects. The Geekbot dashboard makes it easy to customize the questions and schedules for both types of asynchronous meetings. Geekbot integrates with Slack making it easy to track and document meeting responses. It can be configured to send reminders to team members according to a customized schedule. Along with being able to set a personalized schedule, it’s always an option to use a Geekbot slack command to do an impromptu record. All these features make communicating as a team, spread across several time zones, convenient. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** To date, we have not found anything we would change about Geekbot. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Geekbot saves my team time because we are entirely remote. We have to be intentional with our time and how often we schedule online meetings. ### 16. Great to gather team feedback and check ins during work from home **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt G. | Director of Customer Success, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Automated team standups via slack are amazing. When our team moved to 100% work from home we were having a standup meeting daily which ate 30 minutes in everyone's calendars. Using geekbot it's easy to drop that down to 2-3 meetings a week and just an automated series of questions which everyone sees the answers to. It allows us to keep up with how everyone is doing day to day and also makes everyone reflect on their daily tasks, but without the dedicated calendar space. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** If/when we go back to working in the office the platform won't be as useful. Not sure how it will add value without being remote. Luckily it's a monthly bill so not a long lock-in period. Adding more a few months later - As we got more used to working from home and hybrid, Geekbot has lost its usefulness. I need to get a temperature check on the team less and less, and most responses do not get looked at and many people skip the survey. I think going forward it will be more suitable for reminders on reporting, etc. we need for the business. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** Give it a try for sure if you're a remote team using Slack. There is a free trial as well so it's not a high cost to get stood up, and you can build a daily standup in under 30 minutes. By the next day, you can be automating some meetings or information gathering. Look for work from home blog posts that mention Geekbot for some ideas of what you can build on the platform; that's how I initially learned about the platform. As you mature in work from home, you may find other uses for Geekbot in terms of collecting employee feedback once a month or any important weekly reporting data you may want. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving more time back to everyone working from home by automating daily standups and requests for help inside Slack. It's nice that it is not a standalone platform and just integrates into where we all are already. ### 17. Great help on task management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dongyang(Vivian) C. | Quantitative Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** it's very easy to set up. We use the standups for our daily task managing, either designed for group morning work plan or specific questions for different individuals to track the projects **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** I'd like to set different time/question choices in the same standup for different team members if possible. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Task management. it's very easy to set up. We use the standups for our daily task managing. ### 18. Geekbot has transformed the level of transparency on our team. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** It's easy to set up and use, gain insights. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** It can be tricky with time differences, time zones where Geekbot isn't sure when to ping but that only happens occasionally when someone's in a different place. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for a daily virtual "standup" and it means both the team and our stakeholders know what everyone is working on and when someone needs help. ### 19. Super easy to use and quick to setup ! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marie V. | Lecturer - Project Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** So far our team is only using Geekbot to handle Standup, but it is amazing. There is not a single thing missing there. A most appreciated feature is that it handles timezones. Our company works with people from Europe, the US, South America and New Zealand without this, standup would be a mess. Also love that people can pick and choose the best time for them to fill their standup, that's especially practical for contractors that have variable hours. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** It would be amazing if the whole setting up of standups could be done directly in slack, but honestly I don't see anything I don't like about Geekbot so far. I just wish the free version could apply to also slightly bigger teams, but maybe depending on the company's means available ? We're an indie game company and the price is a little steep for us. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** It's the perfect tool to handle Standup for remote teams on Slack ! I love the fact that it's this bot asking you all the questions live, and how you can add little comments and customize everything! **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It took me 5 minutes to setup and add all my little details and settings, it posts everyone's reports in our dedicated channel and people can check those out whenever in a clear and easy way. We ask "Do you need to talk to anyone ?" each day, and people tag whoever it is they have to talk to. Easy and super useful. The other great thing is that since is has the option to send you the standup DM whenever you connect, people are less likely to forget : it's the first thing they do everyday ! ### 20. Geekbot ftw! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clay P. | SVP Product & Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Geekbot is dead simple, and it lives where our team lives: in Slack. Set up your questions, your recipients, and your schedule, and you're off and running. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Nothing to fault here. It's got the right mix of features and simplicity to cover the basics. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Geekbot is a huge time and cost saver for us. Letting people write daily updates asynchronously via slack means everybody can post/read status updates as it suits their schedule. Avoiding those in person meetings saves dozens of hours a week and gives everyone larger blocks of uninterrupted time to get work done. ### 21. Standup is an amazing feature. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ishcabel L. | Assistant Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** The interface is very clean and easy to use, I love its simplicity. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** There isn't much to dislike! It would be great if there was an option for multiple teams within rather than the entire company. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a remote team, we keep track of everyone's activities. ### 22. Geekbot has simplified our daily meetings **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** - quick and easy programming - adapts to different time zones - includes the whole team, no one is forgotten - gives visibility on the progress and difficulties of each person **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** - the only problem for me is not being able to set reminders for others, for example when they go on holiday **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** - time-saving for filling in the daily standup meeting - global vision of all projects - allows you to identify when an employee is experiencing difficulties quickly ### 23. Geekbot is essential to keep our team in the loop **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen V. | Co-Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Geekbot's daily standup helps our 100% remote team across several timezones to be in the loop. Saves us a lot of time! **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** No complaint. Geekbot is a really necessary tool for our team's communication. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** It is extremely simple to set up, equally easy to understand and to use! **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to have calls for the daily standup and waste a lot of time. Thanks to Geekbot, we have automated this process and also keep things registered. It is great to revisit these notes in the future. ### 24. Key tool for our product team. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lesti W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** - Remote asynchronous stand-up - The micro reports in Slack every day - The ping every morning to avoid forgetting - The dashboard to see the answers, the mood, globally or on a specific period **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Virtually nothing. The tool is just too smart. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have an intense product road map with most of the devs working in different offices. Geekbot makes us know what our colleagues are working on; for the product/devs managers it gives a clear idea of who does what, how the mood is, it automates a lot of annoying tasks. It brings efficiency to the team. Key tool for us, and I guess key tool for every team trying to release serious product features. ### 25. Geekbot review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Perfect opportunity to set up daily or asynchronous status for employees from the company and to use all reporting and analytics options that Geekbot offer. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** There was nothing I would dislike, UI is perfect, and the app is reliable. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problem of asynchronous statuses for members of our teams. We can't do offline status in the office because everyone works somewhere else, and we need quick info about the work plan. ### 26. Geekbot is an amazing tool to work with! Totally helps me and my team organizing during the day. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilias G. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I know that my working day starts when I report my progress with Geekbot. I love that I know when my colleagues start working after their #standup. It's an amazing tool that have really helped us and excites us every day. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** We've been using Geekbot every day for the last 2 months, still haven't found any downside of it. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** Take a couple of weeks to try it out. Use it every day and day by day you'll understand its value. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our enterprise, every colleague has his/her own flexible schedule. So we know, when someone does a #standup with Geekbot they started working. That solves communication issues that we might have had in the past. In bullets: - Solving communications problems, - Productivity issues, - Remote working problems. ### 27. Convenientes standup meetings and sync in generral **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andres G. | Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** We have been using Geekbot for several years and It has helped to have our teams synced. We like that It's convenient, customizable, and provides an interface to check the reports in a defined Slack channel or directly through the web interface. They recently added "Focus" feature and it's also helping the team. We also like It's simple to work and create reports. There is not a learning curve to adapt because It's just about chatting with the bot. They have presets so you have predefined options to create reports easily. You can define your schedule or report when you are going to be absent so It won't ask you anything. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** There is nothing in particular that I dislike. The only issues that we have had in the past were some outages that were preventing to provide the status updates or we were receiving the notifications late. For some team members, It can be annoying to be interrupted when they are doing something but that's something that can be configured. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** If you follow agile methodologies for your project execution, Geekbot is a great option that should consider. But if you go beyond that you will realize that It can be used for any team to improve the communication and synchronization of the team. I recommend you check the presets frequently, you will find their templates to create new reports om different areas like development, sales, marketing, human resources psychology among others. They are updating the presets all the time and depending on the circumstances. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sync team members. Having the daily scrum meetings. Distributed team synchronization. We don't have to be in a meeting at the same time. Team leaders can now exactly what people are doing. We can know what are the impediments of our development team so other members help to resolve it. Our sales team provides how things go. Owners are able to follow the key metrics of the business quickly. ### 28. A great tool for the virtual classroom **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John C. | College Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I need to teach class of over 60 students using Agile for a project. Geekbot does a great job of providing a consistent experience with daily standups. It also provides a good interface for me to identify students who are having difficulty. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Nothing yet. Once we complete the semester, I may have more insights. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** A great tool for daily tandems in Slack. We created a separate channel for standups only **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** All of the teams in my class have to do daily standups. Having the same tool available for all means that they can collaborate when they run into problems, even if they are on different teams. ### 29. Great tool for daily syncs without the hassle of meetings! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maddie M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** As a ScrumMaster working with a handful of different teams, understanding where each individual is at during the sprint can be chaotic and organized, especially if the teams aren't meeting regularly. I love geekbot because I can customize my own questions and cadence to send out to the team so that I can get a better idea of where each individual is at! It's a huge time saver for both me and my team members. Geekbot is Stand Up made easy! **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** I haven't had a good experience in Geekbot when there are individuals who are in other timezones. Getting people to respond to daily sync gets tricky because you have scattered answers at different times. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** If your team is all within the same time zone, I HIGHLY recommend Geekbot for any Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Project Manager looking to keep track of how your team is doing day-to-day. It's so much simpler and faster than having in per daily sync meetings! **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I now have the ability to quickly go into my Slack account where I have the Geekbot add on and view everyone's status for the day. As a Scrum Master that kind of ease is wonderful! Much faster than tracking people down and getting their input on the day. ### 30. For standups (admin setup and team collaboration) to feel like a BREEZE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mathieu R. | Head of Strategy, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** The admin interface is very well done and their slack integration is almost flawless for easy setup and efficient team collaboration on a daily basis **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Pricing could be more flexible since we only use 1 or 2 basic features and it would be great to have segmented pricing for that. Especially since we live in a pandemic time where every dollar counts. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily routines are key in remote working conditions and for us: we don't add a new collaboration tool (thank god) since everything happens in Slack. For the admin part, I just didn't lose any time setting it up since we were operational in 5-10 minutes only. ### 31. Geekbot - Best Standup Tool for Worldwide Dev Teams **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaushik P. | Group Head Of IT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** We have teams scattered all over the world, using Geekbot allows us to make sure that no matter the location of the team member they are all on the same page and know what one another are doing **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Although this product is very competitively priced for large teams the costs can build up, especially if you pay monthly. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Geekbot allows us to make sure that every developer regardless of timezone and location knows what every other member of the team is working on. Also allows them to know what is happening in streams that they are not part of and allows everyone to work and prioritise their workload as they can mention that a particular ticket is required to be completed before they can do their part. Cross team statuses are delivered much easier. ### 32. Student team from Eindhoven University of Technology uses Geekbot **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martijn M. | Sales Employee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** The software is is easy to implement and helps the team keep an overview of what everyone is working on a day to day basis. The automated reminders and messages make sure all users get involved. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** It would be nice if there was the option as administrator to adjust participation days of individual users to prevent them from getting a message each day. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were struggling to know what all members were working on, Geekbot helped us with the daily standups and allowed for everyone to easily read back. ### 33. Super useful for virtual working **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaryaman S. | Associate product manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Very intuitive and effective. A must-have for ease of collaboration while working virtually. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Nothing to dislike really, it's fairly user friendly and keeps you on track at all times! **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Difficulty knowing what other team members are working in, helps keep everyone in the loop ### 34. Great plugin for slack **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piotr Z. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** We have configured the plugin in this way to send notifications every morning. It helped us with keeping information for supplementing working time! **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Notthing - geekbot is great tool. I recommend everyone to try it. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** regularity ### 35. Fun and efficient way to catch up with my team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** María José D. | Digital Strategist Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I love it customisable and I am able to personalize everything I need to catch up with my team. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** I wish it was in spanish for non english speakers **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** I would strongly recommend if you need a daily helper for asynchronic meetings **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to keep up with my team that works remotely and manage different kind of projects ### 36. Simple but powerful tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Seisei T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Easy to use interface, can set up asynchronous standups very quickly. This is a strong addition to a suite of tools that we use to reinforce culture and streamline internal communication. Customer support was very responsive in ansewring questions **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** No ability to aggregate responses into a single report that gets disseminated at a designated time--we were hoping for an all-in-one tool **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Geekbot as a mindfulness tool--we ask staff to list 3 things they were grateful for each day and it reports back results in real-time. It has gotten team members talking to each other and reinforced positive culture in a fully remote environment (hello COVID!). ### 37. Excellent tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** It's cheap and it gives you the ability to have better transparency between teams. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** For now, I didn't find anything that I didn't like. It's the tool that we needed to have in our slack. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** You should have a startup plan **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** More transparency, more productivity and a better communication ### 38. Great for remote teams! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor Z. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Lots of personalization features for your stand-up questions! **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Just some bugs with timezones (since we're all remote and in different time zones) **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saves us so much time as an async team when being effective with meetings. ### 39. GeekBot is awesome! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yurii R. | Applied Scientist Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** It is a super simple tool that allows everyone on the team understand what other people are doing. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Everything is great, but it would be nice to have weekly reports summarizing the work of the whole team. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use GeekBot for daily standup. Thus everyone on the team knows what others do. ### 40. great tool for getting to know your teammates **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I can get to know my teammates better when we work remotely. Geekbot facilitates icebreaker questions and encourages participation by directly DM-ing the relevant people, before sharing your answer to the publishing channel. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** There is no option to customize your plan, if only certain kinds of Standup templates are needed. ie. only Pizza Questions (icebreaker style) **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have to manually ask people to answer icebreaker questions, which is a huge benefit for managing a larger team - which is often when the icebreaker questions are most needed. ### 41. Checked out many of these Bot Standup Meeting Tools, but Geekbot Wins **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rome C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I really like the simplicity for setup and the speed for getting started/educating my team **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Wish there was an integration for JIRA and other tools to consume their workflows/tasks **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** Look at the Geekbot trial and try it out for yourself **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Solving remote productivity problems with checkins and stand ups -More collaborations -Higher management visibility ### 42. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gustavo M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I got it running in less than 30 minutes. It worked as I expected, and people got the hang of its purpose quickly. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** I would like to be able to translate the bit of texts that are still in English for our users (i.e. settings) **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** Go for it. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes easier for everyone to update the company on what they're working on. In this way, it's easier to assign tasks based on what people post on the form. ### 43. geekbot is Awesome! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tré L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** I like that geekbot allows my team does daily standups asynchronously through Slack. I like that geekbot was easy to set up and I like that it records my team's responses. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** I honestly don't dislike anything about geekbot. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving problems with communication and getting my team to connect while being remote. ### 44. Great online daily standup tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Easy to implement both technically and with the team. Great integration with slack and overview on the dashboard **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** A personal weekend feature would be great since we operate in 2 different zones. (Dubai vs EU) **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing digital standups has been a hassle for us since our team works remotely in 3 different time zones and have different weekends. When we started using geekbot we could preform our standup updates when it fitted out schedule. ### 45. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mrugank D. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** It helps to get an automatic update from all team members. different templates are also very helpful. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** not much overall very good experience. happy with the product. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** to communicate and get an update from all team members ### 46. great checkin app for distance education **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** easy to set up check in questions, and to synthesize the data from it. allows me to ping students assynchronously about how they are doing, and address concerns and where they would like more coverage on topics in class. Also allows them to see where other students are, building a community of learning! **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** a little pricey for the education market **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** checking in with students to ask what they wanted to learn more about in class, building a community of learners. ### 47. Game Changer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** The ability to cut down on meeting time. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** No reminders for people who don't participate **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an all volunteer team our time is precious and limited. The ability to cut down on standup and check in meeting times means we are better able to focus on our mission and the people we serve. ### 48. Wonderful tool and very easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oscar A. | Director de TI, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** It's very easy to implement and use, everyone in our company can learn it in a few minutes. Also it's a powerful tool for the improvement of the communication between our teams. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Nothing for now, simply do the job in the way we need. We look forward for new features in the future **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improvement in the communication between our areas and leaders ### 49. Unexpected benefits with this Bot. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** Super effortless to setup, you can get going in minutes. The web UI for report creation and management is nicely designed and very user friendly. The flexibility around where the reports go in slack and the associated permission is easily managed. Building out many reports is of varying team configurations with varying visibility through of the answers is also easy done, all the functionality is at your fingertips. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** Its difficult to fault this software. The only thing I would mention is that as far as I know a thread cant be created for individual answers in a report printed into slack, only for all report as a whole. It would be nice to contain threads per answer. This would be a "nice to have" but doesn't take away from the software benefit. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Considering we had a partly dispersed team, the GeekBot Stand up ensured that everyone was still across what was going on in the company and who was doing what. The historical record was an unexpected benefit too, its easy to go back through a thread in slack and find discussions around any topic for clarification. ### 50. A less intrusive team check-in for remote teams that's easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex B. | Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Geekbot?** The interface is incredibly easy to use and the onboarding/setup was super clean. I have used other players in the space like Standuply and felt somewhat overwhelmed with functionality. Geekbot has a far better UI/UX and reporting process. We have found our home with Geekbot. **What do you dislike about Geekbot?** That there is no free tier. We are a small team and many of their competitors have a free tier for small teams. It has gotta be tough competing with that, but they are definitely taking a step in the right direction with their simplicity and superior UX. I do wish that you could default the manual "report" check-in functionality as we have a daily check-in and a bi-weekly retrospective. 99.9% of the time you are going to do the daily check-in manually by typing "report", but it has you select which of the 2 reports you want to report on. **Recommendations to others considering Geekbot:** Give it a try (using the trial), you will likely prefer it if you value UI/UX. **What problems is Geekbot solving and how is that benefiting you?** More regular check-ins and stand-up meetings with employees on a remote team. Being on a remote team is quite lonely at times and having Geekbot be a non-committal daily check-in really helps us stay on the same page with our team. 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