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Remote Work Tool List

Our guide to over 200 startups building remote work tools

Hiring

A tech-enabled hiring agency that does the recruiting work for you

Customer Service

Chat bots and human operators for answering queries on your site or customer service lines

Video Conferencing

Gold standard for video conferencing

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Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

Global PEO for hiring FTEs abroad

Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

Hiring, payroll, onboarding, and management for global employees

Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding,Hiring

Arc helps you effortlessly hire world-class remote engineers and teams.

Documentation/Note Taking

Database visualized as a spreadsheet to help organize and collaborate on work

Documentation/Note Taking

All-in-one workspace to plan, write, collaborate, and organize ideas

Virtual Whiteboard

Collaborative whiteboard for distributed teams

Documentation/Note Taking

All-in-one doc for teams combining text documents, spreadsheets, and more

Productivity Tools,Culture

Whether at home or work, build successful teams with Range. Stay in sync, feel connected, and get more done.

Culture

Slackbot to get to know your remote teammates

Culture

We help you elevate your hiring brand, streamline your workflow, and access real-time insights to close more candidates

Culture,Employee Engagement

Take action to improve employee engagement, retention, and performance

L&D,Documentation/Note Taking

Don't waste time answering the same questions over and over again. Document and organize every process, policy, and procedure in one place.

OKRs,Employee Engagement

Supercharge your managers & keep employees engaged from anywhere

Messaging

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Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

A candidate-data-anonymized technical interview tool

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Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

Online IDE for Technical Interviews

Remote Hiring

Remote technical hiring, only handles freelance

Onboarding/Training

Easy to set up training programs

Hiring

A tool from the world’s largest all-remote company to help you benchmark compensation across geographies

Hiring

Salary Survey Data and Geographic Pay Differentials

Communication

Friday is an all-in-one asynchronous work platform. Streamline regular updates like daily standups, weekly updates, and more.

Video Conferencing

Video conferencing and screen share software

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Video Conferencing

Free (if you use G Suite) and solid video conferencing software. Native integration to Google Calendar

Video Conferencing

Open source multi-platform video conferencing software

Video Conferencing

The Daily.co API adds video chat to any app or site, in minutes. We have more features that make live video easier to work with, so developers launch faster, ship more, and scale with global infrastructure.

Video Conferencing

Video conference calls that don't take up your whole screen (talking heads)

Transcription + Collaboration

Built to be used during and after calls, Grain is a better way to share vital information from a Zoom conversation. You can capture the moments that matter and turn them into shareable video highlights.

Transcription + Collaboration

Record, Transcribe and Search across your voice conversations

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Transcription + Collaboration

Generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations with Otter, your AI-powered assistant.

Communication

Navigator keeps modern teams on the same page even when they're not in the same room.

Communication

Communication OS for your distributed workforce. First platform for top-down communication with bottoms-up intelligence

Communication

Messaging for groups and teams that stay focused.

Collaboration Workspaces,Communication

Lightweight, Spontaneous Voice and Video Collaboration for Remote Teams

Collaboration Workspaces

Video conference and chat plus collaboration tools for editing in apps, sharing files, digital whiteboard, and more

Collaboration Workspaces

Slack alternative purpose built for remote teams

Collaboration Workspaces,Virtual Office

Video conference and chat plus virtual office space with watercooler and meetings baked in

Collaboration Workspaces,Virtual Office

Sococo is the online workplace where distributed teams come to work together each day, side-by-side

Collaboration Workspaces,Virtual Office

The virtual office truly connecting distributed teams

Collaboration Workspaces,Virtual Office

Video conference and chat plus virtual office, water cooler, co-editing in web apps

Collaboration Workspaces

Threads empowers teams to easily share, discuss, and make decisions no matter where they are.

Collaboration Workspaces

All your work in one place: Tasks, docs, chat, goals, & more.

Collaboration Workspaces

Collaborate asynchronously with the power of voice, video and screen recording on any website, screenshot, GitHub code review, Jira comments or Slack messages.

Collaboration Workspaces,Culture

Connect your people, manage disruption, transform communication and build your culture with a simple app your people will love.

Collaboration Workspaces,Documentation/Note Taking

Centralize and organize your team’s knowledge with Slite

Collaboration Workspaces,Culture

Workvivo is the engaging central communication hub for your organization and the go-to place for employees to access all of your corporate applications and resources.

Pair Programming

Turn your secondary display into your joint team desktop. Share windows via drag & drop, collaborate remotely via mouse & keyboard, each user gets their own mouse pointer

Pair Programming

Fast screen sharing with multiplayer control, drawing & video.

Pair Programming

Remote pair programming app on macOS

Pair Programming

Remote Pair Programming and Team Collaboration tool.

Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

Hiring, payroll, benefits and taxes for global employees

Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

Focused on hiring, paying, onboarding global contractors, doesn't currently handle FTEs

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Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

Combining the HR and IT parts of onboarding but only handle US

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Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

Hiring, paying, compliance and helping establish culture connections for FTEs or contractors

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Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding

Hire global employees in a compliant way or pay international contractors anywhere in the world

Remote Office

Helping companies open offices and hire in new geos

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Remote Office,Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding,Hiring

Remote offices for engineering teams

Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding,Hiring

Fully managed remote teams

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Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding,Hiring

Distributed makes working with globally distributed teams as easy as working with in-house teams

Hiring

Confirm is the job placement service that uses the knowledge of your colleagues to get you the perfect job, faster.

Virtual Webinar/Conference

Create virtual webinars, conferences, live Q&As, or summits

Virtual Webinar/Conference

Host or attend live digital events

Virtual Webinar/Conference

All-in-one live online events platform where attendees can learn, interact, and connect with people from anywhere in the world

Virtual Webinar/Conference

Interactive live conversations at scale. Focused on creators

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Virtual Webinar/Conference

Platform for online summits

Virtual Webinar/Conference

Host Virtual Job Fairs, Online Trade Shows, Online Conferences & more. Connect audiences globally using chat tools, live webinars & digital content, backed by unbeatable 24/7 customer support

Virtual Webinar/Conference

Online events that encourage immersive interactions and networking among attendees

Virtual Webinar/Conference

Teooh is an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional events. We can provide a social experience for groups of people who otherwise can't attend events in-person. Scale your events globally without scaling overhead costs.

Remote Standups

Asynchronous voice and video standups for remote teams

Remote Standups

Standups, surveys, and daily reports via Slackbot

Remote Standups

Automate Agile processes (standups, retros, motivational check-ins) in Slack

Remote Standups

Standup, retrospective, and checkin bot for Slack

Remote Standups,Culture

Standups, touchbases, check-ins and more

Documentation/Note Taking

All-in-one doc for teams combining text documents, spreadsheets, and more

Documentation/Note Taking

Build knowledge bases from slack channels

Virtual Whiteboard

Digital workplace for visual collaboration, mind-mapping, brainstorming, planning, and more

Virtual Whiteboard

Create interactive presentations & meetings, wherever you are

Productivity Tools

Simple time tracking with powerful reporting

Productivity Tools

Work management platform for project, goal and task tracking

Productivity Tools

Join thousands of companies moving faster with Hive’s powerful project and process management software.

Productivity Tools

Workflow and organization tool for team and individual projects

Productivity Tools

Motion actively prevents you from getting distracted on the web through real-time interventions, reminders, and analytics.

Productivity Tools

"Virtual coworking" productivity tool to help you get into a flow state

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Productivity Tools

Helping remote teams schedule meetings and know when people are available, working, focusing, on vacation, etc

Productivity Tools

Borads cards, and lists to help organize team and individual work

Productivity Tools

Time tracking software for individuals or teams

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Productivity Tools

Helping teams focus when they need to and collaborate better in various apps

Productivity Tools

Mindfulness meets productivity for task creation, prioritization, and measurement.

Productivity Tools

MacOS app to help plan your day, block distractions, and focus

Productivity Tools

Record, transcribe and summarize your meetings

Other

Remove background noise from calls/video conferencing

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Other

Help companies find locations for expansion and set up remote offices

Other

Remote office hardware provisioning (give employees desk, chair, monitor, etc for home office)

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Culture

Personalized employee perks/rewards

Culture

Personalized perks including family planning, mobility, health

Culture

Always on meeting rooms in slack for spontaneous chats

Culture,OKRs

HR platform for team goals, alignment, engagement, and insights

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Culture,Employee Engagement

HRIS focused on culture and employee engagement

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Culture,Communication

Spontaneous video chats for remote teams

Culture,Communication

Schedule breaks for your teams to connect in timed video chat "break rooms"

Culture,Org Chart

Self-reported org chart aggregation

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Culture,Org Chart

Visualize and understand the past, present and future of your organization. Plan for any scenario — with context.

Culture,L&D

Mento supports you every step of your career, from managing layoffs and your personal runway, to your job search and remote work during COVID-19.

L&D,Coaching/Training

A better way to deliver learning across your organization. (Merged with Torch)

L&D,Coaching/Training

Personalized coaching and development platform built to maximize the growth of your high-performing leaders. (Merged with Everwise)

L&D,Coaching/Training

Democratized coaching platform and marketplace for teams

L&D,Coaching/Training

Professional coaching for all levels of an org

L&D,Coaching/Training

Strive combines people and technology to deliver targeted training that lasts

L&D,Other

Modern sexual harassment training for teams

Coaching/Training

The all-in-one leadership, management, and people skills training platform for modern teams

Coaching/Training

Try Trainual for Free

Interviewing

Pre-onsite interview assessments for technical hiring

Calendar

Calendar, to-dos and habit trackers to hit your goals

Calendar

Intelligent calendar assistant to help you focus on what matters

Calendar

Work calendar, personal calendar, and scheduling tools all in one place

Calendar

Power user tools to combine gmail and Google Calendar to make scheduling a breeze

Calendar

Easily schedule meetings across multiple time zones

Calendar

Audit and rebalance your calendar, automatically defend your time, and get your week back in minutes.

Calendar

Fellow helps managers and their teams have the best 1‑on‑1s, team meetings, project syncs and so much more

Calendar

Automatically picks the time and room for meetings. It works on top of Chrome and Google Calendar, so there's no need to change the calendar app

Co-living / Co-working

We offer safe and clean coliving spaces, community, and services designed for remote workers and entrepreneurs.

Co-living / Co-working

Upflex combines technology, the largest network of workspaces, and a recognized workplace safety program to help businesses be agile, efficient, and safe.

OKRs

OKR and business continuity software with the expertise you need now

OKRs

OKRs help teams move quickly and give leaders visibility into work across the company

Background Checks

Fast, friendly background checks in 200 countries

Messaging

Hybrid Slack + email all over SMPT

Messaging

Threaded, folderized version of Slack

Messaging

Eliminate your team’s need to spread discussions across email and chat apps by keeping information organized and transparent in Twist.

Messaging,Collaboration Workspaces

Messaging + collaboration across your apps

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Messaging

Async voice collaboration in short 30 sec clips

Messaging

Open source, self-hosted version of Slack

Hiring

Travel medical insurance that covers people from all over the world while outside their home country