A free, open-source Standuply alternative for Slack
Verdict: Standuply is free for 3 users and then $2 to $3.50 per user a month on Team (checked 2026-09-29), while Morgenruf runs written Slack standups free at any size, so stay on Standuply only for video answers, Teams or its agile extras.
Add to Slack installs Morgenruf on the free hosted instance CloudDrove runs. Self-hosting is the same MIT code.
Your morning, on one screen.
Morgenruf is a free, open-source (MIT) Standuply alternative for Slack. Both send standup questions by DM and post a summary to a channel. Standuply is free for 3 users, then $2 to $3.50 per user per month on Team (checked 2026-09-29); Morgenruf is free at any size, can run on your own servers, and adds coffee chats and kudos.
Last reviewed September 29, 2026
What you are actually comparing
Standuply is a hosted standup bot for Slack and Microsoft Teams with some extras most bots do not have: answers by video or voice, surveys, and on its Business plan planning poker, backlog refinement and 360 degree feedback. Morgenruf does the async standup, plus coffee chats and recognition, for nothing per seat: free on the hosted instance CloudDrove runs, or on your own infrastructure with the same MIT code.
If your team answers standups on video or runs its agile ceremonies through the bot, Standuply does things this does not. If it is three written questions a morning, the difference is mostly the bill. The other comparisons make the same trade for Geekbot, DailyBot and Standup & Prosper.
How do Morgenruf and Standuply compare?
| Morgenruf | Standuply | |
|---|---|---|
| Async standups by DM, one channel summary | Yes | Yes |
| Video and voice answers | No | Yes |
| Surveys | No | Yes |
| Coffee chats and kudos in the same app | Yes | No |
| Chat apps | Slack; Google Chat in beta | Slack, Microsoft Teams |
| Free plan | Yes, any team size | Starter: automation for 3 users |
| Price above the free plan | None | Team $2 to $3.50 per user monthly, Business $4 to $5.50, less billed annually |
| A 30 person team on Team, per year | $0 hosted | $900 to $1,260 |
| Runs on your own servers | Yes | No |
| Source you can read | MIT | Closed |
Standuply plans and prices checked 2026-09-29 on Standuply's pricing page (the figures are in the page source; the price shown depends on the team size you pick), chat apps and features on its homepage. If something here is out of date, please open an issue.
Where Standuply wins
- Video and voice answers. Standuply lets people answer by video or voice message. Morgenruf is text only.
- Microsoft Teams. Standuply runs there today; Teams support here is in progress.
- Agile extras. Surveys, and on the Business plan planning poker, backlog refinement and 360 degree feedback.
- Integrations. Standuply connects to Jira, Trello and Asana, and its Team plan adds GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket.
- A flat fee option. Team is also sold at $199 a month, or $149 billed annually, for up to 199 people, which caps the bill for a large company.
Where is Morgenruf different from Standuply?
Free for the whole team, not three people
Standuply's free Starter plan covers automation for 3 users, then there is a 30 day trial of the paid plans. Team costs $2 per user a month for 1 to 4 users, $3 for 5 to 29 and $3.50 from 30, or $1.50, $2.25 and $2.50 billed annually. Business is $4, $5 and $5.50, or $3.50, $4.25 and $4.50 billed annually (checked 2026-09-29 on Standuply's pricing page). On the Morgenruf hosted instance, every seat is free at any size.
Your answers stay in your database
Self-hosted, standup answers, blockers and participation live in Postgres you control. Standuply is hosted only.
Three rituals, one app
Standups, coffee chats and kudos share one deployment and one database, which is also what makes the cross-signal questions possible.
It can be read and changed
MIT licensed, the whole repository. If the summary format is wrong for you, the file is right there.
A standup that is quietly dying says so here before anyone notices in the channel.
What does Standuply cost for 10, 30 or 100 people?
Worked out from Standuply's published Team prices on 2026-09-29, per year. At 100 people the flat fee is cheaper than paying per user, so that is the figure shown.
| Team size | Standuply Team, monthly | Standuply Team, annual | Morgenruf, hosted | Morgenruf, self-hosted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 people | $360 | $270 | $0 | $60 to $240 |
| 30 people | $1,260 | $900 | $0 | $60 to $240 |
| 100 people | $2,388 (flat fee) | $1,788 (flat fee) | $0 | $60 to $240 |
Moving across from Standuply
There is no importer. Run both for a week with the same questions in the same channel, and turn Standuply off once the new summary looks right.
- Write down each Standuply standup: its channel, questions, schedule, participants and timezone.
- Install Morgenruf: Add to Slack for the free hosted instance, or run it with Docker or on Kubernetes and create the Slack app.
- Recreate each standup. Thirty question templates are there if you want to change the questions while you are at it.
- Mark anyone on leave, so the first week's completion figure means something.
- Watch a week of mornings side by side, then switch Standuply off.
Morgenruf and Standuply
Is Standuply free?
Its free Starter plan covers automation for 3 users, and paid plans have a 30 day trial. Team costs $2 to $3.50 per user a month depending on team size, or $1.50 to $2.50 billed annually (checked 2026-09-29).
Is Morgenruf free compared with Standuply?
Yes, for every seat. The hosted instance is free. Self-hosted, you pay for the server and database, roughly $5 to $20 a month regardless of headcount.
Can people answer by video or voice?
Not in Morgenruf. Answers are written in Slack. If video or voice answers matter to your team, Standuply does that.
Can I import my Standuply history?
No. Run both in parallel for a week and switch over once the summaries look right.