The life of remote teams isn’t easy. How can you get to know everyone on your team and stay in touch when you don’t see them every day?

Being a fully remote team means that you rely heavily on the tools that can help you connect and communicate with your team from anywhere in the world.

Slack is one of the most useful tools for remote teams. In this article, you’ll find 15 Slack apps and bots for remote teams to help with team building.

1. Remotehour

Remotehour helps you to make a call to your coworkers/friends seamlessly anytime when you’re available to talk. You can get notified when they are online or update the status on the app.

2. Remote Work Tips 

Remote Tips is a curated collection of the best remote work articles, lessons, tools, tips, best practices and other resources. It helps you optimize productivity and efficiency in the new era of Remote Work.

3. RemoteHQ

RemoteHQ makes it easy for teams to work together in real-time, as if they are in the same location – video chat, co-browse and co-edit any web app, share files, take notes, whiteboard, screen share, and more.

4. Standup and Prosper

Standup & Prosper is a bot that keeps your daily stand-up meetings organized. Now you can talk to the bot to answer your daily questions at your convenience. If you forget, Standup & Prosper will remind you before your scheduled stand-up time.

5. Screen

Screen lets you screen share with multiple mouse cursors and simultaneous shared control. It’s better than working in the same room! Start a new meeting with your team using a slash command “/slash”

6. Suttna

Suttna is your remote team’s assistant. It will help you out on keeping every team member in the loop! It can automate your team’s daily status reporting using checkins.

7. Resonatr

Resonatr allows you to create a station per Slack channel, which maps onto a Spotify playlist. Resonatr automatically adds new tracks every two minutes based on the audience’s top tracks and requests, and synchronizes playback for anyone who joins.

8. Scrum Bot

Scrum Bot is a simple standup meeting assistant for Slack. Scrum Bot resets the record of everyone’s daily activity each morning, and then sends a reminder to everyone who has participated in the stand-up to submit a report.

9. Steer

Simplify direct reports and communication, and boost team morale and engagement right from Slack. Get a complete and organised Steer dashboard, so you can see the progress and problems of your team in one place.

10. Obindo

Obindo is your organization’s people and knowledge discovery bot who connects you to the people and information you need. Spark connections and help your organization’s best ideas spread.

11. Wulu Team Feedback

Wulu is a team feedback tool that makes it easy to create short Slack surveys for feedback, 360s, retrospectives, standups, or brainstorming sessions — or to simply keep a pulse on your teammates.

12. WeeklyTimelog

WT Slack App will help you to communicate with teammates while seamlessly recording activity reminders and timelogs directly from Slack. Automatic time tracking for developers.

13. USE Together

USE Together is a remote pair programming and team collaboration tool. When you share your screen with USE Together, all the participants get a mouse cursor and can interact with your apps.

14. Pingboard

Pingboard is a real-time, collaborative org chart that makes it easy to organize teams, plan for growth, and keep everyone informed. With Pingboard, you’ll always know who’s who, who does what, and who’s out.

15. When To Chat

When To Chat is a scheduling tool that tackles the minutiae of finding a time to chat across multiple timezones. It’s an ideal tool for distributed teams with remote members over multiple timezones.