# Standup Jack review (2026): is it worth $1 a month per user? > Slack bot that runs daily standups by direct message Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Standup Jack is a Slack bot that asks each teammate a few standup questions at a time they choose, then posts everyone's answers to a channel on weekdays. Standups, questions, times and participants are changed by messaging the bot inside Slack. - **Category:** Team Communication - **Made by:** Standup Jack - **Website:** https://standupjack.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you do not use Slack, as no other chat system is supported. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Standup Jack is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $1 per user / month after a 14-day trial. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14 days free; after that the bot hibernates until you upgrade or remove it. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Standup Jack | $1 per user / month | One plan after the 14-day trial: multiple standups per team, custom questions, time zones and vacation handling. | Read from https://standupjack.com/faq/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Standup Jack before buying. ## Key features - **Daily update prompts:** Jack messages each person at the time they picked and asks a few questions about their day. - **Team post:** On weekdays Jack posts everyone's responses to the Slack channel chosen for the standup, including private groups after an invite. - **Custom questions and schedule:** Add, change or delete questions, pick weekdays, and change the update time or standup channel by messaging Jack. - **Time zone support:** Jack reads the time zone in each person's Slack profile so a 10am prompt is not sent in the middle of the night. - **Vacation handling:** Setting a Slack status such as OOO, PTO or sick stops prompts while the person is away. - **Multiple standups per team:** Create separate standups with their own participants, questions and posting channel. ## Good for - Remote teams on Slack that want written standups instead of meetings - Small teams that want a flat per-user price - Managers who want updates collected in one channel ## Worth knowing - Works only inside Slack; the FAQ says other chat systems are not supported yet. - There is no free plan: after 14 days the bot stops until you upgrade. - Set up and changes happen by chatting with the bot, not through a separate dashboard. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Standup Jack is a Slack bot that asks each person for a daily update by direct message and posts the team's answers. It costs $1 a user a month after a 14-day trial. It only works in Slack, and once the trial ends it stops until you pay. - **Value for money: A.** $1 a user a month, under 60% of the $3 the cheaper quarter of team chat tools charge. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 14 days free, then the bot stops until you upgrade. No free plan. The listing does not say whether a card is needed. - **Features: D.** One narrow job, standups, and it needs Slack to run at all. Custom questions, time zones and vacations are covered. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You add the bot to Slack and set it up by chatting with it. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Slack only. The FAQ says other chat systems are not supported yet. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Standup Jack's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among team communication apps - Standup Jack's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 9 of the 75 other team communication apps we grade, and level with 19. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 58 of 75) and worst on features (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $1 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.90 for the category: 0 of the 51 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 1.7 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/team-chat ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Standup Jack you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 47 of the 75 other team communication apps grade higher. It costs $12 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Chat that a whole team counts on staying up. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack **Tags:** Team chat, Workflow automation, Reports ## Alternatives - [Geekbot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/geekbot): Async standups, polls and surveys in Slack and Microsoft Teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/geekbot-vs-standup-jack) - [Dailybot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dailybot): Async standups, check-ins and kudos inside your team chat. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dailybot-vs-standup-jack) - [Standuply](https://toolgpa.com/tools/standuply): Standup, retro and poll bot for Slack and Microsoft Teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/standup-jack-vs-standuply) - [Steady](https://toolgpa.com/tools/steady): Async check-ins, goal updates and digests for people and AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/standup-jack-vs-steady) - [Range](https://toolgpa.com/tools/range): Async check-ins, meeting agendas and goal tracking for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/range-vs-standup-jack) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://standupjack.com/ - https://standupjack.com/faq/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/standup-jack Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).