AsyncUp vs ScrumAI

AsyncUp is a free, open-source, self-hosted tool for asynchronous daily standups in Google Chat. Each workday it sends participants a direct-message card with three questions and a mood selector, then posts replies in a dated team-space thread. Teams can customize questions and make participants mandatory or optional. People set their own time zones, while optional Google Calendar out-of-office synchronization marks them away. AsyncUp tracks blockers, supports acknowledgments and updates, and sends nudges or escalation messages for stale items. Its web app includes Google sign-in, guided setup, standups, blockers, reports, team settings, and personal pages. Reporting provides chat trends, eight-week participation, mood, and blocker charts, weekly digests, and CSV export. SAML 2.0 sign-in covers Google Workspace, Okta, Entra, and OneLogin, with a SCIM 2.0 provisioning endpoint. Deployment uses Docker with embedded SQLite or configurable PostgreSQL. Google Chat is supported; Slack and Microsoft Teams are planned.

ScrumAI is a web service for asynchronous engineering standups in Slack or Discord. At a configured time, its bot asks three short questions, allowing teammates to answer on their own schedules. When the response window ends, AI creates a two-paragraph summary and a blocker list; refreshing the page does not regenerate that readout. A dashboard separates late replies from missed replies and shows extracted blockers. Teams can set days, time, timezone, and questions, then run multiple standup configurations for sub-teams. Its graph-based flow builder can branch according to answers, route messages to channels, or skip steps. ScrumAI says Supabase row-level security scopes data by team. Beta retention is 90 days. The Beta plan is free for up to five teammates per workspace; Standard is listed at $5 a month per user.