Standup bots vs Sill.
Standup bots and Sill work on different halves of the same meeting. A bot like Geekbot, Standuply or Range asks a team its questions on a schedule and collects the answers. Sill helps one person write their answers, from the work they already did, on their own Apple devices. A team can run a bot, and anyone on that team can still use Sill to fill it in.
Checked 10 November 2026. Facts about each bot come from its own public website, linked next to each claim. Products change, so check the linked pages for the current details.
The short version
| Standup bots | Sill | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | A team. Someone sets up the questions and the schedule. | One person, for their own standup. |
| What it does | Asks the questions, reminds people, collects the answers and shares them. | Drafts your answers: Yesterday, Today and Blockers. |
| Where answers come from | Mostly what each person types. Range can pull in tasks from tools like Asana and GitHub. | Your git commits (Mac only), the tasks you finish and the follow-ups you log. |
| Where it runs | Works with Slack and Microsoft Teams. | iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Copies for Slack, Teams or Jira. |
| Your data | Stored by the service, so the team can read past reports. | On your devices and in your own iCloud. No account, no Sill server. |
| Price | Each lists a free plan for small teams, and paid plans. | Free app. Sill Pro is optional and paid. |
Geekbot
- Runs standups, polls and surveys inside Slack and Microsoft Teams (geekbot.com).
- You set the questions, timing and frequency. Geekbot sends the questions to each person in Slack or Teams in their local time zone, nudges people who haven't answered, and can broadcast the answers to a channel you choose (Geekbot standups).
- Scheduled summaries cover the team's participation, blockers and sentiment (geekbot.com).
- Free for teams of up to 10 users. Paid plans are priced per participant (Geekbot pricing).
Standuply
- A standup bot for Slack and Microsoft Teams (standuply.com).
- Teams run reports on a schedule they define, or asynchronously, from templates or their own questions, with reminders. People can attach voice or video answers (Standuply standups).
- It connects to trackers such as Jira, Trello and Asana, and to GitHub, for Agile charts like burndown. It also covers retrospectives, planning poker and polls (standuply.com).
- A free Starter plan covers 3 users, and paid plans start with a 30-day free trial (Standuply pricing).
Range
- Team software for check-ins, meetings and goals, with integrations for Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Jira and many other tools (range.co).
- Check-ins are updates on plans and progress, daily or weekly, and can include mood sharing. Updates can be shared to Slack or Microsoft Teams (Range check-ins).
- Range can pull tasks from tools like Asana and GitHub into a check-in (Range check-ins). Of the three, it comes closest to drafting answers from work you already did.
- Free for up to 12 users. Pro is priced per team member (Range pricing).
Sill
- A native app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, for one person. It doesn't ask your team anything.
- On the Mac it reads the local git history of your repos (commit messages and times, never code). On every device it records the tasks you finish and the follow-ups you log. From those it writes Yesterday, Today and Blockers, with receipts on what you're waiting on, like day 6, asked 3×.
- No account, no server, no analytics. The App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected". Commits are read only by the Mac app and never leave that Mac.
- Free, including the set-time standup reminder. Sill Pro is an optional paid upgrade that adds a self-review generator for periods longer than a week, a reminder that follows your calendar, and more than 3 open blockers at a time.
When a bot is the better choice
- You lead the team and want everyone's update in one channel, at a set time, without a meeting.
- Your team works on Windows, Linux or Android. Sill only runs on Apple devices.
- You want participation reports, polls, retrospectives or goals in the same tool.
- The problem is the ritual itself: people forget to post, or time zones make a live standup hard.
When Sill is the better choice
- You give the standup, and the hard part is remembering what you did.
- You're waiting on other people and want a record: how long, and how many times you asked.
- Your team has no bot, or holds the standup out loud on a call. Sill's draft works as speaking notes too.
- You'd rather your work history stayed on your own devices.
- Review season is coming. The same record becomes a self-review draft with Sill Pro.
Using both
The bot asks at 9:45. Sill already has the answer. Copy it on the Mac (⌘⇧U, or from the menu bar) or on your iPhone, and paste it into the bot. If the bot asks one question at a time, paste each section into its question. Pick the Slack or Teams format in Sill's settings so bullets and bold come through.
Nobody has to agree to anything for this to work. The team keeps its bot, and you stop rebuilding yesterday from memory.
Sources
- Geekbot: home page, standups, pricing
- Standuply: home page, standup meetings, pricing
- Range: home page, check-ins, pricing
All three pages checked on 10 November 2026. Geekbot, Standuply and Range are trademarks of their owners. Sill isn't affiliated with any of them. Spotted something out of date? Write to the address on the support page.
Get Sill on the App Store — free for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Want to try the idea first? The standup generator turns your git log into a standup in your browser.