DoneThat vs DailyBot

The short answer

DailyBot asks your team what they did. DoneThat works out what you did.

DailyBot runs the standup ritual asynchronously inside Slack, Teams, Google Chat or Discord — the prompt arrives, everyone types an update, and nobody sits in a meeting. That is a genuine improvement on a synchronous standup and it is free to start.

The update itself is still yours to write, from memory. That is the gap.

What DailyBot gets right

It kills the standup meeting. Fifteen minutes a day per person, recovered. For a team of eight that is a working day a fortnight.

It lives where the team already is. Native Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord. No new tool for anyone to remember to open — which is why async standup tools that live elsewhere fail.

The free tier is real. Starter costs nothing, needs no card, and supports unlimited members. A small team can run standups on it indefinitely.

It is cheap even paid. $3 per user per month for Essentials, $6.50 for Advanced, and noticeably less billed annually.

Advanced is more than a standup bot — public API, agent skill packs, CLI tools, agent analytics — plus integrations with Jira, GitHub, Linear, Calendar and Zapier for context around the updates.

The self-report gap

DailyBot's data is what people type. That is fine for coordination — the team learns what everyone is focused on — and it is unreliable as a record.

Nobody writes "spent two hours on Slack and forty minutes on an unplanned incident, then an hour on the actual task". They write "worked on the migration". Not dishonestly; that is simply what recall produces at 9am about yesterday.

So a standup tool tells you what people think they did. It cannot tell you that the priority everyone agreed on is getting a fifth of the attention it needs.

Where DoneThat fits

Capture runs continuously and the day is reconstructed, so the substance of an update exists without anyone writing it. Summaries can be shared with a team or pushed into Slack or Discord, with visibility set per summary by the person it belongs to — private, team, org or public.

That is deliberately not the same as a manager-facing feed. DoneThat's team model runs on high-level summaries rather than raw activity, shares relative trends instead of absolute per-person hours, and includes optional mood tracking so what a lead sees is burnout risk rather than activity volume.

And for the individual, Don works during the day rather than at the standup: nudging you onto goals, blocking calendar time for them, flagging low-value work while you can still fix it, checking your mood, reminding you of meetings, suggesting breaks.

On capture: screenshots are never stored — processed in real time, immediately deleted, only derived structured activity persists. Excluded apps are redacted on your machine before anything is sent. With your own Gemini or OpenAI-compatible model, raw activity never reaches our servers. The desktop app is open source.

They work well together

This is one of the cleaner pairings in this comparison set, because the overlap is nearly zero.

DailyBot owns the ritual: prompting, collecting, posting, keeping the team aligned in the chat tool they already use. DoneThat owns the substance: what actually happened, so the answer to the prompt is not a guess.

DailyBot's free tier makes the combination cheap to try.

Where DailyBot is the better choice

• You want to kill the standup meeting. That is exactly what it does.
• The team lives in Slack, Teams, Google Chat or Discord.
• Budget is zero. The free tier supports unlimited members.
• You need team coordination, not personal insight.
• You want Jira, GitHub or Linear context attached to updates.
• You want an API and agent tooling at $6.50 per user.

Where DoneThat is the better choice

• You want the update to be true, not remembered.
• You want to know where your own week went. DailyBot does not measure anything.
• You want coaching during the day, not a prompt in the morning.
• You want goals tracked and drift noticed.
• You want AI tools to have your work history through MCP and an API.
• You want a team view that is not a self-report feed — summary-level, relative trends, visibility set by the person.

How we compared these

Everything stated about DailyBot comes from its public pricing page, read on 11 August 2026 and linked below. Claims about DoneThat are first-hand: we build it.

DailyBot has a free tier we do not offer, is cheaper at every paid tier, and does async standups better than we do — we do not run the ritual at all. The narrow claim we would defend is that a standup tool's data is only as good as its members' recall, and that is exactly what automatic capture fixes.

Questions people ask about DailyBot

Is DailyBot free?

Yes, the Starter plan is free with no card required: one workspace per organisation, unlimited members, daily standups and Kudos. Essentials is $3 per user per month and Advanced $6.50, both cheaper billed annually. The billing manager's seat is always free.

What does DailyBot do?

It runs asynchronous check-ins inside your chat tool — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat or Discord — so standups, progress updates and team alignment happen in writing instead of in a meeting. It also connects to Jira, GitHub, Linear, Calendar and Zapier.

Does DailyBot track my time?

No. It prompts you and collects what you write. There is no capture, no time reconstruction, and no record beyond your own answers.

Can DoneThat replace my standup update?

It can supply the substance of one. Because the day is captured and reconstructed automatically, the summary already exists — and summaries can be shared with a team or pushed into Slack or Discord, with visibility set per summary by the person it belongs to. DailyBot is better at running the ritual; DoneThat is better at knowing what to put in it.