Range app review (2026): check-ins, pricing, and whether it is still moving

Range is the teamwork suite that a lot of remote engineering teams adopted between 2019 and 2022 for its daily check-ins: a written update with a personal question on top, posted into Slack and read in a shared feed, with meetings, goals and mood tracking around it. It still runs, it still has a pricing page, and it still turns up in searches for a "Range app alternative" from teams deciding whether to stay. This review covers how the product works, what the free plan and the $8 seat include, what reviewers say, and the question people actually ask about Range in 2026: how actively it is being developed. Everything is checked against Range's own site and help centre as of September 9, 2026.

Full disclosure: we make asyncmate, a Slack check-in bot, and we have a Range alternative page that compares the two. This article is the review, not the pitch. Where Range is the better pick, we say so.

Range in one paragraph

Range is a web app with Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, built around four things. Check-ins: an async daily update where each person writes what they did and plan to do, tags a mood, answers a rotating icebreaker question, and can pull in items from GitHub, Jira, Asana, Google Calendar and other tools automatically. Meetings: shared agendas, notes and action items, with a "Spinner" that picks who speaks next. Goals: objectives and key results connected to the daily check-ins. A team directory. The whole thing is priced as one seat. Range lists SeatGeek, CircleCI, HubSpot, New Relic and Wellthy as customers, and the reviews are good: 4.7 out of 5 on Capterra from 32 reviews and 4.6 on G2 from 74, though the most recent Capterra review is from January 2023.

How check-ins work in Range

The check-in is the reason most teams install Range, so it is worth being precise about where it lives.

Writing one. From Slack you type /checkin in any channel or DM, or click the button in the reminder Range sends, and a form opens. From the web app or the Teams app you do the same in a richer editor. The form has a "yesterday, today" structure plus a mood picker and the day's icebreaker question. Range's integrations suggest items to include from the tools you touched: a merged pull request, a Jira ticket you moved, a calendar event. The Chrome extension, Range Sync, adds pages you visited in Notion, Google Docs and similar.

Reading them. Completed check-ins post to a subscribed team channel in Slack (set up with /range subscriptions), so the team sees them where it already is. The canonical feed, with reactions, comments, history and search, is in the web app. That is the difference from a pure Slack bot: the Slack post is a copy, and the conversation is expected to happen in Range.

Reminders. Range sends the team a Slack reminder at the check-in time, with a button that opens the form. There is no per-person timezone schedule described in the help centre; the reminder time is a team setting.

What it does not do. There is no digest that gathers the day's check-ins into one message with a summary, and no AI reading of the answers on any plan. As of September 2026 no AI feature is listed on the homepage, the pricing page or the product pages. The value is the feed and the integrations, not a summary.

Range pricing in 2026

The plans on range.co/pricing are Free, Pro and Enterprise.

Every workspace gets a 14-day trial of Pro. Billing is month to month with no long-term contract, and Range refunds a new subscription period if you cancel within 72 hours of it starting. No annual rate is published.

Three things to know before comparing the $8.

1. It is per user, not per active user. The pricing page prices "per team member" with no carve-out for people who never write a check-in. A workspace of 18 where 11 people post pays for 18. Geekbot, DailyBot and asyncmate all bill on some definition of activity; Range does not.
2. The seat buys the suite. Meetings, goals, the directory and the integrations are in the same $8. If your team runs its meetings and OKRs in Range, the price is reasonable for four tools. If the check-in is the only part anyone opens, you are paying suite money for a standup.
3. The free plan is generous on headcount and short on history. Twelve users is more than most competitors' free tiers, but 30 days of history means last month's check-ins are gone unless you upgrade.

For a side-by-side at a specific team size, the Range alternative page does the arithmetic. The rest of this review stays on Range itself.

What Range does well

The check-in is thoughtfully designed. The icebreaker question and the mood tag are the features reviewers mention most, and not as fluff: remote teams say the daily personal question is how they got to know each other. Range built the check-in as a team ritual rather than a status form, and it shows.

Integrations do real work. Pulling the day's GitHub, Jira, Asana and calendar activity into the update means the check-in writes half of itself, and the 75-plus integrations list is unusual for a product this size. Linear was added, and PagerDuty, OneDrive and Outlook cover the operations and Microsoft sides.

Meetings and goals in the same place. Shared agendas with the Spinner, action items that carry over, and OKRs tied to check-ins give a team lead one app instead of three. For a team that will use them, this is the argument for the seat.

Slack and Teams both. Check-ins can be written and read in either, which few check-in products manage.

Support. Customer service scores 4.9 on Capterra, and reviewers describe a responsive team that implemented their feedback.

Where reviewers push back

These recur on Capterra and G2.

• The goals feature is hard to navigate. "It's still a little bit difficult to understand how to set goals" is the most repeated line, and one reviewer says Objectives is "not quite ready" as a lightweight replacement for a planning tool.
• Integration suggestions can be off. The GitHub, Jira and Google Calendar suggestions "sometimes give questionable suggestions", so the auto-filled check-in needs editing.
• Google-first. Reviewers in Microsoft shops say the product fits G Suite environments better, despite the Teams and Outlook integrations.
• Small UX gaps. Settings that are hard to find, and a mobile app that redirects to a browser login.
• It depends on the culture. One reviewer's point is worth quoting in spirit: in a team with a micromanaging lead, a daily written record of everyone's day becomes a surveillance tool. That is true of every check-in product, but Range's mood tags and personal questions make it more visible.

Is Range still being developed?

This is the question behind most searches for Range in 2026, so here is what the public record shows, without speculation.

• Range is running. The pricing page is live, the trial works, the footer says 2026, and no shutdown has been announced. Other roundups that call it dead are wrong.
• The company blog's newest dated posts are from 2022, and the "Company updates" topic ends with a summer-break notice from that year. The product-updates page no longer resolves.
• No AI feature has been added to the product pages, in a category where every active competitor shipped one between 2024 and 2026.
• The co-founder's own site describes him as Range's maintainer.

Our read: Range is maintained, not grown. For a team that likes it as it is, nothing forces a move, and the month-to-month billing means nothing locks one in either. For a team choosing a new tool to build a daily ritual on, the question to ask Range directly is what the roadmap looks like, and to weigh the answer against products that publish dated release notes.

Who Range is right for

• Teams that use the suite. Check-ins plus meetings plus goals, in one app, for one seat. If all three are in daily use, $8 is fair and the alternative is three subscriptions.
• Teams that value the ritual. The icebreaker, the mood tag and the feed are the product. Teams that adopted Range for culture rather than status reporting tend to stay.
• Teams whose day lives in GitHub, Jira and Google Calendar. The integrations make the check-in nearly automatic.
• Small teams on the free plan. Twelve users with meetings and integrations, no card, is one of the more generous free tiers around, history aside.

Who should look elsewhere

• Teams that only want the check-in. The seat price is for the suite, every user is billed, and the check-in itself has no summary. A standup bot does that part for less; the best standup bots for Slack roundup compares them.
• Teams that want everything inside Slack. Range posts to Slack but lives in its web app. If you want the questions, the answers and the digest all in the channel, with nobody signing in anywhere, that is a different kind of product; ours is described on the Slack standup bot page.
• Teams that want an AI read of the day. Range has none. Bots built around a channel digest, ours included, do a different job.
• Teams that need per-person timezone delivery and a "who is missing" report. Range's reminders are team-level, and the feed shows what was posted rather than who did not post.
• Teams that want a vendor with a visible roadmap. See the section above.

Range and asyncmate in sixty seconds

Figures from range.co/pricing and our pricing page, September 9, 2026. Range is a trademark of Range Labs, Inc.; asyncmate is not affiliated with Range.

The verdict

Range is a well-made product with a clear idea: the daily check-in as a team ritual, surrounded by the meetings and goals that the check-in feeds. Teams that use it that way get a lot for $8, and the free plan is a fair trial of the whole idea. The things to weigh are structural rather than bugs: the seat is per user with no activity discount, the check-in has no digest or AI, the conversation lives in a web app rather than in Slack, and the company has published nothing dated since 2022. If you want the suite and the ritual, stay or install it. If the check-in is the job, the Range alternative page does the comparison, and how the asyncmate Slack standup bot works shows the in-Slack version end to end.

FAQ

Is Range free? There is a free plan for up to 12 users on two sub-teams, with check-ins, meetings, mood sharing, three goals, unlimited integrations and 30 days of history, and no card is required. Pro is $8 per team member per month with a 14-day trial.

How much does Range cost? $8 per team member per month on the Pro plan, billed monthly with no contract. Every user in the workspace is a seat; there is no active-only billing. Enterprise is custom pricing for workspaces of around 100 or more, with SSO and a security audit.

Does Range work in Slack? Yes. You write a check-in with /checkin, reminders arrive by DM, and completed check-ins post to a subscribed team channel. The full feed with history, comments and search is in the Range web app.

Does Range work with Microsoft Teams? Yes. Range added check-ins for Microsoft Teams, alongside Slack and the web app.

Does Range have AI? Not as of September 2026. No AI summary, digest or assistant appears on Range's homepage, pricing page or product pages.

Is Range shutting down? No shutdown has been announced and the product is running with a live pricing page and trial. What is true is that the blog's newest dated posts are from 2022 and no product updates have been published since, so the pace of development is the thing to ask about, not whether it exists.

What is the best Range alternative? It depends on which part of Range you used. For meetings and goals, tools like Fellow cover that ground. For the daily check-in alone, a Slack standup bot does it for less and adds a digest; our Range alternative page compares Range with asyncmate line by line, and the best standup bots roundup covers the rest of the field.