A Range alternative that keeps the whole check-in in Slack
asyncmate runs async check-ins by Slack DM at $2.50 a month per person who answers. Range's Pro seat is $8 per user, and that seat carries its whole teamwork suite: meetings, goals, mood, and a feed that lives in its web app. If the check-in is the part your team uses, you can keep it in Slack and skip the rest.
Free for up to 10 people who answer. No credit card.
Where the check-in lives
On Range
- 1A Slack DM reminds you it is time to check in
- 2You write the update in Slack or in the Range app, which can suggest items from GitHub or Jira
- 3The team reads and discusses it in the Range feed; completed check-ins can post to a channel
On asyncmate
- 1The questions arrive as a Slack DM, at your time in your timezone
- 2You answer in the Slack modal, in about two minutes
- 3The digest posts to your channel, with an AI summary on top on Pro
Both get the update written. The difference is where the team reads it, and how much product stands around the habit.
Range pricing and asyncmate pricing, line by line
Range prices per user and the seat covers its full suite. asyncmate bills only the people who answer, for the check-in itself.
| asyncmate | Range | |
|---|---|---|
| Check-ins, billed monthly | $2.50 / person who answers | $8 / user (Pro) |
| Who counts as billable | Only people who answer a check-in or log hours | Priced per user, with no active-only carve-out on their pricing page |
| What the price covers | Check-ins with the AI digest, hours and surveys; polls and reminders free anyway | The full suite: check-ins, meeting agendas, goals and OKRs, mood sharing |
| Free plan | Up to 10 people who answer, 90-day reporting history | Up to 12 users on 2 teams, 30-day history |
| Where it runs | Slack end to end: DM, modal, digest in a channel | Web app first, with Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations |
Only people who answer a check-in or log hours are billed. How our billing count works
18 users on the workspace, 11 answering
We bill the 11 who answered. Range prices per user, so once the workspace outgrows their free 12, all 18 seats are on the bill.
30 users, everyone answering
Even with the whole team answering, the gap is the suite: their seat also buys meetings, goals and mood tools. Money well spent if you use them, and not if you don't.
Range publishes a single Pro rate of $8 per user, monthly. If the check-in is the only part of the suite your team opens, that is the number to compare with $2.50.
The free plans count different things
Range's free plan covers 12 users to our 10, so on the headline number theirs is bigger. Theirs counts everyone who joins the workspace; ours counts only the people who answer.
Range Free
- Up to 12 users, on 2 teams
- 30-day history
- 3 tracked goals
- 12 meeting agendas
Counted by user: everyone on the workspace holds one of the 12 slots, answering or not.
asyncmate Free
- Up to 10 people who answer
- Passive members, poll voters and reminder recipients free at any number
- 90-day reporting history
- Polls and reminders free, kudos up to 20 a month
Counted by participation: someone takes a slot only in a period where they answered a check-in or logged hours.
Where Range may still fit you better
A fair comparison cuts both ways. Range is a teamwork suite rather than a standup bot: multiplayer meeting agendas with the Spinner, goal and OKR tracking, mood sharing, and integrations that pull GitHub, Jira and Asana activity into a check-in. It supports Microsoft Teams as well as Slack, and its free plan covers 12 users to our 10, counted by seat rather than by who answers. asyncmate has none of the meeting or goal machinery and is Slack only. If you want check-ins, meetings and goals in one product, Range covers ground we don't try to.
Moving a check-in off Range
Install alongside Range
Both can run at once: Range keeps its workspace and asyncmate joins your Slack. Nothing about your current check-ins changes while you look around.
Retype one check-in
Questions, schedule, participants, digest channel; a few minutes of setup. Your Range history stays in Range, so keep the seat until you have what you need from it.
Run them in parallel
Compare a week of digests side by side, then turn one off. If the team keeps opening Range for its goals and meetings, stay: the bill is only an argument when the check-in is the whole job.
Range alternative FAQ
- Is asyncmate cheaper than Range?
- Above both free plans, yes, by a wide margin. asyncmate is $2.50 a month for each person who answers; Range's Pro plan is $8 per user monthly. For a workspace of 18 where 11 people answer, that is $27.50 / mo against $144. Part of what Range's seat buys is the rest of its suite, the meeting agendas, goals and mood tools, so the honest question is whether your team opens those.
- Do I need a web app to answer check-ins with asyncmate?
- No. The questions arrive as a Slack DM, the answer goes into a Slack modal, and the digest posts to the channel you pick. Nobody signs in anywhere; the web dashboard exists for whoever sets the check-in up. Range works the other way around: a check-in can be written from Slack, but the feed where the team reads and discusses updates, along with goals and meetings, lives in its web app.
- Is there a free Range alternative for Slack check-ins?
- asyncmate's free plan runs check-ins for up to 10 people who answer, with 90 days of reporting history, plus polls, reminders and kudos (up to 20 a month) free on top. Range's free plan covers up to 12 users on 2 teams with 30 days of history. Their 12 is counted in users, ours in people who actually answer, and passive members never take up one of our slots.
- Is Range still being developed?
- Range runs and no shutdown has been announced, so nothing forces a move. As of August 2026, though, its public product-updates page lists no dated releases and the newest posts on its blog are from 2023, and its co-founder's own site describes him as Range's maintainer. If you want the tool under your daily standup to be someone's main job, that is worth weighing; if Range as it is today does what you need, it keeps doing it.
- Does asyncmate track goals or OKRs like Range does?
- No. There are no goals, no meeting agendas and no mood tracking here; asyncmate does check-ins, polls, anonymous surveys, hours logging and kudos, all inside Slack. Range bundles goal tracking and meeting tools into the same seat, and if your team runs on those, Range is the better fit and its price buys more than a standup bot.
- Does Range have an AI summary of check-ins?
- Not that their site shows: as of August 2026 no AI features are listed on Range's homepage, pricing page or product pages. asyncmate's Pro plan posts an AI summary on top of every digest, pulling out what shipped, who is blocked and what needs a decision, and it is the main thing the paid plan adds over free.
Run your first async check-in free, with up to 10 people
No credit card, no second app to sign in to, no trial clock on the free plan. Pro adds the AI digest when you want it, with a 14-day trial you can cancel from the billing page.
Range pricing as of August 7, 2026, from range.co/pricing. Their published Pro rate is per user on monthly billing; no annual rate is listed. Range is a trademark of its owner; asyncmate is not affiliated with or endorsed by Range. Spotted something out of date? Email support@asyncmate.com and we will correct it.