Trusted by Netflix, Snowflake, Roku & 600+ engineering teams
The Polly alternative for teams who need a standup, not a poll
Polly is an excellent polling app. It added standups to a product built for asking questions, so a standup is still a form each person fills in, and it sits on a paid tier. Troopr forms its own view of the team from real Jira, GitHub and Slack activity, writes each update itself, and proposes the ticket changes the owner confirms in one tap.
Free for 10 seats, standups included. No credit card, no annual commitment.
Trusted by 600+ engineering teams worldwide
Polly and Troopr both post something to a channel on a schedule, and that is where the similarity ends. Polly asks a question and counts the answers, which is what a polling platform is built to do well. Troopr is built for one job, the Slack-and-Jira coordination workflow, running the issue lifecycle both ways in the channel with a confirmation step before anything is written. Every feature, on every plan, including Free.
Two-way thread sync, comments and attachments in both directions
The standup drafts itself from real Jira and GitHub activity
Confirm before write: the owner taps Confirm, the change runs as them
Standups, retros, poker and team mood free for 10 seats, nothing on a higher tier
Why teams choose Troopr for coordination
A question engine, or a view of the work
A standup built on polling infrastructure can collect answers beautifully. It still does not know what the team did.
The standup that writes itself
Troopr drafts each person's update from their own Jira and GitHub activity, including what the diffs actually changed, and posts it to the channel. It asks someone directly only when it genuinely cannot tell what they are working on. Nobody fills in a form, and nobody writes a status from memory.
The ceremonies, included rather than unlocked
Automated standup, task check-in, retrospective, planning poker and team mood all run on every plan including Free, at each person's own local time, with anonymous participation where the team wants it. None of it sits behind an upgrade.
The report carries the work, not just the answers
Each person's Jira activity attaches to their response automatically and issue keys unfurl with summary and link. The report opens with a read on the day and a flow line covering in progress, in review, ready to deploy and shipped since yesterday, then names specific people and specific items that need attention.
Confirmed writes, not a collected answer
Every Jira change Troopr proposes goes to whoever owns the work, gets revalidated against live Jira the moment they confirm, and runs under their own login. A standup that only records answers leaves the board exactly where it was.
Side by side
Troopr vs Polly for engineering standups
Scoped to the standup and the coordination around it. The first two rows are Polly's ground, not ours.
Troopr
Polly
Polls, trivia and live event engagement
Team mood check-in only
Purpose-built, large template library
Platform reach for engagement
Slack and Microsoft Teams
Slack, Teams, Zoom, Meet, Slides, PowerPoint
Standups on the free plan
Yes, all five check-in types
No, Basic and above
Standup written from real activity
Yes
Each person answers the questions
Jira and code activity in the report
Yes, live issue state and GitHub diffs
Not documented
Anonymous participation
Included on every plan
Pro tier
Jira comments coming back into the chat thread
Yes
Not documented
A chat channel paired with a Jira project
Yes, channel sync
Not documented
Proposed Jira changes confirmed by the owner
Yes, runs under their login
Not documented
Scheduled Jira reports and nudges on a cadence
Yes
Not documented
Retrospectives and planning poker
Yes, every plan
Not documented
Monthly billing on a paid plan
Yes, $8 per seat
Annual only on Slack
Starting paid price
$6 per seat, annual
$19 per creator licence
Polly capabilities and pricing verified against polly.ai/slack-pricing, 7 October 2026. "Not documented" means Polly's own materials do not describe the capability; it is not a claim the behaviour is impossible, and we will change any row Polly documents. Troopr capabilities per Troopr product documentation.
On the ceremony
Collecting answers, or forming a view
Both post an update to a channel every morning. The question is where the content came from.
POLLY
A very good question engine
This is what Polly is built for and it shows. Polls, surveys, quizzes, trivia and Q&A across Slack, Teams, Zoom, Meet and presentation tools, with a large template library and real-time results. If your problem is gathering input from people quickly and across a lot of surfaces, Polly is a fair answer, and its free tier covers polls.
Troopr AI
The view a form cannot produce
A standup assembled from answers is only as good as what people remembered to type. Troopr holds the team's history and live Jira and GitHub state, so it knows what moved since yesterday, which claims the data supports or contradicts, and what is genuinely new rather than already tracked. A ticket marked done with an open pull request shows up as a contradiction, not as a line someone wrote.
Proof
What it looks like at scale
86%
of weekly status-meeting time eliminated
Snowflake's engineering teams run async Check-ins in Slack with Jira context compiled into the report, instead of context-switching to a status call.
engineering, Jira Cloud
67%
less time finding and updating Jira issues
Netflix runs distributed engineering on hosted Jira. Their internal security team cleared Troopr before rollout, which is usually the longest part of any adoption.
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More in every plan
The depth that runs the coordination
The controls a team notices in week two, when the demo is over and the squad is just using it. Included on every plan.
Emoji issue creation
Message shortcut and command
Customizable issue previews
JQL-filtered notifications
Compact or detailed formats
Realtime or batched delivery
Guests without a Jira licence
Bidirectional file attachments
Slack Connect support
Channel-level preferences
AI summaries and action items
Prebuilt routine templates
For Enterprise
Slack Grid
Project restrictions
Bot white-labeling
SCIM provisioning
Success manager
Self-hosted option
Slack Connect check-ins
Security & privacy
Built to clear your security review
The privacy posture is a precondition of the product, not a later add-on. It's what makes an AI-native model safe to put in front of your team and your auditors.
- No training on customer data. Your work never trains a model.
- No storage of raw messages. Troopr derives and persists a structured set of facts about how your team works, not the raw firehose.
- Clear scope. Team channels, connected work tools, and a person's own shared activity. Troopr does not read other people's private DMs.
- OAuth and Jira permissions. Troopr authenticates via OAuth and never bypasses your Jira project, issue, or field permissions.
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Troopr vs Polly, answered
Does Polly's free plan include standups?
No. On Slack, the free plan covers polls with 45 days of results history. Surveys and standups start on Basic at $19 per licence per month, billed annually. Troopr's free plan includes the automated standup, task check-ins, retrospectives, planning poker and team mood for 10 seats.
Is Troopr a replacement for Polly?
For the standup and the coordination around it, yes. For polls, trivia and engagement surveys it is a different category, and Polly is better at that than we are. Plenty of teams keep Polly for polls and run the standup on Troopr. The two do not overlap on anything that would conflict.
How much does Polly cost?
As of 7 October 2026, on Slack: Basic is $19 per licence per month billed $228 annually, Pro is $29 per licence billed $348 annually, Team is billed annually for five licences, and Enterprise is on quote. Licences count people who create, not people who answer, and there is no month-to-month paid plan. Microsoft Teams is priced separately. Check their pricing page before deciding, since this moves.
Why would an engineering team move its standup off Polly?
Usually because the standup is a form. Polly asks each person the questions and counts what comes back, so the quality of the standup tracks how much time each person felt like spending on it, and nothing in the report knows whether the ticket actually moved. Troopr reads the work first and writes the draft, then proposes the Jira changes that follow for the owner to confirm.
Run the coordination, keep the board accurate
Keep the polls if the team likes them, and add the two-way sync, the scheduled reports, the nudges and the standup that writes itself from what actually shipped. In Slack and MS Teams. See it on your team in minutes.
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