Trusted by Netflix, Snowflake, Roku & 600+ engineering teams
The Status Hero alternative that does the Jira work, not just the reading
Status Hero became Steady in January 2024, and the pricing moved to Coordination Credits spent per delivery and per token. Steady reads your activity and distributes the context. Troopr forms its own view of the team from the same signal, writes the standup, and then changes the board: threads sync to Jira both ways, and nothing is written until the person who owns it taps Confirm.
Free for 10 seats, standups included. No credit card, no annual commitment.
Trusted by 600+ engineering teams worldwide
Status Hero rebranded to Steady on 24 January 2024, moving to runsteady.com with existing logins and API endpoints kept working. Two things changed that matter when you are choosing a replacement: the pricing became usage-based credits rather than per user, and the product moved up a level from a team check-in tool toward a company-wide coordination layer. Troopr went the other way, deeper into 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.
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
Free for 10 seats, and what a routine produces is never metered
Why teams choose Troopr for coordination
A reading layer, or a working surface
Steady distils activity into context and delivers it. The ticket is still where you left it.
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. The report opens with a read on the day, a flow line and a needs-attention section naming specific people and specific items.
The thread becomes a working surface
This is the part a digest cannot do. Replies become Jira comments, Jira comments come back, and files move both ways. A channel can be paired with a Jira project, people without a Jira licence still take part, and there are thirteen ways to create an issue without leaving chat.
Reports and nudges, built in
Burndown, velocity and any JQL you like, posted to the channel on a schedule with the action buttons attached. Stale and overdue issues get a nudge aimed at the one person who can move them. The board gets worked on a cadence, and none of it is metered per delivery.
Confirmed writes, not a delivered summary
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. If it stopped being true while it sat there, it says so instead of writing.
Side by side
Troopr vs Steady for Slack and Jira coordination
Scoped to the coordination workflow. The first three rows are Steady's ground, not ours.
Troopr
Steady (formerly Status Hero)
Cross-functional, company-wide coordination
Single team to mid-market by design
Built for it, with Goal Stories and digests
Surface breadth beyond chat
Slack and Microsoft Teams
Slack, Teams, email and web
Tracker breadth
Jira first, GitHub as signal
Many trackers
A free plan, not a trial
Yes, 10 seats, every feature
Trial, then credits
What the price scales with
Seats who take action, readers free
Deliveries and LLM token usage
Cost of running a daily check-in
Not metered
1 credit per recipient, per delivery
Jira issue lifecycle inside the chat thread
Yes, thirteen creation entry points
Not documented
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
Live standup capture on Meet, Zoom and Teams
Yes
Not documented
Retrospectives and planning poker
Yes, every plan
Not documented
Starting price
$0, then $6 per seat annual
$25 a month for 500 credits
Steady capabilities and pricing verified against runsteady.com/pricing and Steady's own published materials, 12 October 2026. "Not documented" means Steady's own materials do not describe the capability; it is not a claim the behaviour is impossible, and we will change any row Steady documents. Troopr capabilities per Troopr product documentation.
On the AI
Distilling context, or doing the work
Both read your activity and both draft. The difference is what happens after the draft.
Steady (formerly Status Hero)
Context, distributed
Steady is the closest competitor in ambition and it is well built. It pulls activity into one place, drafts the check-in, distils everything into targeted context and delivers it across chat, email and the web, now including updates from AI agents alongside people. What it produces is a reading surface. The work carries on in your tracker, and the tracker is still yours to maintain.
Troopr AI
Context, acted on
Troopr forms the same kind of view and then uses it. The standup moves the board, the thread syncs to Jira both ways, and the proposals that follow land with whoever owns the work for a one-tap confirm. For a team whose channels are where tickets get triaged, refined and closed, Troopr is the workspace and a digest is the newsletter.
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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Check enjo ↗FAQ
Status Hero and Steady, answered
Is Status Hero still available?
Not under that name. Status Hero rebranded to Steady on 24 January 2024 and moved to runsteady.com. The company kept existing logins and API endpoints working through the change, and the product has since moved toward company-wide coordination including updates from AI agents.
How does Steady pricing work?
Steady charges for usage rather than users, through Coordination Credits. Packs run from 500 credits at $25 a month up to 25,000 at $1,250, and credits are spent on both context deliveries and LLM token usage. A Smart Check-in delivery costs one credit per recipient, a Team Summary one credit, a Goal Story update five. Adding users is free, with 100 bonus credits each. Check their pricing page before deciding, since this moves.
Why do people look for a Status Hero alternative?
Usually one of three reasons: the pricing model moved from per user to usage-based credits with no free plan, the product moved toward a company-wide digest rather than a team check-in tool, or the team wanted something that changes the tracker rather than reporting on it.
Is Troopr a replacement for Steady (Statud Hero)?
For an engineering team on Jira and Slack, yes, and it is a different operating model rather than a cheaper clone. Both read your activity and both draft. Troopr then runs the Jira lifecycle inside the chat thread and proposes the changes that follow for the owner to confirm. For multi-team coordination across product, design, ops and marketing on several trackers, Steady is built wider.
Run the coordination, keep the board accurate
Stop paying per delivery for a summary of work that still needs updating by hand. 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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