59 Must Have Tools for Every Remotely Working Team

The DebugMe team is currently working together on our web design feedback tool from two countries set apart by a couple hundred miles. Below we gathered the best tools for managing remote teams. With more and more people are working in virtual offices there is an ever growing need for these handy solutions to help you and your team to create awesome things together no matter where you’re at around the globe.

Canva

Canva features a comprehensive library of ready-made, optimally-sized design templates (including free stock photos), making it seemingly fast and easy to create visually-appealing graphics for a blog and social media. Canva can practically take care of all your team’s design needs without the cost and save much-needed time.

Time Doctor

Time Doctor is a remote time tracking application built specifically to track remote employees’ productivity. It lets you harvest time tracking data on your company’s work habits and then provides analytics to show key areas where improvements can be made.

1. Redbooth

Redbooth is a collaboration and communication platform that provides a single place for shared tasks, discussions, file sharing, group chat and HD video conferencing.

2. Projecturf

Projecturf is a project and task management app that is available in multiple languages, allowing companies worldwide to get things done and collaborate with their teams. Managing remote teams never was easier.

3. Apollo

Apollo is an online content + project management tool. And it’s awesome.

4. Basecamp

Basecamp keeps people on the same page so no matter what your role is, everyone works toward a common goal: finishing a project together.

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5. Huddle

To be productive today we need to collaborate. Not only with our own internal teams, but with a growing network of external partners, clients and vendors. And we must be able to do this without being tethered to a desk.
Huddle understands this and unlocks the power of the cloud to deliver one of the industry’s most trusted solutions for secure content collaboration.

6. Lighthouse

Collaborate effortlessly on projects. Whether you’re a team of 5 or studio of 50, Lighthouse will help you keep track of your project development with ease. Cut the fat out of your workflow and stay focused on what’s important.

7. Goplan

Goplan lets you keep track of your projects and collaborate with your colleagues securely through an intuitive user interface.

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8. Freedcamp

Freedcamp empowers people to work together. Whether you have wedding plans, organizing a camping trip or leading a work project. Working from home or at the office. Freedcamp could be in the center of it all.

9. Onehub

Business software shouldn’t suck. The guys built Onehub because they were tired of experiencing terrible business software and believed companies and workers around the world deserve better. So they design online business collaboration tools that are enjoyable to use, truly make you more productive and work the way you do.

10. Solo

Solo is a great assistant and an elegant way to ensure your freelance projects run smoothly.

11. WORKetc

WORKetc is one of the best small business CRM with project management, billing, and helpdesk with powerful integrations with Google Apps, Outlook, Evernote, QBO.

12. Pro Workflow

Keep on top of all your projects, from little to large, with Pro Workflow. The application is the ideal hub for schedule management, task delegation, finances and reporting tools. It’ll also enable you to accurately track time throughout the process.

13. Active Collab

Active Collab helps your team stay organized when you outgrow email. But it’s so much more than that — it’ll give you a flexible tool to manage your projects with plenty of neat add-ons.

14. Teamwork

Teamwork.com is a company founded by developers, built to give our outstanding crew of programmers the best possible environment to write great code and build the world class products that our customers love.

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15. Conceptboard

Conceptboard is a visual collaboration platform where teams discuss, evolve, and present their products and services.

16. Zoho

Project management as effective as it gets. Plan, track and collaborate using this preferred project management app of more than a million users.

17. Only Office

A cloud business service that enables you to manage projects, customer relations and documents in one place. In other words, you don’t need to switch back and forth between multiple applications to perform different tasks. Here you obtain a single multi-featured system to organize every step of your work improving your productivity and optimizing efforts for success.

18. DeskAway

DeskAway is a smart web-based project collaboration software that provides teams a central place to organize, manage & track work.

19. Producteev

Get things done wherever you go with the world’s best task manager app. Producteev is simple, powerful and so much more than an online to-do list. It’s helped hundreds of thousands of teams work faster with better results.

20. Kapost

Easily manage every aspect of your content lifecycle. From that first idea to tracking performance, Kapost helps you get the right content out the door.

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21. Campfire

Team collaboration with real time chat. Campfire is like instant messaging, but designed exclusively for groups. Share text, files, and code in real time. Save transcripts so you don’t forget.

22. Socialcast

Socialcast makes it easy for people to communicate openly, discover more, share ideas, and get more accomplished.

23. Flowdock

Chat & inbox for teams. One place to talk and stay up-to-date. Flowdock is a team collaboration app for desktop, mobile & web. Work on things that matter, be transparent and solve problems across tools, teams & time zones.

24. Thoughtboxes

Thoughtboxes should be a tool to use to organize your life, both your private to-dos as well as your work to-dos. The people at Thoughtboxes are total to-do junkies, but they always had the problem with a lot of to-do apps that they were too complicated and hard to get good birds view on what to do next.

25. BrixHQ

An online project management solution that incorporates features that the market will want and need to either adopt agile or if they’ve already adopted agile to make them more efficient. Hence BrixHQ the online project management system was born.

26. Podio

With Podio, you can organize and connect everything you work with. Manage your projects, customers, you name it. Work is structured – so everyone knows what they’re supposed to do, while always keeping sight of the bigger picture.

27. Scadaplan

Scadaplan is a project management and collaboration tool for small and middle groups. Everyone knows how many similar programs can be found on the internet, which consists of functions like tasks, deadlines, calendars, comments, etc. The Scadaplan team has tried using a dozen of similar programs, working in design and developing the industry for 9 years. This is why they have decided to develop something of their own and to let the people use their product.

28. JIRA

The flexible and scalable issue tracker JIRA is built for every member of your software team. Plan and track your work while moving towards the next release.

29. DebugMe

Here we are! DebugMe is a visual bug tracking solution which saves time and frustration for clients, designers, testers and web developers. Giving any kind of visual feedback and reporting bugs was never easier.

30. Flatsies

Flatsies is a tool for designers to share their concepts with clients in a simple and elegant way.

31. Invision

The world’s most powerful design prototyping tool. Just upload your designs and add hotspots to transform your static screens into clickable, interactive prototypes complete with gestures, transitions, and animations.

32. Trello

Trusted by millions of people from all over the world, Trello is the easy, free, flexible, and visual way to manage your projects and organize anything.

33. Tamashare

You need to work with a different distant unit in real time with the efficiency of a real meeting room. Tamashare do the job! Tamashare is a free application who allow you to share any kind of document or software to all your clients and colleagues in the same secure room (until 20 concurrent).

34. Notism

Notism offers a simple and effective way to discuss visual content and collaborate with teams and stakeholders. Comment & sketch in real time, create prototypes and run usability-tests & manage project development by adding tasks. In almost every company there is more than one field of work where Notism can save you tons of time.

35. Concept Inbox

Discuss design and video pieces visually, track changes and prototype together with your team and your clients.

36. Concept

A fast and effective way to manage feedback and client approval on your design, video, and audio concepts.

37. Calliflower

Calliflower is the best teleseminar platform available. It is perfect for team meetings, coaching, or just getting together online or over the phone.

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38. Hipchat

HipChat launched in 2010 to give companies and teams a chat service that was built just for them. It combines the power of group chat and the simplicity of consumer IM services with the administrative controls that companies need.

39. Nozbe

Nozbe is a productivity tool. By using it you’ll learn how to deal with your incoming tasks, prioritize them, manage them within projects and get them done quickly and effectively.

40. Pivotal Tracker

In 2006, Pivotal Labs built Tracker for their developers and clients to facilitate constructive communication, reflect the status of a project, and help forecast its future. Today, Tracker is a staple of the developer’s toolkit.

41. Yammer

Yammer is a private social network that helps employees collaborate across departments, locations, and business apps.

42. Hightail

From attorneys to architects and freelance photographers to TV studios, Hightail is how professionals across industries share their work. Take a look and find out how Hightail can help a business like yours.

43. GlassCubes

Share files, manage projects and collaborate in a more effective way by connecting the people you work with in a user-friendly online work space.

44. Mediafire

MediaFire stores all your media and makes it available to you anytime you want it, anywhere you go, on any device you have.

45. Slack

Slack helps you work at the moment — making it faster and easier to communicate with your team, with all the collective knowledge at your fingertips. More productivity, more transparency, and less email.

46. Flowdock

Flowdock is a team collaboration app for desktop, mobile & web. Work on things that matter, be transparent and solve problems across tools, teams & time zones.

47. Sqwiggle

Sqwiggle makes it easy to create a fun and engaging company culture, even if your team is spread out across the world!

48. ProdPad

Your toolkit for better product management. ProdPad helps your team gather ideas, surface the best ones and turn them into product specs, and then put it all on a product roadmap.

49. Duet

Keep your projects organized with everything in one place. It’s simple to set up, easy to use and makes you more productive. All of your project data – including tasks, files, invoices, and notes – at your fingertips and accessible from anywhere.

50. Cloud 9

Cloud9 combines a powerful online code editor with a full Ubuntu workspace in the cloud. Build WordPress, Django and Rails websites, and test in 300+ browser/OS combinations. Easily handle hundreds of thousands of files in your workspace and hundreds of thousands of lines of code in the editor

51. 15 Five

The easiest way to know what’s really going on in your company, and stay connected to your team.

52. OneNote

Write, sketch and explore big ideas, then see where they take you. Live lighter with OneNote.

53. Zapier

Connect the apps you use, automate tasks, get more out of your data.

54. I Done This

Reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, get a digest with what everyone on the team got done. It’s that simple. No hassle, no micromanagement. Get stuff done, and celebrate it with your team.

55. Meldium

Meldium by LogMeIn is the simplest way for teams to access the cloud services they need. By aggregating and monitoring accounts across any web service, it frees your people from tedious account management. Administrators can easily onboard new people and users can see, share and log into their apps from a central dashboard.

56. Wunderlist

Wunderlist is one of the easiest ways to get stuff done. Whether you’re planning a holiday, sharing a shopping list with a partner or managing multiple work projects, Wunderlist is here to help you tick off all your personal and professional to-dos.

57. 1Password

1Password creates strong, unique passwords for every site, remembers them all for you, and logs you in with a single tap. 1Password is free. Start using it today!

58. Workfrom

Discover the best bars, cafes and co-working spaces to work from while you roam. Recommended by people who have actually worked there.

59. Spotted by Locals

Spotted by Locals is a series of mobile and online city guides with up-to-date tips by locals in 62 cities in Europe & North America. They handpick their locals (“Spotters”) and meet them in person in their city. Spotters live in the city they write about, speak the local language, write only about their favorite spots, and keep their articles up-to-date.

60. Hubstaff

Time tracking software with screenshots, activity levels, and in-depth reports. Hubstaff runs as an application on the desktop making it easy to track time. Once the time is tracked you can invoice clients, pay employees, see in-depth reporting and much more. They have a great integration with Teamwork too which can extend the core features of the tool.

 

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