Morgenruf
Morgenruf is an open-source Slack app for asynchronous standups, coffee chats, peer recognition, celebrations, and team insights.
What Morgenruf is
Morgenruf is an open-source Slack app for asynchronous standups, coffee chats, peer recognition, celebrations, and team insights. Its standup bot sends configurable questions by direct message and gathers replies into a chosen channel. Teams can set custom questions and reminders, accommodate each person’s timezone, or let someone skip a day. Delivery is handled person by person and can resume after an interruption without sending everyone a second message. For informal connections, Morgenruf pairs channel members for coffee chats, avoids repeat pairings, and makes a group of three when needed; Zoom can book the agreed meeting time. Kudos gives users a configurable daily allowance that resets in their timezone, with leaderboards for giving and receiving recognition. The app integrates with Slack; Google Chat standups are in beta, while Microsoft Teams support is in progress. It is free to use, either hosted or self-hosted under the MIT license with Docker Compose or Helm and a Postgres database you control. Its MCP server lets Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot query standup data.
Good
- Configurable direct-message standup questions and reminders
- Accounts for individual timezones and skipped check-ins
- Pairs coffee chats without repeating pairings
- Self-hosting uses a Postgres database you control
- Free hosted and self-hosted plans
Watch out
- Microsoft Teams support is in progress
- Google Chat standups are in beta
- Hosted standup responses are retained for 90 days
Who it suits
Morgenruf suits Slack teams that want structured async check-ins alongside coffee chats and peer recognition. Teams wanting control over their data can self-host it; its hosted service retains standup responses for 90 days.
Verdict
Morgenruf brings async standups, coffee chats, kudos, and team insights into a Slack-focused tool. It is free, with a self-hosted option for teams that want to control their data.
Plans and prices
From Morgenruf's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted | Free | Free for any number of people · no credit card |
| Self-hosted | Free | MIT-licensed code · pay only for the server and database |
The facts
Each one read from Morgenruf's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI access
- An MCP server provides tools for Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot to query standup data.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Coffee chats
- The bot pairs channel members for coffee chats, avoids repeating pairings, and forms a group of three when needed.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- The hosted service says it does not read Slack messages outside direct messages to its bot, and standup responses are retained for 90 days.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Google Chat
- Google Chat standups are described as beta; Microsoft Teams support is in progress.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Morgenruf integrates with Slack; coffee chats can use Zoom to book the agreed meeting time.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Morgenruf is an open-source Slack app for async standups, coffee chats, peer recognition, celebrations, and team insights.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Scale
- The product page says delivery is per person and resumable, so interrupted rounds can resume without messaging everyone twice.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Scheduling
- Standups support per-person timezones, reminders, custom questions, and skipping a day's check-in.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security
- The privacy policy states that data in transit uses TLS/HTTPS and Slack bot tokens are encrypted at rest with AES-256.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- The MIT-licensed app can be deployed with Docker Compose or Helm and stores self-hosted data in a Postgres database you control.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Standups
- It sends configurable standup questions by direct message and posts responses as a summary to a chosen channel.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The privacy page lists email and GitHub Issues for general support.checked 8 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Kudos
- Kudos uses a configurable daily allowance that resets in each person's timezone and includes leaderboards for giving and receiving recognition.checked 8 Oct 2026
