Collaboration: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Whether you're trying to chat with team members, organize a project, or work on a shared spreadsheet, the top online collaboration tools can help immensely. We've tested the best apps available to help you work more effectively.

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Miro is a full-featured and unique productivity app for teams that makes it a pleasure to collaborate on, share, and present many types of work.

Canva offers an eye-popping variety of AI-powered graphic design tools that effectively help you move ideas from your imagination to the screen or print—no matter your skill level.

Slack and Microsoft Teams are the leading platforms for internal corporate communication. While both offer powerful features, each has its own strengths, so we're here to help you determine which one is the best fit for your business.

Slack's advanced messaging features, comprehensive integration support, variety of helpful AI tools, and welcoming interface make it the business communication app to beat.

Lucidspark is a reliable whiteboard app for collaborating in real time or asynchronously.

The affordable whiteboard app Stormboard helps teams brainstorm, map out ideas, and otherwise work together. It's efficient, but lacks the latest features of newer competitors.

Whether you start with a blank canvas or a well-crafted template, collaboration app Mural helps you and your team brainstorm, plan, and share ideas.

Taskade neatly packages tasks, collaboration, and generative AI for small remote teams, but a lack of project management features and limited scalability are deterrents.

Windows desktop users can now opt into the public preview.

If reviews and approvals are your company's biggest bottleneck, Filestage is worth a look.

Microsoft Lists is a simple database tool for collaboration, but it's missing significant features.

Remote collaboration methods give people more ways to participate, and that tends to bring out the best in their work. You don't even have to be a remote worker to use these tricks.

Favro is a robust yet flexible collaboration tool designed specifically for software companies that use an agile methodology.

You can find better collaborative online whiteboarding applications than Microsoft Whiteboard, but not a better free one.

Loom is the fastest and easiest way to record your screen and turn that into a public video, though you might already be paying for tools that do essentially the same thing.

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Tilde lets you and your collaborators quickly and easily get together around a basic, free virtual whiteboard and video chat space. It lacks templates, inline text, and other features we expect to see in this type of service, however.

Toggl Plan is a lightweight work management system that relies heavily on timeline views. It may be useful for teams who use time tracking app Toggl Track because the two apps integrate easily.