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Looking to boost your collaboration experience with some Microsoft Teams integrations and plugins? Well, you’ve come to the right place.
Microsoft Teams integrates with a whole host of productivity, communication, project management, HR, finance, and many other types of apps and software. We detail our favorite 48 Microsoft Teams integrations if you scroll down.
Since Teams’ daily user count has passed 145 million users, it seems like every app is prioritizing integration with Teams.
Unlike the pattern of apps creating a “for Business” version a few years back (think Skype for Business or Viber for Business), it seems like the new trend is to create a “for Teams” version of your app.
There are over 600 Microsoft Teams apps available in its App Store.
Included below are the top 48 Microsoft Teams plugins, apps, and software vendors that you could and probably should be adding to your Microsoft Teams app today.
We’ve sorted them by category in case you have a pressing need.
Comms | Collaboration | Productivity | Cust Service | Business | Bots
If there’s anything missing, or we haven’t provided Microsoft Teams integrations that meet your requirements, let us know!
One of the biggest challenges that companies face when it comes to making the most out of Microsoft Teams is that some of their employees already use other apps.
If you have employees that prefer to use Slack, Webex, or Zoom, then it can be practically impossible to get them to join the rest of your staff on a Microsoft app. 
Mio ensures your team can use the tool they feel most comfortable with, without missing out on crucial messages and content.
Mio connects your Microsoft Teams to use either Slack or Cisco Webex and helps eliminate silos in your workplace and keep employees connected.
With Mio you can:
Zoom is one of the fastest-growing video conferencing brands on the market, offering state-of-the-art digital interactions through a simple click-to-call interface. 
With Zoom’s Microsoft Teams integration, you can start video meetings instantly using Teams bot commands.
Simply set up a meeting and your Zoom bot will send a unique link for your conference that you can share with the rest of your team.
With Zoom Video conferencing, you can:
If you need to connect Microsoft Teams to Zoom Team Chat, there’s an integration for this too.
Mio is working on interoperability between Microsoft Teams and Zoom Team Chat.
This means you’ll be able to stay in Microsoft Teams and send messages to users in Zoom Team Chat.
And the same is true vice versa! Your users who prefer Zoom Team Chat can stay in Zoom and message users on Microsoft Teams.
Sign up for Zoom Team Chat interop here.
Did you know that 91% of businesses use at least 2 messaging apps?
Just because you love the functionality of Microsoft Teams doesn’t mean you don’t want access to other tools too.
You might not be able to join Cisco Webex with Microsoft Teams without a little help from Mio, but you can link your meetings to Microsoft Teams with the Cisco Meetings bot.
Cisco’s Webex Meetings bot combines some of your Webex Meeting functionality with Microsoft Teams, including options to:
There’s more to communication than words and text.
Sometimes, the best way to add context to a conversation is to bring some imagery into the mix. Freehand is an app by InVision, a company known for helping companies to create more effective graphic design workflows. 
With Freehand’s Microsoft Teams integrations, you can access an infinite whiteboard where users can sketch, draw, and edit things together.
Features include:
Dialpad is a unified communications platform that combines calls, messages, contact center, and meetings in a single app.
They recently partnered with T-Mobile to launch work from anywhere solutions that equip businesses with everything they need to help their teams stay connected.
With Dialpad’s Microsoft Teams integration, you get enterprise-grade calling directly within Teams with live transcription and Real-Time Assist for instant coaching.
Dialpad’s Voice Intelligence (VI) technology powers this integration so your team can get AI-driven insights throughout every call and access to powerful reporting and analytics.
Features include:
3CX is a unified communications tool bringing all your channels of communication under one centralized platform. The solution is available on-premises or as a hosted service and stands as an alternative to Microsoft’s 365 Calling Plan. 
The 3CX Microsoft Teams integration allows you to make calls directly from Microsoft Teams and reduce your dialing costs by choosing a more affordable SIP provider in your region. The tool comes as an iOS and Android app, allowing you to make low-cost calls from anywhere.
Other features you can expect are messaging including live chat, Facebook messenger and sending business SMS, integrated video conferencing, and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) auto-attendant.
Admins also get calling reports to evaluate agent performance.
Do you see yourself shuffling between Outlook, Facebook, and Twitter, trying to stay on top of all communication channels? It’s exhausting, right?
Well, MailClark is here to save the day. MailClark, acquired by Sendinblue, acts as a shared inbox and allows you to send and receive messages straight from Microsoft Teams. 
MailClark is great for customer support, sales, marketing, and recruitment teams who need to communicate with customers, partners, and vendors across platforms. 
The app supports messages received via all major communication tools like Outlook, IMAP, Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter.
Its AI-powered Reply Score helps your teams prioritize which messages need urgent action. You can assign messages to specific team members or reply to messages yourself directly from Teams. 
A picture’s worth a thousand words. And a diagram can communicate even more to your team.
Cacoo is a collaborative diagramming app for modern teams and is especially useful for creating wireframes, flowcharts, mind maps, SWOT diagrams, network diagrams, UML diagrams, project timelines, and any other visual your team needs to bring their ideas to life.
With Cacoo’s Microsoft Teams integration, you can get notifications about your team’s diagram activity, including when they add, update, comment on, or give access to a diagram.
The cloud-based app gives your team access to diagrams from wherever they have an internet connection, so they can check in when and where they need to.
Features include:
Visuals are crucial in workflows. Particularly if you’re working with designs, organizational charts, wireframes, and more.
The Lucidchart Microsoft Teams integration by Lucid Software inc helps you to improve collaboration and productivity in an aesthetically driven team. 
Anyone in your channel can edit or comment on a document using Lucidchart, without having to leave their Teams app.
Features include:
When you implement Mural in your Teams workspace, you get a custom channel and a notification bot built-in. 
The range of features you receive with Mural will allow you to brainstorm quickly with coworkers, send notifications to coworkers, and manage a complete collaborative canvas in the heart of your Teams channels.
Capabilities include:
Perhaps the reason that employees now use an average of 3.3 workplace chat apps, is that we all work differently. 
Everyone needs their own specific blend of tools and features to be productive.
While some groups thrive best using whiteboards and visual prompts, others need lists and tables.
Wrike is a well-known online project management software that helps teams to accomplish more in an agile environment. 
The Wrike integration for Microsoft Teams allows companies to transform conversations with the option to create and manage tasks and send and receive Wrike comments.
Features include:
How do you maintain an efficient workforce when the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing?
Teams work better when everyone’s on the same page.
Givitas is a software solution that’s designed to make it easier for your employees to ask for help at work and get the information they need.
This Microsoft Teams integration ensures that employees have access to collective intelligence in your workplace by making it easier to find and unlock data. 
You can ask for help from other experts around the world and give assistance from members of your own team too.
Features include:
How do you make sure that your team members can share ideas quickly and easily?
MindMeister is an intuitive mind mapping application that works perfectly within the Microsoft Teams ecosystem.
Launched in 2007, this app helps people to capture, share, and develop ideas in a visual platform. 
With MindMeister, employees can make notes in teams, brainstorm ideas for an upcoming project, and visualize timelines.
Features include:
The new workplace isn’t just digital – it’s global too. 
Chances are you’re already working with remote employees from around the world, or dealing with team members for whom English isn’t the first language. 
So, do you need to hire a new translator?
Nope, just download one into Microsoft Teams.
The Translator app allows you to translate and read messages in your preferred language – no matter your chosen device. 
You can install Translator once into your Microsoft Teams hub, and it will be available on any device you access your channels from.
Features include:
To use Translator, follow these steps:
In the Microsoft Teams admin center, select Messaging Policies from the left navigation, then either create a new policy or edit an existing policy.
Next, set the Allow users to translate messages option to On.
Jell is partially a collaboration app, and partly an excellent way for business leaders to keep track of workflow.
With this simple integration, you can check how everyone’s doing in your team, and make sure that your employees are working towards their goals as quickly and efficiently as possible. 
The Jell bot is available from directly inside of Microsoft Teams, and you can use it to mark tasks as complete, set up new jobs, and send reminders. Features include:
MeisterTask is an application in the Microsoft Teams portfolio designed for agile teams that need help getting the most out of their workflow.
With MeisterTask, you can organize and manage projects for your workforce in a well-designed customizable environment that adapts to individual user needs.
Access Kanban boards, project boards, and software sprint options in seconds.
Tasks come equipped with all the information that team members need to get work done efficiently, and there’s a space for real-time communication too.
Features include:
Teamwork is a project management tool designed to scale alongside your business. Currently boasting over 20,000 customers, the app aims to help teams manage, track, and customize multiple complex projects at once.  
You can add the Teamwork app via the Microsoft Teams app store or through a specific Teams channel. You’ll need to have a Teamwork Projects or Teamwork Spaces account, but if you don’t have one you can easily sign up here. 
Teamwork allows you to share existing Teamwork tasks or create new ones straight from Microsoft Teams. When integrating a project, you can select which page of that project you want to see in Microsoft Teams, whether it’s the overview, tasks, board, or Gantt chart.
Integrated pages can be seen as tabs and you can interact, update or change the content across the two platforms.
You’ve probably heard of Trello, the Kanban project management tool that allows you to manage all your projects and tasks in a visually pleasing format. 
If you’re already using Trello, you can integrate it with Microsoft Teams to carry over all your Trello boards, lists, and cards into Teams.
When collaborating on a project, you and your colleagues can create new Trello cards, edit due dates, add comments, and mark cards as complete straight from Teams. You can also add the Trello board as a tab to your Teams channel so that everyone can have easy access to it. 
The messaging extension for Trello allows you to search a card by keyword and easily share it within a conversation. The app will also send notifications when you’re assigned a card, when a new attachment is added, or if any other changes are made to the project.
Range allows you to run asynchronous check-ins and structured meetings.
When you connect Range to Teams, you can replace internal updates that don’t need to be real-time with…non-real-time updates.
You make sure the right stakeholders get the right information by simply updating Range a few minutes each day.
When you do need to meet live, add the Range sidebar to Team to see what people are working on, when they’re busy, and how they’re doing.
When you use Hypercontext you can reduce your chances of tangent-prone discussions that go off-topic.
Hypercontext will prompt teams to add things to the schedule between meetings too, reducing the risk of awkward silences.
The Hypercontext integration for Microsoft Teams builds on the idea that collaboration works best when everyone interacts in the same place.
With Hypercontext, you can add things to your meeting agenda and check them off as you go, meaning less jumping between apps.
Features include:
Created specifically to improve digital workflows, ServiceNow is a cloud-based platform that updates the way your employees interact and collaborate.
Offered through the Now Virtual Agent, the ServiceNow integration allows you to perform routine tasks in ServiceNow from directly within teams. 
You can exchange information easily with your ServiceNow applications and track down answers to frequently asked questions.
Keep in mind that you do need a ServiceNow account to use this integration with Microsoft Teams.
Features include:
Hive is a productivity tool that helps employees to manage their workflow in a way that works best for them.
Users can organize their workflow using Kanban boards, Gantt charts, calendars, and tables.
Plus, updates to the project strategy are reflected throughout all project views, so your team will always know if something changes, no matter which customizations they’re using. 
There’s even access to Hive analytics, which provides interactive dashboards to business leaders, complete with artificial intelligence and machine learning insights.
Features include:
Intended to support the modern, agile team, ScrumGenius makes it easier to automate team status meetings with automated check-ins and stand-ups.
This helps managers to track the performance of their employees more effectively. 
ScrumGenius integrates with Github, Jira, and more to display team activity and member status updates.
It automatically pulls all of the information you need into a single dashboard so you can track the productivity of your team.
Capabilities include:
isLucid is a voice recognition tool that captures conversations and enables real-time process management.
Once your meeting is finished, you have full access to the transcript of the meeting, which you can download and edit, or see if you missed anything.
Features included:
With so many competing priorities in the workplace, wellness can fall to the sidelines.
Health Hero is here to make sure your wellness is never ignored at the expense of other business priorities. 
Health Hero is a Microsoft Teams add-on that allows you to connect your Apple Health, Google Fit, or Fitbit with the app and create a fitness challenge within the company. 
Users can log wellness activities like movement, meals, and mindfulness exercises and see how far they’re from completing a challenge and earning their incentives. The app also sends nudges, notifications, and reminders to make sure you’re always on top of your wellness goals. 
Woobot is an integration for Microsoft Teams created to give your employees more context when they’re serving your loyal customers.
With access to Salesforce CRM information and real-time alerts, your team members can provide every customer with a more personalized end-to-end experience via Woobot.
Additionally, if anyone in your group needs help managing a particularly challenging customer, all they need to do is @mention another employee to collaborate with sales leadership and improve their chances of a great outcome.
Features include:
Advertised as the industry’s first context-aware software solution for customer service, Zoho Desk is designed to help companies build stronger relationships with customers.
By giving you access to crucial customer information, Zoho Desk ensures that your agents can provide clients with more valuable and memorable interactions. 
Managers can even access useful metrics on Zoho Desk that will allow them to make better decisions about how to organize their teams in the future. Features include:
One thing that makes Microsoft Teams an incredibly popular collaboration app is the fact that it integrates so smoothly with the rest of the Microsoft Office environment.
With Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Microsoft Teams, the average employee can get more done, therefore delivering better results for your target audience. 
Microsoft Dynamics 365 offers a tab that you can add directly into your Teams channel, where employees can collaborate on crucial customer records, and work together to close essential business deals. Features include:
Klaxoon is a collaborative meeting app that strives to keep passive presentation to a minimum.
With this tool, you can use your tablet, computer, or phone to participate in meetings, react to presentations, brainstorm with colleagues, and vote on polls.
With quizzes, surveys, and other engagement strategies to offer, Klaxoon helps to ensure that your employees aren’t snoozing through meetings.
Features include:
The app comes with the option to embed slide decks into your presentation that have been pre-built by the Klaxoon team, featuring challenges, word clouds, and live-poll participation.
You share your content live too, so you can get real-time reactions.
Qubie is a Microsoft Teams app that brings insights and feedback to your team when you’re aiming for a better collaborative experience.
Whether you’re looking for weekly check-ins, or team performance diagnostics, Qubie can help.
This simple tool allows team leaders to improve the way they motivate and manage employees.
With Qubie, it’s easy to access insights through simple sentiment questions like “How was your week?”
You can also generate results and reports that highlight the growth and development of teams in the workforce too.
If you’re working on improving staff engagement, Qubie is a great tool to have.
Features include:
As more companies realize that recognition is crucial to employee engagement and performance, the number of tools available to support awards and recognition within collaboration tools is increasing. 
Bonusly is one of the most popular integrations for Microsoft Teams when it comes to enriching company culture.
With Bonusly, you can frequently remind employees of how much you appreciate them through social, convenient feedback.
Bonusly makes giving candid recognition through Microsoft Teams simple. You can give bonuses to colleagues, review your own bonuses, and check on achievements all within Microsoft Teams. 
Features include:
Agendas in meetings are crucial to ensure that everyone finishes each collaborative experience on the same page as their coworkers. 
The mentality in the busy, modern workplace is leaning towards “no agenda, no meeting” – and righty so.
The Decisions app for Microsoft Teams is intended to bring employees closer together by allowing them to share and create agendas, collaborate on specific agenda topics, and generate meeting minutes.
There’s also the option to track decisions and tasks discussed in meetings.
The Decisions feature extends the Office 365 portfolio for groups that need to meet and engage in conferences regularly. 
Features include:
If you want to keep your workplace running smoothly, then it’s a good idea to make sure that you know how your employees feel about your current strategies and workflows. 
Polly is a simple survey integration for Microsoft Teams that allows business leaders to create multiple choice questions, and polls to gather feedback from workers.
You can get answers to crucial questions without disrupting your team.
Features include:
Training is crucial. This is true for all walks of life – not just Microsoft Teams.
However, getting your teams up to speed with Teams pays off tenfold in the long run.
If you’re trying to get your employees to use Microsoft Teams for the first time, then CoreView How To is an integration that provides countless easy-to-follow learning paths that your employees can use. 
These learning paths teach your team members how to get the most out of Microsoft Teams one step at a time.
Features include:
Administration tasks may not be the most exciting part of running a business, but that doesn’t make them less critical.
The SignEasy integration from Glykka helps business leaders to get critical signatures and information from employees within Microsoft Teams. 
If you want to make sure that your team members can sign any essential forms in a heartbeat, without having to download additional software or come into the office, this is the app for you.
Features include:
People need feedback.
A little bit of appreciation from a manager, or some basic rewards and stickers can be all it takes to keep your staff members engaged and happy at work. Karma is a bot that records small but meaningful signs of recognition from business leaders for members of your team. 
What’s more, Karma allows employees to reward each other when they notice a job well done.
This can create a more appreciative and friendly culture within your workplace.
Features include:
One of the market-leading apps in the employee advocacy space, Sociabble makes it easier to find and engage potential advocates on your team.
This SaaS solution aggregates company content sourced from various channels and creates one-click solutions that your team members can use to share valuable messages on their social media accounts. 
With Microsoft Teams, your staff members can easily click on and upload advocacy posts to their social media pages without having to switch to another app.
They’ll also earn badges and rewards for their efforts.
Features include:
If you use Tableau software to keep track of crucial business information and make educated decisions about your business, Kiwi is a must-have app for Microsoft Teams.
This tool ensures that your team members can get instant updates and Business Intelligence notifications so that they can make decisions carefully for the future of your organization. 
Kiwi makes it easier to:
Presence isn’t always the easiest way to figure out who’s available in your Microsoft Teams channels.
That’s why AttendanceBot exists to help you keep track of your team member’s shifts, absences, and vacation time. 
Through this easy-to-use Microsoft Teams integration, employees can essentially clock in and out to the workplace, highlighting their available hours for the rest of the team.
They can also send requests to AttendanceBot for vacation days, which team managers can then approve or deny.
Features include:
Developed by Capriza Inc, the ApproveSimple application for Microsoft Teams is intended to improve and accelerate the corporate decision-making cycle by allowing people to access their approval items within Teams. 
Approvals and decision gates are crucial tools used by a range of managers to keep processes running smoothly. ApproveSimple consolidates approvals from multiple environments into a simple and easy-to-use experience.
You can check on everything from invoices to purchase requests within Microsoft Teams channels.
Features include:
Trivia is the new way to connect with your remote team while playing exciting quizzes and remote games in Microsoft Teams.
Run trivia command “@Trivia trivia” to start playing virtual games. 
Trivia games are easy to launch and provide a quick 5-minute break to your workday.
Below are a few games Trivia has to offer:
Created specifically for developers who need help collaborating online (e.g. remote developers, distributed tech teams, offshore development teams), Elmah.io is an excellent integration for Microsoft Teams. 
This app integrates elmah.io functionality into Microsoft Teams so that you can identify and resolve bugs in development cycles quickly and easily.
Elmah.io automatically publishes error messages, URLs causing errors, and more into your Microsoft Teams conversations so that users can manage bugs directly within Teams.
If you’re constantly dealing with website errors as you develop new functionalities for your online offering, then Elmah.io is sure to improve your Microsoft Teams end user experience.
There’s even an in-built integration from JavaScript. 
Features include:
AtBot is a customizable workplace assistant with machine learning functionality built-in.
With AtBot, you can create conversational UIs for virtually any workload, using the minimal code.
AtBot integrates with Microsoft Flow for better logic execution and Microsoft AIs. 
You can build immersive and intelligent bots in no time, with virtually no experience required.
AtBot is also available at an enterprise level if you need more advanced features.
Some of the capabilities you can expect include:
Zoom.AI is another intelligent assistant that businesses can add to their Microsoft Teams experience.
Zoom.ai gives your employees up to 3 hours back in their day by making it easier to search for information, schedule meetings, and access essential data. 
With Zoom.AI inside Microsoft Teams, employees can automate everyday tasks like:
Do you find yourself conducting weekly status update meetings with a half-empty (digital) room? Or, you find that you often have to chase employees for their individual updates?
Geekbot can make that a thing of the past. 
Geekbot is an asynchronous, chat-based meeting tool that helps you run standup meetings, retros, and surveys across your organization. 
The app allows you to schedule your weekly status reports in Microsoft Teams which then prompts automatic notifications to your team when they need to fill out their updates.
Geekbot also allows you to create custom polls and anonymous surveys to check on your employees’ wellbeing or simply get their opinion on a topic. You can store all responses and performance stats in one centralized place to gain further insights on what’s working and what needs to change.
The world of remote work has had a significant impact on how we work and collaborate. Harvard Business School reveals that since lockdown we all attend, on average, three meetings per day. 
Yet, two-thirds of employees feel like meetings distract them from doing their actual job. So, how can teams collaborate without sacrificing productivity?
Fireflies AI is a tool that allows you to record, transcribe and search all your meetings that have a web-conferencing URL. The app easily integrates with your Google or Outlook calendar and automatically records and transcribes your meetings. 
The app joins a Microsoft Teams meeting as any other participant and sends out transcript notifications approximately ten minutes after the meeting has ended. This allows teams to stay on track with any action items that came out of those meetings.
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