The best HR tools
Top picks
Confluence
Creates a shared workspace and wiki for team documentation, knowledge, and collaboration with built-in AI.
Best for: Product, engineering, marketing and operations teams that already use Jira and want specs, documentation and shared knowledge in a wiki that sits next to their issue tracker.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $5.42/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Miro
Bring teams together on an infinite whiteboard to brainstorm, diagram and run workshops in real time.
Best for: Distributed teams, agencies and product groups that run workshops, brainstorms, process maps and visual planning together on a shared online canvas.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $8/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Slack
Organise team communication through channels, direct messages, huddles and file sharing in one place.
Best for: Teams of any size that need real-time messaging, channels and quick decisions in one place, and want chat connected to their CRM, project tools and alerts.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From €8.25/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Google Docs
Write and edit documents collaboratively in the browser with instant sharing and version history.
Best for: Teams and founders who want shared, real-time document editing in the browser, with comments, suggestions and version history, without installing anything.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From €6.80/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Otter.ai
Automatically transcribe and summarise meetings across Zoom, Google Meet and Teams with searchable AI chat.
Best for: Sales, recruiting, education and media teams who spend a lot of time in calls and want transcripts, summaries and action items they can search later.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $8.33/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
The top 4 side by side
| 9 points compared | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $5.42/mo | $8/mo | €8.25/mo | €6.80/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI summary + action items | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Guest / external access | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in video calls | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Template library | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Workflow automation | Yes | Yes | ||
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All HR tools
- Creates a shared workspace and wiki for team documentation, knowledge, and collaboration with built-in AI.
- Bring teams together on an infinite whiteboard to brainstorm, diagram and run workshops in real time.
- Organise team communication through channels, direct messages, huddles and file sharing in one place.
- Write and edit documents collaboratively in the browser with instant sharing and version history.
- Automatically transcribe and summarise meetings across Zoom, Google Meet and Teams with searchable AI chat.
- Centralises standard operating procedures, quizzes and onboarding materials in a searchable knowledge base.
- The Bloom Growth Operating System: scorecard, meetings, goals and issues on one platform, the software half of the EOS/Traction category.
- AI assistant built into Zoom that generates meeting summaries, action items and automated follow-up tasks.
- Centralises company knowledge and delivers verified answers through Slack, Teams and AI assistants.
Stores notes, documents, and tasks in a searchable workspace for reliable capture and retrieval.
Calendar system for scheduling, coordination and team time management integrated with Notion workspace.
How we rank
Every tool in a category is ranked by the same rule, worked out from the data we hold, not by who pays us. In order:
- How many of the category's shared features it has.
- Whether there is a free plan to start on.
- How open it is to AI: an API and an MCP server.
- Whether its pricing is public.
- Name, A to Z, when all else is equal.
When we add a tool or learn more about one, the ranking updates by itself.