50 Best HERO FORGE Alternatives - Features, pros & cons, pricing | Remote Tools

At Censinet we believe that innovation in healthcare is a good thing. Our platform is made to speed the adoption of useful innovations by streamlining the third-party vendor risk assessment process and by adding automation. For years we've studied all the data risk elements in adopting new digital tools. Everything we've built is specific to healthcare

• Free for some users
• Per user pricing and enterprise licensing
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Used for third-party risk assessment of healthcare vendors

Censinet is a SaaS for remote cybersecurity and risk analyst teams. Communication and workflows within the platform to eliminate email, phone calling, and passing of spreadsheets manually

DevelopMyTeam provides a technical skills/maturity assessment platform for teams and individuals. It is flexible so our off-the-shelf assessments can be used or you can provide your own assessments (any functional discipline) that we load for immediate utilisation. The output reports provide great insights helping you produce focussed development plans that drive improved team and individual performance.

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Companies and businesses can gain valuable insights about their team with self assessment surveys about team maturity and individual capability.

These surveys can be creates using DevelopMyTeam platform.

Remote teams can use this tool to assess their teams progress and engage their teams in the development process.

Image-Charts is the easiest way to embed charts as images in emails, pdf reports, blog posts, and markdown files. No need to spend hours to set up, develop, and scale a complex server-side solution

• Free account available
• Plans start from €49/ month
• Complete Pricing

For small to large business to embed charts

Fully customizable beautiful charts, very low latency, highly available, animated gifs in emails

Internal is the fastest way to build internal tools on top of your databases, APIs, and business applications. Granular access controls, simple UI, and a "no-code first" approach means anyone at your company can build and maintain tools - not just engineers. This approach frees up engineering teams to focus on the most critical projects that move your business forward

• Free account available
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If you want to build internal tools for operations or customer-facing teams and these apps need access to your database, APIs, or business apps. Examples: User management tools, onboarding tools, approval tools, workflow tools.

Internal helps remote teams quickly streamline their processes with internal tools that are easy to build and update on the fly.

With XLNK, you can: Convert long URLs into short and precise links that are manageable and usable. Post the short links on social media or on your own websites. View all your links in one place. All links are sorted by number of visits. Delete links that you no longer need.

• Free Version available

XLNK provides you with useful insights to analyze audience and also helps you shorten URLs for social posting.

Remote communities can use XLNK to shorten their URLs from anywhere, at anytime.

In most cases, after a developer implements your project, the actual results might not perfectly correspond to the original design. These differences can be pixel counts or larger differences like fonts, spacing, padding, and more. To facilitate communication between designers and programmers, we created this simple image comparison service with the ability to share a link

• Free account available

Compare to dev facilitated a tool to compare the original idea and the actual product to help identify differences between them.

In addition, the tool allows anyone without the experience of graphic editors to superimpose two images on top of each other and compare them.

Compare to Dev is ideal for remote community to help facilitate effective communication to get better results.

LoyaltyXpert is a SAAS-based platform that enables channel partners, enterprises, and businesses to create and manage loyalty programs using rewards and referral point systems. The software is envisioned to develop a loyalty program that helps businesses increase average order values, raise customer retention, extend lifetime user value, and eventually increase ROI.

• Free Demo
• Complete Pricing

LoyaltyXpert is for everyone for small businesses, brands, customers and these services are also open to the employees, retailers, and as well as influencers. We have a broad path to serve as our main is to make the customer happy by providing them good and affordable services

For remote teams to efficiently track and monitor user preferences, trends, behaviors on a real-time basis

CASSANDRA is transforming the way knowledge work gets done by tracking, identifying and connecting you with the people behind trending markets across the internet. We are experts at finding knowledge and analyse millions of signals from across the web to surface the most relevant trends and thought leaders. Our mission is to connect you with analysts and experts for better decisions and new

• Custom pricing
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Customers who want to Identify trends and growing companies to invest in

Navigate opportunity from economic, political and technological changes at home

MirrorFly is a customizable messaging SDK and chat API that enables businesses to offer in-app messaging for their mobile, web, and consumer applications. The platform provides the client SDK, the necessary front-end UI, and backend system for seamless communication among users, from one-on-one messaging and group chat, to massive-scale channels

• Premium Only
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MirrorFly enables businesses to interface with conversational bot brains and integrate them into their application's chat and messaging experience. Push notifications are sent in real-time to update users who are away from the app, while admin messages display user activity and notices to other users within chat channels

MirrorFly offers video conferencing solution for remote worker for their business communication

DotYeti found her roots from a result-driven digital agency. The founders experienced that their clients were more than ever in need of creatives, but the process of producing high-quality graphic design was expensive, slow, and inefficient. It was time to step up the game. Our goal became to support and take over all the graphic design needs for SMEs, agencies, and other marketing teams

• $399 per month

For marketers, startup founders, advertisers & writers

For remote teams looking for unlimited designs for a flat monthly fee

Step1 focuses on designing the best digital products with state of art User Experience (UX) that can create an impact on the lives of humans. Step1 also provides FREE design consultation to help startups get a better analysis of their websites and applications. We create UI designs using Figma, Invision, Framer, Sketch, Balsamiq, Adobe xd, and many more

• Paid design packages offered as per the client requirements
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Startups, Entrepreneur, Small and large enterprises, Individuals

Step1 is a design agency that helps to convert your business idea to visual designs

Find the best template for your next workshop using Boardle- a community that helps you to find great workshop to be the best facilitator. - Find more than 200 templates in the biggest template library - Edit your profile and promote your board to be best facilitator - Get feedback and improve your work in virtual facilitation

• Free

Before every workshop or every meeting

Get inspired for your next remote meeting/ workshop

Our MVP simplifies and automates billing for service-based companies. QOLOS allows the end-users (our customers’ customers) to make payments through a login panel on the public website; they can change profile information, view order, etc

• Starting from $50 per month

Can be used by service based companies: SAAS, plumbing, HVAC, web developers, etc

QOLOS is the Shopify for serviced-based businesses, it combines your website with your operational software for a streamlined process

Artify is the perfect solution for your design needs. Artify Gallery: A massive collection of thousands of use-ready vector design templates. Artify Packs: Ready-to-use vector design templates for all your creative needs, new packs of templates added every week. Artify Editor: An easy-to-use web-based design editor to adapt any of our designs. Artify Illustrations: A collection of +5000 designs

• Freemium
• Complete Pricing

For designers and developers

Artify is an online design ecosystem

Help you focus to build the right product and don't need to waste hours and hours of your day on the internet looking for templates that someone else has put together. We've compiled them here, in one easy-to-use resource center!

• Free options available
• 10% off for Remote Tools members. CODE: 'remote10'
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Can be used by Founders, Product/Project Managers, UI/UX Designers, Freelancers, Indie makers

Notion template kit for remote workers designing a digital product

MOMO Board combines message board, chat, and cloud storage (10 Gb) into one seamless application for efficient community communication, created to help bring people together and communicate efficiently with one another Ideal for managing discussions with thousands of people

• Free forever
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- PTA Group (General/Sports Club)
- Community college staff manager
- Casino floor manager
- Non-profit org staff manager
- Religious org volunteer manager
- Lawyers community (1600+ licensed lawyers)

Stay on the same page, collaborate in real time, archive important information

Appsupports.co helps you discover the truth about apps and helps you stay safe on the Internet. Make the best-informed decisions about apps you use

• Free

We use machine learning and crowdsourced reviews from thousands of users, to extract insights and to generate reports which can tell you with high accuracy, whether to use an App or not

Discover how safe or legit an app is with our safety and legitimacy scores - the first of its kind in the mobile apps industry

PFPMaker helps people without design skills create an awesome professional or creative profile pic with Artificial Intelligence. In these COVID times, a lot of people are working remotely so the profile picture is the first point of contact online and you must be sure it makes the best impression from the start!

• Free

Personal branding is essential when working remotely, having a professional/creative profile picture is a must since it the first point of contact (in email/messengers/socials/etc.) where other people make their mind about your person

We help remote workers create an awesome profile pic without any design skills. We use AI and don't store user photos or resell them to 3rd parties

For anyone who writes or creates, it's hard to monetize content without ads. For creators, it's even more difficult to manually set up payments, especially subscription payments. Fanfolk makes it simple for creators to charge subscriptions for unlimited access to premium content

• Currently in Beta

For content creators

Relevant for remote content creators

FRSecure provides information security services that help make organizations' security better and protect peoples' data

• Custom pricing

We help companies improve their information security by understanding clients need, design, implement and manage best-in-class solutions

Anyone needs information security especially people working from home

Gridbox is like a full blown IDE with built-in Drag 'n' Drop builder right in the browser, where you can work with multiple HTML, CSS, JS files together along with image gallery, live previews, website deployment, and much more

• Free account available
• Paid plans start from $5/ month
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Create Static HTML Websites or Web App Prototypes for your Business or your clients

Useful tool for remote, independent developers or freelancers

Spell is an AI-powered content generation tool. Spell uses OpenAI’s GPT3 – which is state-of-the-art NLP and Text Generation model. Spell is trained on 1000s of headlines, blogs, social media posts, whitepapers, emails, and other written content Describe what you want, and Spell will generate different kinds of content variations for you. We support headline/tagline variations, product descriptions, and ad variations! More templates will be added in the future

• Credit based pricing! Free 50 credits for those who sign up every month
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You can use it to write your blog outlines, Facebook and Google Ad-copies, E-commerce Descriptions, Creative Taglines and even use to make some marketing frameworks. It can be used by Marketers, Content Writers and Copywriters

Spell can help you brainstorm new ideas, make your own content & blog outlines

I got tired of seeing my office boring white wall in the background of my Zoom calls (and making surer my laundry was out of frame), so I started collecting fun virtual backgrounds to use.

• Totally free.

When you want to add a little flair to your Zoom calls.

We all spend our days in Zoom now, so have some fun with it.

2 Million+ professional icons library Over 400+ icon sets in more than 30 styles, including Flat, Material, iOS, Glyph, Colorful, Window 10, Revamped Office, 3D Realistic, Isometric, & more! Most of the icons are vector and pixel perfect conveniently grouped in sets by industries, and our customs designs are even better :)

• Freemium
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For designers and developers

IconShock offers a wide-online community and downloadable resources wherever you are

While developing an app, we need to have two things - a good design/ workflow and APIs to integrate with. What if APIs are already available for you to integrate with? 😃 At JSONAPI.CO, we are determined to make developers' life easier. We have built an extensive set of APIs : 🙌 - Categories ranging from Users, Products (Amazon) and Images(Instagram) - Flexibility to customise keys, and etc

• Free Forever

For developers looking to build great apps and for finding rich APIs with extensive set of features that caters to all

Any community working remotely and into building apps, can use our product with ease

Look DS is an international software team based within several locations worldwide. Our key product is the LOOK Digital Signage service. This is an award-winning simple and reliable software solution for remote management of digital screens networks of various scales and purposes, like, ad screens in retail stores or digital menu boards in restaurants

• Starts from $15 per screen per month
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Used by B2B and B2C companies in retail, hospitality, banking, and corporate offices

Look is a SaaS solution for distantly managing content on any digital signages

AppsRhino powers on-demand mobile apps and business apps for entrepreneurs and enterprises. AppsRhino provides solutions for on demand Grocery delivery, Alcohol delivery, Food delivery, Laundry delivery, Home services, Doctors, Plumbers and Electrician services, Taxi and Logistics services

• $2000 - $15000
• Complete Pricing

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Provides highly customized on-demand mobile apps and business apps

Custom Mobile App Development For On-Demand Businesses

So, what can you do with Maya? Talk, think, manage, and grow with your Maya bot. Your personalized assistant takes care of operations while you focus more on the bigger picture. Maya will keep you up to date on your current progress and provide the next step you need to take

• Free account
• Complete Pricing

We help entrepreneurs and startups validate their ideas and begin working on them.

Maya will inform you on what to do next and why, while predicting the next steps to take

Help entrepreneurs begin their own business, side hobby business, etc

BlockSurvey's features include design tools, customizable templates, content-sharing, and live data analytics. Additionally, features such as private storage and secure encryption confirm that data remains accessible only to the appropriate parties. Digital rights for data remain with the owner/creator

• Free account
• Paid plans start from $7/ month
• Complete Pricing

This solution is built to help businesses with surveying needs by securely gathering as well as sharing data depending on individual user preferences

Remote teams can collect and manage forms, polls and surveys with privacy

It is an ideal platform if you are looking for ways to turn simple selling hobbies into a small business or if you are someone who aspires to build your own enterprise Through an easy-to-setup process, you can easily build your own business and begin selling in a matter of minutes Yahoo Stores is scalable, and you can easily integrate it with different applications to take your business to the next level

• Free Trial
• Custom pricing
• Complete Pricing

Yahoo stores can be used for Inventory management by small enterprises; it has built-in Customization capabilities, Calculation of shipping charges, Payment gateway options, and Apps & Add-ons

It can be used for its SEO capabilities also

Yahoo Stores offers a wide variety of customizable and professionally designed templates – all optimized for computers, smartphones, and tablets to small businesses. Adding products to the inventory is also easy. With Yahoo Stores, they can set up payments and receive them from their customers easily

With Lynkmark, you can: 1. Save links from the Web 2. Add notes while bookmarking 3. Organize your links using collections 4. Search for everything 5. Share your links with your friends and family 6. Take Your bookmarks everywhere

• 14 day free trial now
• Paid plans start from $29 per year
• Complete Pricing

Save anything from the web and put them into collections. Organize your bookmarks with collections and notes to keep everything tidy

Share and exchange links with your remote team and keep everyone in the same page

A handpicked collection of the best side projects on the web.

• Free

Showcase your side project with the side list community for free

The best way to showcase your side project and get some traffic.

From the creator of Habitify (App of The Day by Apple - 2019), Summerian is designed to help keep your brain fresh with new knowledge every day. Our noticeable features: - Knowledge is the top priority - Leading you to "Aha" moment - Grow at your own space - Discover your next favorite book

• Free to download on all platforms
• Monthly: regular price($7.99), discounted($5.99)
• Annual: regular price($79.99), discounted($49.99)
• 7-day free trial will start at the confirmation of purchase.
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When you want to save time and get quality summary books, especially for personal growth

It helps anyone be knowledgeable and productivity

Chirr App is a handy text editor for writing twitter threads. It does a great job of automatically splitting long posts into lots of separate tweets and it's free to use. There is also a paid plan where you can schedule threads, save drafts and get analytics on your best threads.

• Free account available
• Plus Account for $4 and Pro accounts for $15 (discounts on annual pricing)
• Complete Pricing

Chirr App is typically used by journalists, small tech teams, and consultants.

Chirr App helps remote teams publish and schedule fantastic stories on Twitter.

Background remover Net is an online photo editing tool that helps users remove background from photos. It is a very important task to remove background from an image and leave only foreground objects like t-shirts, shoes, coats, etc. Before users had to use design tools to manually remove the background - but with deep learning, Background Remover Net removes your background automatically.

• Free Version Available

Anyone who needs an object on white background or is looking to remove background from exiting photos can use this tool.

Remote community can use this online free tool from any where, at any time.

NoCodeLetters is the fastest and easiest way to send your newsletters to your subscribers directly from Notion - without a single line of code

• Free account available, free forever
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If you want to send your newsletters directly from Notion

For anyone running newsletters, it can be an easy and cost effective option

ByPeople is a curated network with thousands of deals including premium packs, freebies, plugins, fonts, themes and icons ideal for developers and designers

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For designers and developers

ByPeople offers a wide solution of free and premium deals ideal for designers and developers

We started Type because we got frustrated with the way video editing is today! A typical video editing experience is counter-intuitive when compared to everything within the modern conventions of UI design and functionality. There are so many buttons, dials, knobs, settings, and keyboard shortcuts to remember. For content-focused video editing, you don’t need most of the features

• Free version
• Starter $14/ month
• Pro $24/ month
• Complete Pricing

To transcribes your video so you can easily edit it by simply changing the text.

Type Studio is used by many remote marketers who post their videos on social media. Another user group is online course and tutorial creators

BizCard is a digital business card platform with fully customizable, stunning & responsive templates that work with any device. It is easy to edit and quick to share. It is paperless, never runs out, saves you time and money spent on printing business cards

• Free trial
• Complete Pricing

We help professionals build great business and personal relationships.

Grow your network using a digital business card creator to meet people in different locations

Build professional or personal relationships with people from any location

Gooten offers Print on Demand solutions tailored for your business. The Gooten Seven: Global Network, Robust Catalog, Reliable Production, Flexible API, Automated Workflow and Continuous Support enables you to create a customized smart supply chain that keeps your unique business needs in mind.

• Gooten pricing varies based on the solutions you are looking for and the items you wish to print.
• Complete Pricing

Use Gooten to scale your business without the cost or complexity through Print on Demand services.

Remote businesses and workers can easily scale or get custom merch shipped to a huge number of countries using Gooten.

By leveraging Bayesian statistics, QuantifyNow enables you to A/B/n test your media strategies, partners, targeting, ads, creatives, product ideas, and any other aspect of your marketing or campaigns instantly, without the need to involve data scientists. Connect your marketing data sources, like Facebook, or upload your data via spreadsheet and instantly learn from your data

• Free
• Paid plans start from €700/ month
• Complete Pricing

It can be used by marketing teams

Provides rock-solid, actionable learnings from your existing marketing data

Convert your websites, PDFs, and locations into QR Codes in seconds. With our bespoke QR Code design elements, you can take it to the next level. Because black and white QR Codes are not visible to the human eye, consumers may mistakenly scan malicious codes rather than the brand's QR Code. Users can quickly recognize customized QR Codes, and they also help to maintain brand consistency.

• Dynamic QR codes generator prices: Free Trial: 14 days Starter : $5 (3 QR Codes. 20,000 Scans. Single user) Lite : $12.50 (50 QR Codes. 40,000 Scans. Single user) Pro : $40.83 (250 QR Codes. 100,000 Scans. Single user) Plus : $99 (500 QR Codes. 200,000 Scans. 3 Users. 3 Teams) Static QR code generator price: FREE
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Used by companies from retailing industries, food industries, car dealers, corporate industries and even individuals who wanted to generate QR codes for their own needs.

They're relevant as QR code can be use for an effective marketing campaign specially during this time of pandemic where touchless transactions are encourage to perform.

Full-stack infrastructure monitoring solution for software and hardware.The solution allows users to prevent downtimes, manage logs and get smart alerts to stay informed about corporate system estate.

• Starting with $1.99 per GB, free trial.
• Complete Pricing

InsightCat is used to cover infrastructure monitoring, log management, synthetic monitoring, APM, etc.

InsightCar is a cloud-based and AI-powered solution, available from any geographical location, browser, OS, device.

Plotch has been designed in a very scalable way using a modular architecture. Using plotch, an eCommerce business can launch a shopping website and app in few minutes or connect to an already existing Shopify or Mage

• Free plan available

For small businesses

Plotch is the only tech stack for online marketplaces globally

- It can list your all projects & certificate - It can also list your all Dev.to articles Using Api (if you have set BlogData.show_Blog: true in src/Name.js) The website is completely built on react-js framework of javascript 🔥 In this project, there are basically personal Information that you need to change to customize this to anyone else’s portfolio

• Free
• Complete Pricing

To make a responsive portfolio website

Users can list their all projects, certificate and achievement at one place

Telnum is a cloud telecom services provider. We offer a wide geo coverage -- 90+ countries worldwide. There is no need to have physical equipment from now - Telnum is working totally online. We also try to provide a full package of telecom services for our clients. It means, that you can get not only a phone number from us but all additional services needed: cloud PBX & recording of professional

• Paid plans start from $5
• Complete Pricing

We help our users to get the full range of telecom products in the cloud

We offer cloud telecom services that can be used for the remote working

Glary utilities provide 23 languages registry and disk cleaning, startup delay, privacy protection, performance accelerator, and amazing multifunctional tools It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance It is designed for both novice and professionals and its User-friendly interface shows clear & detailed directions

• Free Service
• Paid service $19.97/year
• Complete Pricing

Glary Utilities offers multiple system tools to fix, maintain, and protect your PC

It offers a registry cleaner, spyware detections, disc cleanup, memory optimizer, startup manager, and a few other modules to optimize the PC

It provides a one-stop solution for PC performance optimization. Boosts PC speed and fixes frustrating errors, crashes and freezes. Protects remote workers privacy and makes their computer faster and cleaner

Remindy is an open-source tool to help you remember things. Seriously. Just check the website. It's faster than reading this.

• Free Forever

To remember birthdays, tasks, special dates

Easy, quick, reliable, no hidden schemes. Just set a message and get reminded

Mojomax is an online platform where users can design their own custom logos with ease. You can create your logos in three simple steps. First type in your company names and select the baseline design, mix and match designs and export the final logo that fits best to your brand.

• Free Version available

For small business and startups who are on a tight budget or are still testing product-market fit can use this logo maker to create a logo with minimal effort.

Remote community can make use of this platform to create cool logos for their brand.

MEAU is an All-In-One digital platform to create digital card, e-portfolio, digital business card, Linktree. In other words, MEAU provides a safe, peaceful, and professional environment to introduce yourself and build a network. The platform has some exciting features like My corporate, My leads, My link, and many more that make communication better between people

• Free account available
• Complete Pricing

If you want to make communication better through a digital business card, want to build a digital presence and a network

Remote working people can communicate with people by sharing one-link E-card