Follow Up Bot asks the sender whether to follow up. Mention Reminder immediately adds the mention to the recipient’s list and sends a reminder on their schedule. The sender does not need to ask again.
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Follow Up Bot vs Mention Reminder: who receives the reminder?
Both bots help with questions that @mention someone and go unanswered. Follow Up Bot asks the sender whether to send a reminder. Mention Reminder maintains a private list for the person mentioned and reminds them on their chosen schedule.
⚖️ The short answer
Use Follow Up Bot when the sender should decide whether to follow up and your team works in Slack. Add Mention Reminder when reminders should reach the person mentioned automatically, including in Teams or Discord.
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What it is
What Follow Up Bot does
Follow Up Bot (followupbot.io, also listed in the Slack Marketplace) tracks questions that @mention someone in the channels it has been added to. If the person you asked has not posted in the channel or replied in the thread, and nobody has reacted, within your timer, the bot privately asks you whether to send a reminder. You decide; if you say yes, the reminder goes to the person you asked, pointing at your original question.
Its Enterprise Connect plan adds a second, separate job: watching Slack Connect channels shared with customers and alerting your team in a private channel when a customer message goes unanswered past a response target, with business hours and optional escalation. The Slack Marketplace listing leads with this customer side.
It is Slack only. Pricing is a flat fee per workspace with a 7-day trial and no free plan: Premium at $118 a year for up to 10 members, Enterprise at $216 a year with unlimited members, and Enterprise Connect at $990 a year for the customer channels.
Side by side
Compare the features
| Feature | Mention Reminder | Follow Up Bot |
|---|---|---|
| Reminders created automatically from @mentions | YesNo need to save messages. Applies to people an admin enables; obvious thanks and similar non-actionable mentions are skipped. | PartlyQuestions that @mention someone, in channels where the bot has been added. |
| Recognises a reply to the mention | YesYour thread reply or reaction clears it. On Team, AI can also match your reply posted separately in the channel. | YesA post in the channel, a thread reply or a reaction counts as an answer. |
| Clears the reminder after a reply or reaction | YesThe item leaves your list after your reply or reaction. Deleting the source message also clears the reminder. | YesAn answered question is dropped before you are asked anything. |
| Reminds the person who was mentioned | YesThe person mentioned in the message. | PartlyIt asks the sender first. The person mentioned is only reminded if the sender says yes. |
| Private, nothing extra posted in the channel | YesThe list and reminders are private. The bot adds a 🔔 reaction to the source message. | PartlyThe prompt to you is private. The reminder you approve goes to your colleague about your question. |
| Personal reminder hours and timezone | YesOne daily reminder time on Starter; several chosen hours on Team. Weekdays only is optional. | NoA timer after the question, not standing hours chosen by the reader. |
| Supports Slack, Teams and Discord | YesTeam can link several servers, workspaces and teams. An admin links the same person’s accounts across platforms. | NoSlack only. |
| Team setup without each person configuring reminders | YesAn admin installs the bot and chooses people. Everyone uses their existing chat account. | PartlyApproved once for the workspace, then added to each channel with /followupbot. |
| Reminders about anything, not only mentions | NoMentions only. For your own notes, keep the built-in reminders. | NoOnly unanswered questions you asked, plus customer messages on Enterprise Connect. |
| Price | Starter is free for up to 5 people. Team starts at $2.50 per person per month, billed annually. | From $118 a year per workspace (up to 10 members). No free plan. |
When it is enough
When Follow Up Bot is enough
- Your team works only in Slack, and the person who asks is the one who should decide whether to chase.
- You want a nudge about your own unanswered questions rather than a list of what others are waiting on from you.
- Your real problem is customers waiting in Slack Connect channels, which its Enterprise Connect plan is built for.
When to add Mention Reminder
When to pick Mention Reminder
- You do not want people spending their day chasing: the reminder should reach whoever owes the answer without anyone asking twice.
- The person mentioned should be reminded privately, at their own hours, instead of by a nudge from a colleague.
- Your team also uses Microsoft Teams or Discord, or several Slack workspaces, and wants one inbox per person.
- You want to start free: Starter covers up to 5 people with no time limit.
🤝 Using both
Using both
They can run side by side in Slack, but they watch the same mentions from opposite ends, so running both on internal channels means two nudges for one question. A clean split is Follow Up Bot for Slack Connect customer channels and Mention Reminder for internal mentions: one guards your response targets to customers, the other keeps colleagues from losing each other's questions.
Yes. The recipient can mark it done in their inbox; their reply or reaction also clears it. Follow Up Bot gives the sender an earlier choice about whether to send another reminder.
Follow Up Bot says its system detects unanswered questions without the company seeing or storing message contents. Mention Reminder stores a short excerpt so the reminder makes sense on its own, and strips anything that looks like a password or API key before it is stored or sent to the AI.
Follow Up Bot's Enterprise plan is $216 a year for the whole workspace. Mention Reminder's Team plan is billed per person who receives reminders, $2.50 a month on annual billing, so covering all 20 people costs $600 a year. If only some of them need reminders, you cover just those.
More comparisons
- ClearFeedA support queue compared with private reminders for everyday mentions.
- Best Slack mention reminder appsSlack features and apps that help you return to mentions, compared.
- Slack /remindReminders you set in Slack compared with reminders created automatically from mentions.
- Slack ActivityMention notifications compared with a list of messages still waiting for your reply.
Sources
Information last checked on October 14, 2026.
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