Mention ReminderSomebody @mentions you in a Teams channel while you are on a call. You read it, you mean to come back to it, and by the afternoon it is buried under the next twenty posts. Mention Reminder watches the mentions nobody answered and reminds you about them in a private 1:1 chat - at the hours you choose, in your own timezone. Reply in the thread or react to the message, and the reminder clears.
Free · no card · no extra app
Alex · @John can you handle the graphics for Friday? 🙏
1 cleared itself when you replied ✓
That is how a lot of mentions end. See what happens to the same message when your team has Mention Reminder.
Thursday, 12:32 PM. Alex mentions John. He reads it on the go.
One team owner adds the app. Everybody else keeps writing exactly as they did before.
In Teams, open Apps, find Mention Reminder and choose "Add to a team" - not just for yourself. The bot then sends you a one-click link to the web panel to finish setup.
Once the app is in a team, it sees that team's standard channels - there is no inviting it channel by channel. Add it to a group chat too and that chat is watched the same way.
Mention Reminder adds a discreet 🔔 to the message so the channel can see it is being tracked - and nothing more. No public nagging, no "any update?" from a bot.
At the hours you picked - 09:00 and 17:00, say - the app reminds you in your 1:1 chat with it about the mentions still waiting. A card in that chat always holds the current list.
The parts that are specific to Teams, rather than to the product in general.
A reminder that has to be dismissed by hand becomes another inbox. This one closes on the thing you were going to do anyway.
Tools that turn messages into tasks only work while everybody keeps turning messages into tasks. This one asks for nothing, because it reads what your team was writing anyway.
In a channel, a reply in that post's thread clears your reminder; in a group chat, a quoted reply does the same - even if it just says "ok".
A 👍 or a ✅ on the message containing the mention clears your reminder.
On Team, AI may recognize a separate answer in the channel. On Starter, reply in the thread, react to the message, or press Done on the card.
A mention whose message is gone cannot be answered, so its reminders close for everyone who got one. Restore the message in Teams and they come back.
Nothing about how your team writes changes. The only difference is whether anyone still remembers the post on Friday.
Alex: "@John can you handle the graphics for Friday?"
John reads it in the middle of a call
Twenty new posts later, the channel has moved on
"Sorry, it slipped past me" - and the week is gone
✗ 2-3 days of slippage on the project
Alex: "@John can you handle the graphics for Friday?"
John reads it mid-call - the app adds a 🔔
One reminder in John's 1:1 chat, listing what is still unanswered
John replies in the thread - the reminder clears itself
✓ Closed the same day
On the team's side the difference is zero: nobody installs anything, signs up, or clicks a button they did not already click.
Not "better communication" in the abstract - the specific places a mention goes quiet.
When every project has its own team and its own channels, mentions are spread across a dozen places. Every unanswered one ends up in a single list in your chat.
Sales, delivery and support in separate teams, linked into one account. Each person gets one list and is one seat, however many of those teams they sit in.
In a channel doing hundreds of posts a week, being mentioned and being noticed are different things. The 🔔 is what survives the scroll.
Reminders are sent on each person's own clock, taken from their Teams client - so nobody has to negotiate when it is acceptable to ping whom.
Odd that Slack does not have this built in. With all the noise, and dozens of people wanting something from you, it helps to have a watcher for whether you forgot to answer someone.
We keep separate servers for talking to different clients. It is good to have one place that gathers the unanswered mentions from all of them at once.
Finally a tool that does not need its own panel and manual upkeep to work. Teaching people to use yet another external app is a nightmare.
I like how little work it took to start watching messages - and that the bell emoji shows at a glance which message is being watched, so you see right away that something needs a reply.
Teams shows you this list when you add the app. They apply only to the team or chat it was added to, and this is all of it.
Remove the app from the team in Teams and it stops immediately - no ticket, no email to us.
$0
For small teams trying Mention Reminder
$3$2.50
/ user / mo · excl. VAT
billed once a year
For growing teams
Custom
For orgs with compliance needs
No - an owner of the team adds the app, and that same owner signs in to the web panel with their Microsoft account. Your organisation only has to allow the app in Teams, which is the admin's call and a one-time setting. Everyone else needs nothing at all: no signup, no login, no permission of their own.
No. Teams does not let apps read private or shared channels, so the bot cannot see them at all. It works in every standard channel of the teams it was added to, and in group chats it was added to.
None. Everything an admin configures lives in the web panel, and your own reminder hours are set from the card in your chat with the app. Nobody has to memorise a command or read documentation to be reminded.
In your own 1:1 chat with Mention Reminder, which opens by itself the first time you are mentioned. A card there always holds the current list. Nothing is ever posted into a channel - the only public trace is a small 🔔 reaction on the message you were mentioned in.
Yes - your Teams client reports it, so reminders arrive at 09:00 where you actually are. You never fill in a form, and nobody in another country gets your morning instead of theirs.
They are off by default on every plan, so a fresh account tracks direct @mentions only. Switch them on with Team and an AI classifier reads each mass mention and lets through only the ones that genuinely needed a personal answer - an announcement does not become a reminder for fifty people.
Free for one team and up to 5 people on reminders, with one reminder a day and direct @mentions only. A reply in the thread or a reaction on the message clears the reminder. Team adds AI matching for separate in-channel answers and filtering for mass mentions, unlimited people, and linked teams.
Yes, on the Team plan. Mentions from every linked team land in one list, each tagged with its source. A person has one identity across the teams of your organisation, so they are one billed seat, not one per team.
The same product runs on Slack and Discord, and one account covers all of them. Link them on the Team plan and a person who uses more than one gets one set of reminders instead of several.
Add Mention Reminder to Slack, Teams or Discord - two minutes, once. After that it runs in the background and nobody on the team has to do anything else. Starter is free, no card.
Free · no card · no extra app
Mention Reminder