Here is my personal favorite list of powerful tools that are particularly beneficial for collaborating with remote and distributed teams. Excluded from that list are the typical options such as  Slack for communication, zoom for video call, jira for general requirement gathering, confluence for documentation, and MIRO for everything else.

Easy Retro

https://easyretro.io/

EasyRetro is an online tool for doing sprint retrospectives and other collaborative exercises. It is the most used retrospective tool in the world according to Alexa.com.
 

Scrum Poker Online
https://www.scrumpoker-online.org/en/

Lets you set up your planning poker in seconds, and allows estimating story points in scrum poker online.

Story Set
https://storyset.com/

Awesome free customizable illustrations for your next customer journey.


Figma
https://www.figma.com/de/

Figma is a web-based designing and prototyping tool.

Reclaim
reclaim.ai

Reclaim creates the perfect schedule for your team's priorities, and saves up to 40% of the workweek with intelligent, flexible and adaptive time orchestration.

ONLY FOR GOOGLE CALENDAR

Mentimeter
https://www.mentimeter.com/

Easy-to-build presentations, interactive Polls, Quizzes, and Word Clouds which will allow you to engage with your audience more emotionally and in a fun way.

Slido
https://www.slido.com/

Another tool which allows you to make your meetings with stakeholders or your team more interactive. You can create live polls and capture Q&A sessions easier.


Noun Project

https://thenounproject.com/
Choose over 100,000 icons that you can use for your next personal or professional project.

Unsplash
https://unsplash.com/de

Beautiful pictures that you can use for your next personal or professional project.