Viva Goals Is Retired: 7 Best Replacements in 2026 (Compared)
Microsoft retired Viva Goals on December 31, 2025. Here are the 7 best Viva Goals replacements — compared on Teams integration, pricing, and migration effort.
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Microsoft Viva Goals is gone. Announced in December 2024 and effective December 31, 2025, Microsoft retired the product entirely — citing insufficient adoption — and is not replacing it with another OKR solution. Teams that ran their goal cadence on Viva Goals were pointed at one option: find a third-party alternative.
If that's you, this guide compares the 7 best replacements based on what mattered to Viva Goals users specifically: Microsoft ecosystem fit, migration effort, and whether the tool will still exist in three years.
What Viva Goals' retirement actually signals
Microsoft had unbeatable distribution — Viva Goals was bundled into a suite sitting in front of hundreds of millions of Microsoft 365 users — and still couldn't make a tracking-first OKR product stick. The lesson for choosing a replacement: adoption comes from the weekly usage habit, not from where the tool lives. Weight the check-in experience heavily in your evaluation.
What to Look For in a Replacement
Former Viva Goals teams tend to fall into two groups:
Group 1: "We chose it because it was in Teams." Your priority is ecosystem continuity — look at Teamflect first.
Group 2: "We chose it because it was there, but adoption was mediocre anyway." The retirement is your chance to fix the actual problem. A simpler, cadence-first tool will do more for adoption than another feature platform. Start with Loach or Tability.
1. Loach — Best for Startups & Scale-ups Restarting Their OKR Habit
If Viva Goals adoption was lukewarm, switching to another heavyweight platform repeats the mistake. Loach is built around the one practice that predicts OKR success — the weekly cycle. Quarterly OKRs decompose into weekly priorities; check-ins take minutes because they're about this week's plan, not a status report.
Pricing: First 5 users free forever, then €2.99/user/month — cheaper than Viva Goals' old $6/user standalone price.
Migration: OKRs are re-entered manually or via a structured import — for most teams a 1–2 hour job, and honestly a healthy forcing function to prune dead goals.
Best for: teams under ~100 people who want OKRs people actually update. Full Viva Goals alternative guide →
2. Teamflect — Best for Staying Inside Microsoft Teams
The most natural successor for Teams-first organizations. Teamflect runs OKRs, 1:1s, feedback, and reviews natively in Microsoft Teams — closer to the Viva Goals experience than anything else on this list.
Pricing: Free up to 10 users, then from $7/user/month.
Best for: organizations whose whole workday happens in Teams and who were satisfied with Viva Goals until it vanished.
Watch for: it's a performance-management suite, not a pure OKR tool — more than you need if goals are the only requirement.
3. Perdoo — Best for Strategy-Led Mid-Market
Strategy maps, KPIs, and OKRs in one platform. A step up in strategic structure from Viva Goals without full enterprise weight. Free up to 5 users, then from ~€8/user/month.
4. Quantive Results — Best for Enterprise Feature Parity
If you used Viva Goals' data integrations (Jira, Salesforce, Power BI auto-updating key results), Quantive is the closest enterprise replacement with 175+ integrations. Custom pricing, sales process, real implementation effort — the full enterprise experience. See our Quantive alternatives comparison if that gives you pause.
5. Tability — Best for Automated Check-in Discipline
Automated check-in prompts, clean progress reports, AI-assisted drafting. From $6/user/month. The best-looking product in the category, though navigation gets busy as you scale usage.
6. Mooncamp — Best for European Organizations
Clean visual OKR management with EU hosting — relevant if Viva Goals' retirement is your moment to tidy up data-residency requirements. From €6/user/month.
7. Profit.co — Best for Governance-Heavy Organizations
Weighted key results, review cycles, performance management. Custom pricing. Choose it if your OKR process has a compliance dimension; skip it if adoption was already your struggle.
Migration Checklist (Whatever You Choose)
- Export your history — Viva Goals offered API, Excel, and PowerPoint export before shutdown. If you didn't export before December 31, 2025, check whether your Microsoft admin retained tenant data.
- Don't migrate everything. Import the current quarter and last quarter's scores. Three-year-old OKRs are archaeology, not strategy.
- Fix the cadence before the tool. Decide the weekly check-in ritual first, then configure the new tool around it — teams that check in weekly complete 43% more of their OKRs.
- Re-onboard deliberately. The switch is your one free chance to reset habits. A 30-minute kickoff beats a migration email. (Our OKR kickoff meeting guide has the agenda.)
For the complete market view, see our hands-on comparison of the 15 best OKR software tools.
Related resources:
- Viva Goals Alternative: Detailed Guide — Deeper migration guidance
- Best OKR Software: 15 Tools Tested — The full category comparison
- Loach vs Viva Goals — What changes when you switch
- OKR Software Pricing Guide — Cost comparison across the market
Restarting your OKR cadence after Viva Goals? Try Loach free →