Viva Goals alternative
Moving off Viva Goals? Keep your OKRs - and see where they'll land
Objectives, key results, check-ins and quarters work the way your team is used to. What's new: every key result gets a forecast to its target date, so the review meeting starts with what's slipping, not with collecting numbers.
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Viva Goals was retired on December 31, 2025. Microsoft announced it in December 2024 and isn't replacing it with another product; after that date the app and its data are no longer accessible (Microsoft Learn).
Viva Goals and GoalNexa, side by side
| Viva Goals | GoalNexa | |
|---|---|---|
| Available | No - retired December 31, 2025 | Yes, hosted or on your own server |
| Status of an OKR | From the gap between actual and expected progress (a straight line from start to end date); can be set by hand | From a forecast: each metric's trend carried to the target date - on track, at risk, off track or achieved |
| Pricing model | Licensed per user (on its own or in the Viva suite) | Flat price per team; members join free (pricing) |
| Microsoft Teams | Teams app | No Teams app - a web link, the Android app, email digests |
| Check in from | Web, Teams, data integrations | Web, Android app, your AI assistant (Claude, Codex, Cursor, ...), a per-metric URL for scripts |
| Initiatives / projects | Yes | No - goals and numbers only; keep tasks in your project tool |
| If the vendor stops | Exports (Excel, PowerPoint, API) until the shutdown date | Download your data any time; the source is public, so you can run it yourself |
Facts about Viva Goals checked 2026-10-24 - sources at the end of the page.
Same ideas, different words
| In Viva Goals | In GoalNexa |
|---|---|
| Objective | A goal - with sub-goals for the teams or people under it |
| Key result | A metric: start → target, in its unit (it may go down, like costs) |
| Check-in | A check-in: the new number and a note, dated when you say |
| Status (on track, behind, at risk) | Health (on track, at risk, off track, achieved), computed from the forecast |
| Time period | A cycle - goals join it, and closing it scores each goal 0-1 |
| Alignment (parent OKR) | Sub-goals under a goal |
| Teams | An organization with teams; a goal template gives each team its own copy |
| Data integrations | Each metric's own check-in URL - send numbers from scripts or automation tools |
| Dashboards | The dashboard, the team board, and a public link to share a live view |
Know mid-quarter which key results won't make it
- One chart per goal: each key result's progress over time and where its pace lands it by the target date.
- A health badge per goal, from the numbers - nobody picks a color.
- Reminders when a check-in is due, and a daily or weekly digest email.
Updates that take seconds
- Check in on the web or the Android app.
- Or tell your AI assistant "we're at 420 beta users" - it finds the key result and logs it.
- Numbers from other systems come in through each metric's own check-in URL.
Quarters, scores and many teams
- Cycles for your quarters; closing one scores every goal 0-1 and can roll unfinished ones into the next.
- Set up the same OKRs for many teams with a goal template; totals add up per team and for the organization.
- Public or private goals, roles for owners and admins, invitations by link.
Not another tool that can disappear
- Download all your data as JSON from your account page, any time.
- The source is public (GitHub) - run it on your own server with Docker if you'd rather hold it yourself.
- Self-hosted, you can sign in with your company's identity provider (OpenID Connect - Microsoft Entra ID works).
When GoalNexa isn't the right pick
- Your team works inside Microsoft Teams and wants OKRs there - GoalNexa has no Teams app.
- You track initiatives and projects next to key results in one tool - GoalNexa tracks goals and numbers, not tasks.
- You're rolling OKRs out to hundreds of people with a formal vendor review - a larger OKR vendor will have the compliance paperwork and account team for it.
- You want people to set a confidence level on each check-in - GoalNexa doesn't have that yet.
Moving from Viva Goals
1
Find your export
Viva Goals offered exports to Excel, PowerPoint and its API until December 31, 2025. Open the file you saved - or your last review deck.
2
Create your organization
Sign up, name the organization and invite the team by link. Members join free.
3
Recreate your OKRs
Add goals and metrics in the app, or paste your export into an AI assistant connected to GoalNexa and ask it to set them up - it shows you a draft first.
4
Bring the history (optional)
Check-ins can be dated in the past, so last quarter's readings draw the same trend they did.
Questions
- Can I still get my data out of Viva Goals?
- Microsoft says Viva Goals and its data are no longer accessible after December 31, 2025. If you exported to Excel or PowerPoint before then, that file is your starting point; otherwise start from your last review notes.
- Is there a one-click import from Viva Goals?
- No. Add goals by hand, or connect an AI assistant (Claude, Codex, Cursor and others) to GoalNexa and give it your export - it creates the goals, key results and past check-ins after you confirm a draft.
- Does GoalNexa work with Microsoft Teams?
- There is no Teams app. Teams share goals inside an organization, see them on the dashboard, get email digests and reminders, and can share a live dashboard with a public link.
- Is it priced per user?
- No. Each plan has one flat price for a team, and members join free. See pricing.
- What if GoalNexa shuts down too?
- You can download your data any time, and the source code is public under the PolyForm Shield license, so you can run your own copy on your own server.
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