Microsoft Teams is a one-stop, unified platform where you can access anything and everything without having to leave the app. It offers most of the in-house apps like Office, Skype, OneNote, and more. On top of that, Microsoft Teams has a library of hundreds of third-party apps which is simply amazing. From Trello to Zoom, you can add any third-party app to Microsoft Teams and the integration is quite deep. So in this article, we show you how you can add third-party apps on Microsoft Teams and take your productivity to the next level. With that in mind, let’s now go through the steps.
There are three places where you can add third-party apps on Microsoft Teams: Sidebar where apps will only be available to you; Tabs where apps will be shared with the whole team; Chat window where apps will be available to everyone in your team and offer you instant third-party service within the group conversation.
On the next page, you will be taken to hundreds of third-party apps. Now, simply open your favorite app and click on the “Add” button.
Finally, coming to Chat apps, open the “Chat” window and click on the 3-dot menu on the bottom-bar. Here, click on “More Apps”.
So that is how you can add third-party apps on Microsoft Teams. As we went through the article, we can see that there are three different ways to bring third-party services to Teams. However, the objective is common: access everything you need on Teams without opening another tab or window. I would say, after testing the apps, the integration is quite good and you would surely enjoy instant access to so many third-party services.
