Standup bots ask you to type your update. Jitly reads it from your actual git history.
Geekbot and similar tools DM you every morning asking what you did yesterday, what you're doing today, any blockers. They're fine, they work, a lot of remote teams use them.
The catch is you're still typing the update from memory. If you don't remember exactly what you shipped yesterday, you either skip details or make something vague up ("worked on the dashboard stuff").
It pulls your actual commits from the last 24 hours, shows what ticket you're on right now, and asks for blockers — then formats all of it into something you can paste straight into Geekbot or Slack or wherever your team posts updates. It doesn't replace the bot, it just makes what you type into it accurate.