GoTo Meeting vs. Slack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoTo Meeting
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
From GoTo (formerly LogMeIn), GoToMeeting is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software that enables users to connect via the internet. It hosts a suite of online meeting tools, including real-time screen sharing and integrated audio.
$12
per month
Slack
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…
$8.75
per month per user
Pricing
GoTo MeetingSlack
Editions & Modules
Professional
$12.00
Per Organizer / Per Month for 150 Participants [billed annually]
Business
$16.00
Per Organizer / Per Month for 250 Participants [billed annually]
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
3,000 Participants
Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoTo MeetingSlack
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing available by monthly or annual subscription, with discounts for annual commitments.*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
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Community Pulse
GoTo MeetingSlack
Considered Both Products
GoTo Meeting
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoToMeeting is the gold standard when it comes to overall value and connection quality. Others, such as Slack and Google Hangouts, require other users to have accounts and be existing users (and even then, there are limitations in terms of connecting various groups). The …
Chose GoTo Meeting
I like GoToMeeting better than Teams, because Teams doesn't automatically integrate conference calling (telephonically) for those who are external to your organization and who might not use Teams. I like it similarly to Zoom and really don't have a preference of one over the …
Chose GoTo Meeting
There is little to choose from when looking at a lot of the platforms in terms of video quality and ease of use. I have preferred Zoom more recently as it seems to work a lot better. BlueJeans is excellent in terms of sounds and video quality as well. PowWow Now is much worse …
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoTo Meeting has evolved from a webinar app to a full solution that tries to be a central tool for the communications of the company. We chose it over Slack due to its more professional look and fool and over Zoom as its solution is more complete in terms of features.
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoTo Meeting stacks up well against Teams, Slack, and Google Meet in terms of functionality, features, performance, and productivity. The only major downside as aforementioned, is the Cost, which is considerably more than the other 3 and Zoom. GoTo Meeting is very much our …
Chose GoTo Meeting
We value GoTo Meeting’s consistent performance. There are fewer technical issues throughout the meetings. One reason to select GoTo is the user-friendly and self-explanatory interface. The seamless calendar integration keeps our meetings organized and ensures that all …
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoTo Meeting beats these tools because it has many more features.

The interface looks a lot better and cleaner and there’s less lag during meetings. It makes meetings in the workplace a lot more enjoyable
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoTo Meeting is in the middle of the pack. The reason we utilized GoTo Meeting is because it was originally Jive. Jive was in our backyard, we knew the owner. When it was Jive, it worked great. We helped contribute to the jive applications, we used it for free for them and we …
Chose GoTo Meeting
With an enterprise subscription, we get a lot of great features we use for a lower price than some competitors. It is also easy to use for our clients as well as our staff.
Chose GoTo Meeting
Zoom uses same technology for Meetings but to me zoom seems a bit less secure. zoom has chat feature which I like better as it helps chatting with individuals on the meetings.
Webex is also same technology but seems slower for meetings.Webex seems to use a lot of internet …
Chose GoTo Meeting
It works well; it has a nice feature list and good quality; the reason we chose the tool was that it was out of the normal rotation of the tool.
Chose GoTo Meeting
For large webinars and external customer-facing meetings, GoTo Meeting is a strong solution. Microsoft Teams, and Zoom, are alternatives I prefer to use when speaking to smaller teams and for other types of connections due to their improvement in UI, mobile apps, and ease of use.
Chose GoTo Meeting
Functionality amongst all the standard video/chat conference collaboration tools is about the same with the exception of better integration of other companies' software applications in their portfolio. I ran into issues with buffering with users on low bandwidth or "hot spot" …
Chose GoTo Meeting
I selected GoTo Meeting because it was a solid product before covid. However, once covid hit goto failed to keep up with its competitors. It came to making improvements and adding new features. In my opinion, it's slowly catches up but continues to lose ground as the other …
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoToMeeting seems to have less functionality and does not integrate as well with the Microsoft suite. Calendar invites, streamlining between chat and meetings, document sharing are all more difficult with GoToMeeting. This software would work better in a company that does not …
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoTo Meeting is free, which should be a good point to make the right decision and choose this application, moreover, GoTo Meeting is always innovating on its platform, making servers better, and implementing new technologies, if you need a communication tool that gives you an …
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoTo Meeting is a solid contender in the video conferencing solution market. It does some things incredibly well and is clearly a market leader when it comes to webinar-style conferencing. Other things it is less strong in, like co-authoring or multiple conflicting technical …
Chose GoTo Meeting
No comparison. Zoom has many dropped calls and ends sessions earlier than we need (free version). Has not provided our org. with that it needs to function well.
Chose GoTo Meeting
GoTo Meeting, [in my experience,] is severely underwhelming compared [to] the three that I mentioned above. If you are trying to decide to use either GoTo Meeting or Skype for Business [I feel] you have chosen your two worst options. Zoom and Google Hangouts, especially Google …
Chose GoTo Meeting
I've used Zoom in the past and it has a clean interface. I wouldn't say that I have used it as much as I have GoToMeeting but its general purpose for conducting calls/meetings is present. The meeting codes are sometimes tedious to enter and the link (in my experience) sometimes …
Chose GoTo Meeting
Compared to its competitors, GoToMeeting offers a friendlier and more intuitive user interface that allows for screen share and session recording. Converting your recordings for distribution takes no time and is easy to do and manage. The screen sharing capabilities allow for …
Chose GoTo Meeting
Had to make a choice. Our clients use it a lot, so this is how we made our decision.
Chose GoTo Meeting
It is at the bottom of my list due to the problems we have had with GTM during our 2-year subscription use.
Chose GoTo Meeting
To be honest, it's always hard to choose which video conferencing software to use. A lot of the time it comes down to my customer's or user's preference if they are already using an existing one. I don't want to force the people I am communicating with to use a different …
Slack
Chose Slack
The feature set of the chat capability in GoToMeeting is quite limited, fine for basic communication but not much else.

Discord is a fine tool for online communities, but the lack of control over the data and environment makes it a less than ideal business tool (if something is …
Chose Slack
The integration tools within Slack are easy to use and can quickly be added. I find that sharing documents, videos, and other resources is really easy. I don't have to do any special customization in order to use all the features in Slack, it just lets me add apps, or join …
Chose Slack
Slack is much more useful because the information and conversations can be much better organized, splitting the several topics or tasks across different channels. Slack is also much more powerful because it allows third party tools to be seamlessly integrated in the app. In …
Chose Slack
We selected Slack because HipChat was being deprecated, and we needed to migrate to something else. Slack was the closest product in comparison to what we had tested. There were pains in migrating, but after all, was completed, it was pretty close to the same functionality and …
Chose Slack
Skype for Business was cool but did not provide so rich management functionality, after switching to Slack we got rid of a number of problems of Skype for Business such as internal hosting of hardware and necessity of system administration. Slack is provided as a service, so we …
Chose Slack
Slack kicks Gchat out of the water. It has many more features and seems to be built for business.
Chose Slack
Slack is more fun and the integrations and channels more it more sophisticated.
Chose Slack
Slack is better for group communication. Information is not lost somewhere once you close it. In Skype, your missed or finished chats are saved in Outlook folder and it is hard to find the one you are looking for. In Slack you just scroll.
It, however, does not have calls and …
Chose Slack
I wasn't involved in the selection of Slack. It was in place as a tool when I arrived at my position, however, I appreciate very much that the decision to use Slack as a major way of communicating in IT was made. If I were in a position where a tool such as Slack was needed, I …
Features
GoTo MeetingSlack
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Meeting
8.1
407 Ratings
2% above category average
Slack
-
Ratings
High quality audio8.7407 Ratings00 Ratings
High quality video8.6400 Ratings00 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements7.3375 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile support7.9322 Ratings00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Meeting
8.1
398 Ratings
2% above category average
Slack
-
Ratings
Desktop sharing8.2398 Ratings00 Ratings
Whiteboards8.1272 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Meeting
8.1
399 Ratings
1% below category average
Slack
-
Ratings
Calendar integration8.0355 Ratings00 Ratings
Meeting initiation8.4386 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with social media7.7198 Ratings00 Ratings
Record meetings / events8.1362 Ratings00 Ratings
Slideshows8.1312 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Meeting
8.2
368 Ratings
2% above category average
Slack
-
Ratings
Live chat8.3358 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience polling8.1261 Ratings00 Ratings
Q&A8.3285 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Meeting
8.1
368 Ratings
1% above category average
Slack
-
Ratings
User authentication8.0330 Ratings00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions8.2354 Ratings00 Ratings
Confidential attendee list8.2290 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Meeting
-
Ratings
Slack
7.9
625 Ratings
2% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings7.7428 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.961 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.8361 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.1394 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.4598 Ratings
Search00 Ratings8.3605 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.4273 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Meeting
-
Ratings
Slack
8.8
633 Ratings
9% above category average
Chat00 Ratings9.6632 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings8.8629 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings9.2617 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings8.1410 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.8409 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.9120 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Meeting
-
Ratings
Slack
8.4
600 Ratings
5% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.2324 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings8.3538 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.5525 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings8.0426 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings8.3409 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings8.3360 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings9.0452 Ratings
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GoTo MeetingSlack
Small Businesses
Intermedia AnyMeeting Pro
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Score 7.1 out of 10
Stackby
Stackby
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
JioMeet
JioMeet
Score 9.8 out of 10
Troop Messenger
Troop Messenger
Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Webex Meetings
Webex Meetings
Score 8.6 out of 10
HCL Connections
HCL Connections
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
GoTo MeetingSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(442 ratings)
9.1
(625 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.5
(51 ratings)
10.0
(25 ratings)
Usability
5.2
(35 ratings)
9.0
(248 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(52 ratings)
9.9
(68 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.9
(8 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Configurability
4.5
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
3.0
(1 ratings)
9.2
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoTo MeetingSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
I provide regular training as a big portion of my job. There is weekly training with an infinite number of users in attendance on any given date—GoTo Meeting is not the best option for this because I would have to mute users as they join the meeting. However, I also provide frequent training sessions to a small number of users that feature more individualized content, and having them able to mute/unmute at will is a better fit for a smaller group with in-depth materials.
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Salesforce
Slack is great for tracking commits to new coding projects. You can take parts of code that still need to be implemented later and easily search through the history of comments if there is something that goes wrong with a code commitment. It can be difficult for people that only like Teams to adjust to a new platform if you are using both to communicate.
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Pros
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
  • Excellent audio and video quality.
  • Functional and easy-to-use screen-sharing feature for product demonstrations and presentations.
  • Possibility of recording meetings that we can later review and share with those who could not attend.
  • Possibility of managing the microphone of the participants in host mode so as not to disturb the entire event.
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Salesforce
  • Huddles Run smoothly without any interferences.
  • Smooth individual calls quick and easy without any interruptions.
  • seamless notifications across multiple devices
  • The ability to easily tag a team member to urgently attend to a specific escalation.
  • Slack being user friendly and able to integrate easily with other platforms and apps.
  • How to easily open up different channels for different escalations and needs.
  • a safe direct messaging option.
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Cons
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
  • We occasionally experience slow performance during screen sharing.
  • The help center should have detailed tutorials on commonly asked FAQs and also to initially set up the profile.
  • One of my initial thoughts regarding recordings was to edit them in the future when the product changes.
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Salesforce
  • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
  • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
  • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
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Likelihood to Renew
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
We used other software like goto meetings but found it best because of its user friendly interface and easy interfacing. It helped us in COVID and now we can say we are depending on it and love it. We recommend it to our friends company and they are also using it. It is very affordable and easy to integrate with system
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Salesforce
To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
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Usability
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
The simplicity of GoToMeetings desktop, mobile, and web-based applications make it a very robust and user-friendly meeting solution. At times, it may be more complex than needed, but it is nice to have so many features that can be used if needed. Once installed, it is very easy to use and navigate.
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Salesforce
My rating was 7. Its intuitive interface and user-friendly features like channels, threads, and integrations make it excellent for team communication and onboarding. However, its usability is held back by the resource-intensive desktop app and cluttered feeling in large workspaces. The mobile app's performance and unreliable notifications have also been noted as weaknesses.
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Reliability and Availability
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
This application has always been available. Never an issue
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Salesforce
Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
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Performance
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
This application is fast. Loads fast, no stall
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Salesforce
Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
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Support Rating
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
When we have issues, they seem to respond quickly and do everything they can to help us. They have even tried to find other ways we could get more use out of their product, or improve the way we are currently using it. Overall, their support has been fairly good for us.
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Salesforce
Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
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Implementation Rating
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
It was very easy and self-explanatory.
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Salesforce
I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
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Alternatives Considered
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
Many times, it seems like GoTo Meeting requires less bandwidth to run. We noticed with a few test machines that if you have over twenty video streams, this product could handle the load better than if we used Microsoft Teams and had many video streams.
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Salesforce
I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
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Return on Investment
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn)
  • Any collaboration app these days are now a great addition for those organizations which have more than one office and they need to collaborate with each other.
  • GoTo Meeting can contribute to cost savings by reducing the need for extensive travel, accommodation, and related expenses associated with in-person meetings especially in case like us as we have multiple branches.
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Salesforce
  • Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
  • Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
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ScreenShots

GoTo Meeting Screenshots

Screenshot of GoTo App - Create Meeting (Out of Session)Screenshot of GoTo App - Join Meeting (Out of Session)Screenshot of GoTo App - Meeting (In Session)Screenshot of GoTo App - Mobile Meetings (Out of Session)Screenshot of GoTo App - Screen Share Meeting (In Session)