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Flock was used as a communication channel to share information over texts & calls. Did not find any problems in usage and found it very …
Flock
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8.1
81%
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What is Flock?
Flock is a collaborative business messaging application developed by the small (but multinational) company of the same name, designed to compete with Slack. The company boasts that the app is a fast and reliable means of communication, and is available in a free edition.
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7.0
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Communication
6.9
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File Sharing & Management
7.5
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Product Details
What is Flock?
Flock is a collaborative business messaging application developed by the small (but multinational) company of the same name, designed to compete with Slack. The company boasts that the app is a fast and reliable means of communication, and is available in a free edition.
Flock Technical Details
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| Mobile Application | No |
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What is Flock?
Flock is a collaborative business messaging application developed by the small (but multinational) company of the same name, designed to compete with Slack. The company boasts that the app is a fast and reliable means of communication, and is available in a free edition.
What is Flock's best feature?
Reviewers rate Search highest, with a score of 10.
Who uses Flock?
The most common users of Flock are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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June 14, 2022
Great to Use
Flock was used as a communication channel to share information over texts & calls. Did not find any problems in usage and found it very convenient to use. A great platform to communicate with anyone within the organization rather than sending emails every time. Can initiate a chat instantly to ask & pass any messages.
- Sharing Images, pdf, etc in an instant.
- Creating groups within the organization for selected people and sharing needed information.
- Tag people with particular information with proper intimation to higher management.
- Casual yet professional platform.
- Integrating with other platforms can help users to get a one-stop place to manage all activities.
February 08, 2020
Flock - A great app for collaboration and communication
The team uses Flock alongside Asana (our primary collaboration tool). We have multiple teams working separately with Asana, and Flock is the one place we can all communicate and coordinate together. So it keeps us all connected and working together even if some members are currently working on different projects.
- Communication
- Note Taking
- More detailed functionality
- Task Management
November 07, 2019
A great alternative to the big players in the market
Flock is basically the lifeblood of our firm. We use it daily for communication, calendaring, notes and anything else you can think of. We are a 2 person firm and we are never usually in the office together so it solves the communication problem perfectly. I can't imagine how we organized our notes pre-Flock.
- Real-time communication is perfect.
- The mobile apps really let us take everything on the go.
- It integrates perfectly with our calendar.
- Search functionality is great but could always be improved.
- Maybe some more UI configurations. Allow the end-user to customize more. Color coding always helps.
- Improve to-do apps. It's somewhat convoluted to use.
August 06, 2019
More time working, less time on phone
Among the many communication platforms we have tried, Flock has proved to be the most reliable communication software in this organization. Flock is used in the entire organization irrespective of the departments. With our computers set to open automatically when launched in the morning, this helps in relying on information across a large number of people at the same time. The automatic opening of Flock is the most reliable feature of this app because no one forgets to open this software.
- Networked phones are a thing of past now. We don’t have to stop what we are doing to receive phone calls currently because Flock can do that
- It is now easy to send messages to many people at the same time, all we need to do is to add all the contants in the chat and select all to send a message
- This software has an in-built to-do-list which allows us to assign tasks to different people or users and then supervise each independently
- Flock's video and audio quality is sometimes poor as a result of poor internet connectivity
- It has a messaging limit of 10,000 messages which makes it hard for us to keep messages for future reference
July 31, 2019
Spend less time on the phone and more time working!
Flock is a great resource for communication within the office. We use Flock throughout our entire office and we have also added people from other departments into some of our chats that pertained to them. We have all of our computers set to automatically open Flock when our computers are turned on every morning. This is great because no one 'forgets' to open it and then misses important messages.
- Flock prevents us from having to stop what we are doing to go over to someone else's desk to communicate with them.
- Flock makes is easy to send out office wide messages to go to each person who has been added to our chat.
- Flock allows multiple chats to be set up under each account. For each chat, the original person who created the chat can choose who is in the chat and also whether each person is allowed to read-only or to also send messages.
- Flock has a built-in to-do list. On this list, you have the option of assigning each task to a different person/user and then can check off each item as it is completed.
- There is a 10,000 message limit but this shouldn't be too much of an issue unless you are sending LOTS of messages.
- Audio and video quality can sometimes be distorted during video chats.
December 01, 2018
Birds of a feather do Flock together
I was using Flock heavily for a while. It's free plan covered a lot of the requirements my decentralized booking team needed. We ended up moving to another platform to better address our needs, however I still do recommend Flock for its use and features. The best feature is its collaborative nature and streamlined communication process.
- The ability to start a direct group conversation or individual-to-individual conversation helped us sort through creative problem-solving.
- Sharing files such as photos from job sites or costume ideas helped us with creative brainstorming.
- The integration with Google Drive and Dropbox also allowed us to streamline our conversations about creative solutions.
- A tool is only good if people use it. Some of the artists I work with found it too complex (though I don't think they really gave it a good shot).
- We used it heavily for about six months and it didn't hit too many other big negative points.
April 06, 2018
It's pretty Flockin good?
We used Flock as a messaging tool for the entire company. Each department had different channels, specialty groups had channels, and we also used it for one-on-one communication.
We'd used Slack in the past but dropped it due to the limited message storage with the free version. We moved to Glip (a message service that comes with the RingCentral suite of tools), but as we moved away from RingCentral, we needed a new tool. Flock was a decent tool compared to the rest. Unfortunately, there was a similar messaging limit with Flock, but we stuck with it anyway.
We'd used Slack in the past but dropped it due to the limited message storage with the free version. We moved to Glip (a message service that comes with the RingCentral suite of tools), but as we moved away from RingCentral, we needed a new tool. Flock was a decent tool compared to the rest. Unfortunately, there was a similar messaging limit with Flock, but we stuck with it anyway.
- Good value (we used the free plan and it did plenty).
- There were some additional messaging properties (sending stickers, being alerted when changes were made to GDocs, etc) that were nice.
- Few bugs, UX issues, or errors.