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What is Slack?
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…
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- Chat (405)9.696%
- Mobile Access (382)9.292%
- Discussions (392)9.292%
- Notifications (401)8.989%
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- Setting up quick meetings via huddle is the favorite feature. It instantly opens door for quick and ad-hoc communications very well and is a pretty us...
- Searching also becomes a bit challenging, it would be good if there's a date range filter to check the messages from a specific date range as often ti...
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What is Slack?
Slack is a Digital HQ
As the command center of the workday, Slack provides a flexible way to work with people, apps and partners in one space.
The new space for success
Slack connects people with each other and with their tools and data, equipping teams to be productive and open up opportunities.
Slack connects people with each other and with their tools and data, equipping teams to be productive and open up opportunities.
Transform Teamwork
Working together in channels—dedicated spaces built around specific projects and initiatives—keeps the right people and information in one place.
Embrace Flexibility
Huddles let teams chat over audio instantly, with the option for video and screen sharing with the tap of a button.
Work Faster
With clips, teams can create audio, video and screen recordings to share updates, walk through demos or talk out an idea with more clarity (and personality).
Extend Collaboration
Slack Connect lets users work alongside external partners and customers in Slack channels, to speed up projects and strengthen relationships.
Integrate Tools
From project management tools to a daily calendar, Slack integrates with more than 2,400 applications.
Automate Tasks
In Slack, users can turn routine meetings and tasks like standups, approvals and requests into automated workflows.
Slack Features
Project Management Features
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Scheduling
- Supported: Workflow Automation
- Supported: Mobile Access
- Supported: File tracking
- Supported: Tagging
- Supported: Search
- Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools
- Supported: Visual planning tools
Communication Features
- Supported: Chat
- Supported: Status updates and activity feed
- Supported: Notifications
- Supported: Comments and feedback
- Supported: Discussions
- Supported: User directory and online status
- Supported: Sharing and privacy
- Supported: Surveys
- Supported: Internal knowledgebase
- Supported: Integrates with Skype
- Supported: Integrates with GoToMeeting
- Supported: Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
- Supported: Integrates with Outlook
File Sharing & Management Features
- Supported: Versioning
- Supported: Document files
- Supported: Image files
- Supported: Video files
- Supported: Audio files
- Supported: Document collaboration
- Supported: Shared folders
- Supported: Access control
- Supported: Advanced security features
- Supported: Integrates with Google Drive
- Supported: Integrates with SharePoint
- Supported: Device sync
- Supported: Web interface
- Supported: File change notifications
- Supported: Simultaneous editing
Additional Features
- Supported: Audio Conferencing
- Supported: Video Conferencing
- Supported: Sales Enablement
- Supported: Unified Communications as a Service
- Supported: Meeting Management
- Supported: Encrypted Communications
Slack Competitors
Slack Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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 company has raised $340M in funding and boasts 800k users.
Slack starts at $0.
Reviewers rate Chat highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Slack are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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April 14, 2023
Powerful tool for team communication and productivity!
- Integration with Hubspot and CRMs
- Different Channel creation for individual departments
- Easy communication; Video/Audio and screenshare with colleagues
- Uploaded files at one place, starred content and quick search
- Channel mentions in individual conversations
- Application is high on RAM
- Search option in Mobile Application
- Slack Bot can be more interactive
- Great tool for getting not-so-tech-savvy clients to respond w/ design feedback
- Easily have conversations w/ mult. team members at once w/out email
- Great for quick video chats, but set boundaries with co-workers on using as it's too easy to request a video chat
- I still don't 100% like the availability status. It's something I forget to go into a reset when I leave my office or take a break. Need a quicker way to toggle work status on/off
- I'm not sure I have another complaint
- No really, I don't think I have another complaint
April 14, 2023
A better collaboration and integration platform
- Integration with various apps
- Good voice quality on huddles
- Organise chats
- Try to build features for video calls
- Phrase suggestions
- Better mobile app experience
April 14, 2023
Great communication tool
- Chat
- Phone
- Video
- None
April 11, 2023
Slack for the team
- Great tool for communication
- A lot of integrations
- Mobile Application
- The Desktop application is sometimes too slow
- Price of Slack for Small companies is too much
April 11, 2023
The best way to communicate inside the organization
- Messaging
- Sharing code
- Sharing files
- Slack Huddle can be improved
- A way to control the screen of another use through Slack
April 11, 2023
Happy Slack-er!
- Instant messaging
- Team building
- File sharing
- Technical support
- Account support
- OOO
March 29, 2023
Excellent tool for communication
- Allows efficient communication
- Keep history of messages in channels for years
- Search functionally really works
- Integrations with other tools are great
- Integration with file storage tools could be better
March 13, 2023
Slack -- Fun and Easy to Use!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Communicate
- Collaborate
- Share info
- Stay connected
- Conduct quick polls
- Improved integration with Gmail
March 06, 2023
Slack Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- internal communication
- sharing documents/links
- connecting with your teammates
- bug issues with updates
- find a better way to notify you on a new message , bolding the conversation does not help with urgent slacks.
- more privacy in the group chats
February 27, 2023
Slack connects our team easily and helps us collaborate.
- Instant communication
- Group meetings
- Asynchronous communication
- Video calls are sometimes wonky, though better than they used to be.
- Responses to a particular comment begin a thread, which is kind of useful, but this thread is a single layer deep (ie no responding to a particular comment inside the thread) and I think another layer or two would be nice.
- There should be an option to open the thread below the comment responded to rather than just in the thin sidebar.
February 24, 2023
Use Slack to increase Productivity
- Sharing of Video files. We can share explainer videos among colleagues easily.
- Direct communication is simple but well presented
- Easy to create channel for project. We can create any amount of channels
- I prefer the desktop app and don't really like the mobile app which requires better UI
- Should have integration with more apps
February 21, 2023
Immediate & transparent communications for those who can manage it.
- Slack speeds communicating up.
- Slack enables transparent communications.
- Slack has flexibility to customize notifications so you can balance noise with focus.
- Slack enables you to keep important information top of mind (pin posts, set message reminders).
- Slack enables you to schedule sending messages so you can respect colleagues' work hours.
- If you have many channels, it can be hard to remember where you saw a post to get back to it.
- If other users don't know how to manage communications specifically for Slack, then it can get cluttered and disorganized.
- If a company uses both email and slack equally, it can duplicate effort and cause confusion where messages are sent – you need to create clear guidelines for your employees.
February 09, 2023
Benefits of Slack
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Real time notifcations
- Dependable communication
- Connectivity is better then other chat forums
- Sync to ATS or email or even LinkedIn
January 05, 2023
Top Communication Platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Chat application within and outside organization
- Bots to make things easier
- Web hooks to integrate and send automatic notifications
- Emoji and sticker support is delight
- Text formatting could be improved.
- Support for tables need to be added
- Reply suggestions will be helpful
December 15, 2022
Impeccable as a real-time communication tool
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Real-time discussions between team members like a chat application
- Direct integrations with calendar and video call applications
- Intuitive shorthand for emoji inputs and Markdown styling
- Smart copy-paste UX for media files and external links that detects the type of assets being pasted
- Streamlined mechanism for archiving older discussions to easily search and find items — currently, any old discussions/threads become hard to find in the sea of more recent discussions
- Ability to categorizing the channels, so that users won't have to comb through a lengthy list of channels — currently, when there are dozens of channels one subscribe to, it becomes challenging to find the signal from the noise
December 07, 2022
Slack is the way to go for sailing through projects together quicker and more efficient.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Organize topics or events.
- post graphics or files for viewing from different members.
- A great way to notify others when things are posted to get feedback quickly.
- Possibly there is a way to pin graphics that are posted in a group so it stays on top.
- Ability to work on files together such as word docs.
- Tools to annotate on top of graphics.
November 21, 2022
Slack is a fantastic communication app for any company
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Allows us to communicate with team members across the company, anywhere in the world.
- Be up to date about the ongoing project or any other updates.
- UI and UX are amazing
- It lags at times on certain devices.
- More customization of notifications would be deeply appreciated
- Read receipts
November 07, 2022
Slack is a great chat app for big companies
- Integration with other services
- Messages and UI of the conversation itself
- Channels for every different topic
- The replies are still looks a little bit overhead if you are talking 1 on 1
- Slack has a troubles with the timezones, can just use a fix one which toy settle in the settings
November 07, 2022
Slack is a great tool for businesses of all sizes and stage!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Departmental Communication
- Direct Employee to Employee Communication
- Organizing conversations
- The ability to share larger file sizes.
- Data Retention.
- The ability to sort through the information based on content type.
October 15, 2022
Slack is great for teamwork.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Great work flow.
- Reminders are awesome.
- Helps manage deals and scheduling.
- Reminders don't go off.
- Calendar built in would be great.
- Better interface.
October 12, 2022
Great Communication Enhancer
- Quick and easy messaging
- Screen sharing
- Calls
- Could be easier to message new people
- Screen sharing can cause some lag
- Occasional forced log out is annoying
October 12, 2022
Slack has been great for our company!
- Allows for communication between teams and individuals
- Has ability to have multiple channels so you can divide out teams
- User friendly
- Can't get giphy to work all of the time.
- Be more clear in how to change notifications.
October 11, 2022
Best in the business
- The threading option in Slack is one of the finest options and allows us to discuss a particular topic in the thread itself. By doing this, the messages about a particular topic won't be scattered.
- Slack has a lot of Emoji that are very interactive and brings a smile to the face and I personally love it.
- We can integrate slack with Jira, Calendars, etc., which is required for any employee working in the IT field.
- I don't know why Slack doesn't allow us to add people in the huddle where it is started by someone else. That feature should be added soon.
- I don't believe Slack requires any improvements, as the application already sits on the top. Anyways, there is room to improve and make the UI more user-friendly.
- The huddle option is nice in 1-1 calls, but the huddles in the channels should pop a prompt for confirmation because we might accidentally start a huddle in channels.
October 08, 2022
Slack makes me more productive with easy access to my team.
- Well thought out chat service for 1:1s.
- Allows for collaboration among bigger groups via channels.
- Syncs well with calendars to keep you on pace and allow others to know your availability.
- I'd like to see further ways to organize my chats. Right now, it's very linear. Maybe folders inside folders.
- Being able to transfer any videos recorded in Slack between slack conversations without downloading and uploading. Aka, a Slack link for the video (like loom).
- A cheat sheet of available commands (like starting a zoom chat) --I'd love to know what all my company has enabled.