Slack
Real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams to stay focused and productive.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Group Chat App
- Team Collaboration Tool
- Video Calling App
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
What is Slack?
Slack is a unified communication platform built with an optimized workflow to keep modern teams focused and productive. A familiar chat interface facilitates discussions while advanced features are easily exposed based on context. Hover over a message to see more options such as emoji reactions, sharing and pinning features and more. A navigation bar provides easy access to key features including a powerful search to find important discussions, files and more.
Conversations are organized across dedicated Channels, neatly arranged in a responsive sidebar with collapsible sections. These Channels are highly configurable and allow for flexibility in working with various teams but can also be shared externally, making it easy to hold discussions with partners and clients.
Slack Screenshots
Slack Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for @mentions
- Real time collaboration
- IFTTT Integration
- VoiP Calls
- Multi Channel
- Team Collaboration
- Electron based
- HIPAA compliant
- Channels
- Threaded Conversations
- Out Of The Box
- Integrated File Sharing
- Reactions
- Multiple teams
- Project Management
- Direct file uploading
- Channel manager
- Multiple channels
- Live Push Notifications
- Team work
- Onboarding
- Video Calling
- Video Conferencing
- App integration
Slack information
Supported Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Chinese
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- 3.81 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Group Chat
- Chat Rooms
- collaboration
As an application that I use across multiple devices and multiple professional and personal contexts, Slack manages to deliver an effective, efficient, and truly seamless collaborative hub. Not only do we use it here at AlternativeTo, but many companies and both formal and informal working groups use Slack every day to maximize collaborative productivity while minimizing the effort needed to ensure that everyone is on the same page. With the ability to create workspaces that can house seemingly limitless channels, as well as support for plenty of add-ons that can both enhance productivity as well as give you a moment to breathe (such as polling or
Giphy gifs, respectively), Slack can ensure that you're never far from your career or your hobbies.
UI is simple and intuitive, it's a great app for collaborating and sharing among colleagues.
The UI is consistently unfriendly and getting worse with each change. It's a very busy, brightly colored (toddler friendly color scheme) chat tool with so-so voice chat functions which seems to be progressively getting less stable than Skype for Business (a bar so low that they have to try very hard to be that bad).
They've been introducing more and more "features" to get in the way, such as mandatory channels, the emoji that is mandatory, unprofessional plugins that they encourage you to use, non-chronological order discussions in the same channel, etc. Almost all of this just worked fine if you used their IRC or XMPP gateway. Except -- they're shutting that down precisely because they don't support those features.
The security implications of third party stored communications that you cannot delete are also huge, making it unsafe to use in the enterprise unless you pay for it and have an explicit delete policy.
The company is not responsive to feedback, showing consistent arrogance especially on user accessibility for those who have specific needs like their fonts.
Slack used to be a great collaboration and communication tool. We used it a lot in different non-profit organisations as a free version. Now, they free tier became so crooked. They would allow to see the conversations for the last 3 months. Everything older than that will be hidden from participants until they pay to Slack or the workspace owner upgrades the workspace to a paid plan. For not so wealthy non-profits it became almost useless. Multiple workspace owners are now consider to move to Discord and other platforms.
love all the functions, the emojis... unfortunately the free version could have more features
Great app for chatting and collaboration
Channel organization is great for categorizing content and keeping discussions focused. Started using as an undergrad and now it's all I use to communicate with profs, research colleagues in grad school