Slack

Name: Slack
Rating: 4.1 (40956 reviews)
Author: Slack Technologies, Inc.

Business Communication

Free

41K Ratings
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Business
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Slack Technologies, Inc.
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Companies in every industry around the world grow their business in Slack because it gets busywork off their plates and wasteful meetings off their calendars. Slack brings everyone from coworkers, customers, and contractors into one secure place, so you don’t have to chase approvals or wait around on emails. Slack even has AI that can search to find the information you need instantly and summarize conversations to catch you up with a click. Better yet, Slack makes it easy for anyone on your team to automate the small stuff, giving everyone more time to focus on the big picture. AKA, growing your business. COLLABORATE QUICKER. Work alongside teammates and external partners securely in Slack. • Connect with everyone: Invite vendors, customers, and contractors to work with you and your coworkers — all in one place. • Video chat face-to-face, from anywhere: Meet with teammates instantly through video conferencing, and discuss work live with screen sharing. • Crystal-clear communication: Use voice notes when text alone doesn’t cut it, ensuring complicated messages are better understood. • Stay organized: Keep project, customer, and product conversations in dedicated channels and documents. ACCESS YOUR KNOWLEDGE. Slack is where you can find every file, message, and decision. • Find anything, instantly: Our intelligent, AI-powered search understands context and saves you from digging around to find the answers you need to do your job.** • Collaborate on deliverables: Co-create marketing plans, product specs, and more in shared documents that live right next to your team’s conversations. • Streamline project execution: Track tasks, owners, and priorities with project management tools and lists that connect seamlessly to the rest of your work.* • Create consistent processes: Make sure every new project is set up to succeed with Slack-generated or custom-created* templates. • Capture meeting notes automatically: Let AI transcribe and summarize meeting notes for you in Slack, so you can focus on the conversation.** PERFECT EVERY PROCESS. Let Slack automations do your busywork for you. • Centralize your work: Connect to 2,600+ apps and focus just on Slack, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Asana, Zapier, Figma, Zendesk, and more. • Manage routine tasks: Approve PTO requests, manage your calendar, or update file permissions — all in one place (talk about convenient). • Stay on top of your to-dos: Manage your to-do list from your notepad to where you’re getting the rest of your work done. • Bring the power of Agentforce to your team: Access AI agents to respond to HR tickets, set team reminders, resolve IT issues, and much more.*** *Requires an upgrade to Slack Pro, Business+, or Enterprise. **Requires Slack AI add-on ***Requires Agentforce license from Salesforce

Ratings & Reviews

4.1

out of 5

41K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Years into transforming the workplace, Slack continues to be as essential to teams as ever. Chatting with your colleagues in dedicated channels is at the core of this productivity powerhouse, but don’t snooze on its direct messaging tools, app integrations, and world-famous emoji support. If you need to gather the team for that one final push, you’ll want to do it in Slack.

Editors’ Choice

Years into transforming the workplace, Slack continues to be as essential to teams as ever. Chatting with your colleagues in dedicated channels is at the core of this productivity powerhouse, but don’t snooze on its direct messaging tools, app integrations, and world-famous emoji support. If you need to gather the team for that one final push, you’ll want to do it in Slack.
Circular meetings
09/23/2025

m o 2
Slack and Zoom are greatI was thinking a good feature might be support for a circleEach participant gets a chance to speak one at a time. When they are done they pass the stick to the next person in the circle who speaks to the groupWe do this now but at the end of a persons speech they have to tag the next personEveryone needs to remember who spoke in order to tag someone who has not spokenThis part is a pain it would be nice to at least have some history of some kind to know who has spoken so farThat would only work for the first pass thru the circle (we usually only go around once)And then we go to the parking lot mode where we have interactive conversationsThis is what we do in a regular checkup meeting a lot of people call a SCRUM meetingA plug-in for Circular or SCRUM or built in feature would differentiate Slack from other products Circle meetings are to give every one a chance to get the floor and not. Be interrupted until they pass a stick or physical indicating that they have the floorAlso good for a gathering of friends and relatives What participants need to know is who is the next speaker so they know who is nextIn a physical meeting it’s the person to your rightPlease consider adding a way to make it easier. Raising your hand is interesting but causes people to go out of order…. If this is what they are trying to achieveOn slack I would love captioning Zoom has it already

Developer Response
Thanks for the suggestion, we'll be happy to pass it along to our product team for their consideration! With regards to captions, you can enable captions for huddles via Preferences - Audio & Video - scroll down, and check “Automatically turn on captions when you’re in a huddle”. Hope this helps!
Circular meetings
09/23/2025

m o 2

Slack and Zoom are greatI was thinking a good feature might be support for a circleEach participant gets a chance to speak one at a time. When they are done they pass the stick to the next person in the circle who speaks to the groupWe do this now but at the end of a persons speech they have to tag the next personEveryone needs to remember who spoke in order to tag someone who has not spokenThis part is a pain it would be nice to at least have some history of some kind to know who has spoken so farThat would only work for the first pass thru the circle (we usually only go around once)And then we go to the parking lot mode where we have interactive conversationsThis is what we do in a regular checkup meeting a lot of people call a SCRUM meetingA plug-in for Circular or SCRUM or built in feature would differentiate Slack from other products Circle meetings are to give every one a chance to get the floor and not. Be interrupted until they pass a stick or physical indicating that they have the floorAlso good for a gathering of friends and relatives What participants need to know is who is the next speaker so they know who is nextIn a physical meeting it’s the person to your rightPlease consider adding a way to make it easier. Raising your hand is interesting but causes people to go out of order…. If this is what they are trying to achieveOn slack I would love captioning Zoom has it already
Developer Response 09/24/2025
Thanks for the suggestion, we'll be happy to pass it along to our product team for their consideration! With regards to captions, you can enable captions for huddles via Preferences - Audio & Video - scroll down, and check “Automatically turn on captions when you’re in a huddle”. Hope this helps!
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for iPad
04/14/2022

RufHaus71
The recent iPad App update misses the mark quite considerably. In some ways, it is almost as if Slack doesn’t understand its users. No longer easy to see all unread messages in one place - which was a feature I regularly requested for the desktop app. Now, the iPad app has been turned to be quite bland. Seems like the “Dark Mode” folks won the design argument; as the new app no longer supports the desktop or web app color themes; which now makes the iPad app incredibly difficult to know at a glance which team you’re viewing. Also frustrating are the 3 or so “Unread Direct Messages” you can see, when you tap “Show All” it takes you to the “Direct Messages” sidebar that sorts in its own way, with unreads strewn about. Also, Direct message addresses are much harder to read; too much text all clumped together. Unfortunate for the iPad app, Slack has taken a once very useful version (preferred as a second screen in some cases over the desktop app) and made it into a giant iPhone app. The iPhone app now also suffers from this Direct Message unread messages “Show All” problem. The only way to return some of the missing sort and see all DMs on the iPad app is to select the sort option of “by recent” but it does not group unreads. 7 years using Slack, and this is by far the most disappointing iPad app “upgrade.” Repackage the desktop app for the iPad and call it “Slack Pro” for iPad Pro users who use their iPad in place of a laptop.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for iPad
04/14/2022

RufHaus71

The recent iPad App update misses the mark quite considerably. In some ways, it is almost as if Slack doesn’t understand its users. No longer easy to see all unread messages in one place - which was a feature I regularly requested for the desktop app. Now, the iPad app has been turned to be quite bland. Seems like the “Dark Mode” folks won the design argument; as the new app no longer supports the desktop or web app color themes; which now makes the iPad app incredibly difficult to know at a glance which team you’re viewing. Also frustrating are the 3 or so “Unread Direct Messages” you can see, when you tap “Show All” it takes you to the “Direct Messages” sidebar that sorts in its own way, with unreads strewn about. Also, Direct message addresses are much harder to read; too much text all clumped together. Unfortunate for the iPad app, Slack has taken a once very useful version (preferred as a second screen in some cases over the desktop app) and made it into a giant iPhone app. The iPhone app now also suffers from this Direct Message unread messages “Show All” problem. The only way to return some of the missing sort and see all DMs on the iPad app is to select the sort option of “by recent” but it does not group unreads. 7 years using Slack, and this is by far the most disappointing iPad app “upgrade.” Repackage the desktop app for the iPad and call it “Slack Pro” for iPad Pro users who use their iPad in place of a laptop.
Texting but more complicated
09/15/2025

Skorzeny81
I used this app for several years at a past job. I would say it is like texting with a few small additions like the ability to tag people and notify them of something specific via an accompanying notification. That sounds useful until you actually use it and get tagged dozens of times an hour. Really this is basically just a messaging app with one problem. If you get a message from someone, or multiple people in group message, and you read it and think I will come back to this later and minimize the app when you come back later it is gone. It’s not really gone but it’s not still displayed as it would be if you minimize your texting app or WhatsApp. Instead you have to search for it. If it’s a message from one person you just have to search for that one person and sift through every message they have ever sent. If it has multiple people and you can only remember one you just have to search through every message that one person has ever sent anyone in your organization. If this were free I would say it is maybe useful as an alternative to using direct text messaging. If it costs anything I would say it needs some work. I could see it being good with some tweaks but it isn’t as of my last use which was in May of 2025.

Developer Response
We'd be interested in hearing more about this issue. When you have a moment, please navigate to your app's "You" tab - "Preferences" - "Send Feedback" to flag this with our support team and provide some logs we'll need to investigate. We'll be happy to help!
Texting but more complicated
09/15/2025

Skorzeny81

I used this app for several years at a past job. I would say it is like texting with a few small additions like the ability to tag people and notify them of something specific via an accompanying notification. That sounds useful until you actually use it and get tagged dozens of times an hour. Really this is basically just a messaging app with one problem. If you get a message from someone, or multiple people in group message, and you read it and think I will come back to this later and minimize the app when you come back later it is gone. It’s not really gone but it’s not still displayed as it would be if you minimize your texting app or WhatsApp. Instead you have to search for it. If it’s a message from one person you just have to search for that one person and sift through every message they have ever sent. If it has multiple people and you can only remember one you just have to search through every message that one person has ever sent anyone in your organization. If this were free I would say it is maybe useful as an alternative to using direct text messaging. If it costs anything I would say it needs some work. I could see it being good with some tweaks but it isn’t as of my last use which was in May of 2025.
Developer Response 09/16/2025
We'd be interested in hearing more about this issue. When you have a moment, please navigate to your app's "You" tab - "Preferences" - "Send Feedback" to flag this with our support team and provide some logs we'll need to investigate. We'll be happy to help!

Bug Fixes • The filter option within the DMs tab was doing... nothing. It was ornamental, vestigial, and most definitely broken. We've filtered the offending code right out, and DMs are now A-OK. • Did you know you can send emails to a Slack channel? Pretty neat, huh? Did you also know that forwarding that message to a different channel within Slack would change your avatar to that of a bot and/or app? Notably less neat, we contend. Slack: Now with fewer identity crises. • Launching the app by tapping on a notification banner would sometimes cause channel headers and the "Back" button to be conspicuously absent. There are few things in life from which there is truly no return; go forth in Slack and know that you can always retrace your steps. • When two users had the same display name, we weren't showing their full names alongside in autocomplete menus. This gave the act of tagging someone in a message the same thrilling anxiety as greeting a person whose name you're only 50% sure you remember. Enjoy this fix, brought to you by Slack [Full Name: Slack Technologies, LLC].

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