Slack for Desktop 4+
Teamwork made easy
Slack Technologies, Inc.
-
- Free
Screenshots
Description
Slack brings team communication and collaboration into one place so you can get more work done, whether you belong to a large enterprise or a small business. Check off your to-do list and move your projects forward by bringing the right people, conversations, tools, and information you need together. Slack is available on any device, so you can find and access your team and your work, whether you’re at your desk or on the go.
Use Slack to:
• Communicate with your team and organize your conversations by topics, projects, or anything else that matters to your work
• Message or call any person or group within your team
• Share and edit documents and collaborate with the right people all in Slack
• Integrate into your workflow, the tools and services you already use including Google Drive, Salesforce, Dropbox, Asana, Twitter, Zendesk, and more
• Easily search a central knowledge base that automatically indexes and archives your team’s past conversations and files
• Customize your notifications so you stay focused on what matters
Scientifically proven (or at least rumored) to make your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. We hope you’ll give Slack a try.
Stop by and learn more at: https://slack.com/
What’s New
Version 4.38.125
Security Guidance
• This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.
Ratings and Reviews
Adequate
There are some really useful things there. Channels and grouping, file sharing, screen sharing with drawing, tons of external apps like Outlook, an API to send automatic messages and forwarding mails into channels.
Most are working adequately but there are some odd issues here and there. Screen sharing and drawing is not working as expected. Sending messages with the API, word wraps the messages at 60 or 80 characters for some reason. Going offline and reconnecting is giving the app an existential crisis and to resolve it I have to restart it.
Lack of support on old OS versions
I had no complaints about the app since it is the main communication point for the company I work for. All that until this month (March 2024). Then, the Slack company decided to block users like me who still work on old OS versions (older than 11) by forcing them to update their software. See, I have an iMac 2013 - old, yes, but that still runs Figma, Adobe Suite, and other heavy programs, effortlessly! And I know it's not only me. But I genuinely wonder, for the company, how come they make such a business decision, not embrace sustainability in their business and restrict working with old but workable hardware by forcing upgrades? This is a very, very bad user experience, you guys. And it's sad, seeing that from a company who started with users at the center...
Developer Response ,
Hey there, Apologies that this change has impacted you, to clarify why we do this, it's to allow for innovation and keep customer data safe and secure, Slack updates its system requirements every six months in March and September. You can reach out to us at feedback@slack.com for more info. Kindest regards,
1.26 GB of RAM?!?!?!
How can this be like this?
1.26 GB RAM is insane for a "messaging" application.
Yes, it's a lot more, I know and I love it, but still... this is too much guys...
Developer Response ,
Our apologies for being a resource hog on Mac. If you write to us at feedback@slack.com we may be able to offer some tips which could help!
App Privacy
The developer, Slack Technologies, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Contacts
- User Content
- Search History
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Slack Technologies, Inc.
- Size
- 192.6 MB
- Category
- Business
- Compatibility
-
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Languages
-
English, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Slack Technologies, Inc.
- Price
- Free