What are good Slack alternatives?

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I'm looking for something like slack but with less notifications. I saw it here on Product Hunt the other day. Similar to Slack, but designed to distract less. Anyone know its name? Was still in beta I think.

Jason Zheng · Accepted Answer

The key thing for our team is that Flock integrates all the critical integration that most users need and you get unlimited integrations for free. The premium version is also just half the price of Slack. Finally, adding multiple teams is much easier.

Aleksandra · Answer

Twist is great, I've been testing it for a few months, and I absolutely love it! I was surprised how easy it was to switch to Twist. The team conversations seem very easy and well organised now. And yes, less distractful. Definitely worth trying.
I'm a huge fun of what the Twist team is doing in terms of promoting more mindful team communication.

Yuliia Chernykh · Answer

Hey Bernadette, it's like you're describing Chanty - https://www.chanty.com/
Chanty is a simple and fast, AI-powered team chat created especially for boosting communication and productivity in small and medium-sized teams. It's currently in beta stage, but the official Chanty release is planned this year. Notification settings in Chanty allow you to stay updated only with your desired information. You can snooze notifications from 15 minutes to 8 hours in one click, choose when you will be notified (with all new messages, one-to-one messages, mentions, task updates or nothing), turn off/on notification sounds and use a silent mode (the ability to turn notifications off for a specific time period). In addition to the instant messaging feature, Chanty provides a built-in task manager. Tasks in Chanty allows you to organize your daily activities in the best way.

Ajinkya Borade · Answer

Well as JavaScript Developer, we needed something to suit the coding and sharing across teams. With Flock we can share code, have screensharing, or even get Github notifications when code is committed or build is triggered. Slack is good, but not the best. Hence we choose Flock, with free version its more than what Slack can offer.

Also, you can import your entire Slack team to Flock with 1 click from Settings.

Philippe Lehoux · Answer

The email client UI applied to team messaging is our core innovation. We firmly believe that the volume of internal conversations in organizations, even small ones, is so massive that it requires something more powerful than the infinite channels offered by Slack.

See this link for details on the difference between Slack and Missive: https://missiveapp.com/slack-vs-missive

Sam Rye · Answer

Pretty sure you were referring to Twist in your description.

It's built by the team who built Todoist, so it also integrates nicely with that for task and/or project management.

They wrote a take down on medium, about how and why Slack actually eats your life. Pretty compelling. I'm not sure how others who use Twist feel about the outcome of their work though - if it reduces the anxiety, for example.

David Crowther · Answer

Love the fact that you can include people in chats with just their email address—they don't have to sign up.

Tejas Kinger · Answer

We've switched over from Slack to Hipchat for communication between teams.

Nick Morey · Answer

Amazing integration of tools and APIs, productivity focused, and can be as deep or simple as you need it

mounika devi · Answer

With features like unlimited chat storage, audio/video calling, location sharing, Unlimited Group creation, Broadcasting and many more, Troop messenger promises to provide everything needed 
for a successful team communication

Ayrton De Craene · Answer

Slack focuses on building a great product for teams, not necessarily large open communities. So some larger communities have been moving away from Slack such as reactiflux. They are well designed, easy to use, and surprisingly fast. In addition to the web app, they have mobile apps on both iOS and Android as well as desktop apps for OS X and Windows. Source

Jeff Waters · Answer

Pretty good choice of app that boosts collaboration and protects all communications within a team, company or large enterprise. The product is available is Saas and on-premise solution for those who seek complete security. The functionality and featured tools are much more expanded that in Slack and the app offers an admin pannel to keep complete track of security, tune up the system, create templates and mixture of policies. Otherwise it's pretty much the same.

Alexey Pikurov · Answer

You can try MyChat — a secure instant messenger that has all helpful features for team collaboration in an office:
- task management
- screen sharing
- remote control
- voice and video calls

MyChat is very flexible and can be configured in different ways.

Stowe Boyd · Answer

Fleep has built-in task management, as well

Sam Rye · Answer

An alternative to slack that doesn't require you to have a log in...

Fabian Cook · Answer

Open source, doesn't lock you into anything, complete ownership of data, hosted where ever you want.

We use Rocket.Chat for our clients that want a "slack" like chat within their software,

Brandon Anzaldi · Answer

Another open source, self-hosted slack alternative. I know they've definitely been working hard on improving Mattermost, and they have enterprise versions with more features for relatively little per user, per month.

HyperOffice · Answer

More that group chat. Video/audio meetings, screen sharing, tasks, scheduling etc.

Laurie Hérault · Answer

We change from Slack to Microsoft Teams... Better audio/video/screensharing and better integration with other tools... For example you can create a "group channel" and add a tab with a wiki or kanban or other website.

Mark Justin Harvey · Answer

built with the "time well spent" thought process behind it

Lachlan Campbell · Answer

Basecamp’s Campfire is a great group chat, complete with sounds, GIFs, bots, and everything. Also includes Pings, which are DMs/private channels.

Akash Mittal · Answer

Great Chat Application for Teams Nice and flexible user interface in mobile, desktop and web clients, easy file sharing, group chat and more..

Priyanka Sharma · Answer

It's definitely best app. Way better than Slack ! You can have messages and threads (jumper, burnout) in the same place. Communication at its best pace with much awaited features to come

J.D Smith · Answer

Great for quick chats up to full organisation video conferences, an all round product

Charles Leveillee · Answer

Take a look at Intraboom is a simple, all-in-one digital workplace that makes communicating and collaborating with your team more efficient for your internal and external projects. And it’s fully mobile!

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Bitrix24 beats Slack at many things. First, you get unlimited users without stupid history search limit. Second, like you said Slack is too distracting. So in Bitrix24 you can collaborate via chat or other means.  And finally, unlike Slack, Bitrix24 comes with true project management and it's all free as well - tasks, subtasks, projects, task templates, dependencies, time tracking, etc. Here's the comparison chart - https://www.bitrix24.com/alternatives/free-slack-alternative.php

Ricardo Polo · Answer

Have super groups. Completely free. So fast.

Hemanth Kumar Reddy · Answer

Zoho Connect is a team collaboration platform and a great alternative to Slack. It lets you create your own private social network for your organization and gives you all those tools you would require for collaborating with your team effectively like groups, channels, task boards, knowledge management, custom Apps etc. You can also check out Zoho Cliq (www.zoho.com/cliq) if you are looking for Chat based collaboration tool with custom bots.

Klauss · Answer

I love Rocket.Chat. It needs more app, otherwise quite stable and good.

John Ababseh · Answer

It's easy to use and free! Can be used with friends or teams.

Mohsin Malik · Answer

Well designed, easy to use, and surprisingly fast. In addition to the web app, they have mobile apps on both iOS and Android as well as desktop apps for OS X and Windows.

Alexandre Tempel · Answer

Hipchat is awesome if you use other Atlassian products... Confluence is sensacional, as well as Jira

Ben Li · Answer

If you are looking for a new mobile communication app for your professional use in a safe environment, Princle One might be a good choice.

Sandeep Kashyap · Answer

ProofHub helps both small and large teams to collaborate and communicate overs projects in a flexible manner making it easier for team members to stay connected. ProofHub eliminates the need to invest in too many business tools for your growing business needs. It comes packed with all features for teams to plan, collaborate, organize, and deliver projects of all sizes on time.

Jackie Chang · Answer

WorkDo has chats, tasks, events, polls, notes, leave, attendance and expenses tools all in one app. It also has a web interface version.

The concept is to have a workplace and each team can create their own groups within the workplace. Each group also has the basic tools such as chats, tasks, events, polls, notes, albums and files.

Danny Espinoza · Answer

Maybe too early too tell, but Squirrel smartly focuses on the spontaneity of group chat, keeping things light and fun. And trying to make group conversations engaging is not a bad hill to die on.

Hamza Warraich · Answer

Slenke makes it easy to manage projects by bringing together communication, tasks, time tracking and timelines into one platform.

Priyanka Sharma · Answer

Troop Messenger offers a collaborative work station for business needs and necessities. Furthermore, Troop Messenger assists you to reduce the time taken for manual data circulation and team work offering a smooth and quick business chat podium.

Siddiq Ali · Answer

The product is available is Saas and on-premise solution for those who seek complete security. The functionality and featured tools are much more expanded that in Slack and the app offers an admin pannel to keep complete track of security, tune up the system

Ana Topoljski · Answer

Loop brings team messaging to your inbox so you and your team can share emails and quick messages in one place. Loop is a secure email desktop app that works with your Gmail, Outlook or any Office365 account. Install Loop, connect it with your existing inbox, create your sales, marketing, management or any other project teams and start messaging.😻😎

Shehryar Shaukat · Answer

We are launching Jumppl in  Mid November and will be offering a Free 90 days Trial so that we can get maximum feedback from actual users. Jumppl= Slack + Basecamp + Asana + Monday.com. Please drop by your email addresses and i will drop you an email when we are ready to launch.

Stephen Co · Answer

This is much better than Slack for us personally.  It's cheaper, and interface is simpler/cleaner.

Jijo Sunny · Answer

Unlimited message archives for free. Ability to assign tasks. Easy file sharing and much more.

Mohsin Ansari · Answer

Great and helpful app! Better audio/video/screensharing and better integration with other tools... More that group chat. online meetings, tasks management, scheduling etc.

keerthi guptha · Answer

Complete suite to faster communication in my organization

Sean PJPGR Doran · Answer

Workplace by Facebook is like your own company's private Facebook (plus a lot of additional "work focused" features. Within it, there's Workplace Chat.

With Workplace Chat, it's like Facebook Messenger — for work.

Same concept of Slack  with private 1:1 chats, 1-to-many chats, and the concept of "channels" is done by creating group messages based on the the groups created within Workplace itself. So if you join a group, you can join the group chat.

And there are bots, integrations, and all that jazz: https://www.facebook.com/workplace/integrations

Bonus: If you're a non-profit, it's totally free.

Neha Malik · Answer

Troop messenger, has it's all: super fast, great UI and UX, chats for different groups with team members. New releases coming frequently.

Stowe Boyd · Answer

A good choice for those using Office 365

Jay Weiler · Answer

Slack but secure.

Philipp Bohn · Answer

We have built Circuit as one, easy-to-use platform for voice, video, messaging, screen share, files and communities. It‘s used by startups, SMBs and global corporations, thanks to our scalability, quality and security.

The free version includes unlimited messages and screen sharing.