What are good Slack alternatives?
- 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.Ajinkya BoradeYouTube.com/JavaScriptEvangelist · EditedWell 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.Nick MoreyDynamo PR, Account Director · WrittenAmazing integration of tools and APIs, productivity focused, and can be as deep or simple as you need it
- RJ Lewis DigitalRJ Lewis, Digital Consultant
I love that flock is stable, easy to use and has a good base of application integrations. I typically miss flowdock, but the overall collaborative experience is better than slack. Been using a little over 6 mos.- couldn't pick that though
- Aleksandra5Maker @ Planet:tech, Supergirls · WrittenTwist 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.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.Mark Justin Harveyproduct designer · Writtenbuilt with the "time well spent" thought process behind it
- Antoine Frédéricproductivity expert
It's definitely my favorite app. Way better than Slack ! You can have messages and threads in the same place. Communication at its best
- Ayrton De Craene18Code @ Product Hunt · WrittenSlack 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
- Philipp Bohn4VP Circuit and CEO blueKiwi software · WrittenPhilipp Bohn made this productWe 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.
- Philippe Lehoux made this productThe 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-...
- Tejas Kinger20SaaS Product Marketing @ Freshworks Inc · WrittenWe've switched over from Slack to Hipchat for communication between teams.Alexandre TempelUX Designer | Productivity Whore · WrittenHipchat is awesome if you use other Atlassian products... Confluence is sensacional, as well as JiraStephen CoFounder of Northern Circuits Inc. · WrittenThis is much better than Slack for us personally. It's cheaper, and interface is simpler/cleaner.
- Brandon AnzaldiSoftware Engineer @ ToTheTens · WrittenAnother 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.
- David CrowtherI help convert more browsers into buyers · WrittenLove the fact that you can include people in chats with just their email address—they don't have to sign up.An alternative to slack that doesn't require you to have a log in...Stowe Boydfuturist, researcher, imperfectionist · WrittenFleep has built-in task management, as well
- Timo HaukilahtiEntrepreneur, Consultant
It has everything that is needed. What makes it clearly the best possible solution and my favourite is the fact that in almost every project group there is one or two "luddites" that are almost impossible to persuade to make an account in a new application. Fleep keeps them connected via their emails. By time they often make accounts and join the others.
- Nicola RosenthalCMO, Fleep Technologies
Great simple reliable and persistent messaging tool, not as distracting as various others on the market
- Ricardo PoloCo-founder of Tulpep · WrittenHave super groups. Completely free. So fast.
- Fedotov MaximVR Anime Society Founder
Telegram keeps on releasing amazing updates. Secure, easy to use messenger with great UX is all you'll ever need. I wish more people used it rather than Whatsapp or Messanger subpar experience.
- Nikita MartynovProduct Manager @PandaDoc
Favorite messenger, has its all: super fast, great UI and UX, chats foe different communities with quality content, bot platform that is growing rapidly. New releases coming frequently.
The biggest wish is to get rid of notifications that your contacts are on the platform (IOS)
- Priyanka SharmaWebsite content writer · WrittenIt'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 comemounika deviData Analyst · WrittenWith 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 communicationAkash MittalAI Machine Analyst · WrittenGreat Chat Application for Teams Nice and flexible user interface in mobile, desktop and web clients, easy file sharing, group chat and more..
- Fabian Charles CookLead Software Developer, NZ Digital · WrittenOpen 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,
- brad johnsonVolume Integration
I got it to run on an Raspberry Pi https://volumeintegration.com/installing-rocket-chat-on-raspberry-pi-2/
- Hemanth Kumar ReddyProduct Marketer @ Zoho Corp. · EditedHemanth Kumar Reddy made this productZoho 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.
Complete suite to foster collaboration in my organization
- Lachlan Campbell11Hack Club design/JS—HS 🎓—they/them—🌈 · WrittenBasecamp’s Campfire is a great group chat, complete with sounds, GIFs, bots, and everything. Also includes Pings, which are DMs/private channels.
Great and helpful app! I use Basecamp integration with TMetric in all my projects, for me this is the most convenient way to track my time for any activity in Basecamp
- Agustin EsperonCo-Founder & Head of UX/Design at Wideo
I'm a big fan not only of BaseCamp, but also their founders' books (Rework, Remote, Getting Real) and blog posts. Their work philosophy is amazing and it's reflected on the clean and concrete software.
I really enjoy managing all aspects of my company with BaseCamp
- Laurie HéraultCEO · WrittenWe 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.Stowe Boydfuturist, researcher, imperfectionist · WrittenA good choice for those using Office 365
- John Ababseh10Epiphany Enthusiast · WrittenIt's easy to use and free! Can be used with friends or teams.
- Jeff WatersProduct Manager, VIPole · WrittenPretty 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.
- Sean PJPGR DoranDirector of Design, Wiretap · WrittenWorkplace 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/workpla... Bonus: If you're a non-profit, it's totally free.
- Dominik KugelmannI show CEOs how to work form their phone
If you are working for a company that has multiple topics at the same time running in the one department/team thinking about a feed based collaboration could be a good option.
With Workplace you can organise your team in groups and discuss projects/topics via the comments on a post. This could help your team stay on topic and don't get distracted by another random comment in your chat history.
The (news) feed based way of communicating (FB) can work well for slow moving tasks or project overviews. I feel like a company with more than 50ppl could start to make real use of this kind of work.
The FB messenger really isn't on par with any of the major business chat's out their. So don't switch to FB if you really just wanna chat with your guys. You could, however, use it to supplement your Slack usage with some company feeds. But then you should save the money and use G+ which comes free with your G Suite subscription.
The pricing however is attractive. Starting at a about a dollar a month and employee it's way below industry average.
- RJ Lewis DigitalRJ Lewis, Digital Consultant
I have one team that is very tethered to email and at first blush Workplace from FB seemed like a good way to ease them into real collaboration with a familiar interface. I would still recommend it, but would have liked the option to interface with workplace from my existing account.
- Enterprising Josh CEO · WrittenBitrix24 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/alterna...
