Slack

SLACK TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

About this app

Slack helps companies big and small turn chaos into cohesive collaboration.

It’s one place where you can have meetings, collaborate on documents, share files, access your favorite apps, work alongside external partners, and use AI and agents to get ahead.

With Slack, you have everything you need to grow your business.

💬 Talk things out with your team
• Stay organized with a dedicated channel for every project.
• Work alongside your team, customers, contractors, and vendors from anywhere in the world.
• Video chat directly in Slack, and share your screen to present and discuss work live.
• When typing doesn’t cut it, record and send audio or video clips to share complicated ideas clearly.

🎯 Keep projects on track
• Set projects up for success with pre-made and customizable* templates.
• Collaborate on marketing plans, product specs, and more in shared docs that live right next to your team’s conversations.
• Track to-dos, assign tasks, and map out milestones with project management tools.*

⚙️ Tap into all of your tools
• Access 2,600+ apps, including Google Drive, Salesforce Data Cloud, Dropbox, Asana, Zapier, Figma, and Zendesk.
• Approve requests, manage your calendar, and update file permissions without leaving Slack.
• Find files, messages, and information instantly with AI-powered search.**
Use Slack AI to take meeting notes, so you and your teammates can stay focused.**

*Requires an upgrade to Slack Pro, Business+, or Enterprise.

**Requires Slack AI add-on.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely love the app except for one fatal flaw: I never get any notifications. Ever. Even after reinstalling 5+ times, logging in and out countless times etc. It works like a charm on desktop, but since most communication is mobile these days I've had to resort to having people ping me on FB Messenger or WhatsApp whenever there's something important being said on Slack. I want to give you guys five stars, but until this gets resolved I can't.

It works often and other times the notifications are a total pain and either don't appear or appear a day later. Today I saw 7 notifications on my laptop that didn't appear in my phone from yesterday. This happens randomly and seems to be the same for many people and is a fundamental failure of a messaging app! There seems to be a similar issue with calls which sometimes won't work. Apart from that the app is OK but doesn't really 'flow'. It doesn't show additional workspaces. Not sure if this is just my app or that I need to manually configure additional sign-ins but would have thought that it would mirror my laptop. There are probably a lot of improvements that could be made but the basics really need to be sorted out.

It's okay. The app definitely requires a strong, steady network connection, otherwise you're bound to see a dreaded "Connecting..." message permanently. It seems very picky about the stability of its connection, which is kind of a bummer for teams deployed on the field trying to get i touch with the office. It's image upload is very lacking in that aspect. It will upload pictures in full resolution, which arguably is a good thing for graphic designers but a terrible thing when trying to show a quick snap of something. The photo sharing feature of any other messaging app (which resizes and compress the image) is far more suited. It's just impossible to upload full resolution pictures on flaky connections.

What’s new

Bug Fixes
• Don’t mind us — just making a few small adjustments to keep the app in tip-top shape. More to come soon. Cheerio!