Slack

Slack Technologies Inc.

About this app

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. Tick off your to-do list and make progress on your projects 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 organise your conversations by topic, project 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 the tools and services you already use into your workflow, 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
• Customise your notifications so you stay focused on what matters

Scientifically proven (or at least rumoured) to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. We hope you’ll give Slack a try.

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Ratings and reviews

Ever since the last update, the app becomes unresponsive. It lags when you type. I've never had to close and then restart the app as much as I have to do now. I've been using it basically since the beginning on different mobile devices, always worked really well until now. If I didn't use Slack so much, I would uninstall the app completely. Extremely frustrating! Please fix ASAP! Update - everything is working again as expected after the last update. Thanks for the fix.

Slack is the yardstick for two main reasons: it works and it's ubiquitous. I have experienced nothing but frustration with Microsoft Teams and its technical issues (included with Office 365). I do wish Slack would take a leaf out of Twist's book though and provide a 3-pane navigation system where each channel can have separate discussions. That would be an immense improvement to organisation.

It is often difficult and confusing to navigate the UI and send messages. I have a relatively very high tech acuity, and this app is not intuitive in many ways. E.g., my boss recently started a group thread with three people. Seems simple enough. But then in someone's reply, it started some new "sub thread" or conversation, and when I tried to reply to that, the app prompts me to select whether I want to also send the message to the group. So confusing! Please simplify process and organization.

What's new

Bug fixes
• Fixed: Switching between workspaces outside of your larger organization via the “Jump to…” menu was failing. We suppose that’s less of a jump and more of a leap, but either way it was a bug. And no one enjoys leaping bugs. We are sorry for making you think about leaping bugs.
For more information about this version (and the others), see https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/release-notes/android