Slack for Desktop App Reviews

It’s nice for email when sending quick notes.My company always use this app for our communication and team project.

Slack is beautiful on Mac. It also works really well. Definitely worth the download if you use Slack for any reason. If you don’t already use Slack, downloading it will make you want to.

great app, love using it could you please add branching in one channel? like in flowdock: each message in channel has its own branch and once you click on message all messages except this branch will dissapear, your messages in this branch will be highlighted with same color, so it is easy to follow the subject

Random connectivity issues occasionally that bring the pain. When it works, it works fairly well.

What can I say about Slack?!! Jeez, it’s a phenomenal application that’s transformed how my team communicates! We employ a large number of external developers and partners and Slack has made it exceedingly simply to communicate with one another. The groups are great and have much more complexity avaialble if you take advantage of it. Slack is about it’s integrations. We’ve integrated it with a number of applications and they work flawlessly. Let me give you an example. Slack supports integration with appear.in. With the integration, anytime you want to have a quick video conference with someone to either talk and see each other or share your screen, you simply type /appear and press enter and PRESTO you have a room created. Click the room title in Slack and you’re set and in the video conference! No app to install, no EULA to accept, nothing. Simplicity personified. If you haven’t given Slack a try in your organization, do so and see how it gets adopted.

This software gives me a lot of surprises。Thank you for developing this app!

Not an actual app. Just a WebView wrapper distinguished as an App… The user experience is terrible and when you add multiple channels, its is using insane amount of RAM and CPU.

I probably laughed harder than a sane rational person should have...but hey, they were funny. Oh, its a decent tool for team communications as well. Rarely overly nihilistic. Ive also used other...more "hip" chat tools than slack. While they claimed to be more hip, they were in truth not actually more hip. Or even hip at all. Keep up the good work guys, but dont fix all the bugs, because the release notes always make me laugh.

I was told about this app from a good friend of mines. Since then, the only word I can think of which would appropriately describe this application is “amazing”. I run a small independent game studio, and it’s wonderful for communicating with fellow colleagues.

It’s a memory leaker…you can see it sucking up more and more memories the longer you have it running...

Having problems with this update. Constant crashing.

I work at a small accounting firm with about 11 staff members. Before Slack we used a hodgepodge of methods of communication such as texting, gChat, email, and phone calls. However, now that we have Slack it’s significantly reduced the amount of time I spend just using my thumbs to communicate, missing an email that just needed a quick response, or looking at the phone buzz and wondering if this will be a short or a long call. I never have to take my hands off the keyboard now, and I can quickly respond to the team, or send out easy clean messages in the various #channels whether they’re at their computer or on their mobiles. I’m not a security expert; however, I do really like that if ever an employee leaves the firm I can pull them out of our Slack group. In contrast to texting where a sensitive piece of information might be stuck and that staff member’s phone or computer for good even after they leave, with Slack I can edit or erase old messages, or revoke their access completely. Thumbs up. Last thing I’ll say is that it’s really helped our team collaboration. We have channels dedictated to our tax software, quickbooks, team meetings, or just random fun events happening in everyone’s lives. Even though we don’t have a physical office location, we still feel connected when we see the little green dots by each others’ names. P.S. I really love the integration with Asana and Screenhero (and giphy). Those are just icing on the cake. P.P.S. I also find their commentary on app udpates hilarious. Go read them sometime.

This app is useful insomuch as it allows me to communicate with my teams. Sometimes updates are risky though, they need a better process for ensuring quality before they release.

For an app that does messaging, it is a little disappointing that the Mac’s spell checker seems to not work with it or rather seems inhibited from working with it somehow.

This app really changed the way I communicated with my staff. I love everything about it.

Slack constantly crashes and is very sluggish. It also is plauged by connectivity problems. Ironic considering its a simple chat app. Hate it and hate the fact that I have to use it for work.

Signing out from a slack account and being removed from a slack account both seem to lead to a crash cycle inwhich the app crashes a few seconds after launch. So far I have not found a solution. This has been the case with at least the last 2 versions of slack.

For some reason the app opens, crashes, suggests that you open again, and then (wait for it, wait for it, wait for it) — crashes again. Overall both the MAC and mobile apps feel someone slapped a wrapper on top of some HTML 5 code. When you have poor connectivity you have a poor slack user experience.

Notifications aren’t removed from Notification Center when you read the messages. My Notification Center is an absolute mess because of Slack. Also replying via the notification doesn’t mark the message as read. So annoying.

Super buggy, screens occasionally need to be “reloaded” to work. No real emoji support. Case study in why you shouldn’t build non-native apps.