30 Best Slack Apps, Integrations & Bots to Try
Slack is one of the most popular communication tools for businesses with over 12 million daily active users (DAU). The platform has become a staple tool for startups, remote teams and collaborative workforces that need an always-on channel for communication.
As Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield puts it, what matters more than DAU is that users truly love the app. And one of the most enjoyable features of Slack is the extensive collection of apps, integrations and bots that you can install to turn it into way more than a messaging app.
Want to add new tasks to your team’s project management app without leaving Slack? No problem, there’s probably an app for that – and thousands of other tasks that you can perform within Slack using basic commands, saving you from having a dozen or more apps open at any one time.
In this article, I’ve got 30 of the best apps, integrations and bots that will turn Slack into a true workstation for your entire team.
Which apps, integrations & bots are we looking at in this article?
You can find the full directory of Slack apps and integrations on this page of the official website. The library categories apps into different sections and you can also search for the apps and services you already use to see if there’s an integration available.
In this article, we’re focusing on the best Slack apps, integrations and bots for six essential tasks:
MarketingProductivityCollaborationCommunicationProject managementTeam management
So the article will be broken up into those six sections with a look at our pick of the apps, integrations and bots for each task. Here’s a quick preview of the apps we’ll be looking at in each section:
App
Category
Best for
SignOff
Marketing
Sign off marketing campaigns without delay
HubSpot
Marketing
Trigger HubSpot tasks & receive notifications within Slack
ActiveCampaign
Marketing
Automatically post Slack messages for key events in ActiveCampaign
Zapier
Productivity
Share Slack data with other apps to automate 1,000s of tasks
Automate.io
Productivity
A simpler, more affordable alternative to Zapier
Google Calendar
Productivity
Manage schedules, events and statuses from Google Calendar
Stripe
Productivity
Automatically post to Slack when updates occur on charges, subscriptions, transfers, and other Stripe payments
Google Drive
Collaboration
Collaborative file sharing and notifications in Slack
Marker
Collaboration
Take, annotate and send screenshots in Slack
Dead Simple Screen Sharing
Collaboration
Share screens & create audio conferences with a single command
SlackShare
Collaboration
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