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Flow vs Slack: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 9th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 2,535 reviews from Remote Work users.
% Fit
Missing features
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Project Time Tracking
NA
Communication Management
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Two-Way Audio & Video
NA
@mentions
NA
Email Management
NA
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Project Time Tracking
NA
Communication Management
4.7
Two-Way Audio & Video
4.4
@mentions
4.8
Email Management
NA
User satisfaction
4.5
User reviews103
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
4.5
4.7
User reviews23,606
Ease of use
4.6
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.4
Price starts from
/user
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
/user
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Flow is simple enough to learn in minutes, yet powerful enough for large, complex teams. Over 300,000 teams in more than 140 countries use Flow to achieve more together.

Our customers range from two-person startups to Fortune 100 corporations. In fact, 77% of the Fortune 100 uses Slack.

User reviews
pros & cons
1 / 4
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Cam M
Executive Director
5.0

Speaker 1: I'm Cam, senior director in our company, anywhere between 20 and 25 employees across the world at any given time. I couldn't go a day without Slack. That's five stars for me. Before Slack, we actually had to use two different software options. We used Sococo for our virtual meeting offices, and that served a purpose. It was good for a little bit, but then as we got bigger, we also had to use Skype. And so a natural progression was moving on from both of those into one that offered the same exact offerings, if not even more, and that was Slack. So previous to Slack, Sococo, Skype, and a couple other different instant messaging systems, all provided by Slack going forward. Everything from the pricing to the ease of deployment to how quickly we could get up and running, and just how generally available Slack is, whether it's desktop or the app, and from a mobile phone, you could have a web browser, anything you wanted to. You're never away from Slack, technically. And so, while that might not be a good thing for the work-life balance, it definitely made it much easier to deploy than anything else we researched, and we got forward. And now, it's just part of everyday life. The reason we chose Slack, one of them at least the biggest one was how quickly we could move everything from previous options or previous programs we used to deploy the day of. So I think that was on a scale of one to five, five being the easiest. It was a five. If not, even higher than that. It was as easy as possible to deploy Slack, get everything set up from our exec team, and then trickling it down. It took maybe a matter of a half hour to get everybody on board and inside of Slack, and it's still even faster now. So that was probably the biggest factor to getting us over to Slack in the initial phase. Recommending Slack, or if you're choosing between Slack and something else, just try the free version of Slack and understand that that is good enough to probably get you in the door and keep you in the door as well. The paid version and the other offerings from Slack make it even more integral to your business, so I would highly recommend giving it a shot. Just in general, the ease in which you could get started and the ease in which you could continue going forward without skipping a beat in your business needs, whatever your business needs might be, it's Slack and Slack going forward.

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Prioritize real-user-identified key features according to your needs to find your best fit.

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Access Controls/Permissions
207
Important
Activity Dashboard
388
Important

Flow

13/40
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Assignment Management
  • Calendar Management
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Signature
  • Email Management
  • Employee Activity Monitoring
  • Live Chat
  • Meeting Management
  • @mentions
  • Progress Tracking
  • Projections
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Real-Time Data
  • Remote Support
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Softphone
  • SSL Security
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time Zone Tracking
  • Two-Way Audio & Video
  • Video Chat
  • Video Conferencing
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Communication Management
  • Customizable Branding
  • File Transfer
  • Prioritization
  • Remote Access/Control
  • Single Sign On
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Workflow Management
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Slack

Top Features
27/40
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Flow
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Slack
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Flow
  • By Flow Technologies
  • Located in Canada
  • Founded in 2010
Slack
  • By Slack
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2014
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