Slack and Flock are save time and effort comparing leading Collaboration Software tools for small businesses. There is a battle brewing in the real-time, chat-based communications market as more of today’s workforce choose to work remotely and look for efficient collaborative tools.

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Flock Vs Slack : Which tool is more easy to use and highly productive ?
Flock Vs Slack : Which tool is more easy to use and highly productive ?
The technology-driven world has built the current era of convenience by giving simple solutions to complex problems.
It has brought many super exible and diverse forms of applications to integrate displaced things or people on a
uni ed pla orm to make things happen be er. Having said that, I suggest you try to improve the work quality and
increase productivity at your workplace by adopting sma solutions.
Make conversations real-time and dynamic with the help of instant messaging applications, instead of static and long
threaded confusing emails!
Don’t just let your productive morning hours go in checking and replying those lengthy transactional emails. instead,
switch to simple and easy to use team collaboration applications like Slack or Flock for the swi understanding of your
work and their updates.
The blog a icle of PGi says emails don’t provide collaboration features to co-ordinate work.
Flock, a simple team messaging so ware, founded by a tech entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia in the year 2014 has a
notable client list from across the globe including; MERU, Policy bazaar, Crisil, Avendus, Ricoh, Gini & Jony, McDonald’s,
Sodexo, etc, Flock is available across all devices, so you will never miss a thing.
On the other side, the initial release of Slack happened in the year 2013, by its founder Stewa Bu e ield and now the
non-engineers built application has reached the top of silicon valley with its stock market debut of $20bn.
Though there are so many chat applications out there, now team conversations are more seamless and organized with
Troop Messenger. We had pe ormed a various in-depth analysis of our competitor’s tools to give you be er insights
into their pros and cons with our previous comparison blogs of Slack Alternatives, Ryver vs slack, Microso Teams vs
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2. into their pros and cons with our previous comparison blogs of Slack Alternatives, Ryver vs slack, Microso Teams vs
slack. However, this time we made our best e o s to make you know the highs and lows of two rivals: the most popular
Flock and Slack.
However, this time we made our best e o s to make you know the highs and lows of two rivals: the most popular Flock
and Slack.
Communication (Messaging, video/audio call) :
Flock says, it is faster, slicker and way richer from Slack for its communication and collaboration across teams. With its
simplest communication, the users and teams of the application can push the boundaries of team productivity to the
next level.
Table of Contents
Communication (messaging, video/audio call)
Noti cations
Pricing
Integration
Search (all)
Storage with le sharing+
Suppo

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Besides the above-explained features, you can sta an audio conference for a clear understanding of your work
updates. Going fu her, you can sta or join a video conference to have a face-to-face conversation to exchange
great ideas and opinions.
Our Verdict: Flock loads faster than Slack. As far as the audio/video conferencing is concerned, Flock allows it to have
for individual pa icipants and channels in its free plan. Whereas, Slack only allow the calling facility with single users,
but not in channels in its free plan.
Communication across Slack takes place through direct messages, channels, and threads.
The loading time of Flock home screen is quick as gazelle, and it loads 2.5 times faster in desktop and mobile than
Slack. Connect across various devices and never miss any update, as Flock is available on desktop, web, and mobile.
Work happens only when people communicate! Flock allows you to message yourself to quickly save messages,
les, links, videos, audio les, etc., to refer later.
Simply select from “All Contacts” or “Teams” to sta communicating with them, and also, you can quickly add others
to the current conversation. It allows you to create groups within teams and enables you to continue discussions on
projects and their deadlines.
When you no longer wish to receive the noisy noti cations from a pa icular group or teams, you can mute all those
conversations to not get disturbed. Despite you mute a pa icular groups conversations, you can re chat with any of
them with the help of @ mentions features as they get noti ed of your message.
Create unlimited channels for distinct projects and work along with all the project members thereby meeting timely
project deliveries. The user onboarding process seems to be great with Slack, as a Slackbot welcomes you to assist

4. Besides, the user will not be able to share their desktop screen during a video call in its free plan. On the contrary, you
can nd Troop Messenger allowing users to share their screens for free while they are using video call.
Noti cations
Flock allows you to stop receiving the noti cations by enabling the, “ Do not disturb” noti cation preference. You can
keep it active for 1 hour, 8 hours, 12 hours, or until you resume it.
Then another set of noti cation preferences what you can enable/disable would be;
project deliveries. The user onboarding process seems to be great with Slack, as a Slackbot welcomes you to assist
you on the tool.
Moving forward, for all kinds of advanced queries and tool information, it will search for the help centre to answer
you be er.
And as far as the communication via video and audio calling is concerned, now Slack suppo s audio-video calling in
its free plan for one-on-one user chat but restricts audio calling in channels in its free plan.
pop-up noti cations,
user online noti cations,
video call ringer and
audio ale s.

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Slack never allow you to miss out any impo ant information to keep you upgraded and updated through its
noti cations.
Pricing
audio ale s.
Being an active member of many channels, you o en nd it distracting receiving a large number of messages every
hour. Worry not! Slack enables you to pause noti cations with a wide set of timer options, available for desktop and
mobile.
Simply click on the bell icon seen right a er your workspace name to view an entire range of noti cations designed
by Slack.
Moving fu her you can customize noti cations as you require them. This including; You can set them for your entire
workspace, or any speci c channel.

6. Flock has made simple plans for everyone! Being a freemium pricing model application, it has come with plans of Free
for small teams, Pro plan for mid-size teams and companies. Enterprise for large enterprises and organizations.
Let’s have a quick look as, what all facilities does Flock allow in its three pricing variants;
Slack as a freemium application has pricing plans to accommodate everyone’s need. It o ers limited numbers of
features for free for an unlimited amount of time. To Experience the full-level feature stack, one needs to opt for paid
plans. Slack comes with three di erent pricing plans of Standard, Plus and Enterprise Grid with features segregated
according to each.
It facilitates to create unlimited private and public channels
Can send unlimited direct messages
Users can search for unlimited message history in its Pro Plan and Enterprise. Whereas they are only restricted to
search and view the most recent 10k messages in its Free plan.
As far as the apps and integrations are concerned; it allows to integrate unlimited third-pa y applications from all
the three pricing plans.
The screen sharing feature is available in both Pro and Enterprise plans, where it doesn’t extend the same in its free
version.
Up to 20 users can join for an unlimited time duration in Group video calling. Whereas in the free plan, though it
allows the same number of users to the group call, it restricts them for 20 mins/call.

7. Taking a closer look at each plan;
Integration
The Standard Plan is meant for small and medium-sized businesses at US$2.67 per user/per month when billed
yearly, and the same has been structured at US$ 3.20 per person/per month when billed monthly. With this, you can
access entire message history unlike its free plan, create guest accounts, suppo s unlimited apps and third-pa y
app integrations, screen sharing, can make group video calls with up to 15 people, channel recommendations,
priority suppo , and many more.
The Plus plan has been made for larger businesses who are looking for advanced administration tools. This plan is
priced at US$ 5 per user/per month when billed annually and at US$6 per user/per month when billed monthly. With
all the bene ts of Standard, this plan provides; 20 GB storage per user, SAML-based single sign-on(SSO), Corporate
expo s for all messages, user provisioning and de-provisioning, 99% guaranteed uptime SLA with few more
additional features.
The Enterprise Grid Plan is specially designed for very large businesses. As it can be customized to suit diverse
industry needs, the users who would want to opt it need are asked to contact sales in their pricing page. With all the
goodness of Plus plan, these plans allow the users to create unlimited workspaces along with enterprise-grade
security and compliance, dedicated customer suppo team, a huge 1TB storage per member, organization-wide
search, Audit Log API, Enterprise Mobility Management( EMM), etc.,
Flock allows you to integrate a wide range of third-pa y apps such as apps for productivity, project management,
le management, customer suppo , marketing, and others for pe orming tasks be er and thereby bringing great
results.
It suppo s 60+ apps to be a pa of the application, or it lets you built apps with the help of Flock’s APIs to integrate
them into the application.

8. Search (all)
Apps like Google Drive is deeply integrated to Flock, where-in it can be accessed within the application only. But in
my observation, what I could notice was, there is a Video Conference Bot available to join calls with other team
members right within the application.
The users of the Flock can go to the Flock’s App Store right within the application to explore a wholesome number of
apps to sta integrating them.
As far as the integrations of Slack are concerned, it is more fun with work with it, as it suppo s more than 1500 app
integrations into it.
Slack users can directly peep into the world of apps to sta using them right from the Slack’s home page itself.
Slack is well-known for its huge list of integrations. These bot applications such as Polly, Doodle Bot, Geekbot, Kyber,
Statsbot, Timebot, A endance bot, Leevbot, help users like vi ual team members to manage tasks seamlessly.
Go to “View App Directory” to nd a wide range of app categories and collections.

9. The search functionality of Flock allows the user to search messages from, “Anyone” and “All Conversations” posted in
across the tool. Flock users can also search for other team members and channels to sta conversations.
Search messages, les, and messages from Slack’s search functionality. Simplify your le search from the search
facility of your les and all les. Also, search by name or category to choose your favorite apps while integrating them.
Storage with le sharing+

10. Flock’s storage di ers according to its pricing plans. The freemium application provides the le storage of 10 GB/team
in its free plan. 100 MB is the maximum le storage allowed here in Flock.
The le storage that is accommodated for Pro plan and Enterprise includes; 10GB/per team member and 20 GB/per
team member respectively.
Share your presentations, text les, code snippets across direct messages and channels with, ‘A ach’ from the
message editor. As far as the cloud storage is concerned, Google Drive is integrated within the Flock for easy access to
le sharing and retrieval from the cloud.
Slack o ers 5GB total in its free plan, 10 GB storage per member in Standard plan, 20GB storage per member in
Standard Plus plan and nally 1TB storage per member in its Enterprise grid plan.
It suppo s a wide range of le management tools such as DropBox, Google Drive, Microso One Drive, Quip, Adobe
Creative Cloud, box and many more. Simply integrate them and share your les across the cloud.
Suppo

11. Suppo
Flock allows you to get in touch with their suppo team, just right within the application itself. The users can directly
chat with the customer suppo executives by leaving a message to them.
It will help users to understand anything on the Flock. Watch a 2-minute video to get to know how the application works.
The slack team extends a well co-ordinated and collaborative customer suppo to all its users.
The suppo teams resolve issues and share knowledge on the product. It allows users to collaborate with more

12. powe ul integrations to achieve faster customer query resolutions.
It lets you post suppo tickets in channels itself only, thereby not le ing you leave it to track status on them.
Conclusion:
Small or large, every organization needs a business collaboration tool for successful and uninterrupted team
communications. While you choose, ensure the tool must-have easy and smooth learning curve for understanding it
be er. The latest entrant in the block, the Troop Messenger is no less competitor to any other business chat
applications. Give a sure shot for it to a ain reliable, secure and seamless team communication!
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