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Alternatives to Slack

30 tools that compete with or replace Slack. Ranked by direct product-type match — not generic category overlap.

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Lindy

Lindy

Lindy is an AI teammate in Slack that runs agentic work, drafts your email, and builds the deck.

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Plain

Plain

AI support infrastructure that unifies Slack, Teams, email, and in-app chat into one queue for B2B teams

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Tana

Tana

Tana is an agentic meeting platform where AI agents file issues, draft docs, and update your CRM during live calls.

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STAN.AI

STAN.AI

AI agents for HOA and property management that draft resident replies across email, voice, SMS, and webchat, and run manager-side tasks like minutes, bids, and

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Alpine

Alpine

Alpine folds docs, tasks, chat, a forum and AI into one workspace with a 'for you' feed instead of channel overload.

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Ambient

Ambient

Ambient pools your team's meetings, chats, and emails into one shared context layer your AI assistants can read.

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Pally

Pally

Pally is a text-based AI assistant on iMessage, RCS, and Telegram that closes the loose threads buried across your other apps.

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PromptQL

PromptQL

Multiplayer AI coworker bots your whole team shares, running dashboards, docs, sheets and decks 24×7.

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Clade

Clade

Clade is the AI product manager that runs your team's projects from inside Slack, Telegram, and iMessage

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Rowboat

Rowboat

Open-source, self-hosted AI coworker that keeps team context local and shares it inside collaborative Spaces.

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MaxAI.me

MaxAI.me

MaxAI.me puts a multi-model AI sidebar in your browser to summarize, translate, and reply anywhere you type.

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Gemini

Gemini

Gemini is Google's multimodal AI assistant for text, image, audio, and video work inside Gmail, Docs, and Search.

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Polimorphic

Polimorphic

AI voice, chat, and permit workflows built only for government resident services.

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Read.ai

Read.ai

Read.ai records your meetings across Zoom, Meet, and Teams, then lets you search everything it captured.

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Reclaim.ai

Reclaim.ai

Reclaim.ai is an AI calendar that runs 24/7 agents to defend focus time, schedule tasks, and resolve meeting conflicts.

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Raycast

Raycast

Keyboard-first Mac launcher that folds apps, files, extensions, and an AI agent into one command bar

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Kore.ai

Kore.ai

Enterprise agent platform where compliance is enforced at runtime, not written into a prompt

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PromptDrive.ai

PromptDrive.ai

PromptDrive.ai keeps your ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini prompts in one organized, shareable workspace.

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Forethought

Forethought

Multi-agent AI platform that resolves customer support tickets end-to-end across chat, email, voice, and Slack.

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Copilot for Microsoft 365

Copilot for Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 Copilot adds AI drafting, data analysis, and meeting summaries inside Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot: grounded AI chat, search, and content creation across work, life, and school

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Maxclaw

Maxclaw

Free, open-source (MIT) desktop AI assistant that runs fully locally in Go, with browser automation, a real terminal, and multi-channel chat.

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Xiaomo Starter Kit

Xiaomo Starter Kit

Open-source self-hosted AI assistant that actually does the work — browser, email, calendar, code, SEO, and multi-platform publishing.

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Goldfish

Goldfish

Local-first AI memory assistant for macOS and Windows that drafts one-click replies in your own tone, anywhere you type.

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Town

Town

Town gives you a personal AI assistant that studies how you work, then handles your email, meetings, and recurring admin on its own.

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Carly AI

Carly AI

Carly is an AI email assistant you CC to delegate scheduling, follow-ups, and workflows.

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Zoom Workplace

Zoom Workplace

Zoom Workplace is Zoom's AI-first collaboration platform, tying meetings, chat, phone, mail, calendar, and AI note-taking into one workspace.

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Dot Copilot

Dot Copilot

Dot Copilot is a mobile AI assistant overlay that tracks expenses, creates calendar events, translates text, and replies in your apps.

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Granicus

Granicus

Granicus is a public-sector citizen experience platform bundling service, engagement, operations, and destination marketing clouds with an AI resident agent.

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Poke (Interaction Co.)

Poke (Interaction Co.)

Poke is an AI personal assistant that lives in your texts on Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best alternatives to Slack?

We currently list 30 alternatives to Slack: Lindy, Plain, Tana, STAN.AI, Alpine. Each is ranked by direct product-type match rather than generic category overlap.

How do you choose which Slack alternatives to show?

Alternatives are ranked by direct product-type match — tools that do the same job — not by shared category tags. Every listed tool is independently re-verified on a continuous cycle.