6 essential apps for slack to boost productivity [2024 edition]

Slack is a great tool to connect with your colleagues and, over the years, it became a central piece of a lot of companies. Slack is where culture happens. This is where employees communicate, this is where they get things done, this is where they read official communications, where they book meetings and many other things. This is also the first thing they open in the morning and the last one they close in the evening.
Why am I telling you that? Because now we understand how important it is to take care of your company's Slack and how important it is to configure it correctly and integrate the necessary apps in order to have the best working experience.

Here are 10 essential application to make your Slack a better place:

1. Google Calendar (or Outlook Calendar)
   It's one of the app that I'm happy to have! You can receive a notification in the morning with the sum up of your meetings of the day. The best feature to my mind is the slack notification 1 minute before the meeting starts. It's just saving a lot of time throughout the day.
2. Zapier
   This app is the swiss knife of your Slack workspace. You can automate many tasks and connect any app to your Slack workspace no matter if they don't have a native Slack integration.
3. Giphy
   Even though Slack now includes a GIF option built in, Giphy remains a super efficient option for sending funny pictures. This is one of the first apps I install on a new workspace.
4. Billy Birthday Bot
   Birthdays and work anniversaries are very simple things to celebrate and yet they have a huge impact on your company culture. Installing a birthday bot on your Slack is one of the best effort/impact ratio you can find out there.
5. Pulsy Survey and Poll app
   This is a must have to run a company on Slack. There is always a moment when you need to run a poll to make a decision or gather questions for a Q&A. Pulsy also have a Survey function to run eNPS or engagement surveys. For the latter you can visualize the results and read answers in an external app.
6. Clappy Kudos
   Supercharge your Kudos channel with an app that motivates people to recognize each other. Clappy is hands on the best recognition app for Slack. Recognize with points, mention company values, elect best employees per value, define rewards and much more.
7. (Bonus) Linky Organisation Chart
   Get your org-chart done in seconds thanks to Linky. It uses Slack data to build your org-chart and keep it up to date. Killer feature: You can export it in PNG in 1 click.

I hope this article will help you level up your Slack with the best slack apps for productivity. These apps will definitely shape your company culture and streamline your days on Slack.
If you think an application should be part of this list, please let me know: hello@buddieshr.com