Of course, if you pay, you get unlimited storage and integrations, with a per-user price that starts (Opens in a new window) at $6.67/month when billed annually (it's $8 per users per month if billed monthly). At that level, it works for families (Opens in a new window) and groups of friends-especially those already familiar with Slack from work. Anyone can create a team for free, but gratis accounts are limited by how many services you can integrate (10) and how many messages you can store (10,000). If you're not a corporate titan with a big team, Slack can still work for you. Slack's been called an 'email killer.' We use it at PCMag for that very reason (alongside Asana, QuickBase, Google Apps, and more), and it works. (Maybe because the game was called Glitch (Opens in a new window).) The term slack was meant to be an acronym for 'Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge.' That's amazing considering that Slack started as the messaging system inside a video game that didn't get off the ground. While its name might conjure thoughts of laziness, cloud-based team collaboration app Slack has taken root in the business world.įrom 2012 to May 2019, the service has moved from 17,000 users to 10 million (Opens in a new window). How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.

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