Iteration X vs Slack

Pros of Iteration X

Pros of Slack

• 1.2K

  Easy to integrate with
• 876

  Excellent interface on multiple platforms
• 849

  Free
• 694

  Mobile friendly
• 690

  People really enjoy using it
• 331

  Great integrations
• 315

  Flexible notification preferences
• 198

  Unlimited users
• 184

  Strong search and data archiving
• 155

  Multi domain switching support
• 82

  Easy to use
• 40

  Beautiful
• 27

  Hubot support
• 22

  Unread/read control
• 21

  Slackbot
• 19

  Permalink for each messages
• 17

  Text snippet with highlighting
• 15

  Quote message easily
• 14

  Per-room notification
• 13

  Awesome integration support
• 12

  Star for each message / attached files
• 12

  IRC gateway
• 11

  Good communication within a team
• 11

  Dropbox Integration
• 10

  Slick, search is great
• 10

  Jira Integration
• 9

  New Relic Integration
• 8

  Great communication tool
• 8

  Combine All Services Quickly
• 8

  Asana Integration
• 7

  This tool understands developers
• 7

  XMPP gateway
• 7

  Google Drive Integration
• 7

  Awesomeness
• 6

  Replaces email
• 6

  Twitter Integration
• 6

  Google Docs Integration
• 6

  BitBucket integration
• 5

  Jenkins Integration
• 5

  GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback
• 5

  Guest and Restricted user control
• 4

  Clean UI
• 4

  Excellent multi platform internal communication tool
• 4

  GitHub integration
• 4

  Mention list view
• 4

  Gathers all my communications in one place
• 3

  Perfect implementation of chat + integrations
• 3

  Easy
• 3

  Easy to add a reaction
• 3

  Timely while non intrusive
• 3

  Great on-boarding
• 3

  Threaded chat
• 3

  Visual Studio Integration
• 3

  Easy to start working with
• 3

  Android app
• 2

  Simplicity
• 2

  Message Actions
• 2

  It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC
• 2

  So much better than email
• 2

  Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
• 2

  Great interface
• 2

  Great Channel Customization
• 2

  Markdown
• 2

  Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations
• 1

  Great Support Team
• 1

  Watch
• 1

  Multi work-space support
• 1

  Flexible and Accessible
• 1

  Better User Experience
• 1

  Archive Importing
• 1

  Travis CI integration
• 1

  It's the coolest IM ever
• 1

  Community
• 1

  Great API
• 1

  Easy remote communication
• 1

  Get less busy
• 1

  API
• 1

  Zapier integration
• 1

  Targetprocess integration
• 1

  Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock
• 1

  Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT
• 1

  I was 666 star :D
• 1

  Dev communication Made Easy
• 1

  Integrates with just about everything
• 1

  Very customizable
• 0

  Platforms
• 0

  Easy to useL

Cons of Iteration X

Cons of Slack

• 13

  Can be distracting depending on how you use it
• 6

  Requires some management for large teams
• 6

  Limit messages history
• 5

  Too expensive
• 5

  You don't really own your messages
• 4

  Too many notifications by default