Slack app gets 1 and 2 star reviews

Confused

Evidently too old to appreciate this app. In my growing up the work SLACK meant inefficient , coming up short, you could do better. Oh well !!!!!

Not Easy to Use

I’ve not found it useful or helpful. The UI is not intuitive.

No consistency

There is no consistency in how slack orders, messages or people. Very, very difficult to keep track of threads.

Hate it

Use the native review widget

Soliciting app reviews only for favorable users by providing your own widgets is a dark pattern. If you had used the native widget, you’d get a better review.

Management

I just want everyone to know that if your using this in a company, managers and HR have access to read dm’s in which are closed conversed between you and every employee. Be be aware that there is no privacy with this app.

Voice message not stable

Send voice message stuck at sending state, cannot be delivered, cannot be deleted. Even after fully restart the app it won’t fix it.

No more Slack

...made the switch to Slack is pushing to drop it so I expect we will be free from this messy app in the next month or so.

New Group Conversations

It is very frustrating trying to add a new channel for a new project name with the same people. When doing so it automatically picks up from a previous conversation and name of the project instead of the new one that you attempt to create, even after naming it initially it...

bro

I SPEND 10 MINUTES WRITING TO HIGHER UP IN THE COMPANY, THEN I TRY TO SEND IT AND IT GOES OUT OF THE PAGE AND DELETES ALL OF IT. like bro how hard is it to make a save feature all other apps have it. the thing is is that im forced to use this app by my job anyway so like...

Not for me

Too much. Modern world needs simplicity. I think it should be illegal to have a leash like slack on people’s phones. Separate phone from work or provide me a work phone.

Annoying and inconsistent

This app is simply not dependable. I have notifications on and VIP and everything possible and it STILL DOES NOT PUSH IMPORTANT messages or posts in a channel. Even when the entire channel is tagged. Slack is so bad, they keep adding more and more bloat and the basic...

Removed the swipe to the team switcher

This makes no sense

Not at all user friendly!

This is TERRIBLE!!!!! And now I’m stuck with it!!!!!!!!!!!

Laggy and Disorganized

Slack has been the most awful program to use. Purchases within the app need to be done on a separate browser, the app fails to load and threads are confusing. I am 25 and use cooking tech every day, and this is on the bottom of my list.

iPhone Duo issue

The phone button for video chat calls is placed beneath the new back button. Accidentally spammed a group with my chat room.

Trash

Absolutely stupid and not efficient.

Pointless change to the team switcher UI and also now it’s broken

Why? Switching teams on iOS is much harder now, and half the time actually tapping the current team doesn’t bring up the team selector at all, requiring a forced restart

Not good

Not possible to create a group of people and set the title of the group. Not very intuitive to me

Stay with teams

Awful software

Barely functioning

Worst messaging app I have the displeasure of using

Sucks

NO NOTIFICATIONS

More complicated than it needs to be

Talking to the people you work with has never been so extra

you guys are killing me on vision pro

...opportunity to have a massive slack window, but inexplicably, on vision pro, slack is stuck on a tiny tablet-style view, rendering it almost useless... it would take 10 minutes of coding to just make the window responsive and scale to whatever size the user would want and this...

Don’t like slack

I find slack terrible.

takes too long to upload; or doesn't upload, attachments/media

Work requires use of this app to upload photos periodically during shift. Uploading photos takes a long time, could be over an hour, and may fail frequently.

Issue

A lot of issues when bringing up certain things they don’t bring them up in order unless you put that you want newest. And it still does not bring the newest information to the top.

Bad changes

Slack was best when I first started using it in 2021. Since then, every update has made it worse. My current frustration is that “reminder” alerts are now impossible to find!

Profile Photo

Can’t load a profile photo for anything I’m worth. The app doesn’t acknowledge the failed attempt(s) so then also does not offer any instruction, guidance, error code for follow up.

demand a rating, get rekt

in violation of appstore policy this trash keeps pestering for a review here you go, chuds oops they did it again

Slack

Blows

Update - still a Nightmare

Generates too much noise. Changes ui too much. Update Oct 2026; still a nightmare

Inconsistently works but consistently doesn’t.

Constant issues with the IOS mobile app for Slack. Not once or twice or once in awhile: consistent issues for a full fiscal year+. Not user related issues at all. 1000% a clear issue stemming from Slack servers. We use slack to send pictures and everyday pictures fail to send...

Can’t send pics

Isn’t letting me attach images

It’s slack alright

Don’t care for it at all. If my church wasn’t using it, I would delete this application!

The search feature could be much better

The experience using search feature is overall not very friendly.

Detonate

Slack is the worst

V24.07.10

The release note claim that this fact “cannot be challenged or undermined” is a ridiculous marketing overstatement, as improvements can always be subject to further scrutiny and evaluation.

Not a fan

I only have Slack because my church uses it. However, I am not a fan as it's just another app for me to have to check for communication. I think because I don't work and need to have this app for any other purpose of my life, and it doesn't send me notification saying I have a...

How the mighty have fallen

It used to be easy and fun to use but now it’s a mess of notifications and new features that make it hard to navigate and find what I’m looking for. What I’m looking for is messages. That’s never changed, but Slack has.

Too thirsty

I just added the app and they’re already hounding me for ratings Give me a minute to use it

Not intuitive

I don’t love slack. In fact, I really can’t stand it. I think it’s hard to find particular messages and it’s not intuitive like other messaging platforms. I can’t even give particular examples because I don’t spend enough time caring about the terminology used on slack. I have...

CEO

Upload speed is very bad

Meh

Still unsure if this actually helps my productivity.

i hate my boss

one star

Ripped Off From Slack

Microsoft if garbage, absolute trash, they never once had a single original idea. All they do is rip people off and force their AI Spyware garbage down our throats. Buy a MAC or use Linux. I spent 12 years in IT and I can’t STAND what Microsoft has become. Everyone who works...

Thumbs Down to Slack

Too hard to catch all the missing messages.

F AI.

Get rid of the AI garbage. It’s annoying and useless.

Fix your update

Since you're update 4 hours ago, my app just crashes. Good update :(

Turned into what it once hated

This app has turned into everything it hated in the beginning. It's so overcomplicated and hard to follow what's going on in it. I hate using it.

Give us color coded sections!

I’ve got about 30 channels I follow, they are all at the same visual hierarchy, and there is no indent between group section and channels. Would massively desire to color code sections!!! I’ve sent in a pic and it’s been ignored. Reach out if you want the mockup image I made.

Huge distraction

Few tools for organizing messages and summarizing what is important to actually pay attention to in channels. A disorganized mess.

Yuk

Seriously is this a joke. Fail.

Sharing Screens

Does not let all content be visible if you are using multiple screens as in if you’re sharing screen 2, not everything is visible to the other people on the slack huddle. Only to the driver sharing their screen

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I always compare a well setup IRC server and a console client to slack in terms of responsiveness. I find slack lacking.

Meh

This could be so significantly better. Not as intuitive as would hope. Very basic.

Whack a mole chaos

Slack makes me miss god old fashioned email. Where emails use a top-to-bottom chronologically ordered view of your communications, Slack organizes communications into channels, direct messages, threads, activity, of which there are likely hundreds if not thousands of...

Can’t find the company account

Entered my email too soon I guess, haven’t received a link to join my company’s dashboard

Poor mobile GUI

Meh

No manual time zone setting on iOS still!

It’s driving me mad! Not allowing me to set the app’s time zone manually and only following the phones time zone which by the way OVERRIDES the setting on my laptop is driving me crazy. It’s such a simple feature it’s a joke of a communications app

It’s to confusing

It’s not the easiest to navigate

slow

most unoptimized app on the store

Stop adding new features rather than fix existing bad behavior

Pretty mediocre offering. Maybe ask users what they want rather than offering successively poorer user experiences with each new release.

Notification settings abysmal

UX for setting when to not notify seem intentionally awful. Fix that garbage UX it's about time

Not impressed

The UX needs some work.

DMs disappear after a while

...few days or weeks ago, the DM list doesn’t grow and those names get pushed out, so it’s hard to find someone you interacted with and whose name you may not completely remember. That’s annoying. Why not making them remain in a list and add them to that list?

Cool but why

Nothing really stands out

No bueno

Slack has destroyed my life as new boss insists on it..

Meh

Too complicated, format is not intuitive at all.

Antiquated

...is similar: call quality is okay, but the way it's set up makes the experience more frustrating than it needs to be.

Needs summaries and jump to bottom of thread

I see lots of updates come in. for this app, but the most critical being native summaries and a quick way to jump to the top or bottom of a thread as it’s been non-existent. I’ve submitted feedback request for it. but still it’s not there, even with all the advances that we have...

Annoying notification bubbles

It constantly says 1 notification exists despite being up to date on everything. Why do I have to click through “unread” tabs that are entirely empty to get rid of the bubble?!

Workspace re-ordering is broken on iOS

When dragging in workspace position on iOS, to a new position, that location is not saved and it revert back to the old position. This happens on some work spaces and not other others.

Poor mobile GUI

Meh

Keeps not sending voice notes

keeps not sending voice notes just stays stuck in sending i have to redownload the app

Not like whatsapp it is more difficult

Spammy

Announces every time new member joins or when coworkers from other shifts post things not relevant to user; cannot filter (or not intuitively/obviously) to be notified only of things relevant to user.

Cluttered. Slow. Scroll bars one pixel in width.

Worse day by day.

The most complicate user experience

Very difficult to use, very difficult to find the relevant message, very difficult to add new contacts.