Slack apps that will boost your team workspace
Tags: slack, productivity, team, community
Published: 2022-09-13 12:06:58


# Slack apps that will boost your team workspace

A list of free Slack apps (most of them) that will help improve the day-to-day tasks of your team workspace or just break the ice

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## 1. Polly
> Polly works where you work. The typical forms and survey tools are not purpose-built for Slack. Polly is built to work in a world where users are used to staying connected, responding quickly, and seeing results in real-time.

Polly is a power app that allows you to do quick surveys and feel the team's state with a click or simply collect feedback and/or opinions.

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The main features of this app are:

* **Free single and multi-question polls**: Send single or multi-question polls to your team for instant response.

* **Pulse and Engagement Surveys**: completely native experience in Slack.

* **Standups**: Quick and easy async check-ins for agile teams.

* **Automated Onboarding Feedback**: automated check-ins with new hires.

* **Social Games**: bridge the social distance gap with live, interactive games that bring the team back together — Trivia, Hot Takes and Employee Awards.
[**The instant engagement app for Slack and Microsoft Teams**
*Polly meets your team right where they work and gets answers to your most important questions, instantly.*www.polly.ai](https://www.polly.ai/)

**Slack App:** [https://slack.com/apps/A04E6JX41-polly](https://slack.com/apps/A04E6JX41-polly)

## 2. CultureBot
> The first ever Slack bot designed to make improving team culture easy and fun. Use CultureBot to bring your team closer together, encourage healthy communication, and help with work life balance.

CultureBot is an excellent app to create engagement in your workspace, break the ice on a random day or just to take the focus of the work and focus on the team, and in the culture of the same, allow the people to know each other better, in a funny and relaxed way.

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The main features of this app are:

* **Weeky Health Tips:** Send top-rated mental and physical health tips to your team each week to a channel of your choice.

* **Water Cooler Topics:** Send conversation-starting topics to your team in a Slack channel of your choice. Keep your team engaged and motivated with exciting and hilarious questions to get better to know one another.

* **Real-Time Trivia:** Play on-demand trivia with your team inside Slack across over a dozen different topics and 5,000+ questions.

* **Employee Lottery:** Give your team the appreciation they deserve. Choose the eligible employees to participate, and we'll randomly select the winner every week, month, or quarter.

* **Birthdays Celebrations:** Never forget a teammate's birthday ever again. Our bot automatically collects birthdays from your team and automatically sends a celebratory message out when it comes time to celebrate.

* **Work Anniversaries:** Automatically send a celebratory message to your team when a team member's work anniversary comes up.
[**CultureBot**
*The first ever Slack bot designed to make improving team culture easy and fun. 💪 Increase Remote Team Engagement &…*www.getculturebot.com](https://www.getculturebot.com/)

**Slack App: [**https://slack.com/apps/A0202LJMS87-culturebot](https://slack.com/apps/A0202LJMS87-culturebot)

## 3. BirthdayBot
> BirthdayBot is the app to keep track of office birthdays and anniversaries. BirthdayBot keeps everyone informed about upcoming birthdays. It also ensures all the members of your team get a proper b-day celebration whether they are working in the office or remote!

This is a simple but very essential app that every workspace should have. It's proposed like explaining it's simple, just a reminder of your team upcoming birthdays and sends a special message on the birthday day.

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The top features of the app are:

* Keep track of workplace anniversaries.

* Reward your employees with **gift cards on birthdays.**

* Pick the perfect gift with **wishlists** that users can share with BirthdayBot.

* Sync with Google or Outlook Calendar to see all the dates on a calendar view.

* Keep celebrations in separate channels for different offices or departments.

* Opt-out of birthday celebrations if you prefer to keep your bday private.
[**BirthdayBot for Slack**
*Never miss your teammates' birthdays*birthdaybot.io](https://birthdaybot.io/)

**Slack App: [**https://slack.com/apps/A0QAZV90X-birthdaybot](https://slack.com/apps/A0QAZV90X-birthdaybot)

## 4. Giphy
> Giphy lets you search from the world’s largest library of animated GIFs, making it easy to find and share them on the web.

*"A picture's worth a thousand words"* — so imagine a GIF or a MEME :)

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This is probably the app that I use daily to give informal feedback, share opinions, or break the ice on something.
It's a fun app that allows you to transmit precisely the feeling or the spirit of what you want to communicate with the help of the world of GIFs.
[**GIPHY - Be Animated**
*GIPHY is your top source for the best & newest GIFs & Animated Stickers online. Find everything from funny GIFs…*giphy.com](https://giphy.com/)

**Slack App: [**https://slack.com/apps/A0F827J2C-giphy](https://slack.com/apps/A0F827J2C-giphy)

## 5. Range
> Run your team Check-ins with Slack.
Save time and keep your team connected, no matter where they’re working.

The range app can be helpful, especially to remote or hybrid teams, to align the group's work, putting everyone on the same page. It could help you boost Mondays and make your team pulsing energy since the start of the week.

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The main features of this app are:

* **Easy to get started** — Just add the Slack app to your workspace and invite your team to check in.

* **Deep Integrations** — Easily import work from GitHub, GitLab, Asana, Trello, Jira, Google Drive, Google Calendar, and more.

* **Reminders** — No need to nag your team for status updates. Slack reminders help everyone remember to Check-in.

* **Team questions** — Over 300 team-building questions to help your team build connections and foster trust.

* **Moods** — Share a mood with an emoji to help everyone keep a pulse on team morale and spot who might need extra support

* **Grows with your needs** — Flags help teammates when they're feeling stuck. #Hashtags allow you to track streams of work. Team directories let you scale as your workspace grows.
[**Slack**
*Learn how Range and Slack work better together.*www.range.co](https://www.range.co/apps/slack)

**Slack App: [**https://slack.com/apps/A938TS1QS-range](https://slack.com/apps/A938TS1QS-range)

## Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed it and could help improve a little your Slack workspace!
Feel free to share the app you use daily and help you and your team.