nineloops vs Slack
Slack is a chat app. nineloops is where the chat and the work live together.
Slack is where many teams talk, and it is good at it. When conversation sits in its own app, though, decisions, files and context drift away from the projects, deals and documents they are about, and you spend the day switching between Slack and everything else.
nineloops has channels, threads and direct messages built in, sitting beside your projects, CRM, docs and finance. The conversation stays where the work is, so nothing gets lost between apps.
What Slack is genuinely good at
Slack is fast, familiar and has a huge ecosystem of integrations for pure team messaging.
Why teams choose nineloops instead
- Chat attached to the work
- Channels and threads sit next to projects, records and docs, so a decision in chat is one click from the thing it changes. In Slack the work lives in other tabs.
- The rest of the company, included
- Projects, CRM, finance, docs and HR are in the same workspace. Slack is messaging only. Everything else is a separate subscription.
- Calls and video built in
- A WhatsApp inbox for customer conversations sits alongside team chat. Voice and video calls are built and in final testing, and are not counted here until they are live.
- Native, and one bill
- A fast native desktop app, with every app on a single bill rather than chat plus a stack of other tools.
Side by side
| Capability | nineloops | Slack |
|---|---|---|
| Projects, tasks and multiple views | yes | no |
| Docs and wiki | yes | Canvas only |
| Built in CRM | yes | no |
| Finance, invoicing and expenses | yes | no |
| HR and people | yes | no |
| Team chat and direct messages | yes | yes |
| WhatsApp inbox | yes | no |
| Workflow automation | yes | Workflow Builder |
| Native desktop app | yes | yes |
| One workspace, one bill | yes | yes |
Questions
- Is nineloops a good Slack alternative?
- Yes, if you want chat that lives next to your work. nineloops has channels, threads, direct messages and calls, plus projects, CRM, docs, finance and HR in the same workspace, so conversations stay in context.
- Does nineloops have channels and DMs like Slack?
- Yes. Chat in nineloops includes channels, threads and direct messages, with voice and video calls coming soon. The difference is that they sit beside the projects and records they are about.
- Can nineloops replace Slack and our project tool together?
- Yes. That is the idea. One workspace for conversation and work, on one bill, instead of paying for chat and a project tool and a CRM separately.