Slack users dislike the app's confusing design and restrictive features
26 posts in the last 30 days, all from App Store.
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.50) — 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.”
“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.09.40) — I have to use this app to fulfill my volunteer role with a dog rescue. It’s been clunky, annoying, and I’d like to kill the stupid slack bot that keeps sending me nonsense messages. When I got a new phone the app did not seamlessly load onto my new…”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.40) — I have used Slack for a year because it’s how various organizations communicate. I hate it. The organizational structure of the interface is really confusing and difficult to navigate. I’ve wasted a lot of time trying to make it function more…”
Several Slack users express frustration with the app’s user interface, finding it confusing and overly restrictive. Some cite concerns about its functionality and perceived decline in quality since a recent acquisition.
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“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v25.12.20) — Don’t care for it at all. If my church wasn’t using it, I would delete this application!”
“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.10.11) — 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.”
“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.10.11) — Way too cluttered. Search functionality is awful. Time suck with diminishing returns.”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.10.11) — 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 new message or anything, I forget to even check it.”
“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.09.50) — 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 to use it work related messaging with many other employers. A few years ago I created my own channel but clearly didn’t do it correctly (why was that easy to screw up??) because other people co”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.10.11) — Trash app, full of AI removing choices from the user. Only reason I am forced to use it is for work, not by choice.”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.50) — 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.”
“[Slack] ★★★ 3/5 (v26.09.50) — Not user-friendly. The opposite of frictionless. Search functionality is a joke.”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.50) — I always compare a well setup IRC server and a console client to slack in terms of responsiveness. I find slack lacking.”
“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.09.50) — Slack UX has been steadily getting worse. There is feature bloat, and no improvement to the core interactions. Things like replies are near unusable. The desktop client won’t let me simply sort convos by recent. Now they try to trick people into letting Slack train on their conversations. Garbage all around.”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.50) — GUI is awful. Deserves zero stars. Hire someone from Apple to help redesign this abomination of an app.”
[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.09.50) — It’s not the easiest to navigate
[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.50) — most unoptimized app on the store
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.50) — Seems like after every update lately, Slack is getting worse and worse and have forgotten their roots…”
[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.09.40) — The UX needs some work.
“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.09.40) — I have to use this app to fulfill my volunteer role with a dog rescue. It’s been clunky, annoying, and I’d like to kill the stupid slack bot that keeps sending me nonsense messages. When I got a new phone the app did not seamlessly load onto my new phone like all my other apps and I ended up having to basically start all over again and use a new name and email. Now I have two names in the app which causes constant confusion for everyone else and the admin has not bee”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.40) — Slack has destroyed my life as new boss insists on it..”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.40) — Can’t ever find any chats or stuff I was working on. All the views are just confusing instead of helpful. Worst chat app. Like teams bad.”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.40) — I have used Slack for a year because it’s how various organizations communicate. I hate it. The organizational structure of the interface is really confusing and difficult to navigate. I’ve wasted a lot of time trying to make it function more effectively. It’s still a pain in the neck and I wouldn’t use it if I weren’t forced to do so.”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.40) — This is one of the worst apps to have been hoisted upon working professionals.”
[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.30) — It’s the worst, but it’s the standard so…
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.30) — It is ridiculous that in 2026 Slack lets you build a brand-new workspace on a phone but forces you to a desktop browser just to name it. Because my sign-up email is inaccessible, I am trapped in a endless login loop on my phone's web browser, and the mobile app is completely useless for fixing it. Basic administrative tools and account management should be built directly into the app, not locked behind a desktop wall. Terrible user experience for anyone trying to mana”
[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.20) — Horrible app. Overall bad.
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.09.20) — Very difficult to use, very difficult to find the relevant message, very difficult to add new contacts.”
“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.09.10) — I’ve been away from Slack for a few years. I remember it as being a handy and well-designed way to keep in touch with colleagues. But in the time since I last used it, it has metastasized into a sprawling, overblown app with so many redundant “features” that it fails at doing the one thing I need: to communicate quickly with my colleagues. Notifications lead to “message not found” errors, badges vanish, message history is untraceable. It’s a sloppy, impenetrable mess”
[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.08.40) — Terrible. I only use it because I have to.
“[Slack] ★★ 2/5 (v26.08.30) — Slack is fine, but overall, we’d be better without it. My biggest complaint is that, as a busy executive who travels often, slack’s performance on anything other than a perfect internet connection is terrible to non existent. The amount of producing I lose by not being able to use it on a poor airplane WiFi connection (when email, I message, etc all work) is infuriating. The lack of productivity tools to sort, filter and organize messages is the other big problem. I”
“[Slack] ★ 1/5 (v26.08.40) — Gone downhill since the acquisition. Too walled garden, too restrictive, too expensive, too inefficient.”