14 Best Slack Chatbots for Productivity & Fun!

Slack is an almost integral tool for communicating with your team in the modern era thanks to its versatility and varied feature set. But you can make any workspace even better by integrating chatbots to help automate tasks or in some way streamline your processes.

We're checking out the best Slack chatbots for Slack you can use to make your workspace more productive and fun!

Part 1: What Are Slack Chatbots

Slack chatbots are essentially a automatic program of sorts that exists on your Slack workspace.

They can help with several tasks like sending reminders to your team members, sending relevant notifications when a certain process is completed, answering questions, automating workflows, and much more.

Part 2: Best Slack Chatbots

Now, this part will introduce the best chatbots for Slack that can streamline communications and productivity.

2.1 Slack Chatbots for Productivity

Linear

If you already use Linear to keep track of progress when building products, the Linear bot is an essential addition to your roster. It can help create and update issues directly from the bot to make sure everyone is on the same page, seamlessly.

It supports a variety of great integrations that sync with your progress on Linear in real time, which makes your team more productive and efficient.

Unique Feature: Create and manage new issues with projects directly from the bot.

Best For: Software development teams, or any team tackling project-based work.

Editor's Experience: Our team is using Linear and it helps automate notifications and updates through Slack, so that we are centralize communication and make decisions faster.

Trello

Trello, a popular chatbot for Slack, is an excellent collaboration tool for most projects, and if you utilize the robust platform, the Trello bot makes the integration between Slack and Trello seamless. With the Trello bot, you can add new cards to Trello boards, change dates, edit cards, and provide in-depth board previews directly on Slack.

Unique Feature: Add or update Trello cards directly from Slack without hopping the app。

Best For: Marketing teams to keep track of every tasks within the conversation.

Editor's Experience: Trello's real-time sync across devices secures constant connectivity and collaboration, so I can add or edit the tasks in real time while massaging.

DailyBot Standups

DailyBot is an all-in-one tool that utilizes AI to help Slack teams efficiently run their daily operations by providing access to built-in standup meeting tools, surveys, polls, icebreakers, check-ins, and much more.

With DailyBot, you can update the bot with your plans for the day or project progress updates to keep your leaders and team informed on your daily workload.

Unique Feature: All-in-one AI-powered Slack toolkit to host stand-up meetings, run surveys/polls, and more.

Best For: Teams that require a streamlined method of hosting meetings & getting updates.

Editor's Experience: DailyBot is a great tool to automate a variety of your team's daily workflows while keeping everyone updated by simply engaging with the bot rather than wasting time at a meeting.

Axe AI

AxeAI brings the power of LLMs like ChatGPT directly to your Slack workspace. You don't need to access it from another browser tab, and can simply ask the bot directly in Slack to save your team time while allowing them to access personalized AI features at a click.

Unique Feature: Brings generative AI models like ChatGPT to Slack.

Best For: Teams that require generative AI models in Slack to facilitate daily processes.

Editor's Experience: AxeAI isn't game-changing, for the most part, but it does make it easier for teams to seamlessly access AI models directly in Slack, which can make using AI more efficient without the need to switch over to another tab.

2.2 Slack Chatbots for Communication

askR.ai

askR.ai is a useful tool for teams that work with a lot of graphs and data that require you to parse through to find useful information. Adding this data to the bot allows it to simplify the process by allowing users to ask relevant questions, then the bot will retrieve the data with a simple text answer.

Unique Feature: Translates complex technical data into tangible text outputs with AI.

Best For: Teams that require use of a lot of data & graphs and need to streamline understanding and using the data.

Editor's Experience: askR.ai makes handling and reviewing complicated data and graphs a breeze which in return makes it easier and more efficient for your team to communicate with clients or colleagues.

Translate

The 'Translate' bot is a simple but extremely effective tool to either automatically or manually translate messages and content in Slack. It can translate text you want to type or messages that are already sent from other team members.

Unique Feature: A variety of built-in translation tools & automatic translations.

Best For: Companies that work across borders or require content/products translated into other languages.

Editor's Experience: The 'Translate' bot does what it says: translates almost anything you come across in your Slack workspace which greatly enhances efficiency, especially for teams that have members in other countries.

Question Base

Question Base is a tool designed to simplify the 'documentation' process.

This works by using trained knowledge bases and your existing docs from other channels, then with the power of AI answers the question tailored to your company and team. This makes the dreaded documentation process a breeze and can be incredibly useful across most industries.

Unique Feature: Creates an AI-powered knowledge base based on your conversations in Slack for later reference.

Best For: Keeping track of brainstorming sessions and passive knowledge base building.

Editor's Experience: Question Base is a powerful tool that allows your Slack team members to more efficiently access important documentation while simultaneously allowing 'smart capture' capabilities to keep track of relevant decisions and messages from Slack to incorporate into a growing knowledge base.

2.3 Slack Chatbots for Team Building

Geekbot

Geekbot is a 'meeting-replacement' bot that allows teams to better collaborate thanks to its packed roster of features. This includes daily check-ins to replace stand-up meetings, surveys and polls, retrospectives, a 'happiness tracker', and much more.

It's an all-encompassing package with a lot to check to help foster team-building efforts while maximizing efficiency.

Unique Feature: Dedicated collaboration tools for meetings, check-ins, & team updates.

Best For: Teams looking to keep other members in the loop more efficiently with a roster of tools.

Editor's Experience: Geekbot is another all-in-one tool to gather team responses to replace standup meetings and check-ins. It doesn't do anything overtly 'unique', but it does package it in a user-friendly format.

Icebreakers

The Icebreakers bot's sole purpose is to facilitate team bonding by posing 'icebreaker' questions at regular intervals. The bot then collates answers and publishes them at a set time to foster engagement amongst your team.

Automating icebreaker questions and allowing members to ask their own questions, can make the workspace more interactive for members who share common interests that are typically not brought up without such interactions.

Unique Feature: Automates 'team building' by asking icebreaker questions at regular intervals to facilitate team bonding.

Best For: Newer companies/teams who want to build rapport with other members passively.

Editor's Experience: Icebreakers is a great way to get your team to break out of their shell and engage with other members.

AttendanceBot

AttendanceBot is a powerful time-tracking and scheduling tool to keep your managers and colleagues informed on your whereabouts. It can also be used to help keep track of engagements with clients, PTO, overtime tracking, and more, and displays the relevant information on a simplified dashboard.

Unique Feature: Fully fledged scheduling and time-tracking toolset.

Best For: Remote/hybrid teams that need an easy way to keep track of members' time and schedules.

Editor's Experience: The AttendanceBot simplifies 'attendance' by employing a variety of excellent tools for time-tracking, scheduling, project/client tracking, and much more and provides it in an attractive and easy-to-understand UI so all your team members know when you're available and when you're not.

Polly

Polly is a dedicated survey tool that helps you gather insights from your team and display the results instantly. It also includes a bunch of extra features to use like standups, pulse and engagement surveys, Q&As, multi-question polls, and more.

Unique Feature: Dedicated 'poll' tools to facilitate engagement, Q&As, surveys, and more for your team.

Best For: Teams who require a more 'interactive' polling system to facilitate gathering insights & information from workspace members.

Editor's Experience: Polly is a robust polling & survey tool but at its core, it's a method for workspaces to gather insight into their members. It doesn't do anything too 'special', but it is effective and works well.

2.4 Slack Chatbots for Fun

BirthdayBot

BirhtdayBot helps teams keep track of their members' birthdays, anniversaries, and special events by notifying users beforehand. It can sync with existing Google or Outlook integrations, has multi-lingual support, and even allows team members to send gift guards directly with the bot!

Unique Feature: Allows teams to keep track of members birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates automatically.

Best For: General Slack workspaces to facilitate bonding with team members.

Editor's Experience: BirthdayBot does something incredibly simple; remind you of your team's birthdays and other important events. But this 'simple' function can be a game changer to keep in touch with members and celebrate their special days together.

Giphy

Giphy needs to introduction, and as the internet's repository of GIFs, adding it to a Slack channel is sure to keep things engaging and break up intimidating, lengthy texts with a well-timed humorous and light-hearted GIF.

Unique Feature: A library of the world's largest deposit of GIFs to use as reactions or in conversation.

Best For: Most Slack workspaces to inject a bit of 'fun' into their channels.

Editor's Experience: Giphy is one of the most important bots to add to any Slack workspace. It gives teams the ability to communicate with the timeliness of GIFs which can be an effective tool in fostering inter-team communications that aren't always so 'serious'.

Lunch Train

Lastly, we have 'Lunch Train' and as you'd expect, the sole purpose of this bot is to gather your in-office colleagues to head over to lunch at a specific time to a specific restaurant.

Unique Feature: Setting up lunch appointments with other team members aboard the 'Lunch Train'.

Best For: In-person Slack workspaces to bond over lunch breaks.

Editor's Experience: Lunch Train's concept is super simple but effective in gathering colleagues to head over for lunch together in one simple Slack message.

Part 3: How to Add Chatbot to Slack

Now that we've gone over some great chatbots to add to your Slack Workspace, how do you even add one to Slack anyway? Follow our quick and easy guide below to start adding chatbots to your Slack workspace:

Part 4: Build Your Own AI Chatbot with Your Data

While Slack chatbots are indeed a game-changer for your colleagues and team members, you may also need an AI chatbot for your team for productivity, onboarding/offboarding, or for marketing and customer support.

In such cases, building your own AI chatbot with your own data will help. One great platform to do this is with ChatInsight AI, allowing you to easily build AI chatbots tailored to your business.

Part 5: Final Words

And that's everything you need to know about Slack chatbots in 2024. There are plenty of options available in Slack's marketplace and the options we've mentioned are just a small selection of great bots on the platform.

Most online services already have dedicated Slack integrations and bots, so identify your most used platforms to create an efficient and synergistic ecosystem directly in Slack!