10 productivity Slack apps to make your teams super productive

Align & engage your team using Ricotta on Slack. Start using the OKR goal-setting framework in your organization to set ambitious goals and measurable key results. Great for setting clear goals, promoting transparency and increasing employee engagement, Ricotta enables teams that work from home and remote teams to collaborate effectively. On Ricotta teams can as well track their weekly tasks and to do items without leaving Slack.

ClickUp is an all-in-one productivity app. The Slack integration turns messages into tasks and unfurls these tasks for teams who want to view them. Even though the Slack app offers some functionalities, a lot of core functionalities have to be accessed on the native web interface or the mobile app of ClickUp.

ToDo is a native Slack bot to create tasks via messages, set reminders and assign the owner via Slack messages. ToDo also helps you leave notes and comments. The 'watchers' of each task get progress update notifications as well.

SmartTask combines CRM, task management and projects to simplify team collaboration and enhance productivity. It is a unique productivity tool that includes CRM in the workflows, meaning that the product and sales teams can collaborate much better. The Slack integration of this tool, however, is minimal and you can just create tasks and receive updates. A major chunk of its functionality is available on the web interface.

Trello is one of the most popular productivity tools and boasts of a user base of over 1 million teams. Trello is a simple application which makes use of cards, boards and lists, all supported by the 'get things done' idea. Trello integration for Slack reinforces collaboration prowess of Slack and Trello. Teams can directly add cards to boards, add teammates to a specific board and display the details of a board via Slack.

Hive dashboard has Kanban boards, Gantt charts and Tables that enable teams to collaborate and enhance their productivity. Teams use Hive to execute projects where flexibility is the most important requisite. With add-ons like data visualisation, analytics, templatized workflows and timesheets, Hive proves to be a very adept project management tool. On Slack, teams can drag and drop tasks directly to channels and create new actions.

Yerbo enables companies to build a healthy work culture by reporting weekly mental health progress and alerting people about breakpoints. Yerbo is designed by a Behavioural Economist with tailored tips for everyone to be mentally strong and productive. Users get s catered team mental fitness report, root causes, well-being indicators and actionable steps to improve overall health of the team.

Lucidchart is a visual workspace that combines diagramming, collaboration, and data visualization to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. With this intuitive, cloud-based solution, everyone can work visually and collaborate in real time while whiteboarding, brainstorming, or building flowcharts, mockups, UML diagrams, and more.

Workramp is an easy-to-use, people effective, modern learning management system that helps you train your sales, support and HR teams. The Slack integration provides these training modules directly on Slack and teams can assign personalised guides and set regular reminders. Workramp is widely known for its ease of content creation, making it easy for teams to use them.

Pomodus helps remove distractions and interruptions to enhance focus. There are different modes which users can select to signal teammates not to disturb them when they are doing deepwork. Pomodus also provides analytics of how users spend their time productively and how much work was done, which teams can use for retrospectives and standups.