When comparing Missive vs Flock, the Slant community recommends Flock for most people. In the question“What is the best team chat software?” Flock is ranked 17th while Missive is ranked 63rd. The most important reason people chose Flock is:
They have apps for Windows, Mac, Chrome, iOS, Android and web interface. And all the chat sessions are always on sync.
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Pros
Pro Live collaborative draft editor
In Missive you can live edit an email draft with your teammates, the draft composer acts exactly like a Google doc. Each team member has a different color cursor.
Pro Is a fully functional email client
The email section allows for consuming all of your email accounts in it, utilizing shared addresses (help@acme.com), personal work inbox (philippe@acme.com) and personal inbox (phil@gmail.com).
It’s important because the collaborative part of Missive becomes useful when users consume all of their emails within the app. You not only want to collaborate around emails sent to your company help@address, but also around the really important emails you most likely receive at your personal company address, like that really important email you received from a potential high profile partner.
Pro Team chat
Missive is also a team chat app. When using Missive you can ditch your email client, chat app and help desk.
Pro Unified inbox
Merge all email accounts in one unified inbox.
Pro Tasks
You can create multiple tasks per conversation all assignable to a single or a group of persons.
Pro It works
Nicely written software. Always works as you'd expect, beautifully designed, a classy piece of software.
Pro Multi-organizations
Supports multiple organizations with one user login.
Pro Offers read receipt
Know exactly if and when the recipients read your important email.
Pro Has emojis
Pro Gmail shortcuts
Supports Gmail shortcuts.
Pro Cross-platform
They have apps for Windows, Mac, Chrome, iOS, Android and web interface. And all the chat sessions are always on sync.
Pro Clean and clutter free interface
Pro Cheaper than Slack
It is half the price of Slack and full of nice features like polls, assign to do's, etc.
Pro Very powerful integration APIs
Unlike its rivals, it not only allows you to receive events, but also allows you to push content to it and receive various user action events.
Pro No IT team required for setup
Moving a team or organization to flock does not require any setup from the company's IT team. At max, what might be required would be to whitelist their domain in case the organization's IT team has gotten external domains blocked. You can simply download Flock and invite others in your organization by using their email ids in order to start collaborating. That's all there is in the name of setup.
Pro Free if you don't need the most advanced features
Most of its features are free, even video conferences. But also they have a Pro version with unlimited chat history, Active Directory integration among other things.
Pro Unlimited groups and teams
There is no limit on the number of groups or of group members. Similarly, within a team you can have unlimited members. There is no limit of number of teams too.
Pro Faster than Slack
Flock is offering an app that is faster than Slack.
Pro Highly configurable permissions
For every team, the permissions and restrictions can easily be set over the participating members and the conversations they are having.
Pro Better than slack
Pro Stickers
Posting messages is more fun with them in addition to emojis.
Pro Customisable UI, integrations surface just like native features
There are multiple options like slash commands, message buttons, chat buttons, attachment picker etc., where the integrations can surface inside the native app. This greatly eases the discoverability of a integration, making it really easy for the team members to find and use the integrations.
Cons
Con No option to add words to spellcheck dictionary on Windows
Incredibly frustrating to see the name of your company constantly underlined in red, with no way to fix it.
Con No thread feature
Reply command only quotes snippets. There's no implementation to show thread(s) of an initial message.