Flowdock

RATING:

4.0

(23)

About Flowdock

CA Flowdock is a team communication software designed to help businesses assess various communication patterns and improve team’s productivity. The platform enables employees to organize and color-code conversations based on threads. Managers can connect via video calls and utilize the screen-sharing functionality to collaborate on projects. Additionally, CA Flowdock allows teams to upload and preview images and manage different versions of documents on a unified interface. CA Flowdock lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party applications including Aha!, Assembla, Asana, FogBugz, Jira and Trello. Pricing is based on monthly subscriptions.

Flowdock Pricing

Free 30 day trial. No credit card required. $3/month per user. Flowdock is free for students and teams of 5 or less. Flowdock offer discounted rates for non-profit organizations.

Starting price: 

$3.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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Flowdock Reviews

Overall Rating

4.0

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for Flowdock

1 - 5 of 20 Reviews

User Profile

Art

Verified reviewer

Retail, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2021

next level chat tool

we use to have internal team chats + extra alerting from 3rd party services.

PROS

I like the way how Flowdock connects the team chats with external alerts that can be setup easily in the app.

CONS

it doesn't look as friendly as in slack, but again - way better than teams ;-) also the mobile app is slow sometimes.

Anonymous

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed January 2019

Good IM but needs a little more to compete with other IM alternatives

Very good IM option, user friendly, promotes communication, just needs to include more functionality out of the box.

PROS

The threading system in flowdock is very intuitive, the thread replies are not hidden within the general chat, but instead they are color coded, so you can quickly identify what/who you are replying to, and at the same time, your reply is visible to everyone in the chat, not only to the people in the thread, which promotes communication between every contact in the chat. There is also an option to add hashtags to the messages, that is very useful when you have to search for specific things in the chat history.

CONS

A lot of functionality in flowdock comes in the form of an integration, you have to add plugins in order to do other things, like screen sharing, that could be already in the tool, like its competitors do.

Adam

Online Media, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed August 2020

It worked, but wasn't competitive

It was the convergence of tools and conversation, so effectively it did help. I always felt like developers could get more out of Flowdock than roles like mine, in Sales. I just used it for chatting with colleagues.

PROS

It did offer instant communication and it's best feature (compared to competitors) was it's notifications - which isn't really saying much

CONS

The app was very unstable on my Mac. I always had to use the browser version b/c the app crashed and was unreliable. The iOS app was probably worse than the Mac desktop app. That was a bummer - the app is vital.

Riswan

Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2022

Flowdock review

Easy to communicate and resolved communication gaps among the team. Everyone in the team is aware of what’s going on in the project and it helped our team to avoid some status meetings which saved all of us time.

PROS

Our first collaboration tool that saved our mailbox capacity and encouraged our team to instantly resolve any clarifications without waiting for too long. It helps our remote team to collaborate easily with all other teammates.

CONS

I don’t think a desktop version exist now for Mac. Browser based version is not so user friendly. Support by CA technology is limited now for this tool.

Anonymous

1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2019

Nice way to collaborate

Overall pretty good at what it does. Allows conversations to happen where the whole team can see and interact with them.

PROS

It is pretty nice in terms of threading conversations and keeping multiple conversations separate so people can read an entire conversation together.

CONS

When someone screws up and doesn’t people thread they are the only one who can fix it, but only if they do it right away.