Jostle vs Slack

Jostle is an employee success platform for sharing company news, finding information, and connecting colleagues across office, field, remote, and branch locations. It combines targeted content, discussions, email newsletters, mobile access, and digital signage with people profiles, organizational charts, recognition, company values, and birthday and hire dates. Its Library holds curated information, while JostleAI provides answers contextualized by role, location, and department. Integrations include Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Bonusly, Zapier, HRIS/HCM systems, SSO, and a platform API. All plans include integrations, SSO and provisioning, APIs and SFTP sync, custom branding, engagement analytics, unlimited storage, governance features, and multiple languages. Bronze includes news, an activity feed, recognition, discussions, email digest, and mobile apps. Silver adds the Library, questions, links, custom views, and one add-on; Gold adds three add-ons plus onboarding and full support; Platinum includes all add-ons and support. Pricing is on request. A free 30-day trial unlocks Platinum features for up to 15 users. Jostle says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, backed up daily, and hosted in customer-selected data centers in the US, Europe, Australia, or Canada.

Slack is a team collaboration platform organized around messages, channels and connected apps. It supports guest access and integrations including Salesforce, Jira, Google Drive, Asana, Zoom, GitHub and Notion; its App Directory offers over 2,600 apps. Slack runs on the web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, and supports an API. The free plan is ₹0 and free forever, with 90 days of searchable message history and up to ten apps. Free users can hold one-to-one audio and video meetings with screen sharing, and send one-to-one external messages through Slack Connect. Paid plans offer unlimited message history and group external messaging with up to 250 organizations. Annual billing starts at $7.25 per user per month; monthly Pro is $8.75 per month. Workflow Builder automates routine tasks without coding. AI features include summaries, search, daily recaps, file summaries, Slackbot and workflow generation. Slack encrypts data at rest and in transit by default; security controls include two-factor authentication, access logs, SSO, device management and data loss prevention.