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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Flock

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AFlock is a collaborative business messaging application, designed to compete with Slack. The app is presented as a fast and reliable means of communication, and is available in a free edition for teams of up to twenty members.

    $0

    for teams of 1-20 members

    Microsoft Teams

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.

    $4.80

    per month per user

    Pricing
    FlockMicrosoft Teams
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $0
    for teams of 1-20 members
    Pro
    $6
    per month per user (ideal for teams of 20-100 users)
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    for organizations of 100+ members
    Microsoft Teams Essentials
    $4.80
    per month per user
    Microsoft Teams Enterprise
    $5.25
    per month (paid yearly) per user
    Microsoft Teams Enterprise
    $5.25
    per month per user
    Microsoft 365 Business Basic
    $7.20
    per month per user
    Microsoft 365 Business Standard
    $15
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FlockMicrosoft Teams
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.Discounts are available for non profit organizations.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    FlockMicrosoft Teams
    Considered Both Products
    Titan.Mail
    Chose Flock
    Flock stands up very well against others when used for individual and group chats. It also works well with Google Drive Integration. The best part of Flock, compared with others, is in the area of File and Document sharing. The two areas it slightly lacks are voice/ video calls …
    Incentivized
    Chose Flock
    In my opinion, Flock is not the best among the listed products in terms of extensive features that other products listed provides but has it's own place in the communication and team collboration domain. I think Flock works well for smaller teams and organizations looking for a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Flock
    Flock standsout with it's extra ordinary features such as file sharing, pinning any file in groups, customised integration with various applications, reminders across groups, creating and managing groups, file sharing with integration, notes sharing and mainly communicate …
    Incentivized
    Chose Flock
    Flock stands strong with these tools in market. Although it does offer some great features but can be better in terms of integration.

    We used Flock for over 10 years in our organization because it was easy to use for non technical users.
    Incentivized
    Chose Flock
    Slack and Flock are fairly comparable in terms of features, though Flock has a cost advantage.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Would buy again
    201 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    180 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    202 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    115 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    139 Answers
    Features
    FlockMicrosoft Teams
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Flock and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    Flock
    7.6
    10 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Microsoft Teams
    4.2
    192 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Task Management8.38 Ratings4.9147 Ratings
    Gantt Charts8.05 Ratings3.276 Ratings
    Scheduling9.38 Ratings3.9162 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.78 Ratings3.8101 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.310 Ratings5.3184 Ratings
    Search7.38 Ratings4.2169 Ratings
    Visual planning tools4.05 Ratings4.1118 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Flock and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    Flock
    8.0
    10 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Microsoft Teams
    5.7
    201 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Chat9.710 Ratings5.6200 Ratings
    Notifications9.310 Ratings5.0199 Ratings
    Discussions8.310 Ratings5.4187 Ratings
    Surveys8.06 Ratings4.7112 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase5.05 Ratings4.0122 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting10.01 Ratings6.547 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts8.06 Ratings5.743 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook6.04 Ratings9.1156 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Flock and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    Flock
    6.4
    9 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Microsoft Teams
    4.7
    186 Ratings
    50% below category average
    Versioning7.56 Ratings4.8130 Ratings
    Video files7.07 Ratings4.1158 Ratings
    Audio files7.07 Ratings4.7160 Ratings
    Document collaboration7.09 Ratings5.6173 Ratings
    Access control4.06 Ratings5.0156 Ratings
    Advanced security features4.06 Ratings3.7117 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive7.07 Ratings5.353 Ratings
    Device sync7.58 Ratings4.4132 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FlockMicrosoft Teams
    Small Businesses
    Google Keep
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Keep
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Google Keep
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FlockMicrosoft Teams
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    5.5
    (278 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.7
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    5.3
    (62 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    8.3
    (113 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.3
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FlockMicrosoft Teams
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Titan.Mail
    Flock is very well suited in scenarios where individuals must communicate via chat. It also works great when teams need to communicate via group chat messages. File and document sharing is another area where Flocks works well. Channels are used for discussions on specific topics or organization-wide announcements. Flock may be less appropriate when you use it for voice and video calls. Where.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Positive: The virtual workspace created for a work team within the same company, for the resemblance of information and communications in one place.Negative: The access for members of a non-profit organization who have external emails from the host but need the same access as an internal person since their volunteer work is part of the very core of the federation.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Titan.Mail
    • Networked phones are a thing of past now. We don’t have to stop what we are doing to receive phone calls currently because Flock can do that
    • It is now easy to send messages to many people at the same time, all we need to do is to add all the contants in the chat and select all to send a message
    • This software has an in-built to-do-list which allows us to assign tasks to different people or users and then supervise each independently
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    Microsoft
    • Virtual meetings - ease of set up and execution
    • File sharing! We build channels for projects, and being able to invite only project members is huge!
    • Peer-to-peer communications - being able to "ping" one of my colleagues, either text, video or call-only, on-demand, is what runs our business.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Titan.Mail
    • A tool is only good if people use it. Some of the artists I work with found it too complex (though I don't think they really gave it a good shot).
    • We used it heavily for about six months and it didn't hit too many other big negative points.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • The feature of notifications in the mobile application could be improved. Sometimes notifications of different teams are not visible and are only visible when the application is opened.
    • It uses lots of computational resources while running and thus, slows down the system sometimes.
    • It allows a few channels per team. The number of channels could be increased for better productivity.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Titan.Mail
    We would likely to renew use of Flock for our organization since it meets most of the requirements of team collboration and communication for a small group like us. Most of our Flock users like it's features and use it extensively for day-to-day work. We are quite optimistic about it's future updates.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Titan.Mail
    It is good to give what an app deserves, Flock is very efficient and effective app to manage the all day to day activities and communicate across all team members, create groups, share files, send reminders schedule reminders for each group or persons and share notes.Pin files and search any messages from anyone with advanced filters. It's a great app.
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    Microsoft
    User experience has been much better than the previous Skype for Business app. It has an easy-to-use interface with persistent chats. The search feature is very fast and useful. MS Teams has mostly focused on Collaboration and team building features which are very useful for organizational communications. Since Teams is accessible from multiple platforms like Laptop, Desktop, Mobile phones, etc it has been very convenient from a Mobility perspective.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Titan.Mail
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Rare, but outages do happen
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    Performance
    Titan.Mail
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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    Support Rating
    Titan.Mail
    We've only needed customer support a few times with Flock (mainly concerning app integration and security), and they've always been timely and helpful, which are the only things I truly need from support. The response rate was still rapid, and there's plenty of support available online as well for Flock.
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    Microsoft
    Using Microsoft Teams has resulted in much faster business communications with both co-workers and consultants. There has been little need for support with this software as the interface is very intuitive and the product is overall very well designed. We did encounter an issue with the built-in phone service, however, this was quickly resolved by the support team.
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    Implementation Rating
    Titan.Mail
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Titan.Mail
    Flock as mentioned takes the best of all these apps and improves upon them. Flock's UI was exactly what we were looking for and Flock doesn't overcharge small teams for search functional or messaging. It just offers a great product at a great price combined with great support. Their chat ticket system works almost immediately.
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    Microsoft
    Our company and IT department previously used Skype for our communication needs. Skype was not dependable in my opinion, because it seems each time I used it during a call and/or a meeting, I and several other team members would get disconnected more than once. This caused a great interruption of our meeting, caused team members to have to ask others to repeat themselves and caused a general lack of interest in employee attendance during meetings.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Titan.Mail
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
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    Scalability
    Titan.Mail
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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    Professional Services
    Titan.Mail
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
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    Return on Investment
    Titan.Mail
    • Organizing notes manually has been drastically reduced. Flock folders and chats are perfect for keeping each file separate.
    • We have not missed one calendar event with Flocks integration of our Google Calendar.
    • Being able to cut out or $99/month case management software has saved a ton of money each month.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • I'm not sure I can point to a specific ROI, but it has improved our ability to communicate and work more effectively together.
    • It's also nice to have records of every interaction, photo, and document that has been shared. Less chance of something completely disappearing.
    Incentivized
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