A pulse survey is not a shorter survey. It is the same few questions, sent to the same people every week or two, whose answers only mean something as a line over time. So a Slack pulse app has to run a cadence, take the answer in one click, keep it anonymous, trend the score by team, and give a manager something to act on before the next pulse. Some apps do all of that inside Slack. Others use Slack as the doorbell and collect the answer in a web app after a login, and on a weekly cadence that login tax compounds.
This page is about pulse specifically: cadence, response speed, anonymity, eNPS trending and manager follow-up. Our broader guide to Slack survey apps covers polls, onboarding and custom surveys, and our explainer on what a pulse survey is covers question design before you pick a tool.
Last verified September 2026.
The short version
Matter, TINYpulse, Lattice, Geekbot and Polly take the pulse answer inside Slack. Workleap Officevibe delivers its weekly pulse by Slack direct message and collects the answer in its web app; Workday Peakon Employee Voice uses Slack for notifications and daily manager summaries. For a weekly pulse with eNPS trending, anonymous by default, at a published per-user price, Matter is the native option and the only one here that rewards completion. TINYpulse is the original one-question weekly pulse, now sold by WebMD Health Services on a demo-only basis. Lattice fits pulse next to performance reviews, Geekbot fits standup teams, Polly fits a recurring one-question poll, and Officevibe and Peakon fit HR teams buying a listening suite. Our companion guide to Microsoft Teams apps for pulse surveys covers the Microsoft side.
Quick comparison
| App | Native to Slack | Starting price | Try before you buy | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matter | Yes, answered in Slack | Free plan; Surveys add-on $2 per user/month, billed annually | Free plan, 14-day free trial | Pulse and eNPS with recognition |
| TINYpulse by WebMD Health Services | Yes, answered in Slack | Not published | Demo only | WebMD Health Services customers |
| Lattice | Pulse answered in app home | Engagement $4 seat/month, billed annually; $4,000 annual minimum | No free plan or printed trial | Pulse inside performance and 1:1s |
| Geekbot | Yes, answered in Slack | Free up to 10 users; surveys $1 per unique respondent, per month | Free plan, trial of 30 days | Standup teams adding a pulse |
| Polly | Yes, answered in channel | Free plan; Basic $19/mo, billed $228 annually for 1 license | Free plan | Recurring one-question polls |
| Workleap Officevibe | Connector: answered in web app | Standard starting at $4,999 USD, billed annually | No free plan or printed trial | HR-owned weekly pulse suite |
| Workday Peakon Employee Voice | Connector: notifications and manager summaries | Quote-based | No free plan or trial | Enterprise continuous listening |
Pricing verified September 2026 against each vendor’s pricing page; ratings from G2 as of September 2026.
How we evaluated these pulse survey apps
We build Matter, which runs pulse and eNPS surveys native to Slack and Microsoft Teams, so read our entry with that in mind. For every other app we read the vendor’s pricing page, Slack listing and help center, plus named G2 reviews; we have not used most of them hands-on. We scored five things: whether the answer is taken inside Slack or through a link; the cadence engine (schedule, reminders, repeated questions so results trend); anonymity, default or per-survey, and whether a minimum group size is stated; trending and eNPS by team; and manager follow-up plus admin overhead. Pricing and availability were verified in September 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page and app listing; ratings are from G2 as of September 2026.
Our own platform data set the bar for response speed. In The Recognition Habit, Matter’s 2026 Benchmark Report, over half of pulse responses arrive within the first hour and 87.5% within a day, coin rewards roughly double completion (39.6% vs 19.6%, survey-weighted across 84,000+ pulse surveys), and 98.2% of pulse surveys run anonymous. The same report finds that almost half of teams (46%) send their first recognition within 15 minutes of setup, 1 in 3 within 5 minutes, and the figures are identical on Slack and Teams. More is at Matter Research.
What to look for in pulse survey apps for Slack
- Answered in Slack or after a login. A one-off survey survives a link-out; a pulse does not, because people who must sign in to a web app every week stop answering by the third cycle. Five apps here take the answer in Slack; Officevibe and Peakon collect it elsewhere.
- Cadence against the pricing meter. Polly licenses authors, Geekbot charges per unique respondent, Lattice and Matter per seat or user, Officevibe sells an annual bundle, Peakon quotes. No meter charges by the send, but a per-respondent meter grows with every team you add to the rotation.
- Anonymity and the threshold. Anonymous should be the default, not a checkbox, and a five-person team with a visible score is not anonymous whatever the setting says. No vendor here prints a minimum group size, so ask.
- Trending and eNPS. The point of asking 26 times a year is the line. Check that pulse and eNPS scores build a time series by team, and what a free tier keeps: Polly’s free plan holds 45 days of results.
- Workspace, Enterprise Grid and Slack Connect. On Grid the org admin sets which apps are available, and a pulse posted in a Slack Connect channel reaches external members. Matter supports Enterprise Grid and Slack Connect; Polly’s Slack Marketplace listing says Enterprise Grid ready; the other vendors state neither.
The best pulse survey apps for Slack in 2026
1. Matter
Matter is recognition, rewards and employee surveys in one app native to Slack: no separate login, about two minutes to set up, and user management syncs from Slack. Pulse and eNPS live in the Surveys add-on, delivered in Slack, Teams and email, with optional coin rewards for completion. It installs in Slack Connect channels, and Slack Enterprise Grid is supported. We build Matter, so weigh this entry accordingly and read Matter’s reviews on G2 too.
Standout strength: Response speed. The pulse is answered in Slack, runs anonymous, and a small coin reward for completion is built in, the mechanism behind the figures above. Feedback Friday™ (US Patent 12,199,935) prompts the team weekly; give-coins reset weekly, earned coins never expire. The Free plan for unlimited users covers kudos and Feedback Friday, a low-risk first employee listening step; templates are on the pulse surveys page.
Watch out for: Surveys are a paid add-on, and dedicated listening suites go deeper on analytics: for driver analysis across hundreds of managers, Peakon or Officevibe is the better tool, and Lattice wins if pulse has to sit inside performance data. HRIS sync is an Enterprise-tier item (250+ HRIS integrations available; no HRIS project is required because user management syncs from Slack or Teams).
Pricing: Free plan for unlimited users. Basic is $1 per user/month, billed annually; Pro is $3 per user/month, billed annually; the Surveys add-on is $2 per user/month, billed annually, on Basic or Pro (Pro + Surveys totals $5). 14-day free trial, no credit card, and Matter hasn’t raised prices in 8 years. See the pricing page, verified September 2026.
Best for: SMB and mid-market teams that want a weekly or biweekly pulse answered in Slack, with eNPS trending and recognition in one app, at a published price.
2. TINYpulse by WebMD Health Services
TINYpulse made the one-question weekly pulse a category and has changed hands twice since: Limeade acquired it and renamed it Limeade Listening, WebMD Health Services then acquired Limeade, and from July 2024 the product was rebranded back to TINYpulse by WebMD Health Services. It is still sold; tinypulse.com now redirects to webmdhealthservices.com. On Slack a bot sends the survey and people respond directly in Slack.
Standout strength: The weekly one-question rhythm is the whole design. Tina H. (May 2022), a Chief of Staff, wrote on G2: “Easy to set up with a fairly intuitive UI. We mainly use weekly ‘pulse’ one question check-ins, and occasionally do longer surveys as well.” It rates 4.4 across 214 reviews.
Watch out for: No public pricing and no trial, and the help center says the Slack option is an add-on that may not be in every subscription. Eniko S. (December 2021) described the link-out failure mode: “By clicking on the survey response we are taken to login and then one has to answer the survey again.” Both named reviews predate the 2024 rebrand.
Pricing: No plans printed; demo request only. Slack integration sold as a subscription add-on. Verified September 2026.
Best for: Organizations already buying WebMD Health Services well-being programs that want a weekly pulse from the same vendor.
3. Lattice
Lattice is a people platform (performance, goals, 1:1s, engagement) whose Slack app takes the pulse answer without a link-out: the survey appears under Apps > Lattice, you pick an option and click Submit, and a comment field opens after submitting. Its Engagement product bundles Pulse, Onboarding and Exit surveys, Action Planning, eNPS and AI Analysis and Trends.
Standout strength: Pulse and eNPS trends sit next to reviews and 1:1 talking points, so a manager who sees a dip has the follow-up tool at hand. Lattice holds a 4.6 across 4,123 reviews on G2; Heather M. (May 2026), a Head of People, says she would “implement and use Lattice over and over!”
Watch out for: The minimum annual agreement is $4,000, which makes the $4 seat/month Engagement price theoretical for a 40-person company, and there is no free plan or printed trial. Jamie G. (August 2026) wants “a more streamlined ‘skip-level’ experience for managers of managers.”
Pricing: Engagement is $4 seat/month, billed annually; Foundations is $13 seat/month, billed annually; minimum annual agreement $4,000, USD only. Verified September 2026.
Best for: Mid-size companies that want pulse and eNPS trends in the same platform as performance reviews and 1:1s.
4. Geekbot
Geekbot is an async standup bot that already runs on a schedule, which makes it a natural pulse engine for teams that use it. The bot messages each person in Slack at the time you set, they answer in their own words or on a 1 to 5 or emoji scale, results post to a channel, and surveys can be anonymous.
Standout strength: The habit already exists: a team that answers a Geekbot standup every morning will answer a Friday pulse question in the same thread, and teams of up to 10 get surveys free. Ashar M. (October 2025) says on G2 it “has made our daily standups and progress updates effortless”; 4.6 across 164 reviews.
Watch out for: Standups and surveys are metered separately, per participant and per unique respondent, so a team using both pays both, and there is no eNPS or benchmark layer. Christie M. (July 2023) wrote: “It’s not very customizable.”
Pricing: Starter is free for teams of up to 10 users. Basic prices standups at $2.5 /participant/month on the annual plan and Polls & Surveys at $1 per unique respondent, per month, with a free trial of 30 days; Enterprise is contact us. Verified September 2026.
Best for: Engineering and product teams already running async standups who want a scheduled pulse question in the same bot.
5. Polly
Polly is the established poll app in Slack: type /polly in any channel and the team answers in one click where the conversation is. A pulse on Polly is a short poll with anonymity turned on, sent to the same channel on a rhythm the author keeps, with the results history as the trend.
Standout strength: Nothing gets a first pulse into a channel faster, and the free plan has unlimited responses and participants. Christy H. (April 2026) called it “Easy to set up and easy to use” on G2, where it holds a 4.6 across 94 reviews.
Watch out for: It is a poll engine, not a pulse program: no eNPS model, no manager follow-up layer, and the free plan keeps only 45 days of results. Paid plans are licensed per author and billed annually; Alex P. (April 2026) wrote: “The pricing practices are genuinely misleading, and that’s not a word I use lightly.”
Pricing: Free plan. Basic is $19/mo, billed $228 annually for 1 license; Pro is $29/mo, billed $348 annually for 1 license; Team is $249/mo for 5 users, billed annually; Enterprise is quote-based. Verified September 2026.
Best for: Small teams that want a recurring one-question check-in in a channel today, with one person writing it.
6. Workleap Officevibe
Workleap Officevibe, formerly Officevibe, is the engagement module of the Workleap suite, and the weekly pulse is its founding feature. On Slack it is a connector: team members receive a weekly Pulse Survey through a Slack direct message, plus 1-on-1 and feedback prompts, and answer in the Workleap web app.
Standout strength: The follow-up loop is built in: team health reports for HR and 1-on-1 prompts for managers. Shruti T. (May 2026) called it “one of the most truly one-stop platforms/tools for bringing employee experiences together in a single, cohesive place.” It rates 4.3 across 1,090 reviews on G2, listed there as Workleap.
Watch out for: Every weekly response is a link-out and a login, and the old per-user price is gone: pricing is a Workleap bundle starting at $4,999 USD per year with no free plan printed. Duncan J. (September 2025) wrote that urgent support tickets “can take up to three days to be resolved.”
Pricing: Standard starting at $4,999 USD, billed annually; Pro starting at $11,999 USD, billed annually; Enterprise custom for organizations with 250 or more employees. No trial printed. Verified September 2026.
Best for: Mid-size companies with an HR owner and a five-figure budget that want weekly pulse plus 1-on-1 tooling.
7. Workday Peakon Employee Voice
Peakon, now Workday Peakon Employee Voice, is the enterprise continuous-listening platform on this list. Its Slack integration sends employees survey and reminder notifications and sends managers daily team suggestion summaries; Workday’s documentation does not state that questions are answered inside Slack. Setup needs administrator access in both Peakon and Slack.
Standout strength: Manager follow-up is the product: the daily suggestion summary lands in a manager’s Slack. Cesar Y. (December 2025) wrote on G2: “I like the possibility of collecting employee feedback in real time through the frequency of surveys.” It rates 4.6 across 117 reviews.
Watch out for: Pricing is quote-only through Workday sales with no trial, and on Slack the app is a notification channel, so the pulse itself is answered outside chat. Peter E. (October 2020) found a bespoke survey “very difficult without going into a much higher tier that we didn’t need.”
Pricing: Quote-based via Workday sales; no plans printed, no free plan, no trial. Verified September 2026.
Best for: Large organizations, especially Workday HCM customers, that want enterprise listening with Slack as the manager-summary channel.
What it actually takes to get started
On a single Slack workspace, an owner or admin installs any of the native apps in minutes; if app approval is on, a member requests it and an admin approves. Matter takes about two minutes and needs no HRIS project, because membership syncs from the channel you connect; our pulse surveys in Slack training walks through it; see also our roundup of the best Slack apps.
The suites take longer. TINYpulse needs an Engage admin who is also a Slack admin, plus the Slack add-on in your subscription. Officevibe needs an administrator in both Workleap and Slack, with users arriving on a 24-hour sync; Peakon needs administrator access in both systems and a Slack instance that has approved its app. On Enterprise Grid the org admin controls which apps are available, so plan an extra approval step; Grid setup on Matter is an Enterprise-tier item, as is HRIS sync. Before the first send, decide the cadence, the anonymity promise in the announcement, and who reads the results each cycle.
How to choose the right pulse survey app for your team
Start with the login test: if the same people get the same question every week or two, the answer has to be one click away in Slack, which narrows the field to Matter, TINYpulse, Lattice, Geekbot and Polly. A team under 20 that wants a Friday check-in in one channel is well served by Polly, or by Geekbot if the standup habit exists; both are free to start.
For a program (recurring pulse, quarterly eNPS, results by team, a manager who acts), choose by where the data should live and what you can spend. Under about 200 people and without an HR platform, Matter runs pulse and eNPS inside Slack, keeps it anonymous, rewards completion and publishes its price, which is what HR and People Ops teams that do not want to be the program’s engine ask us for. If pulse has to sit inside performance data and you can clear a $4,000 annual minimum, Lattice is the stronger choice and still answers in Slack. At mid-size with a five-figure budget, Officevibe adds 1-on-1 follow-up to the weekly pulse. At enterprise scale, or wherever Workday is the system of record, Peakon is the better product, and its daily manager summaries in Slack are the best follow-up mechanism here. For the wider market, see our guide to pulse survey software. Whatever you choose, run two cycles and count how many answers land in the first hour.
Frequently asked questions about pulse survey apps for Slack
What is a pulse survey app for Slack?
A pulse survey app for Slack sends a short, recurring set of questions to employees inside Slack, usually weekly or every two weeks, and trends the answers over time by team. Native apps such as Matter, TINYpulse, Lattice, Geekbot and Polly take the answer in Slack; connectors such as Workleap Officevibe and Workday Peakon collect it in their own platform.
How often should you send a pulse survey in Slack?
Weekly or every two weeks: TINYpulse and Officevibe are designed as a weekly pulse, Matter and Geekbot run on the schedule you set, and a Polly pulse goes out whenever its author sends it. Keep it to a few questions, repeat them so the score can trend, and add an eNPS question each quarter. On Matter, over half of pulse responses arrive within the first hour.
Are pulse surveys in Slack anonymous?
Only if the app makes them so and the group is big enough. On Matter, 98.2% of pulse surveys run anonymous; Geekbot offers anonymous surveys and Polly has anonymity controls per poll. No vendor printed a minimum group size on the pages we fetched, so ask what the threshold is before a team’s breakdown is shown, and whether comments are covered.
Can you track eNPS over time from Slack?
Yes, with an app that has an eNPS model rather than a poll. Matter’s Surveys add-on includes pulse and eNPS delivered in Slack, and Lattice’s Engagement product includes eNPS and trend analysis with pulse answered in its Slack app. Polly and Geekbot can ask the eNPS question but have no eNPS model.
How much do Slack pulse survey apps cost?
From free to a quote. Polly Basic is $19/mo, billed $228 annually for 1 license; Geekbot is free up to 10 users, then $1 per unique respondent, per month; Matter’s Surveys add-on is $2 per user/month, billed annually; Lattice Engagement is $4 seat/month with a $4,000 annual minimum; Workleap Officevibe starts at $4,999 USD per year; TINYpulse and Workday Peakon are demo and quote only. All verified September 2026.
The bottom line
A pulse app for Slack earns its place by getting an answer from the same people 26 or 52 times a year: one click in Slack, anonymous, with a trend a manager can act on. For a one-question check-in, Polly or Geekbot will do. For a weekly pulse with eNPS trending, rewards for completion and recognition alongside it, Matter is built for that. For pulse inside a performance platform, Lattice; for an enterprise listening suite, Peakon or Officevibe will serve you better.
