8 Best Slack Survey Apps for Employee Feedback and Pulse Checks in 2026

Short answer: Matter, Polly, Simple Poll and Geekbot collect the survey answer inside Slack, and Lattice takes pulse answers in its Slack app home; Workleap Officevibe and Workday Peakon collect the answer in their own platforms instead.

Polly and Simple Poll are the fastest start for quick polls, both free, while Matter is the one native app here running a recurring pulse, eNPS and onboarding program at a published price.

A survey answered in Slack is a different thing from a survey announced in Slack. Some apps put the question in the channel or the app’s home tab and take the answer in one click.

Others send a direct message with a link to a web app your team has to sign into. Both get called Slack survey apps, and the difference decides your response rate, your anonymity story and what you pay, since tools charge per author, per respondent or per workspace.

This page covers employee surveys broadly: pulse and eNPS on a repeating cadence, onboarding check-ins, and one-off custom surveys. Our explainer on what a pulse survey is covers question design before you pick a tool.

Last verified September 2026.

The short version

Matter, Polly, Simple Poll and Geekbot are answered inside Slack; Lattice answers pulse surveys in its Slack app home; Workleap Officevibe delivers through Slack and collects answers in its web app. For quick polls, Polly and Simple Poll are the fastest to start and both have free plans.

For a recurring survey program (pulse, eNPS, onboarding, custom) at a published per-user price, Matter is the one native app on this list. Geekbot fits teams that already run async standups; Lattice and Officevibe fit HR teams budgeting in the thousands per year for a people platform.

TINYpulse by WebMD Health Services and Workday Peakon Employee Voice are built around a recurring pulse and sell by quote, with Peakon using Slack as a notification and manager-summary channel rather than an answer surface. Our companion guide to Microsoft Teams apps for employee surveys covers the Microsoft side.

Quick comparison

Pricing verified September 2026 against each vendor’s pricing page; ratings from G2 as of September 2026.

How we evaluated these survey apps

We build Matter, which includes employee 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 each on five things: whether the survey is answered inside Slack or by link; whether anonymity is the default; the pricing meter (per author, respondent, workspace or seat) and whether a price is published; survey types beyond a one-question poll; whether a cadence runs on a schedule and whether eNPS trends over time; and admin overhead, including who approves the install and whether Slack Enterprise Grid is supported.

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.

One data point from our own platform shaped the ranking. 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 survey apps for Slack

• Answered in Slack or by link. Matter, Polly, Simple Poll and Geekbot take the answer inside Slack; Lattice takes pulse answers in its app home. Officevibe sends a DM and collects the answer in a web app, which adds a login to every response.
• What anonymous means. Poll tools treat anonymity as a per-poll switch. A survey program needs it as the default, with a promise to respondents that covers comments too.
• Which meter you are on. Polly licenses authors, Geekbot charges per unique respondent, Simple Poll per workspace, Lattice and Matter per seat or user. The same 60-person team can cost $228 a year or several thousand depending on the meter.
• Poll versus program. A poll asks one question once. A program runs pulse, eNPS, onboarding and custom surveys on a schedule, reminds non-responders and trends results. Free tiers cap what you keep: Polly holds 45 days of results, Simple Poll 100 responses a month.
• One-off survey or a repeating cadence. A pulse is the same few questions sent to the same people every week or two, and it only means anything as a line over time. Matter, Geekbot, TINYpulse and Officevibe run a cadence on a schedule; a Polly or Simple Poll pulse goes out when an author remembers to send it.
• Workspace, Enterprise Grid and Slack Connect. On one workspace an owner or admin installs an app in minutes, unless app approval is on; on Grid the org admin decides which apps are available. A poll in a Slack Connect channel is visible to external members.

The best 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. The surveys add-on runs pulse, eNPS, onboarding and custom surveys, delivered in Slack, Teams and email, with optional coin rewards for completion.

It installs in public, private, shared and 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: The survey is answered inside Slack, surveys can run anonymous, and a small coin reward for completion is built in, the mechanism behind the completion figures above.

The Free plan for unlimited users covers kudos and Feedback Friday™ (US Patent 12,199,935), which prompts the team weekly; give-coins reset weekly, earned coins never expire. That makes it a practical first employee listening tool; templates are on the employee surveys page.

Watch out for: Surveys are a paid add-on, not part of the Free plan, and dedicated employee-experience suites go deeper on analytics: for benchmarks or driver analysis across hundreds of managers, Officevibe or Culture Amp is the better tool.

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 survey program answered in Slack, alongside recognition, at a published price.

2. Polly

Polly is the most established poll and survey app in Slack. Type /polly in any channel, build the question, and the team answers in one click where the conversation is; the Slack Marketplace listing calls it Enterprise Grid ready. Templated surveys, anonymity controls, scheduling and trend views sit on top of the polls.

Standout strength: Speed to first answer: the free plan has unlimited responses and participants, so a whole workspace can answer on day one. 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: Paid plans are licensed per author and billed annually although the interface shows a monthly figure; Alex P. (April 2026) wrote: “The pricing practices are genuinely misleading, and that’s not a word I use lightly.” The free plan keeps only 45 days of results.

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. No trial length is printed. Verified September 2026.

Best for: Teams that want polls and lightweight surveys inside Slack today, with one or two people writing them.

3. Simple Poll

Simple Poll does one thing: a /poll command that drops a vote into the channel next to the message that raised the question. It works in channels, DMs and group DMs, has an anonymous modifier, and covers Enterprise Grid on its Enterprise plan. It is Slack-only, with no Microsoft Teams version.

Standout strength: Zero training and per-workspace pricing. Pat W. (May 2026) wrote on G2: “Anyone who wants to use it can do so immediately without any training.” One Premium upgrade covers a workspace of up to 24 members. It rates 4.2 across 112 reviews.

Watch out for: The free plan caps at 100 responses per month and 5 options per poll. It is a poll tool, not a survey program: no pulse cadence, eNPS or onboarding sequences. Eric R. (July 2025) found it “a little clunky” on first use.

Pricing: Free plan. Premium is $49/mo, billed annually ($588/yr), per workspace, for workspaces of 1 to 24 members; Enterprise is custom and covers Slack Enterprise Grid. 14-day Premium trial, no credit card. Verified September 2026.

Best for: Small Slack workspaces that need quick decisions in channel more than structured surveys.

4. Geekbot

Geekbot is an async standup bot first and a survey tool second, and that order matters for pricing. The bot messages each person in Slack at a scheduled time, they answer in their own words or on a scale, and the summary posts to a channel; the same mechanism delivers polls and surveys, with an anonymous option.

Standout strength: If your team already answers a Geekbot standup each morning, a pulse question in the same thread costs nothing in habit. 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. Templates are lighter than a listening suite’s; 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, less on the annual plan, with a free trial of 30 days; Enterprise is contact us. Verified September 2026.

Best for: Engineering and product teams running async standups who want pulse questions in the same bot.

5. Lattice

Lattice is a people platform (performance, goals, 1:1s, engagement) whose Slack app is more than notifications. Pulse surveys appear under Apps > Lattice, you pick an option and click Submit, and a comment field opens after submitting. Full engagement surveys are announced in Slack; the pages we fetched do not confirm they are answered there.

Standout strength: Surveys connected to performance and 1:1 data, with pulse answered where people already are, and Engagement is a published product covering pulse, onboarding and exit surveys, eNPS and AI analysis. 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 figure theoretical for a 40-person company. No free plan, no printed trial. Lacey G. (July 2026) noted the AI agent and one-on-ones “can’t be accessed in a group setting.”

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 surveys tied to performance reviews and 1:1s in one HR platform.

6. Workleap Officevibe

Workleap Officevibe, formerly Officevibe, is the engagement module of the Workleap suite. Its Slack app is a connector: team members receive a weekly Pulse Survey by Slack direct message, plus 1-on-1 and feedback prompts, and answer in the Workleap web app rather than inside Slack.

Standout strength: A mature engagement suite with team health reports, 1-on-1 tooling and feedback in one place; 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: The old per-user Officevibe price is gone: pricing is a Workleap bundle starting at $4,999 USD per year, with no per-user price or 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 that want an HR-owned engagement suite and accept Slack as the delivery channel, not the answer surface.

7. 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.

8. 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.

Running a pulse program in Slack

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. That changes what matters in the app.

The cadence has to run on a schedule rather than depend on someone remembering to send it. The answer has to be one click in the channel, because on a weekly rhythm a login tax compounds.

Anonymity has to hold as a default across every cycle, not as a switch set per poll. And the score has to trend by team, with an eNPS question you can repeat each quarter.

Of the apps here, Matter, Geekbot and TINYpulse run a scheduled cadence and take the answer inside Slack. Lattice answers pulse in its Slack app home and models eNPS with trend analysis.

Polly and Simple Poll can ask an eNPS question but have no eNPS model, so a weekly pulse means an author sending it each time.

Workleap Officevibe and Workday Peakon Employee Voice are designed around a recurring pulse, but on Slack both are delivery channels: the notification lands in chat and the answer happens in a browser.

If you plan to trend a score for more than a quarter, that difference matters more than any feature on the pricing page.

Before the first send, settle three things in writing: the cadence (weekly or every two weeks, on a fixed day), the anonymity promise you will make in the announcement, and who reads the results each cycle and owns the follow-up.

A pulse with no named reader is a poll with a schedule. Our pulse surveys in Slack training walks through the setup on Matter.

What it actually takes to get started

On a single Slack workspace, an owner or admin can install any of the native apps in minutes; if app approval is on, a member requests it and an admin approves from the admin dashboard.

Matter takes about two minutes and needs no HRIS project, because membership syncs from the channel you connect; our employee surveys in Slack training walks through the first survey, and our roundup of the best Slack apps covers what tends to sit alongside a survey tool.

The connectors take longer. Officevibe needs an administrator in both Workleap and Slack to link accounts, with new users appearing on a 24-hour sync, and every response happens in a browser, so SSO and password resets become part of the program.

Lattice needs its app enabled before pulse surveys show up under Apps. On Slack Enterprise Grid the org admin controls which apps are available across workspaces, so plan an extra approval step; Grid setup on Matter is an Enterprise-tier item, as is HRIS sync.

How to choose the right survey app for your team

Start with what you are measuring. If the honest answer is which day works for the offsite, Polly or Simple Poll is the right tool: both are free to start, Simple Poll is cheaper for a whole workspace of up to 24 people, and Polly is the better pick once you want templates, anonymity settings and a results history.

If your engineering team already answers a standup bot, Geekbot will get better completion than a new app would, because the habit exists.

If you are running a program (pulse every week or two, eNPS each quarter, onboarding check-ins, custom surveys when something changes), pick by budget and by where the data should live.

Under about 200 people and without an HR platform, Matter gets the survey answered in Slack, rewards completion and publishes its price, the combination HR and People Ops teams that do not want a second system tend to ask us for.

If surveys need to sit next to performance reviews and 1:1s and you can clear a $4,000 annual minimum, Lattice is the stronger choice, and it still answers pulse in Slack.

At mid-size with a dedicated HR team and a five-figure budget, Officevibe gives you a full engagement suite, and Slack becomes the reminder channel.

TINYpulse makes sense mainly if you already buy WebMD Health Services well-being programs, and Workday Peakon Employee Voice if you are a Workday HCM shop that wants enterprise listening with Slack carrying the manager summaries. For the wider market, see our guide to employee engagement survey software.

Whatever you choose, pilot it in one channel for two cycles and watch how many people answer within the first hour.

Frequently asked questions about 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.

For the wider market beyond Slack, see our guide to pulse survey software.

Can employees answer a survey without leaving Slack?

Yes, with the native apps. Matter, Polly, Simple Poll and Geekbot collect the answer inside Slack, and Lattice takes pulse survey answers in its Slack app home. Workleap Officevibe delivers the survey through Slack but collects the answer in its own web app, so each response needs a browser login.

Are Slack surveys really anonymous?

It depends on the app and the setting. Polly and Simple Poll offer anonymity as a per-poll option. Survey programs treat it as the default: on Matter, 98.2% of pulse surveys run anonymous, and Geekbot offers an anonymous survey mode. Before launch, check whether admins can see individual responses and whether comment fields are covered by the same promise. 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; that number is what protects a five-person team.

What is the difference between a Slack poll app and an employee survey app?

A poll app asks one question once and shows the tally in the channel; Polly and Simple Poll are built for that. An employee survey app runs recurring pulse, eNPS, onboarding and custom surveys on a schedule, reminds people who have not answered, keeps responses anonymous by default and trends results over time.

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 the same ones so the score can trend, and add an eNPS question each quarter.

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, so you would be trending a number you assemble yourself.

How much do Slack survey apps cost?

From free to several thousand dollars a year, and the meter matters more than the rate.

Polly charges per author license ($19/mo, billed $228 annually); Simple Poll per workspace ($49/mo, billed annually); Geekbot $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 Employee Voice publish no prices and sell by quote. All verified September 2026.

Do Slack survey apps work on Slack Enterprise Grid and Slack Connect?

Some do. Matter supports Slack Enterprise Grid with multiple connected channels managed from one workspace and installs in Slack Connect channels. Polly’s Slack Marketplace listing says it is Enterprise Grid ready, and Simple Poll covers Grid on its Enterprise plan.

Geekbot, Lattice and Officevibe did not state Grid or Slack Connect support on the pages we fetched, so ask the vendor.

The bottom line

The Slack survey app that works is the one people can answer without leaving the conversation, on a meter that does not punish you for asking more people. For polls, start with Polly or Simple Poll.

For a survey program that stays in Slack, with recognition alongside it and a published price, Matter is built for that. For a full employee-experience suite, Lattice or Officevibe will serve you better.