Best Slack Birthday Bots in 2026 Compared

Finding the right slack birthday bot for your team can save hours of manual reminders and make every teammate feel genuinely celebrated. Whether you need automated birthday reminders in Slack, digital group cards, or advance notifications for managers, the right app makes all the difference especially as your team grows.

We tested the most popular Slack birthday bots so you don't have to. Here's how they compare on the features that actually matter.

Quick Comparison

App	HRIS Sync	Digital Cards	Manager Alerts	Pricing
Doozy	✓	✓	✓	From $199/month (up to 350 users)
CelebrationsBot	✗	✗	✗	From $0.50/user/month
Donut Celebrations	✓	✗	✗	From $49/month
BirthdayBot	✗	✗	✗	From $0.60/user/month
Billy the Birthday Bot	✗	✗	✗	Free under 10; $1/user/month

Doozy for Slack

Yes, thats us! Doozy automatically keeps track of all birthdays and anniversaries, sends reminders to managers and lets you create one-off celebrations.

Importantly, celebrations arent a standalone product theyre included as part of Doozys complete employee engagement suite, which also covers onboarding, learning, training, coffee chats, trivia, icebreakers, and polls. Youre not paying for a birthday bot; youre getting a platform that handles the full employee engagement.

Pros:

• Integrates directly with your HRIS, so no need to manually add data

• Celebrations are customizable: keep them as text-based posts, or include images or GIFs

• Create virtual cards for the whole team to sign

• Upcoming notifications for managers and team members

• Create custom celebrations and one-off cards

• Celebrations are just one feature you also get onboarding, learning, training, coffee chats, trivia, icebreakers and polls included at no extra cost

• For teams of 150+, Doozy is significantly cheaper than paying per-seat for a standalone birthday bot plus separate tools for onboarding, learning, and engagement

Cons:

• If you literally only want a birthday announcement in a channel and nothing else, a simpler single-purpose bot may be all you need

Pricing: From $199 / month (up to 350 users)

CelebrationsBot for Slack

CelebrationsBot provide a basic way for you to keep track of and notify the team about birthdays and work anniversaries.

Pros:

• You can create custom celebrations for occasions other than birthdays and anniversaries

Cons:

• Data input for significant dates appears to be manual

• Celebration notifications are limited to text-based posts

• Doesn't support virtual birthday cards

• Doesn't notify their managers in advance

Price: From $0.5 / user / month

Donut Celebrations for Slack

Donut Celebrations features customizable, automated posts in the channel of your choice for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays.

Pros:

• Team members can personalize their own settings, opting in/out of each celebration

• You can create custom celebrations, including images

Cons:

• Data input is manual: individual users are asked to input their own data, or companies are asked to upload manually in bulk

• Can't create virtual birthday cards

Price: From $49 per month based on 24 users to $399+ for over 100 users

BirthdayBot for Slack

BirthdayBot is a popular Slack birthday bot.

Pros:

• You can choose from a library of suggested templates and GIFs to enhance your celebration messages

• Customizable congratulation packs are available

Cons:

• Users need to add their own dates for birthdays, anniversaries etc.

• Can't create customised cards

• No manager notifications

Price: From $0.60 / user / month for birthdays only, $1.59 for birthdays and anniversaries

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Billy the Birthday Bot for Slack

Billy (by BuddiesHR) is a focused, lightweight slack birthday bot used by 1,000+ teams. It handles birthdays and work anniversaries automatically inside Slack, with a self-serve setup that needs no HR admin involvement.

Pros:

• Free for teams under 10 people

• Automatically collects birth dates from team members via direct message

• Bulk spreadsheet import for larger teams

• Weekend management: delay celebrations to Friday or Monday

• Opt-out option for employees who prefer not to be celebrated

Cons:

• No HRIS sync (enterprise only, on request)

• No digital group cards

• No advance manager notifications

Price: Free under 10 users; $1 / user / month

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Which Slack Birthday Bot Should You Choose?

The best slack birthday bot for most teams is one that removes manual work entirely so celebrations actually happen, consistently, without anyone having to remember.

Choose Doozy if you want serious value from a single platform. Celebrations come included as part of a full employee engagement suite onboarding, learning, training, coffee chats, trivia, icebreakers, and polls all for one flat price. It's the only option here with HRIS sync, digital cards, and manager alerts. For teams of 150+, Doozy works out much cheaper than paying per-seat for a standalone birthday bot alongside separate tools for onboarding, learning, and engagement.

Choose a standalone birthday bot (BirthdayBot, CelebrationsBot, Billy, or Donut Celebrations) if all you need is a basic birthday announcement in a Slack channel. These are fine for small teams that don't need HRIS integration, digital cards, or any of the broader engagement features just keep in mind that's all you're getting.

For teams that want birthday reminders in Slack to run on autopilot with zero data entry and notifications that actually reach managers as part of a platform that genuinely improves employee engagement across the board, Doozy is the clear choice.