5 Slack Apps for Birthday Celebrations

Slack is one of the most popular communication apps for the workplace, with more than 100,000 companies using it to connect their employees. 

In busy workplaces, where deadlines and deliverables take center stage, celebrating teammates' birthdays, work anniversaries or accomplishments might seem small, but it's really important. These events help everyone feel like a team and show that you value what people bring to the table. 

So how can you use Slack to celebrate significant moments in your team? Here are 5 of the best Slack apps for team celebrations.

Doozy

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

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 of the Doozy, along with Coffee Chats, Trivia, Icebreakers and Socials. 

Cons:

• Not the cheapest option, but the automations and additional features make it well worth it

Pricing: From $2.60 / user / month

CelebrationsBot

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

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

Airspeed

Pros:

• You can generate fun custom celebration messages with AI
• You can choose from a library of suggested templates and GIFs to enhance your celebration messages

Cons:

• Users need to add their own dates for birthdays, anniversaries etc.
• No HRIS integrations
• No manager notifications

Price: Free during early access; future pricing not confirmed

BirthdayBot

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