
That pales in comparison with the numerous apps and bots you can use with Slack. All told, there aren't many, a little more than two dozen at last count. A Giphy bot lets you pull in animated Gifs, and so on. The popular Polly bot is available for creating polls. There's a bot for Asana, which delivers automatic updates about activity in your Asana account. Though I'm tempted to call them integrations, Google calls them bots, and so I will, too. Specifically, this reviewer pointed out the following: Another way you can customize your Hangouts Chat experience is by adding bots.


Here's a brief quote from this review: Google is also launching with some extensibility options: users will be able to create “app scripts” to have bots do work inside the chat, and it will allow third-party companies to create apps that integrate with Hangouts Chat.īased on a review posted on, Google Chat was rated as fairly average for app integration relative to competing team messaging tools. The review site gives Google Chat excellent ratings for app integration in a review posted on its website. Zapier can connect Google Hangouts Chat to thousands of apps, but here are the most popular workflows: Here's a brief quote from this review: By integrating Google Hangouts Chat with Zapier, you can get notifications about upcoming events, track your to-do list items, and more.

Based on reviews posted on popular review sites as well as from Google Chat's website, Google Chat performs very well in terms of app integration relative to other team messaging tools.
