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Discover the best alternative to Donut

How does BuddiesHR compare to Donut Slack app? What the best way to connect employees together? What’s the best alternative to Donut Slack bot?

Discover why BuddiesHR is a great alternative to Donut.
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Top 3 reasons BuddiesHR is the best alternative to Donut

Here are the main reasons why people prefer BuddiesHR over Donut
Install only the apps you need
If you don't feel like having a bunch of features you'll never use, choose BuddiesHR for its modular approach
BuddiesHR is (way) cheaper
Free under 30 users, affordable above that. More than 5 times cheaper than Donut.
UX people love
Nothing worst than getting lost in too many settings in a clunky external app, right? With BuddiesHR, get a fresh, simple user interface 100% in Slack.

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What is Donut
Donut makes strategic connections to help employees achieve common goals and better outcomes. Donut prompts teammates to connect via direct message,


What is BuddiesHR
BuddiesHR is a suite of Slack apps helping HR teams engage remote employees. Whether if it's for connecting people together, celebrating milestones, birthdays, anniversaries or recognizing people's work, BuddiesHR covers all the needs of remote companies.

Apps are modular (install only what you need), 100% in Slack and very simple to use.

The problem of using Donut for Slack

Donut is now quite hard to configure and too expensive for most teams. While they grew a lot, the product became clunky and difficult to install, configure and maintain.

Why BuddiesHR is the best alternative to Donut?

There are multiple reasons why people choose BuddiesHR over Donut as it's the best alternative:

  • It's multiple times cheaper
  • The simplicity of BuddiesHR set up is just a gift when you've experienced the admin dashboard of Donut
  • Install what you need only - Donut is now full of features you may never need.
  • It's better rated by customers (4.8/5 for BuddiesHR versus 4.5 for Donut)

What are the notable features of BuddiesHR

BuddiesHR main features for Slack include:
  • Birthday and work anniversary celebrations
  • Random 1:1 Coffee Chats
  • Peer-to-peer recognition & Reward system
  • Surveys, Polls, engagement & eNPS
  • Org-Chart and Employee Directory
  • Async Standup automation

What's the price of BuddiesHR

BuddiesHR apps cost $1 per user per month if you use 1 app, if you use multiple apps you pay $2 per user per month for ALL APPS. (yes yes that's not a typo)




Here is what people say about BuddiesHR apps for Slack

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Marina Álvaro Castejón
Head of Marketing
We love it. It's super useful to never forget team members' birthdays!
Sep 25, 2024
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Profile of Andrea Cortés AGRANS
Andrea Cortés AGRANS
Project leader
Our experience has been great! Billy help us to not forget any birthday of the team! with the possibility of assigning a time to reminder the b-day, let us order de cake in time for eat with the coffee
Sep 13, 2024
billy
Profile of Rieena Piquero
Rieena Piquero
Financial Controller
Billy's been impressive so far. We're a small team yet we tend to miss out on important member dates, good thing Billy takes care of it for us. It's a Bot but it sparks the humanness in our virtual team.
Sep 05, 2024
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Profile of Melody Ebbe
Melody Ebbe
Office Manager
Appreciate it being so user friendly and the messages having a nice tone of voice. So yeah, happy with it!
Aug 14, 2024
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Profile of Âli Okumuşoğlu
Âli Okumuşoğlu
Communication Consultant & Founder
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Billy the Birthday Bot is one of the hardest working members of the team! It's is a great tool that is super easy to set up and 'just works'!
Aug 07, 2024
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Profile of Melissa Tapia
Melissa Tapia
Head of Operations & People
We really like using Billy for Birthdays! We like the copy suggestions and we also like the ability to edit/customize our own messages for birthday shout outs.
Aug 07, 2024
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Discover how Donut compares with Alfy

Enjoy a detailed comparison table about features and pricing
logo Donut
30 days free trial
Price per user$4 per user per month$1
Birthdays and Work Anniversaries
1:1 Coffee Matching
Kudos and Recognition
Surveys and Polls
Org-Chart
Standup bot
G2 rate4.5/54.9/5
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Alfy
Connect
logo for Billy
Billy
Celebrate
logo for Clappy
Clappy
Recognize
logo for Pulsy
Pulsy
Measure
logo for Linky
Linky
Organize
logo for Stany
Stany
Sync

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