How Stay Green On Slack actually works

You're probably here because keeping your Slack dot green automatically sounds either too good to be true, or slightly risky — or both. Fair. So here's exactly what happens under the hood, in plain English: what we connect to, what we never touch, and why your workspace admin sees nothing more than a normal Slack session.

How it works, step by step

1. You connect once. A one-click Chrome extension reads your existing Slack session — the login your browser already holds — and hands it to us securely. No passwords, ever. (Prefer to do it manually? You can paste the tokens yourself.)
2. We hold the connection in the cloud. Our servers keep a presence connection to Slack open on your behalf, around the clock, so your status no longer depends on your laptop being awake or open.
3. We signal activity the way Slack expects. On a steady interval, we send the same kind of presence and "active" signals the official Slack client sends when you're using it. That's what keeps your dot green.
4. You stay in control with a schedule. You pick the days and hours you want to look active. Outside them, you appear away — exactly like anyone who's logged off for the evening.

What we connect to — and what we never touch

The service uses your Slack session token — the same credential your browser uses to keep you logged in. With it, we do exactly one thing: manage your presence. We deliberately keep the footprint as small as it can possibly be.

Why it doesn't get you caught

This is the part people actually worry about, so let's be straight about it. Two reasons it stays unremarkable:

• It uses the same mechanism as the real app. We're not exploiting or faking anything Slack doesn't already do for every user — we connect and report presence the same way the official client does. To a workspace admin, that looks like a normal Slack session connected to your account from somewhere. There's nothing unusual to flag. For what admins can and can't see, read does Slack notify your manager when you're away.
• We don't overdo it. The one thing that would look suspicious is being green at 3am on a Sunday, every day, forever. That's the entire reason scheduling exists: you appear active only during believable working hours and genuinely away the rest of the time.

We deliberately don't publish the exact technical recipe — partly to keep it reliable, partly so it isn't trivially copied — but there's no hack here, no message automation, and nothing that abuses how Slack presence is meant to work. It's the same reason a mouse jiggler isn't "cheating" — you're just decoupling your green dot from whether you happen to be wiggling a mouse.

Your security and privacy

• Minimal by design. Your session token is stored securely and used only to maintain presence — nothing else is requested or kept.
• Nothing to leak. We don't read message content, so there's no message data to expose in the first place.
• One-click off. Disconnect anytime and we immediately stop and drop the connection; your status returns to normal.
• No lock-in. Cancel whenever you like. Your 14-day free trial lets you watch your own dot before you commit.