slack.green vs Stay Green On Slack.

Two cloud services that keep your Slack status green without any hardware or running laptop: slack.green and Stay Green On Slack. Both are legitimate products, both work, and both have real users. The differences come down to setup philosophy, what platforms they cover, and a few features that matter depending on your situation. Here's the honest comparison.

What both services actually do

Both slack.green and Stay Green On Slack solve the same problem: Slack marks you Away after 10 minutes of inactivity. On a laptop running the Slack desktop app, that means 10 minutes without a keystroke or mouse movement. Cloud presence services bypass this entirely — instead of keeping your laptop awake, they maintain a server-side connection to Slack's API that looks like an active client session.

The result is the same either way: your Slack status stays green, your laptop can be off, and there's nothing for IT to spot on your machine. Where the two products diverge is in what else they cover.

Setup

The two services set up almost identically. Both use your own Slack session rather than a Slack app integration, and both give you two ways to connect: a Chrome extension that picks up the session in one click, or a manual setup if you'd rather not install an extension.

Stay Green On Slack takes about 90 seconds with the extension. You install it once, sign into Slack, and it forwards the token to the cloud service. The extension doesn't need to stay running — it's only needed once per workspace. Prefer not to install anything? The manual setup gets you to the same place.

slack.green describes the same shape: an extension used only for setup, with nothing that has to stay installed on your work device. So if you're on a managed laptop where extensions are restricted, you can use the manual route with either product.

How it works (under the hood)

Both services use Slack's API to maintain presence — the same calls Slack's own web client makes. Neither approach is detectable in any meaningful way from the Slack admin console. There's no "suspicious connection" flag. From Slack's perspective, both look like an active browser or client session.

The detection risk question is largely a non-issue for either service. Workspace admins can see connected integrations in Slack's App Directory, but neither service shows up there — they're not Slack App integrations, they're session-level connections.

Scheduling

Both products let you define working hours so your status doesn't stay green at 2am. slack.green has schedule configuration built into the web dashboard. Stay Green On Slack does too, with timezone awareness and day-of-week controls.

The scheduling feature is the main thing that separates both from cruder approaches like mouse jigglers — a jiggler runs whenever your laptop is on, with no awareness of whether it's actually a workday.

Pricing

Both products are in a similar pricing tier — a few dollars per month on a subscription basis. Check each site for current pricing as it changes.

The material difference: Stay Green On Slack's subscription also covers Microsoft Teams via staygreenonteams.com. If you use both platforms, that's significant — you're not paying two separate subscriptions to two separate services. slack.green covers Slack only.

Detection risk

Low for both. As noted above, neither service shows up in Slack's third-party app list. Both maintain presence the same way Slack's browser client does. There is no admin-visible indicator that a cloud presence service is running.

The one thing worth knowing: Slack can revoke session tokens if it detects policy violations. Neither service has issues with this under normal usage — maintaining presence is not a Slack ToS violation. But if your organization has custom enterprise security policies that block token reuse across IP ranges, either service could be affected.

Verdict

Pick slack.green if: you only need Slack coverage and it already covers what you need. It also offers a CLI option.

Pick Stay Green On Slack if: you also use Microsoft Teams, want a single subscription covering both platforms, or want to be able to re-capture a token quickly, via the extension or manually, if it ever expires.

Both are solid. The Teams coverage is the practical tiebreaker for most people who use both platforms — and most corporate environments in 2026 use both.