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 30 minutes of inactivity. On a laptop running the Slack desktop app, that means 30 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 how they get there.

Setup

slack.green takes a no-extension approach. You visit the site, connect your Slack workspace via OAuth, set your schedule, and you're done. Nothing installs on your machine. This is genuinely appealing if you're on a managed device where installing extensions is restricted, or if you simply prefer not to.

Stay Green On Slack uses a Chrome extension to capture your Slack session token. You install the extension once, sign into Slack, and the extension forwards the token to the cloud service. Setup takes about 90 seconds. The extension doesn't need to stay running — it's only needed once per workspace.

The extension approach has a practical advantage: it can grab the exact same token your browser session uses, which means the API calls are indistinguishable from a real browser session. The OAuth approach slack.green uses is also legitimate, but some users find extension-based token capture more transparent about what's happening under the hood.

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 prefer zero local installs of any kind, you're on a locked-down device where Chrome extensions aren't available, and you only need Slack coverage.

Pick Stay Green On Slack if: you also use Microsoft Teams, want a single subscription covering both platforms, or want a Chrome extension workflow that gives you direct visibility into what token is in use. The extension-based approach also makes it straightforward to re-capture a token 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.