--- title: Donut Reviews meta_title: 'Donut Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Donut works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 18 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Donut Reviews **Vendor:** Donut **Category:** [Productivity Bots Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/productivity-bots) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Donut Design, automate, and scale your essential employee experience programs with Donut. Powered by AI, delivered where you work. Trusted by 20,000+ high-performing teams like Anthropic, Figma, Perplexity, Carta, and Ramp, Donut helps organizations onboard new hires faster, build meaningful cross-team connections, recognize and reward great work, and automate milestone celebrations like work anniversaries and birthdays. Donut integrates with your essential tools: • Schedule with Google Calendar and MS Outlook • Meet with Zoom, MS Teams, or Google Meet • Connect 50+ HRIS tools and Greenhouse ATS to sync key data ## Donut Reviews ### 1. Great for keeping in touch with colleagues when working remotely **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Donut?** Working remotely has it's benefits, but one of the downsides is reduced cross team contact/collaboration. Donut randomly pairs you with a colleague every week for a catch-up. Love the integration with slack and calendars to suggest times. It holds you accountable **What do you dislike about Donut?** Sometimes you are matched with someone you speak to frequently and multiple times in a row. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting with colleagues you otherwise wouldn't catch-up with. ### 2. Great way to connect with coworkers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andra M. | Content Marketing Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Donut?** Donut makes it easy to meet colleagues that you might not otherwise because they're in another department or your work doesn't overlap. You can select if there's anyone you don't want to be paired with, and the frequency. Donut has access to your calendar (Google in our case) so it's easy to book a chat at a time that works for everyone. **What do you dislike about Donut?** It can be hard to get people to buy into using Donut, which is no fault of the product just something that people tend to do. Maybe including some more exciting copy could help improve uptake. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've met a lot of coworkers that I wouldn't have really had occasion to speak with, either in-person or virtually, through Donut. I truly believe that it helps to build a sense of community and team building whether your team is remote, hybrid, or onsite. ### 3. Great functionality, crazy pricing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert F. | Head of People, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Donut?** Schedule was highly automated, and it took the work off my team and allowed mostly self service. Good prompts and water cooler topics **What do you dislike about Donut?** THE PRICING It basically priced itself out of the market. My last company ended up spending $15K+ a year, and although we had around 100 active users, it charges for the whole workspace (600). This pricing model has made me NOT implement it at my next company, despite the tool itself being solid. There is zero chance a company can support this kind of pricing when they looking at the softer side of employee engagement. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** It did help employees from other teams to get to know each other. The CEO and some of our leaders really liked it and personally completed many many donuts. ### 4. Creative way for fostering team connections **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Moaaz M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Donut?** - The way it starts conversations. - Fosters a sense of community. Leads to new ideas and collaborations that may not have occurred otherwise. - Nobody voted :( [The selfie contest :D] **What do you dislike about Donut?** Dependence on Slack: Slack Donut relies on the Slack platform, which may not be suitable for teams who do not use Slack as their primary communication tool. Privacy concerns: Slack Donut requires access to team member information, which may raise privacy concerns for some individuals. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** While Slack Donut may not directly address business problems, it can positively impact team morale and contribute to an overall positive work culture. The tool provides a fun and easy way for team members to engage with each other, especially in remote work environments, where physical interactions are limited. The random pairings foster connections and promote a sense of community among team members, which can lead to improved collaboration, productivity, and job satisfaction. ### 5. Great way to meet colleagues! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Donut?** It's a fun, automated way to set up meet and greets across departments and get to know team members. I love that I can opt out if the week is too busy, and, if no one has taken initiative, it will assign someone to book some time! **What do you dislike about Donut?** I wish that it had more prompting questions once we meet and could integrate with our rewards system. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping me meet coworkers that work in other departments/locations. ### 6. Donut helps keep our 2 offices connected! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas S. | CSM, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Donut?** I like the automated alerts that keep us engaged between offices **What do you dislike about Donut?** I don't necessarily want all the reminders if a meeting isn't initially set **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Donut helps our 2 offices with very different departments stay connected ### 7. Great tool for helping employees connect to their peers! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirkland G. | Learning & Development Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Donut?** I love that it connects people across different departments. It allows our sales team, marketing team, and others to connect in ways they never would by just naturally scheduling meetings. **What do you dislike about Donut?** It's easy for some employees to disengage, which is fine. But it would be ideal if we could ensure that everyone was using the product. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have seen people connect! In a remote environment, that's difficult, and this tool allows them to do that. ### 8. Great for keeping in touch and scheduling time with your workmates. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Donut?** The matchmaking seems to work well. I love the slack integration. **What do you dislike about Donut?** Notification options were a little bit confusing for me. I had a hard time opting out when I no longer wanted to participate for a set amount of time or be notified. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** For our organization, it was a great addition to help keep in touch with coworkers during covid19. ### 9. such a cute and fun slack app to encourage team relationships and communication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel U. | Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Donut?** The app is easy to use as a slack installation and provides prompts to set up a meeting / interaction with another co-worker. The app also gives you summaries about how many pairs met and who initiated the conversation. **What do you dislike about Donut?** I dont have any real dislikes about the app/ service. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** For remote employees - this is a great way to automatically / effortlessly set up interactions without any one team member needing to coordinate the task. This is especially great now that everyone is remote. ### 10. Donut is amazing! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Donut?** Donut is very cool! I like the way it can be the highlight of my day. **What do you dislike about Donut?** I do not dislike anything about Donut currently. **What problems is Donut solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Donut as a way to get our teams together who might not always interact. 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