The Fada blog
Ideas on team communication, productivity and getting focused work done.
Fada tutorials: how to use every featureHow to invite your team to Fada (and set the right roles)
Create an invite link, bring teammates into your workspace, and choose who is an owner, admin or member — step by step, with screenshots.
Getting started with Fada: create your workspace in under a minute
A step-by-step guide to creating your Fada workspace, finding your way around the app, and sending your first message — with a screenshot of every step.
Send voice notes that turn into searchable text
Record a quick voice note in Fada — and on Business plans it is automatically transcribed in Arabic, French and English, so the whole team can read and search it.
Messages, threads and reactions: the basics of chatting in Fada
Send messages, react with emoji, keep side-conversations in threads, and pin the things that matter — the everyday building blocks of Fada.
Organize your team with channels in Fada
Replace a dozen scattered group chats with channels — public, private and broadcast — one for each project, team or client.
Direct messages and group chats in Fada
Start a private one-to-one conversation or a small group chat — and jump on a quick call without leaving the chat.
Run a poll and pin the decision in Fada
Ask the team a question, collect votes, and pin the outcome so a decision never gets lost in the scroll.
Share files, images and documents in Fada
Attach documents, images and recordings to any message — with previews — so files live with the conversation instead of getting lost.
Set reminders on messages so nothing slips
Turn any message into a reminder — in 20 minutes, tomorrow, or next week — and let Fada nudge you when it is time.
Save messages and catch up on what you missed
Bookmark important messages, see every thread you are part of in one place, and never lose a decision in the scroll.
Find anything fast with search and the command palette
Press one shortcut to jump to any channel, person or action — and search every message and file, including transcribed voice notes.
Keep your team on schedule with the Fada calendar
Create events with attendees, locations and reminders — everyone invited gets a nudge and can RSVP.
Start a video call or schedule a meeting in Fada
Meet now with one click, or schedule a meeting — every one gets a built-in Fada video link, with no Zoom or Meet needed.
Catch up in seconds with Fada’s built-in AI assistant
Ask what you missed, summarize a busy channel, pull out action items, and draft replies — without copying anything into another app.
Store team passwords safely in the zero-knowledge vault
Keep shared logins, API keys and client credentials in an encrypted vault — locked on your device, unreadable to the server.
Keep your clients organized with the Fada CRM
A simple clients directory built into your workspace — company details, contacts and deals, right next to the conversations about them.
Track work with task boards, pipelines and projects
Turn talk into action with Kanban task boards — plus sales pipelines and project boards — all inside Fada.
Earn with Fada’s Refer & Earn program
Share your referral link and earn 30% of what every business you refer pays — every month, for as long as they stay.
Turn on notifications and desktop or mobile push
Stay on top of messages, mentions and reminders with in-app and web push notifications — on desktop and on your phone.
Manage your workspace: members, billing and insights
The Admin console gives owners and admins one place to manage people, see adoption insights, handle billing, and control security.
Install Fada on your phone (add it to your Home Screen)
Fada works on any phone — install it like an app from your browser, with no app store needed, and get push notifications on the go.
How to Move Your Team Off Group Chats Onto a Real Work Chat
Move your team off messaging-app group chats without chaos: a calm, step-by-step plan to recreate your groups as channels and bring everyone across.
How to Catch Up on a Busy Channel in a Minute with Fada AI Summaries
A step-by-step guide to using Fada built-in AI to summarise a busy channel or long thread instead of scrolling through hundreds of messages.
How to Use Threads to Keep Conversations Organized
Stop your team channel becoming one endless scroll. Learn how to reply in a thread in Fada so ten conversations can happen at once without burying each other.
How to Search Your Team Chat and Find Any Message, File or Decision in Seconds
Find any message, file or transcribed voice note in Fada. Search once across every channel you belong to and get the answer in seconds.
How to store and share team passwords safely with a zero-knowledge vault
Stop pasting team passwords into chat. Learn how to store and share logins safely in Fada with a zero-knowledge vault that encrypts secrets on your device.
How to invite your team and manage who can see what
Invite teammates to your Fada workspace, add them to the right channels, set roles to control access, and remove anyone in one place when they leave.
How to turn Arabic and French voice notes into searchable text
Send a voice note in Fada and it is transcribed automatically in Arabic, French or English — the transcript appears with the message and becomes searchable.
How to create a team workspace in Fada: a step-by-step guide
Set up your team chat in minutes. A step-by-step guide to creating a free Fada workspace, structuring channels, and inviting your team.
Slack vs Microsoft Teams vs Fada: which work chat fits a small or medium business?
An honest comparison of Slack, Microsoft Teams and Fada for a small or medium business — covering language mix, mobile data, payment and data control.
Self-hosted team chat: keep your data on infrastructure you control
Want a Slack-style work chat you fully control? Here is how self-hosting and data residency work — and when they actually matter for your team.
Fewer meetings, more done: a practical guide to async communication for small teams
Endless meetings drain small teams. Here is what asynchronous communication really means, and how to run a team mostly in writing while keeping the meetings that matter.
How to onboard a new employee with a team chat: a one-week playbook
A practical, day-by-day playbook for getting a new hire productive in their first week using channels, threads, pinned essentials, a secrets vault and AI summaries.
Drowning in unread channels? How AI summaries help your team catch up
Back from a day in the field or a long weekend to hundreds of unread messages? Here is how built-in AI summaries let your team catch up in a minute, not an hour.
Keeping team chat fast when mobile data is slow or expensive
Most teams run from mid-range phones on mobile data, not office fibre. Practical habits and tools to keep team chat fast and cheap on data.
Data privacy for small businesses: who can actually read your team chat?
A plain-language guide for small and mid-sized businesses on where your team chat data lives, what encryption really protects, and how to keep control of who can read it.
Group chats vs a real work chat: why growing teams switch
A group chat is brilliant for quick messages but painful for running a business. Here is what breaks as your team grows — and what a proper work chat like Fada fixes.
Arabic and French voice-to-text: stop replaying voice notes at work
People talk. Here is why voice notes are great for teams — and how automatic Arabic and French transcription turns them into searchable text everyone can use.
How to keep your team’s passwords and secrets safe (without a spreadsheet)
Sharing passwords in chat or a shared file is a quiet risk every growing team takes. Here is a safer way — and what "zero-knowledge" actually means.
Choosing a Slack or Teams alternative for small and medium businesses
A practical guide for SMBs choosing a Slack or Teams alternative: what to evaluate on language, mobile, data control and price.