Quip

Name: Quip
Rating: 2.8 (4 reviews)

Quip is a modern word processor that enables you to create beautiful documents on any device, including the iPad, iPhone, and the desktop. It combines documents and mess...

Paid • Proprietary
Word Processor

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Avg rating of 2.8 (4)| 4 comments

What is Quip?

Quip is a modern word processor that enables you to create beautiful documents on any device, including the iPad, iPhone, and the desktop. It combines documents and messages into a single chat-like “thread” of updates — making collaboration easy.

Take notes, organize to-do lists, and collaborate within your company. Share folders to organize your projects at home or at work. All features work perfectly offline, syncing whenever you have an internet connection.

Key Features:

• Real-time, collaborative editing • Messaging - Every document has a chat thread • Offline - Edit anywhere, even on an airplane • Folders - Share with your family or team • Checklists - Interactive, shared lists • Diffs - Every edit is in a document news feed • Presence - See who’s online, what they're up to • @mentions - Link to people and documents • Notifications - Know when a doc is opened • Read receipts - Check who’s read your edits • Inbox - See what you haven’t read

Quip also works on the desktop (Mac and PC). Access anywhere at http://quip.com.

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Quip Features

Real time collaborationMultiple users can work together in Quip simultaneously.
Works OfflineQuip can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
IFTTT IntegrationYou can connect different services to automatically trigger actions within Quip using IFTTT.
Support for MarkDownQuip supports MarkDown for document formatting.
Support for @mentionsQuip supports the use of mentions through @ to a particular user, who will be notified personally.

Quip information

Developed byQuip, Inc.
LicensingProprietary and Commercial product.
PricingOne time purchase (perpetual license)
RatingAverage rating of 2.8
Alternatives174 alternatives listed

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Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Spanish
Turkish

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vinayreddy

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Top positive comment• ago

it has integrated spreadsheet option and it's free for unlimited docs, sheets and storage in free storage... I like it very much..

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HonestAbe

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Top negative comment• ago

It does the job, but we are looking for options that we have more control over.

Price per person goes up from $6/person to $10/person as you add people. Should be the other way around. I guess they know they have got you.
You need to contact them to get some things done that you would expect to be able to do via a management dashboard.
Unclear trial period. Not based on time or amount of pages created. Just suddenly expect them to contact you and say something like: hey you seem to be getting a lot of use of out it, pay up or we will just delete your data if you don't want to continue."
Too easy to share something with someone by mistake, including with their employees or past guests. We should not be having to see their names pop up.

Came here looking for alternatives. We prefer tools that have an open source and self-hosted options to migrate over to the day when — not if — they screw us over.

Worth checking out though. Gets the job done.

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drliu1202

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Negative comment• ago

online web application as a combination of Microsoft Word and Excel with to-do management. expensive.

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JohnFastman

★

Review• ago

Quip is allows teams to collaborate on text and spreadsheet documents and organize them into either private or shared folders. Some initial impressions:

SIGN UP & RELATED

You can sign up for a free trial, but how long is that for?
Tedious sign-up procedure that offers you a free t-shirt in exchange for co-workers' email addresses and the promise that I'll share a doc with one of them and they edit it within 7 days. A pointless and distracting gimmick doesn't make a good impression for a productivity app.
Privacy: website says your data is protected by encryption. Meaningless statement without details. Data in transit (TLS?), at rest on their server or end-to-end encryption? Or do they mean I can encrypt a document or folder. Who knows.
Expensive compared to Nuclino.

FUNCTIONALITY

THE GOOD:

You can create & organize text and spreadsheet documents, but not presentation-type documents
Useful collaborative functionality, including sharing into diff. folders, tracking changes, flexible comment system.
Text documents: tags, mentions, links, html support, image import, rich text format, checkboxes/to-do lists, document duplication, basic formatting (e.g. can decide if an image is centred, floats, etc.)
Text document functionality is Quip's greatest strength.
Text and spreadsheets are easily exported to pdf. Nice!

THE NOT SO GOOD:

Editing a document? You can't upload a document to embed. Oh, except if you comment on it. Then you can upload a document to the comment and then it's included. Why like this? Dunno. Not obvious or handy.
You can upload documents (e.g. pdf) to a folder. Then it's not part of the document you're working on. Which I thought was the point of Quip.com. So I tried it anyway on 97kB .pdf file. It got stuck and never uploaded. Then I checked the folder. Oh, it's there after all. I click to open/preview it. Never displays correctly.
Spreadsheets are pretty basic.
It seems you can't import data from a spreadsheet you already have, e.g. locally in Excel. That's a huge fail. I have a company, we have data. Quip is supposed to allow me to collaborate on my data with colleagues. I can't import my data. What?!
Slow, slow search within documents: I set up two text based documents (one a copy of each other). That's all I had. Took 10 seconds or so to find a word both had.

Anything beyond the above either doesn't immediately stand out or isn't there. Additional functionality is largely brought in via integration with other services (e.g. Dropbox - which I don't use because of the horrific security/privacy implications), Evernote (same), Twitter (same), Slack (same...) and so on. So none of these really appeal to me.

ALTERNATIVE APPS

It's been compared to Evernote. Ignore that. This isn't a personal data organizer. Quip offers integration with Evernote, which it wouldn't if they were replacements for each other.

The most obvious alternative Quip I'm aware of is Nuclino, which is a team-based Wiki thing. Quip is also that kind of thing, but rather than collaboration on a web-page type thing it has flexible, Word-type documents. It's halfway there to being an electronic lab-book, almost.

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