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Quip

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Integrates chat, documents, slides, and spreadsheets aiming to simplify team communication by reducing emails, meetings, and document versions with features like task management, real-time messaging, Salesforce integration, and access across devices.

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Online
2.8 / 5 Avg rating (4)
69likes
4comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  Real time collaboration
  2.  Works Offline
  3. IFTTT icon  IFTTT Integration
  4.  Support for MarkDown
  5.  File Versioning
  6.  Support for @mentions
  7. Salesforce icon  Salesforce integration
  8.  Export to Google Spreadsheets
  9. Slack icon  Slack integration
  10.  Content Templates
  11.  Team Collaboration
  12.  Premade templates
  13.  Integrated Chat
  14.  Progress tracking

 Tags

  • document-editor
  • project-collaboration
  • collaborative

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Quip information

  • Developed by

    US flagSalesforce
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.8
  • Alternatives

    16 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Turkish

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  •   Updated Apr 30, 2025
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Quip, and it has gotten 69 likes

Quip was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo_Venom on Aug 3, 2013 and this page was last updated Dec 2, 2024. Quip is sometimes referred to as Quip.com.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
vinayreddy
Nov 3, 2016
-2

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

Top Negative Comment
HonestAbe
Dec 20, 2018
1

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.

WeiHua Liu
May 20, 2018
1

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

John Fastman
Jan 11, 2017
5

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.

What is Quip?

Quip is a team collaboration platform that integrates chat, documents, slides, and spreadsheets. It aims to simplify team communication by reducing the need for emails, meetings, and multiple document versions. Quip's features include commenting on cells, tracking changes, task management, chat rooms, and Salesforce integration. It also offers a search function and cross-device availability.

Quip's user interface is easy to navigate with robust version control and access permission management. It allows document and task list sharing, project collaboration, and real-time communication through chat and messaging.

The platform supports spreadsheets with over 400 functions, and slides with interactive polls, prompts, and live data charts. It also allows document import and export from various sources and formats, including Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Box, Google Docs, PDF, and Microsoft Office. Users can also import their address book from various email services.

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