Ratings Breakdown
User Reviews Overview
Feature Ratings
Ease-of-use
4.5 / 5
Value for Money
4.5 / 5
Customer Support
4.5 / 5
Functionality
4.0 / 5
Pros
"Beautiful design. Incredibly easy to use. Love it all."
"It is great how you are able to work on the same doc at the same time. I really appreciate the collaboration tools it offers "
"I like how you can add a spreadsheet or a check list to a document. It's very customizable and the functionality to create it all is easy to use. "
Cons
"It takes a bit to learn. The tutorials are helpful, but they dont cover everything. It takes a while to learn all the available functions. And it would be nice to have more font features. "
"The new UI makes things and tools hard to find. With an extremely clean look where the color white is so predominant, buttons are difficult to see and getting your work done may be more difficult. "
"This didn't work well for what I was trying to do. Integrations are complicated if even possible and it runs pretty slow."
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March 2019
Nikhita from Facebook
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Industry: Internet
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2019
An amazing platform to track your ideas
We use quip to track our updates, design documents etc and it has proven to be a really powerful platform for the same.
Pros
1. I love quip as its the only good version controlled platform for taking notes that I have found in my industry experience of over 5 years. 2. Its easy to create public/private versions. I could easily create documents that are public (i.e. outside the firm) and private to me. 3. It is so easy to mark your favorite folders and share it across teams. 4. Its fast. I have found Google Docs to be a bit slower than quip. 5. You could easily import the content into a wiki or a word document with all the formatting intact. 6. You can create an excel sheet (or multiple sheets) in quip itself. 7. Onboarding and gettting used to the platform is really easy.
Cons
1. It behaves odd when creating tables and adding pictures (like indentation sometimes screws up). 2. If you are looking for a platform to create animated documents, quip might not be your friend. It supports basic data representation objects like tables, pictures, worksheets but if you want audio etc, you want to goto powerpoint.
August 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
August 2019
Review for Quip
I am enjoying this tool, and Quip has managed to stand out in this heavily competitive field of online collaboration.
Pros
Quip UI is really smooth, and feels new! it has a good functionality to provide the revision history for the document, which I think is very useful. When multiple folks are simultaneously editing the same document, the revision history for each line provides a very nice view of who changed what. Additionally, Quip has a chat tool embedded in its UI. I use this often to communicate with other folks who are working on the same project.
Cons
I dont have a strong dislike for any of the features, but perhaps one point was it takes significant time for a new guy to get to to speed with the tool and understand all the intricate details. Perhaps the on boarding proceed can be better
Reasons for Switching to Quip
As I mentioned before, the unique features of showing the line by line edit history, ability to chat real time, and the overall better UI as well as UX made it a no brainer to switch.
June 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
2.0
June 2020
Perfect for quick notes
Great tool for quick notes and easy access but not a tool I'd recommend to use over Google Drive or Microsoft Office.
Pros
Quip is a great tool to use for your team when quickly brainstorming and jotting down ideas. It strips itself of unnecessary formatting/UI options and provides you a clean slate to work smarter.
Cons
While Quip is easy to use, using Quip as a main tool to create spreadsheets or documents is not something I recommend. Exporting a Quip spreadsheets to Excel will export all the information over but leaves you with a lot of manual formatting and editing and becomes unreliable when needing to export something on the fly. This could be fixed if the "Save to PDF" function worked properly, but alas, saving to a PDF does not allow you to format properly and will include the Header rows and columns into the PDF - thus not allowing you to send clean, concise information over to colleagues.
November 2020
Jana from Amazon
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Retail
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
4.0
November 2020
Quip as a great collaboration and organizing tool
I enjoy working with Quip as it is very easy to use and it has a lot of features and tools not only for time management, project planning it is also very helpful for online collaboration.
Pros
Quip is very easy to use and navigate within the software. Basically, it offers you a never-ending list for your notes (very similar to OneNote for example). You can style these notes with basic formatting similar to MS Word: underline and strikethrough words, make them bold, or change them into italics. You can also choose the size of the words but this is a bit limited. The best thing about Quip is the collaboration in real-time so you and all your coworkers can be always on the same page and they can edit the list by themselves at the same time. Another nice feature of this tool is that you can mention people in the document and assign them to some action. Also, you can set up reminders for the actions and you will receive a reminder on your email (usually one day beforehand). Besides writing pure text, you can create sheets similar to MS Excel and formate the cells as needed. You can also insert a calendar, a todo-list, and other features.
Cons
The text you are writing is always centered way too much on the page meaning there will be a lot of unused space around your text.
July 2019
Nathan from Dotcom Zambia
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2019
Quip's An Alternative to Google Docs and Slack
I tested Quip as part of a team effort to find a collaborative tool that we could incorporate across the board. Over the 6 month period that I tested it, I found that while it was functional for the most part as a lot of things, it failed in key areas that we would need it to work including handling large spreadsheets, edit history and connectivity issues. However the price and slow functionality when it comes to bigger documents/spreadsheets leaves much to be desired and as such, it may not be ideal for anyone but bigger organizations that want to cut off multiple communication channels and document tools. Overall Quip is a good alternative to Slack & Google Apps. However it leaves some things to be desired in the looks and function department.
Pros
Quip is a great collaboration tool that is something similar to Slack, Google Docs and Google Sheets all wrapped up into one. My favorite feature is the collaboration tool which allows you to edit documents and discuss them in real time with other users. You can send messages to other users and Quip has a nice way of letting you know whether a user is online or offline. The messages can be sent to individuals and within a group chat setting. When commenting on spreadsheets, you can annotate cell by cell which is something helpful especially if you are reviewing spreadsheets with a lot of information. File management is a charm. You can easily upload shared documents to folders and limit who can see the documents as well as who can edit/view the documents. One gripe about collaboration apps that I have had in the past is the amount of notifications you get if you have multiple people working on documents/projects etc. Quip solves this by giving you the option to prioritize the notifications you want to this. You can also @ specific people which makes communication easier. Similar to Slack, there is an option to notify everyone with an @everyone option to send messages to a whole team. Quip integrates well with Salesforce, so if you are using Salesforce, this is a good option.
Cons
If you want to test Quip before deciding, you may not like the requirement for a work email. You need constant internet connectivity to make Quip work, if you find yourself in a place where there is no internet, you may be out of luck to use Quip. While Quip is good for communication, editing and collaborating on big spreadsheets slows the app down and you can find it slows down performance. You are better doing light to medium size documents/spreadsheets. When collaborating documents, versioning and edit history are important. It gets hard to revert to an older copy of a document and it can create some confusion if there are a lot of people looking at the same document.
July 2019
Chris from Contentarama
Company Size: 1 employee
Industry: Entertainment
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
3.0
July 2019
The idea is a great one (the execution is another story...)
Pros
I like that Quip is all about getting teams united around content creation. It has some great features but overall it feels like it's missing something to make it easier for the content to go from within Quip to its final destination (webpage, for example).
Cons
It has all these great features, but it getting it from Quip to wherever it needs to go seems like it was as well thought out. I also experience some situations where the version control goes a little haywire from time to time.
Reasons for Choosing Quip
GatherContent seemed better suited for taking content from their tool and porting it into a CMS or other content repository.
October 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
4.0
October 2020
Covers your needs for software development
I like working with Quip, because of the fuss-free UI, it's just a simple slate where you can integrate tasks, spreadsheets, code snippets and many more. You can add comments and have version control. You can have all these capabilities separately from different products, but Quip is special in the sense that you can find all these capabilities in a single product which streamlines your work and saves you time.
Pros
What I like most about this is the code block formatting. I tried different extensions with other similar tools, but the result was never as good as Quip. Quip provides formatting, indenting, etc for multiple languages. If you want to share a code snippet, that's really nice and I haven't seen another product come close. You also have to-do tasks, can set the task owners and the deadlines, which is great for collaboration. You can add spreadsheets for metrics. Another feature I find useful is the access settings. Only the people / group you specify can view the file.
Cons
I think Quip has a lot of room to grow in terms of spreadsheet functionalities. It is enough for me for standard operations, but I'm guessing people who work with Excel / Google Sheets on a daily basis would find it hard to migrate to Quip completely.
April 2018
Neeraj from Impact Analytics
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Management Consulting
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
April 2018
Powerful collaboration tool
Productivity, Collaboration, Central repository.
Pros
I use quip mainly to organize my work and collaborate with my team members in documenting feature requirements. Product feature requirements are dynamic - in that, they change often. The ability to have one central location from where all of us can access it makes this a huge time saver for all. It also prevents unnecessary emails as users can chat / comment directly on quip. It also has the ability to create private folders which I use to store work in progress ideas and the ability to restrict access to some files / folders to specific people.
Cons
Quip requires the internet and often I forget that I have to be connected to save changes. Although it has the ability to add spreadsheets, I don't use it much. Also, have noticed when I copy paste code into code-blocks, the pasted content does not fit within the default page-width, but creates a horizontal scroll-bar within the code-block. It's a bit of an irritant to correct that every time.
December 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
4.0
December 2020
Quip in a warehouse
Pros
Very easy to work with, great for collaboration
Cons
I know I don't use everything it can do, would like to learn more and implement more features for the team
April 2020
Lauren from Ryan Lamb Custom Remodeling & Repair LLC
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Construction
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
5.0
April 2020
LOVE using Quip!!
Quip has given our business an easy way to stay organized & stay on task. Everything from Clients notes, to reminders, & what's on our calendars.
Pros
When I first found Quip I was pleasantly surprised at all the features. Right off the bat, I was quickly able to find my way around all the useful tools & features. Beautiful design & overall a great tool to have for any business owner.
Cons
I have only been using Quip for a short time now. So far I have not come across any personal cons. The Pros are far too many.
December 2017
Tracy from Schöck North America
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Construction
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
December 2017
Easy to use, great for collaborating, aimed at younger professionals
Collaboration, simple cloud-based tool, integration with Salesforce
Pros
It's super easy to start using and is great for shared documents where you need to have multiple people providing input and updates. I like that two people can be simultaneously working on a document without a problem.
Cons
My annoyances with this software stem from the features - what is there and what is not there. One of my biggest gripes is that Quip believes it is "distracting and not necessary" (their words) to have the option of changing the color of the text. I disagree. As a business professional for the past 25 years, I can tell you there are instances where you need to color code text. I recently had a huge, very collaborative project that I wanted to base out of Quip and THE ONLY REASON I couldn't use Quip was because it had to be color coded and Quip doesn't do that. I've tried appealing to them but so far, no luck. Yet, one apparently "necessary" feature is that you can add an emoji or animated meme to your comments within a document. Really? And that is more important for business communications? I'm guessing this software is being created by a bunch of millennials. I don't begrudge millenials or the "fun" elements that are included, but give me the useful business functionality we have all become accustomed to over the past couple of decades if you truly want to compete for our word processing and spreadsheet needs.
March 2019
Lisa from WordWell Creative
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
March 2019
Best docu-sharing tool for a team
I would highly recommend Quip to any team needing to collaborate on a lot of documents. It keeps us extremely organized, we love the workflow features, and communication tools. We have tried using Google Drive in the past and have STRUGGLED with the shotty navigation and lack of tagging/communication options. Quip is exponentially better than any other docu-sharing tool we've used!
Pros
Simple user interface and easy to onboard my employees. Quip keeps us very organized and is great for tagging each other in comments and collaborating in single documents. They have a number of workflow features that we've used several times to help manage project timelines, etc. I also love that I can share links to documents so clients can pop in and review without having to be added as a full user. We've reached out to customer support several times, especially during the onboarding process, and they have always been extremely helpful.
Cons
Notifications are a little overwhelming and difficult to manage. Very rarely we've had issues with pages not updating or saving, especially when there is a lot of text that has been copy/pasted.
June 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2019
Good Wiki Alternative
I really like Quip. Having used Confluence and various Wikis, I think this is about as good as it gets. There's room for improvement for sure, but 90% of the time it does what I want and I'm able to communicate what I want to colleagues.
Pros
- Good for documentation - It creates links to any part of the document for easy referencing - The WYSIWYG editor works pretty well - The keyboard shortcuts are good - Embedded spreadsheets are neat (though I don't find I use them that often) - Comment functionality really neat, including the ability to "resolve" comments. - Edit History works well
Cons
- I really hate how embedded images work. It's bordering on impossible to make it look how you want and you'll have to compromise on it looking sort of crappy - The search could use some help - The auto numbered or unordered list stuff is annoying as hell and takes some finagling to get around. If you have a "1." then an image, if you type "2." it'll change it into "1." because it thinks you're starting a new numbered list because of the image. Really annoying. - When I look at the Recently Updated list and click "Mark All As Read" why don't all of them become unread? This annoys me more than it should, but why don't they all get makred Read?!
April 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
3.0
Functionality
4.0
April 2020
Quip combines MS Office or G-Suite into one app
Quip was fine, but it is redundant to both MS Office and/or G-Suite and there is no need for all of these. It was fine, but the ability to have different doc types was alright, but not that needed.
Pros
Quip allowed an easy format to combine multiple document types into one document. It was also great to document sharing across multiple parties and the related and needed tracking or changes, comments, notes, etc.
Cons
The storage / saving and file structure was odd, and the ability to create secure directories vs sharing with everyone was not always clear. Also, the embedded spreadsheets in word docs was ok - but not great. The generalization did not have the same capability as each dedicated system.
Reasons for Choosing Quip
At the time of purchase we felt this would be a better overall sharing solution for the organization.
October 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
October 2018
Quip - a super nice collaboration tool
To be simple, we really like this easy to use collaboration tool.
Pros
So easy to collaboration with colleagues, and for family. Get everything together rather than individual files everywhere. "Word", "Excel", "Powerpoint" lite versions, so easy to use, whatever you want. With google account integration. No hassle for account management. You certainly don't expect it to be super powerful, but it is good enough for our purpose.
Cons
Logic of files arrangement a bit confusing. If you are coming from traditional file system. You may need sometime to get used to it. Moving files around is not that easy, especially if you want to manage multiple files at the same time. It used to be annoying that recent editing panel shows up every time you open the application. Recent updates fix this problem.
May 2018
Jeffry from MakeTechEasier.com
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2018
Quip is my one app to create, organize, and collaborate in almost all kinds of documents.
Pros
It's very easy to collaborate on a document. You just add people to it. All the changes are logged so you can see all the things that happen to your document. You can also create all kinds of documents on Quip, from the everyday text document and spreadsheet to the specific kanban board and project tracker (with a little help from Live apps).
Cons
The app lacks the ability to add tags - which will be very helpful to further organize the documents. It also doesn't hurt to add the font-customization feature so that users can set the look and feel of the working environment to their liking.
August 2016
Michael from Lancer Soccer
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Education Management
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
August 2016
Quit passing email and documents around!
I have a small staff who needs to work together at various times, and usually not in person. We've tried a handful of options (dreaded e-mail chains, Google drive, slack, OneNote, Trello), with varying degrees of success. But when you get right down to it, the majority of our conversations where revolving around documents. With Quip, that is exactly how this is designed. It is a live document centered experience with the ability to comment, discuss, and update to drive to agreed upon results. Other packages we would lose our chain of conversation, or a struggle to find the agenda, spreadsheet, plan. Here, these two elements tie together in one spot. End result for me? Instead of feeling like I was beating on people to keep moving, and often their secretary to help them find what I was talking about, now we work together with faster results and a whole lot less fuss and muss.
Pros
VERY intuitive interface. My staff is resistant to change, and they picked up on this software immediately. Looks good on the web, great on my desktop, and awesome on my phone! Customer support is astounding. Hit the chat window and someone is there immediately.
Cons
Very minor detail here - more of a feature enhancement request. It would be great to tie in some sort of task management, e.g. something with due dates that alert you.
May 2018
Joby from London Surf ltd
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
5.0
May 2018
Great way to collaborate
Pros
Very easy document creation that live updates to all users as you create them. No more messing around uploading and downloading documents. Documents have lots of options like spreadsheets tables charts, images and other apps that can be inserted into any doc. You can also manage folders and share them with specific groups of people, so you might have a folder for employees which has all your procedures on it and a separate knowledge base for customers. For free its hard to find a better product
Cons
I would like to see the ability to copy documents between different quip accounts. I'd also like to see direct connections to excel of numbers, to give some more power to some of the features
December 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2018
Good for smaller groups.
Pros
I love how Quip allows you to create both shared and private documents. The language feature is really great (i.e. it is completely functional in Spanish). The folder system is really helpful and is easy to be organized, even with different groups. You can comment on the documents, tag people, and even comment on photos. All changes are tracked.
Cons
Once we got to be a much bigger group, it became less functional because you cannot directly access Google Suite with it. We needed to expand more, and Quip didn't allow for that.
March 2020
Ciedelle from Amazon
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2020
Equipped with Quip!
We use quip to share files among members and teams in our organization and I love how we could easily update and access them from anywhere especially on the mobile as well, it makes collaboration way too easy.
Pros
The design and layout is superb, I specifically love how you can folders visually and it is attractive. Being able to color code them makes organizing files and projects shared across teams more effective.
Cons
Not all file types are supported like scripts, I would have to just upload it as a textfile with the scripts if I wanted it on quip.
April 2019
EBIN from RightVows Job Store
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Human Resources
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
April 2019
All in one platform to manage the entire documents and other tools in a single platform
We have increased the productivity of our employees and thus our core goal of high productivity is achieved.
Pros
We really like Quip the way it is built as the platform itself acts as a source to maintiain all the tools like docs, chat etc. in this single app itself. Quip is the best way to manage all the different tabs under one window. The major hike is with the single window system where all the needed plugins are added and can be managed. Quip is the one and only platform to simplify the user burden of maintaining multiple apps and multiple windows.
Cons
The UI is very hard to understand at the first time and for newcomers.
September 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2018
Google Docs on Steroids
We have rolled Quip out to multiple departments and teams over the past few years.
Pros
Continuing improvement in the feature set. The software was good when we started using it 2.5 years ago. However, the improvements continually made month after month have really made the product shine. We really get use out of the full index/searching capability.
Cons
A few basic things that would mimmic Excel functionality, like the ability to freeze columns on mobile, or hide rows/columns on both the desktop and mobile.
July 2018
Desirae from ClientsFirst Consulting
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
July 2018
Quip and Quip for Salesforce
Quip is a great addition for any company with its easy to use style of collaboration and flexibility in security and structure. I'd like to see a lot more training videos on how to leverage Quip for things like Project Management to plant those seeds and help companies grow and realize the full potential of this application.
Pros
Salesforce recently added Quip to it's suite of products and we couldn't be happier. We have been searching for a project management application as well as a solution for sharing documents and data while not housing inside our Salesforce org, due to storage limitations. We see Quip as being that all in one application that can solve many of these needs in our organization. It is powerful, flexible, offers free and paid apps like a project management app and allows for flexibility with security of files and folders. Not to mention the live chat and collaboration features it offers. A great all around solution for anything you can't already solve in your standard Salesforce Org.
Cons
I have requested several specific demos from our sales team so that we can more fully realize what Quip can do to meet some of our more basic needs. We've been given links to sales demos which don't address our specific needs. Once we get an idea on what we can do with it and how, it will drive more ideas and creativity for our team, we're just having a hard time getting started.
May 2019
Justin from Lancaster Bible College
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: E-Learning
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
5.0
May 2019
Best collaboration software i've used!
Pros
Quip makes it incredibly easy to collaborate with others on shared document writing. I work with a number of people who may not easily adopt new software, and Quip's simple and familiar interface allow them to begin working quickly and without fear. I lead teams of 15+ people working on the same projects, and can easily monitor progress and who is editing what!
Cons
I have very few cons for Quip - most of which would be a desire to see more features, although this would likely come with the trade off that it would become more complex. No real complaints for me.
May 2018
Istvan
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
2.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2018
Ease of use, some missing features, bad upgrade on Mac
Pros
-Very easy to use even at the first time -0 delay at collaboration -nice mini apps for documents -good integration of comments with chat function
Cons
-inconsistent user interface (document and tables) -no formating in the pop-up menu for tables -very bad upgrade utility on Mac (it tends to fall back to earlier version and stops sync - support gives no help to resolve)
May 2018
Ifeoma from Softchoice
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
May 2018
Effective text editor.
Pros
Quip enable me collaborate on documents in real time with my colleagues.Unlike other document collaboration programs,I am able to chat in real time with my fellow collaborators about the document we are collaborating on.
Cons
While I am able to edit documents by myself offline.To collaboratively edit documents,I have to be online and this requires a stable internet connection.
February 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
February 2020
Quip a good alternative to Google product offerings
For collaborative document sharing, editing and creation, Quip is a solid choice especially if you rely on integration with Salesforce data.
Pros
My favorite feature of Quip is the tight integration with Salesforce CRM, allowing easy importing and viewing of Salesforce data directly in your Quip documents and sheets.
Cons
Quip seems like a work-in-progress, with many new versions being released on a weekly basis, always playing catch-up with Google Docs/Sheets and Microsoft Office 365.
September 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
3.0
September 2018
Quip review
In my experience, I've really enjoyed using Quip to easily house documents and spreadsheets with a friendly and easy to use interface.
Pros
Quip is a great tool to use for collaborative work. Often times, my team would have to share multiple versions of the same spreadsheet, but with Quip, you can see real-time updates from colleagues and communicate all within the app.
Cons
While it is great for collaboration, the tool becomes glitchy when it contains a large amount of data. There have been instances of lost work due to inability to save changes. If you are working with large spreadsheets with multiple tabs, it could become too much for the tool to handle.
February 2017
Yana from SKIM
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Market Research
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
February 2017
Fantastic for Small Project Management and Collaboration
Quip provides unique ability to create, edit and share highly customized documents/spreadsheets. Quip doesn't have a structure to follow for project management, so it requires a lot of upfront time commitment and development. However, after creating the needed documents and templates, it is the perfect tool. Specifically, great to use for mind-mapping, checklists, embedded spreadsheets/tracking.
Pros
Integrates with Google Drive, version control, file attachment, collaboration, custom templates, slack integration, flexibility, permissions control, great interface, easy to use
Cons
No internal task delegation/planning features, no report building
October 2018
Alvaro from Online media
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Industry: Online Media
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
October 2018
I would like the old Quip back!
Pros
Quip does a great job at being a very easy-to-use app when it comes to having collaborative documents to share for work. I like how different team members can contribute and leave their input simultaneously with other coworkers.
Cons
The new UI makes things and tools hard to find. With an extremely clean look where the color white is so predominant, buttons are difficult to see and getting your work done may be more difficult.
November 2017
Holly from YMCA
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
November 2017
Easy to use, simple, accessbile
Pros
I like the commenting and accessibility features. I also appreciate the organization of the software. It makes it easy to use and navigate.
Cons
I feel like the app could use some updating to make it more mobile friendly. I also wish there could be more editing ability in Quip.
February 2019
Kelly from Ultimate Software
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
February 2019
Very Customizable!
Pros
I like how you can add a spreadsheet or a check list to a document. It's very customizable and the functionality to create it all is easy to use.
Cons
Creating a spreadsheet into Quip is not the best. I feel like there is always a delay or a "lag" when editing or dragging cells. It's not the best option to use when creating a spreadsheet. Might stick to Excel for that part.
October 2016
Patrick from Hixme
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Insurance
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
October 2016
The best cloud based online collaborative writing tool
Quip is my team's go to utility for writing documents together. Google Docs is probably one of the most well known cloud based document editors that facilitates collaboration between team members. However, its collaborative elements always seemed tacked on. You can tell that Quip was built to be a team writing tool from the ground up.
Pros
Ease of use. It's "stupid easy" to invite people to collaborate on a document. Comments are a breeze. Paragraphs auto-lock when you are editing them to avoid confusion. You can track your team members usage.
Cons
I wish that reviewing, version control, and security were stronger. The inclusion of approval processes and flows would be extremely welcome.
January 2020
Christene from Amazon
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
3.0
January 2020
Quiptastic!
Overall, I love it, and will be using it for personal use. We use it at work, and it's become essential for day to day tasks. I love the communication features!
Pros
Once you figure out how to use quip, it's an awesome tool. It's easy to organize and essential to my day to day job. I'm going to be installing it on my personal computer for use as well.
Cons
It takes a bit to learn. The tutorials are helpful, but they dont cover everything. It takes a while to learn all the available functions. And it would be nice to have more font features.
March 2017
Jess from DRI
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
March 2017
Unlimited Free Trial
Unlimited free trial and great for text-based collaboration
Pros
Quip allows you to try their platform for free as long as you need, so you can really figure out whether or not it works for your team before you invest in the paid version. Compared to other products that have a time-limited free trial, Quip offers a much better evaluation period.
Cons
The ability to upload images and PDFs is limited at best. It's easier to upload a photo album on Facebook and share it with your team than it is to do the same thing in Quip. Great for text based documents, however.
November 2017
Eric from Lancaster Bible College
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Primary/Secondary Education
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
3.0
November 2017
A refreshing way to collaborate and communicate in document creation
The big takeaway is that Quip uniquely enables you and your colleagues to create a multi-asset document in one place, together.
Pros
Quip enables users to build a rich, multimedia, and multi-asset document in one location. Do you need to create a document that includes a calendar, spreadsheet, and kanban board all in the same place? Quip can do that.
Cons
While the interface has improved recently, it is still a little difficult to navigate from your document to the folder in which it is contained. Also, Quip could make better use of icons for identifying content types.
April 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
5.0
April 2019
Quip review
Pretty great, it's very helpful and I use everyday at work because of his facility and is very quick to use.
Pros
It's amazing for work with other people, in teams, project, or even to do your own work and save it there, make schedules, organize with your people or even make to do lists.
Cons
Sometimes some features are lost because you don't find where to use those.
December 2017
Raegan from Key Rehab Associates, Inc
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
3.0
December 2017
Nice but pricey.
Pros
Group chats and file sharing are a lifesaver. No one likes group texts, they're annoying and don't carry over well between mobile platforms. With Quip, we can share a group chat that isn't annoying. File sharing helps when people are out of the office. We're always on the go and being able to send things back and forth without it getting lost in email is wonderful. Getting everyone together for meetings is almost always impossible with our crazy schedules and we never manage to pass the info around to everyone. This way we can send it out to everyone and know it was received. The to-do list function helps keep me organized.
Cons
The price. At some point you start wondering is it really worth the price of every additional app and software you need. We have 20 something people, that adds up real quick. Much more cost effective for a smaller team.
June 2019
Jessie from Asana
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
3.0
June 2019
Frustrating and restrictive software
Overall, my experience is meh. I have to use it because my team does, but I wish I didn't have to. And enough so that I'd totally risk rocking the boat to get them to transfer to something better.
Pros
Not a whole lot, but I suppose there are a couple of unique features, compared to document creators (i.e. Google Docs) or project/work management software (i.e. Trello) that are nice. Like, being able to insert a Kanban board inside a doc isn't something I've seen elsewhere. But really, these are all just small things that are kind of cool, but don't add to the overall usefulness of this software. Kind of nice that you can create a document and a spreadsheet in one place... but that's not all that unique to Quip.
Cons
At my last job, I used a combination of Google Docs and Asana to manage projects and LOVED it. Quip is frustrating because it's really clunky and restrictive. For example, I want to be able to assign cards in an Kanban board to other people, like you would in Asana or Trello. It lacks the collaborative project management features it needs to make it a successful project management tool. But it also sucks at being a document creator. It's definitely better as a document creator than a project management tool, but even then there are some essential features (i.e. editing and suggesting mode) that I had in Google Docs and were essential to my job as a writer/editor. I mean, what, you expect me to highlight a sentence and comment on it to suggest to another writer that she swaps out one word? That's a waste of time.
December 2018
Mayo from LBPP-LIA
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Education Management
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2018
All in One Office Suite with Focus on Collaboration
Pros
Quip provides you to create many kinds of documents under one roof. Not only text document, but also everything else from spreadsheets to presentation slides, and more. It also supports collaboration with others.
Cons
It requires more than one step just to access your folders. It might be a design decision, but it's not a friendly one.
February 2018
Andrew from NextFED
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
February 2018
Great product for collaboration
Pros
It is great how you are able to work on the same doc at the same time. I really appreciate the collaboration tools it offers
Cons
There are alerts that get generated every time a change is made - the only way to turn these alerts off is for each user to manually go in and do it themselves. They should have the alerts function at the document level
July 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
5.0
July 2019
Very useful product for documentation
Pros
I love that you can share documentation with friends easily. You can make any type of document in quip. The function that i like most is freezing column and rows.
Cons
Sometimes it is hard to undo your action for example by mistake if you delete anything in a doc, the normal undo command does not work.
January 2019
Debraliz from Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
January 2019
Quip for my Team
But I think quip is still deserve a 4star review.
Pros
Our team use quip software as our project management because we can interact in quip from real time and we can also send a documents using this software.
Cons
It is not totally easy to use, you need a knowledge using this before you make it work fine and I think it still lack of some features.
May 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2018
I built a custom reporting tool without being a programmer.
I was up to produce a highly functional spreadsheet to use as a reporting tool for my upstream management.
Pros
The interface is clean and user-friendly. A novice can create a robust reporting tool for your internal use in less than a week.
Cons
The embedded spreadsheet application has many advanced features. The Quip spreadsheet has more bells and whistles than I could figure out in one sitting. Quip's tutorals and customer service staff guided and coached me through the rough spots.
April 2019
Jenny from Self-employed
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
4.0
April 2019
Excellent tool to create and manage all your company documents
Powerful collaboration platform that helped the team manage documents, projects, and chat—all in one place.
Pros
Quip is one of the few collaborative platforms where it's actually easy to use and also easy on the eyes. The UI needs no guesswork and creating a document and adding people to it is very intuitive. I like how you can create any type of document (including a kanban board) and every change made to it is made visible to all involved team members. It's also incredibly useful to have a team chat in the same place so we're not switching between apps when discussing the same document. My favorite feature by far has to be the ability to invite a client to check a document without having to add them as a full user. Although it's tied with the checklists and the nifty ability to work offline if you need to.
Cons
It's a tad pricier than most tools in this same vein. There is also some inconsistency in features between the web and desktop version.
December 2019
Nataliia from Post Planner
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
4.0
December 2019
Quip Review
It's a great tool to keep all the documents organized, structured and collaborate on any of the docs with the team. I think our team became so much more productive after we started using it.
Pros
I love seeing how organized and most importantly easy to maintain all the docs in the company and departments. I think this is what makes Quip different: it's often easy to start using some service that meets the same purpose but it becomes a mess in a few months. Absolutely happy how it worked for our company with Quip. It was also a big help to find everything I needed when I joined the company.
Cons
I would love Spreadsheets which you can create in Quip to have more functionality, sometimes I need to use other tools and just link to them since I can't achieve the same with the Spreadsheets in Quip.
February 2019
Cole from Plasticprinters.com
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Business Supplies and Equipment
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
February 2019
Quip works great at first..
We're still using Quip. But if you're not careful to make sure it's well organized, there can be communication problems.
Pros
Quip is free/inexpensive. And it's easy to add people, so collaboration is a breeze.
Cons
When too many projects are added to Quip, it gets quite confusing. Especially if you have different users with different access levels. Suddenly you have 3 folders with nearly identical content, and you never know which one to update.
July 2016
Tom from maconcept.
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2016
Best for collaboration and communication
Using Quip for creating documents within the team, talk about it and use the chat instead of sending emails back and forth. This is such a time saver.
Pros
Easy to use, nice UI, good feature set
Cons
File handling e.g. PDFs and other formats could be much better. Just import the files without changing them. If you important a PDF it should stay a PDF
February 2019
Jocelyn from Ultimate Software
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Industry: Human Resources
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
3.0
February 2019
Quip is in Tough Territory
Pros
Great features that allow for collaboration and communication across documents.
Cons
When the documents or content within a document becomes extensive, it isn't as easy to navigate to a specific piece of content. Especially if someone has named you in the document--no intuitive way to search document. I'm sure there is a way, but it isn't obvious, and that's my point of contention.
October 2018
Jessica from DRI
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
4.0
October 2018
Easy to Use, Features Somewhat Limited
It was honestly one of the better experiences I've had getting a team set up on a platform they'd never used. Seems good for the not-so-techie folks out there.
Pros
So. Easy. To. Use. Quip helped a remote team get organized, share and store marketing materials, research and other company data.
Cons
We ran into issues with some of the documents we wanted to create, because the formatting options in Quip are extremely spartan.
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