Flock vs. Quip

Flock

Quip

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Flock	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	Flock is a collaborative business messaging application, designed to compete with Slack. The app is presented as a fast and reliable means of communication, and is available in a free edition for teams of up to twenty members.	$0 for teams of 1-20 members
Quip	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Quip is a collaboration tool, from Salesforce, that helps sales teams accelerate business in real-time with embedded documents, live Salesforce data, and other built-in collaboration features.	$25 per user per month

Pricing

Flock

Quip

Editions & Modules

Starter: $0
for teams of 1-20 members
Pro: $6
per month per user (ideal for teams of 20-100 users)
Enterprise: Contact Sales
for organizations of 100+ members

Enterprise: $25
per user per month
Starter: $120
per year per user
Plus: $300
per year per user
Advanced: $1,200
per year per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Flock	Quip
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Discount available for annual pricing.

All editions include unlimited personal documents and folders and a custom subdomain. Paid versions include unlimited document revision history, message archive and group sharing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Flock	Quip
Considered Both Products	Flock MP Mayur Patil Software Test Engineer Chose Flock Flock standsout with it's extra ordinary features such as file sharing, pinning any file in groups, customised integration with various applications, reminders across groups, creating and managing groups, file sharing with integration, notes sharing and mainly communicate … Incentivized Helpful? Billy Myers Office Manager Chose Flock Many of the features are shared between these three programs but for us, we found the mobile application to be much easier to manage and being that we were using this a lot on the go that was a major selling point for our team and operation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Flock In my opinion, Flock is not the best among the listed products in terms of extensive features that other products listed provides but has it's own place in the communication and team collboration domain. I think Flock works well for smaller teams and organizations looking for a … Incentivized Helpful? Iffat Khan Application support specialist Chose Flock Flock stands strong with these tools in market. Although it does offer some great features but can be better in terms of integration. We used Flock for over 10 years in our organization because it was easy to use for non technical users. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Flock So much easier to navigate Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Flock Flock stands up very well against others when used for individual and group chats. It also works well with Google Drive Integration. The best part of Flock, compared with others, is in the area of File and Document sharing. The two areas it slightly lacks are voice/ video calls … Incentivized Helpful? Ankit Kapadia Sr. Marketing Manager Chose Flock Slack and Flock are fairly comparable in terms of features, though Flock has a cost advantage. Incentivized Helpful? Sasha Jacobsen Model Chose Flock I mainly prefer Asana as a task management tool, but I prefer Flock to Slack for communication. Flock bridges the gap between the two, and I find it's the best niche is for businesses or collaborators who need some integration (drive or calendar) but mostly need it for its chat … Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Zurica Owner Chose Flock Flock as mentioned takes the best of all these apps and improves upon them. Flock's UI was exactly what we were looking for and Flock doesn't overcharge small teams for search functional or messaging. It just offers a great product at a great price combined with great … Incentivized Helpful? BW Benard Wambua Director of Product Management Chose Flock Unlike Flock which is more official, Google Hangouts are geared towards personal communication rather than business. Flock on the other hand has many features which relate to business setting Incentivized Helpful? Kristen Reeves Data Entry Clerk Chose Flock I did not like Google Hangouts. Hangouts is more geared toward personal communication instead of business related communication. Flock is also a lot easier to use and has more options related to a business setting. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Mack Instructor Chose Flock Our creative team collaboration pathway story went like this..We started on Facebook as a secret group. We looked for better solutions and moved to Google Docs. It was a bit too robust for smaller conversations, so we moved to flock. Flock was great but proved to be too much … Incentivized Helpful? Lee L Kennedy Analytics Director Chose Flock Flock is similar to Glip, with only two notable differences: the gifs are worse but the reactions are slightly better. Integrations are a little better, albeit a bit confusing. For example, there is a built in video conferencing feature where you can video chat with someone, … Incentivized Helpful?	Quip Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip Confluence is one that I think is semi comparable. I think SharePoint is very similar in nature and OneNote would be comparable as well. I think from a collaboration standpoint it's probably the best out of them. Like I said, it's not very good for version control. I think … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip Quip is simpler lighter and easier to use than the Atlassian products. Atlassian products could be more complete and have more functionalities, but it is hard to master all the functionalities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip 1. We use it as an effective way of collaboration between teams. 2. Can be used as an online spreadsheet. 3. It helps in accessing the data by multiple teams hassle-free. 4. Can customize the action, like editing or locking the spreadsheet to the other users based on the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip Quip was easier to use than any options when we were looking (5 years ago now). Google didn't really offer offline options. OneDrive was (and still is) not great. ShareFile was only considered because we already were using it for file transfer. Quip didn't have any real … Incentivized Helpful? JR Jose Raya Senior ASP.NET Software Developer Chose Quip We chose it for its reliability, ability to safeguard information, and collaboration between colleagues; it has met our expectations. Incentivized Helpful? Mukul Saxena Associate Project Manager Chose Quip It's easy to use and can be integrated with more 3rd-party software and documents--multiple formats are supported. And the unique feature of chatting makes it very useful, as you not need to switch to any other app for having a discussion with your team. Also data can be synced … Incentivized Helpful? SR Sandeep Reyyi Senior Development Engineer Testing Chose Quip Nothing. Quip was our only choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip Quip is A LOT better and easier to use because it is much more collaborative and interactive with internal Teams. Also provides easier reporting Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip I think quip is better to onboard and integrate. It's quite scalable with minimal manpower. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip Quip is more robust because it pulls data in from Salesforce to allow you to collaborate with real information. You don't have to live in two systems, which is great. It also gives you access to share with external users, like these other solutions. However, it is not a 1-1 … Incentivized Helpful? Basheq Tarifi Software Development Engineer Intern Chose Quip Notion was very good in my personal use of it; however, I have used Quip in a professional environment, and the integration of security control was superb. I think that Quip's version of tables and spreadsheets is better than Notion, but they are very similar in many aspects. Incentivized Helpful? LC Landon Cater Busines development Manager Chose Quip monday.com is a good product but lacks overall capabilities compared with Quip. Quip doesn't look visually appealing like monday.com but is more functional when it's broken down into real-time management categories and embedded files. You can easily assign files and tasks to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip Quip was much better. I often have difficulty formatting Google Docs the way I'd like and especially searching for what I need. Sometimes in Google Docs I'll search the exact title of something I'm searching for and it will not appear. That's not an issue with Quip. Incentivized Helpful? Will Goad Director of implementation Chose Quip Stacks up well against Google docs for collaboration. Not as ubiquitous as GSuite or Office Incentivized Helpful? Rebecca Ellis Social Media Manager Chose Quip Quip is multi-faceted (minus the social media capabilities) but creates a wonderful foundation to get everything good-to-go and ready for launch. Incentivized Helpful? Candi Bashiri Director, Sales Business Applications Chose Quip We needed to find a way to work together on documents and, to get out of emailing and converge on a single solution. We tried to use our intranet tool, Jive, but that was too cumbersome and hard. Others used Google Docs, but that was not very secure. We looked within Salesforce … Incentivized Helpful? JH Judy Hellen Administrative Support Manager Chose Quip Quip is the best in terms of collaborative features its robustness features are worse compared to the two software. I consider Quip as the big company to watch which will compete with big companies over time. Incentivized Helpful? Long Dai Salesforce Administrator Chose Quip N/A Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip Main competitors for Quip are the Microsoft and Google product suites respectively. Quip wins in terms of collaborative features, but lags in robustness in comparison to the much large incumbents. Though I do see Quip as a company to watch, who will be capable of competing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip While Quip is a fine tool, I personally would recommend an organization leverage Google Work Suite for Docs, Slides, and Sheets over Quip. I found Quip's feature set to be limited in relation to Google, all things considered. However, Quip can be valuable if your company has … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip It's like Google Docs or Microsoft Word, but more team-focused than either. It also reminds me of Slack a little bit in how you can add comments and everyone can view documents right in one place. There's also a side bar where chats can occur. I also really like that you can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip Google Drive is an obvious choice for a collaboration suite, but it still has this old-fashioned Windows 95 feel to it, with the standard file system hierarchy and spread-sheet like lists of files. Quip has a fresh take on the user interface, and the comments and discussion on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Quip We no longer use Teamwork but when we did, we tried to house documents but we'd always forget where they were. They weren't easy to access. Dropbox we still use sometimes, but if all our clients used quip, we would no longer need to use dropbox except for audio and video files … Incentivized Helpful? Barbara Carneiro Disciple & Head Honcho Chose Quip Quip is a powerful yet simple software. It allows for all docs, spreadsheets and slides to be online, easily shareable and editable. Its interface is really easy to use and beautiful. Their templates ate AMAZING, including things like calendars! I was personally looking for an … Incentivized Helpful? Mehdi Aherraki General Manager Chose Quip slack is visually pleasant, has nice features. Its learning curve, the templates and documents management, and the team communication are also very good, and another point that stands out is the template feature (and I'm sure they will add more in future updates.) It helps gain … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Flock

Quip

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Flock 7.8 Ratings 1% above category average	Quip 8.2 Ratings 6% above category average
Task Management	8.30 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Gantt Charts	7.00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Scheduling	8.90 Ratings	7.60 Ratings
Workflow Automation	8.00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.10 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Search	6.90 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Visual planning tools	6.40 Ratings	8.10 Ratings

Communication

Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
	Flock 8.4 Ratings 5% above category average	Quip 7.8 Ratings 2% below category average
Chat	9.60 Ratings	7.60 Ratings
Notifications	9.30 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Discussions	9.10 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Surveys	8.20 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	6.70 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	10.00 Ratings	6.10 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	8.00 Ratings	6.10 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	6.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Flock 7.1 Ratings 12% below category average	Quip 7.9 Ratings 2% below category average
Versioning	7.30 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Video files	6.40 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Audio files	6.40 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Document collaboration	8.10 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Access control	7.20 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Advanced security features	6.40 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	7.00 Ratings	6.10 Ratings
Device sync	8.30 Ratings	8.60 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Flock	Quip
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Enterprises	HCL Connections Score 9.0 out of 10	HCL Connections Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Flock	Quip
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Flock	Quip
Likelihood to Recommend	Flock is a great communication tool. However, it's in a very competitive space. It offers seamless app integration (i.e., google calendar and drive) to allow for easy use across the platform. It's a great communication tool. However, if you don't need an overloaded app, there are other options out there. And for work purposes, it only covers some of what you need. Incentivized Sasha Jacobsen Model Read full review	Well, they are suited. 1. We use it as an effective way of collaboration between teams. 2. Can be used as an online spreadsheet. 3. It helps in accessing the data by multiple teams hassle-free. 4. Can customize the action, like editing or locking the spreadsheet to the other users based on the business need. Less Suited/inappropriate: 1. The UI is very much outdated. 2. The number of rows to be added to the spreadsheet has limitations. & We have to create a new Quip every now & then once the row limits are reached. 3. Can't do a detailed analysis like pivots tables etc. 4. Other functions like sort & filter options in Quip are not so user-friendly, unlike other spreadsheets out there in the market. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Networked phones are a thing of past now. We don’t have to stop what we are doing to receive phone calls currently because Flock can do that It is now easy to send messages to many people at the same time, all we need to do is to add all the contants in the chat and select all to send a message This software has an in-built to-do-list which allows us to assign tasks to different people or users and then supervise each independently Incentivized BW Benard Wambua Director of Product Management Read full review	Our experience with Quip has been nothing short of astounding; I love everything about this collaboration tool. I love that it is cross-platform and works so well on mobile devices; it makes it unhindered to make progress on to-dos, take notes, export spreadsheets and documents, and have all my information organized within one environment. I also love that it notifies me when someone has done something in shared documents and the incredible ease of linking documents in chats. Quip's user interface is friendly and comfortably navigable; it feels right. JR Jose Raya Senior ASP.NET Software Developer Read full review
Cons	A tool is only good if people use it. Some of the artists I work with found it too complex (though I don't think they really gave it a good shot). We used it heavily for about six months and it didn't hit too many other big negative points. Incentivized Tim Mack Instructor Read full review	Update frequency - it feels like I need to update the application about twice a week. It's important to push new functionality and address bugs, but it often feels like the Quip team doesn't have their release schedule planned out very well. Constant updates are disruptive and counterproductive. Automatic date reminders - Quip will automatically set a date into a reminder as you type it, which could be a useful feature, but it just ends up being annoying. More often than not I'm just typing today's date in a document to track meeting minutes, or potentially adding in an expected delivery date, for which I really don't need a reminder. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	We would likely to renew use of Flock for our organization since it meets most of the requirements of team collboration and communication for a small group like us. Most of our Flock users like it's features and use it extensively for day-to-day work. We are quite optimistic about it's future updates. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	It is good to give what an app deserves, Flock is very efficient and effective app to manage the all day to day activities and communicate across all team members, create groups, share files, send reminders schedule reminders for each group or persons and share notes.Pin files and search any messages from anyone with advanced filters. It's a great app. Incentivized MP Mayur Patil Software Test Engineer Read full review	It is the best collaboration tool in my company. Through it, the organization has achieved better connectivity and efficiency in its communication. Primarily, the docs feature of this software is the most utilized in the company. Slowly, dash-boarding and project management features have also been utilized. Generally, it is the best tool, very easy and fairly streamlined Incentivized JH Judy Hellen Administrative Support Manager Read full review
Support Rating	We've only needed customer support a few times with Flock (mainly concerning app integration and security), and they've always been timely and helpful, which are the only things I truly need from support. The response rate was still rapid, and there's plenty of support available online as well for Flock. Incentivized Sasha Jacobsen Model Read full review	I have never used Quip's support. To be fair, we hired someone who used to work for Quip before working at our company, and he implemented it and pushed it with the team. He was very biased toward the product, and yes it was better than Google Drive, but by how much? Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Flock stands up very well against others when used for individual and group chats. It also works well with Google Drive Integration. The best part of Flock, compared with others, is in the area of File and Document sharing. The two areas it slightly lacks are voice/ video calls and search. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Confluence is one that I think is semi comparable. I think SharePoint is very similar in nature and OneNote would be comparable as well. I think from a collaboration standpoint it's probably the best out of them. Like I said, it's not very good for version control. I think Confluence does a much better job of versioning control, but as far as all the other ones, I think it does way better than OneNote or SharePoint. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Organizing notes manually has been drastically reduced. Flock folders and chats are perfect for keeping each file separate. We have not missed one calendar event with Flocks integration of our Google Calendar. Being able to cut out or $99/month case management software has saved a ton of money each month. Incentivized Anthony Zurica Owner Read full review	Quip has increased the efficiency of our copywriters by making it easier to organize projects, eliminate emails (requesting for review), and eliminated version conflicts. Quip has simplified the hand-off between copy and graphics. Instead of having to put together an email with all the copy and images, a Quip doc can house everything and a simple notification lets the designers know a project is ready for design. Quip has allowed much easier visibility into the work of the copywriters in order for me to see when a project is ready to move along. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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