Quip - better than Google Drive?
January 22, 2020

Quip - better than Google Drive?

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Quip

Quip is being used across the entire organization. Sales, CS, leadership, engineering, everyone. This was a way for our company to replace Google Docs, because many had qualms with Google Docs and its capabilities and organization. This was a great way to categorize and include other team members in day to day data and logging of notes.
  • Easy to search for docs (better than Google Docs)!
  • Great for logging information (data, notes, etc.) and roping in the members of the team that need to see the notes/add comments or add points to the doc (very collaborative).
  • Oddly - formatting was really difficult sometimes with Quip and it got frustrating.
  • Wish it would segment teams better and only send me emails of things that were relevant to me, not what engineering was doing (I was in sales).
  • Again, I was not the buyer so this is hard to say.
  • What needs to be compared is Google Docs and Quip - if your company is looking to cut costs and uses Quip this seems like an easy choice. Yes, it's better, but you must figure out if the ROI is worth it.
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.
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?

Do you think Quip delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Quip's feature set?

Yes

Did Quip live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Quip go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Quip again?

No

Quip is well suited for a team that is completely reliant on logging data online. Yes, a ton can and should be logged with your CRM, but this is great for internal notes/notes for client facing meetings. Quip is great for brainstorming and roping in other members of your team, but as I mentioned before, it's just like Google but better, but is the ROI worth it? Not sure. I was not the decision maker/purchaser.

Quip Feature Ratings

Task Management
9
Gantt Charts
9
Scheduling
Not Rated
Workflow Automation
Not Rated
Mobile Access
8
Search
9
Visual planning tools
9
Chat
9
Notifications
9
Discussions
9
Surveys
Not Rated
Internal knowledgebase
7
Integrates with GoToMeeting
Not Rated
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
Not Rated
Integrates with Outlook
Not Rated
Versioning
Not Rated
Video files
Not Rated
Audio files
Not Rated
Document collaboration
9
Access control
9
Advanced security features
Not Rated
Integrates with Google Drive
Not Rated
Device sync
Not Rated