Quip Launches A Convenient Desktop App For Mac

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Quip Launches A Convenient Desktop App For Mac Rating: 3,9/5 1924 votes

Quip is a place for teams to create living documents. It combines chat, docs, slides, and spreadsheets in one app — making collaboration fast and easy.

Skip the endless emails, meetings, document versions by working simpler and faster with Quip—available for your Mac, iPad and iPhone. Watch your team and your work come alive. SHARE DOCUMENTS AND TASK LISTS Take notes, share grocery lists, organize task lists, edit docs with your office coworkers, collaborate with any group or team on projects. CHAT AND MESSAGING Real-time chat and messaging is integrated seamlessly for easy collaboration, so you never have to switch to email. SPREADSHEETS Embed beautiful, full featured spreadsheets with support for over 400 functions and a customized mobile keyboards that make editing a pleasure from any device. SLIDES Quip slides are designed to get everyone aligned with fewer, shorter meetings—or no meetings at all. Use interactive polls and prompts to ensure that real decisions get made.

Create charts using live data from spreadsheets and Salesforce records. They’ll always stay up to date, and your team will too.

Quip Launches A Convenient Desktop App For Mac

ACCESS ON ANY DEVICE, ANY TIME All of your chats, docs, task lists, and spreadsheets are available on all of the devices you use — iPhone, iPad, and desktop. Easily review changes, comments, annotations to your docs and spreadsheets from your iPhone and iPad. IMPORT & EXPORT Import your documents from Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Box, Google Docs, and more. Export documents to PDF and Microsoft Office.

Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel. Import your address book from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Microsoft Outlook, Google, or iCloud. Ananonymouse, buggier than Google Docs Our team at work uses Quip, but I have yet to find a feature it has that Google Docs doesn't do better except load-time. It's pretty unstable and crashes a few times a week. The UI is frustrating too, for example every time it opens it shows a history of edits that has to be closed for every document every time you open the app. I downloaded the version from the app store hoping it'd be more up to date but it has an endless loop password-promt. If you get that, download from their web site instead of via app store & you only have the frustrating bugs, not the makes-it-unusable bug.

Ananonymouse, buggier than Google Docs Our team at work uses Quip, but I have yet to find a feature it has that Google Docs doesn't do better except load-time. It's pretty unstable and crashes a few times a week. The UI is frustrating too, for example every time it opens it shows a history of edits that has to be closed for every document every time you open the app. I downloaded the version from the app store hoping it'd be more up to date but it has an endless loop password-promt.

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If you get that, download from their web site instead of via app store & you only have the frustrating bugs, not the makes-it-unusable bug. Benkuhn, Destroys data unrecoverably and crashes every day Thinking about using Quip at your company? I've been using Quip daily for a few years now and the app has gotten worse and worse after the Salesforce acquisition. And the future looks bleaker. Multiple times in the last few months, I've hit 'undo' and had unrelated chunks of my document disappear in such a way that they can't be recovered from the history. (It also crashes once or twice a day, and sometimes gets so slow I have to restart it, but that's the least of its problems.) I emailed Quip support asking what they were doing about their horrible software quality issues and their support rep told me that 'We don't have any clear timelines for fixing the bugs you have mentioned.

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We do, however, have all of these bugs recorded on the appropriate task list.' I think that really speaks for itself w.r.t. How much Quip cares about their customers. 'Meh, maybe someday we'll stop lighting your documents on fire!' Benkuhn, Destroys data unrecoverably and crashes every day Thinking about using Quip at your company? I've been using Quip daily for a few years now and the app has gotten worse and worse after the Salesforce acquisition.

And the future looks bleaker. Multiple times in the last few months, I've hit 'undo' and had unrelated chunks of my document disappear in such a way that they can't be recovered from the history. (It also crashes once or twice a day, and sometimes gets so slow I have to restart it, but that's the least of its problems.) I emailed Quip support asking what they were doing about their horrible software quality issues and their support rep told me that 'We don't have any clear timelines for fixing the bugs you have mentioned. We do, however, have all of these bugs recorded on the appropriate task list.'

I think that really speaks for itself w.r.t. How much Quip cares about their customers. 'Meh, maybe someday we'll stop lighting your documents on fire!'