Comparison

Quip vs Actions

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Quip

This app combines chat, documents, slides, and spreadsheets into a single platform for seamless team collaboration. It streamlines workflows by reducing the need for emails and meetings, allowing teams to work faster and more efficiently across all their devices.

Highlights
  • Living documents
  • Integrated chat and messaging
  • Full-featured spreadsheets
  • Interactive slides
  • Cross-device access
  • Import/export from popular services
Features
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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. 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, Hotmail, Microsoft Outlook, Google, or iCloud.

About

Actions

Organize your thoughts and tasks with a digital card-based system. Easily create, schedule, and manage to-dos using natural language input and receive timely reminders. Syncs across devices for seamless productivity.

Highlights
  • Create Action Cards for reminders
  • Natural language scheduling
  • Drag and drop organization
  • Color-coded lists
  • Schedule view
  • Swipe to complete/delete
  • Cloud sync
Features
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Keep on top of everything in your head, whether it’s movies to watch or the details of your next big project. Designed for busy people who live by making lists to stay on track at work and home, the digital card based design is a clutter-free way to visualise everything that needs doing. Collect your thoughts in a calm interface with simple natural language like “Water the plants every Saturday” then let Actions take care of reminding you automatically. –––FEATURES––– • Create Action Cards to note things you do not want to forget. • Type naturally like “Post status report every second Friday” and Actions takes care of the scheduling, reminders and notifications. • Drag and drop your Action Cards into custom Lists to organise them intuitively • Colour code each list to further personalise your productivity system • Use the Schedule to see all of the Actions coming up • Swipe on Action Cards to complete them, delete them and set reminders. • Add free-form notes to Action Cards for extra details like phone numbers • Get push notifications, you can quickly choose reminders for the Morning, Afternoon, Evening or custom times • Create repeating actions with advanced rules like “Call Sam every second Tuesday in June” • Automatically and securely sync all of your Actions to the cloud instantly • To keep your lists manageable, Actions will automatically suggest Action Cards that should be rescheduled or deleted • Use the iOS Share extension to bring lists from other apps into Actions easily • Use Siri to manage your actions for hands-free productivity! Actions is a sophisticated app for getting things done, but it’s even more powerful if you have Timepage. With Timepage installed, your calendar events will automatically appear in the Schedule screen in Actions so you can see everything in context. In Timepage, you can see scheduled actions alongside your events. Master your calendar events and your to-dos with the ultimate productivity app duo! –––MEMBERSHIP––– Actions is a membership service with a free trial. Download the app free to try it out without restriction or registration. After the trial period you can choose to purchase a membership which allows unlimited use across all of your devices. Without an active membership, you can still use the app in read-only mode. • Unlimited access on all your devices. • Both monthly and annual options available. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and automatic renewal status in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial peri​od will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://bonobolabs.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://bonobolabs.com/terms –––QUESTIONS?––– If you’ve got a question or something isn’t working quite right, you can contact us directly from the Menu > Help > Contact Support. Got a feature idea? Let us know at https://bonobo.canny.io/actions –––THANK YOU––– We have put thousands of hours into creating Actions. We read every single one of your reviews. If you enjoy using Actions please take a minute to leave us a nice review, thank you!

Screenshots

Quip4 screens
Actions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quip at none against Actions's 5. Quip also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 51%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Actions's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and device support (5 vs 3). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Actions sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Quip asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Quip against 4.6 for Actions. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26K and 9.7K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Quip's written reviews are positive against 51% of Actions's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, Actions fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 26, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Quip versus Actions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuipActions
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings) — better4.6 (9.7K ratings)
Positive reviews71.3% of reviews — better51.3% of reviews
Number of ratings26K — better9.7K
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB258 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuipBonobo

Customer experience

Quip

All ratings25,684 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews1,175 reviews
Positive71.3%
Neutral7.0%
Negative21.7%

Actions

All ratings9,743 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.0%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews478 reviews
Positive51.3%
Neutral14.9%
Negative33.9%

User reviews

Quip

From 26K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Great for collaboration
  • 🚀 Seamless sync across devices
  • 💡 Helpful for organizing and managing tasks
  • 👍 Intuitive interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Inconsistent performance on mobile devices
  • 🐛 Sync and connectivity issues
  • 🐛 Buggy text editing and formatting
  • 🐛 Unreliable search functionality

Actions

From 9.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 👍 Beautiful and visually appealing design
  • 🔍 Great organizational features
  • ⏱️ Helpful reminders and scheduling
  • 🤝 Good integration with Timepage app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Syncing issues and bugs
  • 🔄 Inconsistent task ordering and rearranging
  • 🕰️ Slow performance and app crashes
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns with data collection
  • 💰 Subscription model and high pricing

Bugs and requests

Quip

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Frequent app crashes
  • Sync issues leading to data loss
  • Formatting problems when editing documents
  • Unreliable connectivity on mobile devices
  • Inconsistent performance across platforms

Requested features

6 requests
  • Improved mobile app experience
  • Enhanced search and filtering capabilities
  • Custom keyboard support
  • Expanded formatting options
  • Offline mode for document access
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  • Better integration with other productivity tools

Actions

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Recurring tasks disappearing or not updating
  • Completed tasks not properly tracked in Logbook
  • Inability to move tasks between lists
  • Sync issues between mobile and desktop
  • Crashes when scheduling complex tasks

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add location-based reminders
  • Implement priority settings for tasks
  • Allow more color customization options
  • Provide desktop/web app version
  • Add checklist functionality within tasks

In-app purchases

None

Quip

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Actions

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Membership7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Bonobo Bundle (Annual)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Bonobo Bundle (Annual Family)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Bonobo Bundle (Lifetime)$129.99

Questions

Is Quip free?
Quip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Actions free?
Actions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quip or Actions?
Quip is rated higher. Quip averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26K ratings, while Actions averages 4.6 from 9.7K ratings.
Do Quip or Actions have ads?
Neither Quip nor Actions shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quip or Actions?
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, and Actions fortnightly. Most recently, Quip was updated on September 26, 2026 and Actions on September 26, 2026.

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