Quip vs swatchbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Living documents
- Integrated chat and messaging
- Full-featured spreadsheets
- Interactive slides
- Cross-device access
- Import/export from popular services
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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.
swatchbook
This app provides a cloud platform for sourcing, developing, and sharing digital materials. It allows users to search, filter, and request physical samples, interact with materials in 2D and 3D, and create shareable collections for design projects.
- Source and request physical material samples
- Develop materials with 2D and 3D display options
- Create and share material collections
- Search and filter digital materials
- Patent-pending 1:1 material display
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swatchbook is the new home of materials. a cloud platform that revolutionizes the sourcing, development & sharing of digital materials. with the iOS app this means we are putting all the materials back in your hand. all the power of swatchbook focused inside the mobile app. source: Search, filter & fine tune your search. when ready, request samples for a wonderful touch & feel experience. you are making an actual physical product after all. develop: we've designed this to make the best use of all the visual tools swatchbook has to offer. it offers various display options to view the swatches including our incredible patent pending 1:1 display. interact with them in 2d & 3d & ultimately create materials & collections for your design line. share: Create collections that can be shared within your organization, with your team members, or externally with material consultants or you may receive them directly from your suppliers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Quip at 26K against swatchbook's 12. Quip also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 50%). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Quip against 4.7 for swatchbook. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quip has 26K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Quip's written reviews are positive against 50% of swatchbook's.
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, swatchbook every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quip | swatchbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (26K ratings) — better | 4.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26K — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Quip | swatchbook Inc. |
Customer experience
Quip
swatchbook
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
swatchbook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quip
No in-app purchases
swatchbook
No in-app purchases









