Comparison

Quip vs Opal on Mobile

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

Opal on Mobile

This app provides a powerful marketing calendar to keep teams in sync. It allows users to view, approve, share, and download content seamlessly from their mobile devices, ensuring everyone stays updated on all campaigns and content.

Highlights
  • Marketing calendar view
  • Team synchronization
  • Content viewing and approval
  • Content sharing and downloading
  • Mobile access (iPhone/iPad)
Features
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The most powerful marketing calendar, ever. See everything your team is doing and stay in sync when it matters most. View all of your stories, moments and content — no matter where you are. View, approve, share and download content seamlessly from your iPhone or iPad.

Screenshots

Quip4 screens
Opal on Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Quip at 26K against Opal on Mobile's 14. Quip also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Quip against 4.7 for Opal on Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quip has 26K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, Opal on Mobile every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Quip versus Opal on Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuipOpal on Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings)4.7 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews71.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings26K — better14
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuipOpal

Customer experience

Quip

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

Opal on Mobile

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%

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

Opal on Mobile

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Quip

No in-app purchases

None

Opal on Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quip free?
Quip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Opal on Mobile free?
Opal on Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quip or Opal on Mobile?
Quip and Opal on Mobile are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 26K and 14 ratings respectively.
Do Quip or Opal on Mobile have ads?
Neither Quip nor Opal on Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quip or Opal on Mobile?
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, and Opal on Mobile every 5 weeks. Most recently, Quip was updated on September 29, 2026 and Opal on Mobile on June 4, 2026.

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