Quip vs Our Kirkland
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.
Our Kirkland
Access City Hall services and information from your mobile device. Report non-emergency issues like potholes or graffiti, view city news and events, and register for recreation programs.
- Report non-emergency service requests
- Access city news and events
- Register for recreation programs
- View job opportunities
- Connect to city social media
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Our Kirkland – your one stop access to City Hall from your mobile device. • Request a non-emergency service or notify the City of a concern – choose from a variety of topics such as reporting potholes, street lights out, graffiti, tree removal/pruning, contact City Council, code compliance/property maintenance, and more! • Access information on events and City news. • Connect to the City’s website, Explore Kirkland website and social media sites. • View the current Recreation Activity Guide and register for programs. • Request a Public Record. • View current City job opportunities. Our Kirkland app is an easy and efficient way to communicate and resolve concerns in our community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quip at 71% against Our Kirkland's 0%. Quip also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 16 months) and ratings volume (26K vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Quip holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quip has 26K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Quip's written reviews are positive against 0% of Our Kirkland's.
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, Our Kirkland every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quip | Our Kirkland |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (26K ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Quip | City of Kirkland |
Customer experience
Quip
Our Kirkland
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
Our Kirkland
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quip
No in-app purchases
Our Kirkland
No in-app purchases









