Comparison

Quip vs Workona

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

Workona

Organize all your project-related documents, links, and open tabs within dedicated workspaces. Access your work on the go, sync tabs from your desktop, and manage resources seamlessly from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Organize projects in workspaces
  • Access cloud docs and links
  • Sync open desktop tabs
  • Manage resources on mobile
  • Full-featured work browser
  • Search saved resources
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Workona lets you organize everything for a project within workspaces. Use the Workona iPad & iPhone apps to: • Access your workspaces on the go, putting cloud docs & links at your fingertips • Access tabs you have open on your computer from your iPad or iPhone • Keep projects up-to-date when you’re away from the desktop • Add a tab or resource to a workspace from the iOS share button The iPad app offers a full-featured browser built for work: • Seamlessly transition between your workspaces & tabs • Search your saved resources from the browser address bar • Manage tabs without interrupting your flow Workona helps solve the problems of modern work: • You can’t find the work you need - Workspaces put everything for a project in one place, so your important docs & links are easy to find • You need a laptop to get real work done - The Workona iPad & iPhone apps are designed for serious work, allowing you to travel light • Your browser is messy and disorganized - Workspaces display your open tabs at a glance, so you can rapidly close and organize tabs • You need your work on the go - The Workona app syncs your open tabs, acting like a portal into your desktop browser “Workona has enhanced my productivity more than any other tool I use” – Ed Bott, ZDNet

Screenshots

Quip4 screens
Workona3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Quip at 4.7 against Workona's 3.7. Quip also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (71% vs 37%). Workona's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Quip holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quip has 26K ratings behind it against 54, 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 37% of Workona's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, Workona fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Quip versus Workona: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuipWorkona
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings) — better3.7 (54 ratings)
Positive reviews71.3% of reviews — better37.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26K — better54
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.5
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB30 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperQuipWorkona Inc.

Customer experience

Quip

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

Workona

All ratings54 ratings
Positive61.1%
Neutral11.1%
Negative27.8%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive37.0%
Neutral15.2%
Negative47.8%

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

Workona

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Quip

No in-app purchases

None

Workona

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quip free?
Quip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Workona free?
Workona is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quip or Workona?
Quip is rated higher. Quip averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26K ratings, while Workona averages 3.7 from 54 ratings.
Do Quip or Workona have ads?
Workona shows ads; Quip does not.
Which is updated more often, Quip or Workona?
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, and Workona fortnightly. Most recently, Quip was updated on September 25, 2026 and Workona on June 10, 2026.

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