Quip vs Carbon Voice
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.
Carbon Voice
This app allows teams to communicate asynchronously through voice messages. It automatically transcribes, summarizes, and makes conversations searchable. Users can extract action items and integrate with over 8,000 tools.
- Asynchronous voice messaging
- Automatic transcription
- AI-powered summaries
- Action item extraction
- Integration with 8,000+ tools
- Cross-language auto-translation
- Searchable conversation history
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Carbon Voice is built for teams who work on the move. Execs, real-estate agents, home builders, field sales teams—anyone doing real work in planes, trains, cars, and everywhere in between. Talk without calling. Skip the phone tag, scheduling, and missed connections. Just tap, talk, and keep working. Conversations happen asynchronously—fast, natural, and effortless. Voice messaging, finally done right. Every message is automatically transcribed, searchable, and AI-summarized so nothing gets lost. “Carbon Voice is a voice productivity powerhouse.” — Ari Meisel Turn conversations into action. Use AI to ask questions about any discussion, generate summaries, track action items, and push follow-ups into 8,000+ tools via Zapier. Your conversations become insight, action, and knowledge. ----- Key Features TAP TO TALK Share instantly and replace calls with asynchronous voice collaboration. Communicate across languages with auto-translation. READ & SEARCH Every message is transcribed. Search, label, organize, and follow up with ease. AI ORGANIZES FOR YOU AI summaries, action items, document generation, and the ability to ask AI anything about your conversations. ----- Voice Memos Capture your own ideas quickly. Keep them organized—or share them with teammates via link, email, or text. ----- Built for Business. Designed for People. Workspaces, SSO, retention policies, access controls, and enterprise-grade security keep your organization aligned and compliant—whether you’re a small team or a global company. ----- Quick Access to Your Voice Ideas - Home widgets for one-tap recording and conversation access - iMessage Extension for instant link sharing - Share Extension for saving audio and files into Carbon Voice - Access your voice memos on the web - Slack integration for notifications and quick access - Google Workspace integration for using Carbon Voice inside Gmail, Docs, and more Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getcarbon.app/privacy Extended Terms of Service: https://getcarbon.app/tos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quip at none against Carbon Voice's 12. Quip also leads on ratings volume (26K vs 15) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Carbon Voice's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). On price, ads and device support 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. Carbon Voice sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Quip asks for nothing beyond the download.
Carbon Voice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quip has 26K ratings behind it against 15, 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 100% of Carbon Voice's.
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, Carbon Voice every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quip | Carbon Voice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (26K ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 206 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Quip | Phonon X Inc |
Customer experience
Quip
Carbon Voice
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
Carbon Voice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quip
No in-app purchases
Carbon Voice
- Starter + Global Voice7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Lite7 Days trial$10.991 Month
- Lite + Global Voice7 Days trial$16.991 Month
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- Standard7 Days trial$17.991 Month
- Standard + Global Voice7 Days trial$23.991 Month
- Pro7 Days trial$26.991 Month
- Starter + Global Voice14 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Lite14 Days trial$84.991 Year
- Lite + Global Voice14 Days trial$149.991 Year
- Standard14 Days trial$155.991 Year
- Standard + Global Voice14 Days trial$219.991 Year
- Pro14 Days trial$259.991 Year
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