Comparison

Quip vs Buzz Continuum™

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

Buzz Continuum™

Streamline patient care coordination with this app, offering efficient document management, workflow tools, and resource discovery. It facilitates secure communication, provider searches, and telehealth video sessions.

Highlights
  • Document viewer/editor with annotation and signature capabilities
  • Healthcare resource finder with location services
  • Search for nationally registered healthcare providers
  • Initiate secure video communication for telehealth
  • HIPAA-compliant secure sharing options
Features
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Buzz Continuum is an integral part of Skyscape's Buzz Communication and Collaboration platform. This app streamlines communication & collaboration necessary for effective patient care coordination. Use this app for efficient document management & workflow, discovering healthcare resources and facilities, finding nationally registered healthcare providers, and initiating video communication for telehealth. Buzz Continuum works either as a companion to Buzz or as a standalone app. Document Viewer/Editor *** As a document viewer/editor, it supports functionality to fill forms and edit/annotate/markup documents in various formats such as images, Adobe PDF®, or Microsoft Office documents. Exchanging consent documents with signatures & approvals becomes a breeze with the built-in capabilities. Sharing notes, reports, or forms via AirDrop, SMS, Email or other communication channel is supported (with caution to manage sensitive information to be only shared via the HIPAA-compliant channels such as Buzz™ Secure Medical Platform. Gone are the days of needing to fax documents with signatures. With Buzz Continuum, you don't need to work with multiple applications to save, copy, edit, and share documents or forms. One of our most powerful features lets you work with insurance, intake, or consent forms and then insert signatures to such documents. Along with signatures, we have included many different annotation modes for any additional edits you may need to make. • View • Annotate • Markup • Draw • Insert • Measure • Add Text • Stamps Healthcare Resource Finder *** With Explore Nearby options, you can locate healthcare resources in a given region with just a few taps - much more accessible than you can do with Apple or Google maps! In addition, you can navigate to the location or the websites for urgent healthcare needs. You can locate the following resources near an address in an instant: • Pharmacies • Clinics • Urgent Care • Physical Therapy • Occupational Therapy • Hospitals • Rehab Centers Welcome to Buzz Continuum, a new powerful document editor. Registered Healthcare Provider Search *** As a part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Standard, the US National Provider Identification registry contains individual healthcare providers and qualified healthcare providers. You can search this database to identify trusted providers and communicate with them. Secure Video Communication with Healthcare Providers *** Initiate Video sessions with the passkey for the scheduled sessions with physicians and other healthcare providers. Video sessions are setup by the providers using the Buzz platform. Finally, a Powerful Companion to Buzz™ *** Buzz Continuum is a companion application for Buzz: Secure Medical Messenger found on the AppStore. Buzz enables Healthcare Providers with real-time communication and collaboration capabilities in a single environment, offered free to healthcare providers.

Screenshots

Quip4 screens
Buzz Continuum™4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Buzz Continuum™ at 100% against Quip's 71%. Buzz Continuum™ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Quip's advantage is ratings volume (26K vs 11). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Buzz Continuum™ 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 11, 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 Buzz Continuum™'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, Buzz Continuum™ monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Quip versus Buzz Continuum™: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuipBuzz Continuum™
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26K — better11
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB266 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuipSkyscape Medpresso Inc

Customer experience

Quip

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

Buzz Continuum™

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
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

Buzz Continuum™

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Quip

No in-app purchases

None

Buzz Continuum™

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quip free?
Quip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Buzz Continuum™ free?
Buzz Continuum™ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quip or Buzz Continuum™?
Buzz Continuum™ is rated higher. Quip averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26K ratings, while Buzz Continuum™ averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Quip or Buzz Continuum™ have ads?
Neither Quip nor Buzz Continuum™ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quip or Buzz Continuum™?
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, and Buzz Continuum™ monthly. Most recently, Quip was updated on September 25, 2026 and Buzz Continuum™ on June 5, 2026.

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