Comparison

Quip vs Rory

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

Rory

This app uses an AI judge to enforce your custom screen time limits. Record voice pleas to request extra time, and the AI will evaluate your case, granting or denying your request based on your reasoning.

Highlights
  • Custom limits for apps, websites, and categories
  • Voice-based plea recording with transcription
  • AI-powered verdicts with reasoning
  • Plea history tracking
  • Community verdict gallery
  • Integrates with Apple Screen Time
Features
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You set the limits and Rory, a strict but fair AI screen time judge, enforces them. When you hit your daily screen time limit, you can record a voice plea explaining why you need more time. Rory listens, evaluates your case, and delivers a verdict in seconds. Approved pleas unlock extra minutes, denied pleas mean you should go touch grass. Rory adds friction where you need it most – the moment you're about to spiral into another hour of mindless scrolling. Having to say your reason out loud forces you to be honest with yourself, and most of the time you'll realize you don't actually need more time. Features - Custom limits for apps, websites, and categories - Voice-based plea recording with real-time transcription - AI-powered verdicts with transparent reasoning - Plea history so you can track your patterns - Community verdict gallery so you can see what other people tried and failed - Works with Apple Screen Time, no workarounds, no jailbreak All features described above require a submission. Terms of Use: https://ptxrlabs.com/rory/terms Privacy Policy: https://ptxrlabs.com/rory/privacy

Screenshots

Quip4 screens
Rory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quip at none against Rory's 2. Quip also leads on ratings volume (26K vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.2). Rory's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Rory sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Quip asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rory 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 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, Rory every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Quip versus Rory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuipRory
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings26K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuipPTXR Labs LLC

Customer experience

Quip

All ratings25,684 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews1,175 reviews
Positive71.2%
Neutral7.0%
Negative21.8%

Rory

All ratings4 ratings
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

Rory

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Quip

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Rory

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly plan$4.991 Month
  • Yearly plan$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Quip free?
Quip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rory free?
Rory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quip or Rory?
Rory is rated higher. Quip averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26K ratings, while Rory averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Quip or Rory have ads?
Neither Quip nor Rory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quip or Rory?
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, and Rory every 2 months. Most recently, Quip was updated on October 14, 2026 and Rory on September 30, 2026.

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