Comparison

Quip vs DocIt

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

DocIt

Transform your device into a powerful document scanner and organizer. Capture, sign, measure, and secure your paperwork with smart features and private iCloud sync. All on-device, with no ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Smart document capture with auto-detection
  • AR measurement tool for real-world objects
  • On-device OCR for text search and copy
  • Markup and signature tools
  • Secure document locking with Face ID/Touch ID
  • Nested folder organization with custom colors
  • Private iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Scan, sign, measure, and organize - every kind of paperwork, all on-device. Free, ad-free, with private iCloud sync. No subscriptions, ever. DocIt turns your iPhone camera into a full document workflow. Capture documents, IDs, receipts, books, photos, business cards, and passports with smart edge detection and the right filter for the type you picked. Sign them with your saved signature. Measure real-world objects in AR. Lock the private ones behind Face ID. Sync everything across your iPhone and iPad through your personal iCloud, the same encrypted storage as Apple Notes and Photos. No ads. No subscriptions. No data collection. Built by one person who actually uses it. FEATURES SMART CAPTURE Pick what you are scanning: Document, ID Card, Book, Receipt, Business Card, Photo, or Passport. DocIt auto-tunes edge detection, perspective correction, and color filter for the type you picked. AR MEASURE Tap two points on any real-world surface to get exact distances. Desks, doorways, picture frames, room dimensions. Results save alongside your scans with measurements baked into the photo. Choose imperial or metric in Settings. ON-DEVICE OCR Every scan is run through Apple text recognition automatically. Search your library by content, copy text from any page, or share recognized text as plain .txt. Tap Edit to correct misreads or add notes. MARKUP AND SIGN Pinch to zoom and draw with Apple Pencil or finger. Save signatures once and drop them onto any document. Drag to position, pinch or drag handles to resize, tap once for the remove button. Add editable text annotations alongside. MANAGE PAGES Reorder pages by drag, multi-select to delete or share specific pages, or duplicate a whole document into another folder. Page changes are non-destructive until you save. PRIVATE FILES Lock individual documents or whole folders with a 4-digit PIN. Optional Face ID, Touch ID, or Optic ID for one-glance unlock. The PIN lives in your device secure Keychain. Never synced to iCloud, never recoverable. One PIN, all your locked items. ORGANIZE Nested folders with custom colors, emojis, and categories. Drag scans between folders, multi-select for bulk actions, merge several PDFs into one, share whole folders as ZIPs. Anything you delete waits in the Trash for 30 days. SHARE EVERYWHERE Share any scan as PDF, individual JPG, JPG ZIP for multi-page, or the plain recognized text. Or use any other app share sheet to send PDFs and images straight into DocIt. ONE TAP FROM ANYWHERE Pin DocIt to your Lock Screen, Control Center, or the Action Button. Or ask Siri: Scan with DocIt. A fresh scan is one tap away. AUTO-UPLOAD TO YOUR CLOUD Send every new scan straight to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Box. Wherever you already keep your files. No third-party logins to manage. SYNCED PRIVATELY Folders, scans, and recognized text sync across iPhone and iPad through your private iCloud. No third-party servers. Ever. SIX APP ICONS Pick from Classic, themed colors, or the Liberty (USA) edition. Switch from Settings then App Icon. BUILT BY ONE PERSON DocIt is built and maintained by a single indie developer. No VC, no growth team, no ad partners. The optional Tip Jar in Settings keeps the lights on, only if you want to. We do not sell your data because we do not have your data. Everything happens on-device, syncs through your personal iCloud, and stays yours. Questions or feedback? contact@castleground.co

Screenshots

Quip4 screens
DocIt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quip at none against DocIt's 3. Quip also leads on ratings volume (26K vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). DocIt's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, monetization model 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. DocIt sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Quip asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DocIt 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 3, 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 DocIt's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, DocIt weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Quip versus DocIt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuipDocIt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuipCastleground LLC

Customer experience

Quip

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

DocIt

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 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

DocIt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Quip

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

DocIt

One-time3
  • Optional Small Tip$0.99
  • Optional Medium Tip$4.99
  • Optional Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Quip free?
Quip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DocIt free?
DocIt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quip or DocIt?
DocIt is rated higher. Quip averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26K ratings, while DocIt averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Quip or DocIt have ads?
Neither Quip nor DocIt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quip or DocIt?
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, and DocIt weekly. Most recently, Quip was updated on September 25, 2026 and DocIt on September 7, 2026.

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