Comparison

Quip vs Altheru

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

Altheru

Organize, search, and manage important family documents locally on your device. Get reminders for deadlines and use AI to ask questions about your stored files. Keep all household paperwork in one secure, private place.

Highlights
  • Local document storage
  • AI-powered search
  • Deadline reminders
  • Profile creation
  • Document linking
  • Encrypted storage
Features
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EVERYTHING IMPORTANT, ALWAYS WITH YOU. Altheru is your private family information companion—keeping important documents organized, searchable, remembered, and understandable. Turn a pile of paperwork—photos, PDFs, emails, and folders—into something you can actually manage. Store your documents on your device, get reminded before deadlines, and ask AI questions when you need answers. ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS ANYTHING Your insurance policy is 35 pages. You don’t have to hunt through it. Ask: • “When does my insurance expire?” • “What’s my deductible?” • “What does this warranty cover?” • “When does my passport expire?” • “How much notice do I need to give?” • “Who is covered by this policy?” AI is optional. Your local vault remains yours. FIND WHAT YOU NEED IN SECONDS Search by person, document type, date, issuer, number—or by what you mean. Search “car insurance” and see the policy, the card, and the renewal notice—not just a filename. NEVER MISS AN IMPORTANT DATE Passports. Insurance. Licenses. Warranties. Contracts. Set reminders weeks or months ahead and see what’s due, grouped by urgency. ONE PLACE FOR YOUR HOUSEHOLD Use Altheru for yourself, or keep everyone’s paperwork together without mixing it into one folder. Create profiles, browse by person, and organize Identity, Travel, Health, Finance, and Legal documents. YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Private by design. • Stored locally on your device • Encrypted on your device • Not synced to our cloud • Core features work without an email account When you choose optional AI, selected content is processed only to answer that request. We do not store your document vault in our cloud. CONNECT RELATED DOCUMENTS As your collection grows, Altheru can link an old passport to a new one, or a policy to its renewal. Compare them side by side. KEEP YOUR PAPERWORK UNDER CONTROL Organized. Searchable. Remembered. Understandable. Private by design. Altheru is a document organization and reminder tool and does not provide legal, immigration, medical, or financial advice. Always verify official requirements with the issuing authority.

Screenshots

Quip4 screens
Altheru4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quip at none against Altheru's 1. Quip also leads on ratings volume (26K vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). Altheru's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Altheru sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quip asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Altheru 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, Altheru every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Quip versus Altheru: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuipAltheru
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings26K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuipTechnefide Labs Private Limited

Customer experience

Quip

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

Altheru

All ratings3 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

Altheru

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Quip

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Altheru

One-time1
  • Altheru Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Quip free?
Quip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Altheru free?
Altheru is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quip or Altheru?
Altheru is rated higher. Quip averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26K ratings, while Altheru averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Quip or Altheru have ads?
Neither Quip nor Altheru shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quip or Altheru?
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, and Altheru every 2 days. Most recently, Quip was updated on October 25, 2026 and Altheru on October 9, 2026.

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