Comparison

Quip vs Paradoc

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

Paradoc

This app transforms photos of documents into high-quality PDFs, offering a suite of tools for editing, organizing, and securing your files. It handles complex PDF types, including encrypted and form-filled documents, all processed locally on your device without needing an internet connection.

Highlights
  • On-device AI-powered scanning
  • Merge, split, compress PDFs
  • Convert PDFs to images
  • Encrypt and unlock PDFs
  • Handle encrypted and restricted PDFs
  • Fillable form support
  • Organize and reorder pages
Features
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Scan paper into a clean PDF, then merge, split, compress, reorder, lock or unlock it. Seven tools, free, all running on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, ever. No account, no subscription, no ads. Your documents stay exactly where they already are. EVERYDAY JOBS Shrink a PDF until it fits an email limit. Lock a tax return before you share it. Pull the one page you need out of a long contract. Turn a school form on the kitchen table into a PDF you can send in a minute. Combine a stack of statements into a single file. SCAN Point the camera at a page, or pick photos from your library. Paradoc finds the edges, squares up the perspective and cleans up the page. An on-device neural model lifts shadows and uneven lighting, so a page shot under a desk lamp comes out clean and legible. Up to 20 pages per document. MERGE Combine up to 20 PDFs in the order you choose. Password-protected files are handled one by one, each with its own password. SPLIT Pull a page range out into its own PDF. If the source was encrypted, the result stays encrypted. COMPRESS Three presets: Light, Balanced and Maximum. Paradoc re-encodes images, subsets fonts and repacks object streams, the same techniques desktop tools use. Text stays text. Bookmarks, form values, annotations and document metadata stay intact. ORGANIZE Reorder, delete and rotate pages from a thumbnail grid. PDF TO IMAGE Export pages as JPEG images, from 75 to 600 DPI, up to 20 pages per export. PROTECT AND UNLOCK Lock a PDF with AES-256, the strongest encryption the PDF standard defines. Unlock removes a password you know, or clears owner-only restrictions on printing and copying. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Paradoc makes no network requests. None. There is no server, no sign-in, nothing quietly phoning home. Switch on airplane mode and every feature keeps working, on a plane, in a basement, anywhere. Your contract, your tax return, your medical letter: none of it needs to visit someone else's computer to be scanned, merged, shrunk or locked. The work happens where the file already is. BUILT FOR THE PDFs THAT USUALLY BREAK THINGS Password-protected files, including older RC4 and AES-128 ones, open and stay encrypted through Split, Organize and Compress. Files locked against printing or copying are detected and explained before you continue. Digitally signed PDFs are checked before anything is touched, and you are warned when an edit would invalidate a signature; certified documents are left alone. PDF/A archives are flagged before you change them. Merge two forms with the same field names and the result still works. Files up to 100 MB. A PDF comes out the way it went in. Text that was selectable stays selectable, and pages stay as sharp as they were at any zoom, because Paradoc works on the file itself instead of turning pages into pictures. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout.

Screenshots

Quip4 screens
Paradoc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Paradoc at weekly against Quip's every 6 weeks. Paradoc also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Quip's advantage is ratings volume (26K vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Paradoc 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Quip versus Paradoc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuipParadoc
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings26K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuipVaibhav Teli

Customer experience

Quip

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

Paradoc

All ratings2 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

Paradoc

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Quip

No in-app purchases

None

Paradoc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quip free?
Quip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Paradoc free?
Paradoc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quip or Paradoc?
Paradoc is rated higher. Quip averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26K ratings, while Paradoc averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Quip or Paradoc have ads?
Neither Quip nor Paradoc shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quip or Paradoc?
Quip ships an update every 6 weeks, and Paradoc weekly. Most recently, Quip was updated on November 7, 2026 and Paradoc on November 6, 2026.

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