| Changes | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managing changes | Per section | In endless versions | No versions | In endless versions | Yes, in terms of comments |
| Automatically saving changes per section | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Seeing all reviews of a text section with one click | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Seeing all pre-versions of an image with one click | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Seeing all reviews of a table with one click | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Automatically highlighting changes which are new to the user | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Suggesting changes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Accepting or rejecting a single word from a change suggestion which consits of multiple words | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Decisions (final deleting or acceptance) are tracked comprehensibly | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Commenting | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comments remain even if the commented words are deleted | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Random deletion of comments is not possible | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Private notes only visible to you | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Private discussions visible only for selected users | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Seeing all comments (open and closed) per section with one click - incl. all answers and the state of the section at the time the comment was created | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simultaneous editing | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Getting immediately notified when another user creates a change suggestion, a new comment or a new answer somewhere in the document | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| New changes and comments or answers to comments are immediately comprehensible | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Automatically created lists | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Table of contents | Yes | Yes, but manual configuration | Yes, but manual configuration | Yes, but only with Add-On (not from Google) and not automatically | No |
| List of figures | Yes | Yes, but manual configuration | Yes, but manual configuration | No | No |
| List of tables | Yes | Yes, but manual configuration | Yes, but manual configuration | No | No |
| List of footnotes | Yes | Yes, but manual configuration | Yes, but manual configuration | No | No |
| List of weblinks | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Automatic updates of all lists | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Cross-references | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ...to a heading | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| ...to an image | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| ...to a table | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Preview of the linked image by clicking on the cross-reference | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Preview of the linked table by clicking on the cross-reference | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Updating the numbering of all cross-references after structural changes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Notifications | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unique notification per mail when there are new changes in a document | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Seeing with one click all documents with new changes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Seeing immediately in the document if there are new changes and comments to an user - when opening it as well as when working simultaneously | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Exporting | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The design is created only when exporting the document (writing "without design") | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Exporting your document with one click into a Word document with completely different designs from any number of individual formats | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Creating every desired file format and data structure | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Reports | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creating a report with one click which contains all previous changes and comments | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Creating a report with one click which highlights all new changes and new comments/answers which are new to an user | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Creating a report with one click which contains only all open comments | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Integration | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API for integration as new content type in other applications | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| API for integration as new collaborative content type in other applications | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Settings for roles and rights are operated by the main application | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Sundries | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correcting automatically illogical numbering | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Drag&Drop of images, tables and text in the document | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Creating hyperlinks in specific sections | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Personal section bookmarks | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Tags for documents | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Search for document via tags, whereby automatically more tags are added for a better search which are combined with the previous chosen tag combination | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Service / Installation | SMASHDOCs | Word File | Word Online | Google Docs | Quip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In your personal Privat Cloud of your provider | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Private Cloud in a German data center | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| On your very own server | Yes | No | No | No | No |

