Google Keep vs WPS Office‎

You have to be okay with Google analyzing and using your data in order to use Keep.

It can be difficult to organize notes because you can only create labels and not, for example, separate projects.

There are no folders in Keep that you can move notes into. It makes the user interface more cluttered, and navigation gets more difficult.

As Google is notorious for taking down services, you may end up with just a backup of your notes in XML format and a need to look for a substitute.

There is no way to revert changes or restore text you may have accidentally deleted (however, you can restore entire notes for up to 7 days after deletion).

There are some issues with synchronizing data including laggyness and returning old/deleted items.

No basic formatting like bold, italics. Makes it harder to do things like meeting notes. Keep is intended as a minimal and quick note taking app, but sadly for those that are looking for something more robust, the features are just not there.

There are no options to decrease the surface area of the notes to make it easier to get an overview. Compare this to something like the Apple Notes or Evernote UI, for example. You can't organize nor have a glance of what you have.

This application is proprietary, and thus cannot be modified or freely distributed.

Google Keep has slowly been introducing new features, but doesn't do a good job of helping you discover them.

You're required to have a Google account in order to use the app.

There is no option for changing the color theme (such as a dark theme) unless you use a 3rd party extension.

It does not integrate with Google Calendar or other Google Apps with the exception of "Google Now." Keep reminders can appear on Google Calendar, but you can not get reminders and use Tasks at the same time.

There is no integrated social media sharing if you directly want to post your note to Twitter, Facebook, etc.

With almost no formatting options whatsoever it's hard to actually use Keep for long-form notes.

You can share separate notes but not Projects, Wordspace, or Teams.

Cannot run on own servers as Keep will only run on Google's own servers. This increases the risks which are normally associated with handing over critical applications to a large (US) corporation.

Although the ability to collaborate on lists is advanced, Keep will not let you know when another person adds an item to a list you share.

Google's equivalent of groups are labels, which can't be shared. By comparison, Trello allows you to share boards with others. Trello also supports grouping through teams. Google Keep has no such concept.

Saving is delayed by a moment and the saving status UI is unclear. You can lose updates if you close the tab too quickly.

The keyboard closes and reloads between to-do list entries, so the first letters or words may be missed if you’re trying to quickly create a list.

Since nothing is stored locally on the phone, everything can go missing. Google can't recover any of it.

No BlackBerry support apart from web.

No Windows Mobile app, and it is unlikely to ever be produced.

Might be a security problem for some end-users.

Although some versions/programs are free to download, they're all proprietary licenses utilizing a freeware model.

Problematic with 4K screens.

Equation editor for Linux has been "under development" for several years with no real additional info from the developers. Safe to say it's just not going to happen. No equation editor is a deal breaker for some, which is a shame. Otherwise this office suite performs very well.

WPS Office does not support importing or exporting OpenDocument Format, the default file format of LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

A .deb file is offered, but missing fonts can be a problem.

Lack of hyphenation in Writer is a terrible mistake. Reading the few forums about it will let you know that it breaks the words without rules and without hyphens in any language. The question was stated in 2013 and still doesn't have an answer. Their help system practically doesn't exist, everything leads you to a 404 page. Maybe this issue could be easily resolved by developers with a plugin or something like that, but the Linux community doesn't show interest for the product.

There are in-app ads.

WPS has software for word-processing, spreadsheets and presentations. No tools for database management, note-taking, graphics, etc.

I looks like there is a splash screen, but it doesn't appear until just before the full interface loads, which can be about 20 seconds. It is often slow enough to cause the user to click again and again, resulting in the app loading multiple times in succession.

Each of the apps in the suite has a .desktop configuration file that is created at first launch and remains thereafter. Removal results in re-creation.

In my testing of office suites for Linux, WPS Office was not as comprehensive as LibreOffice, and the resemblance to Microsoft 365 applications was better in OnlyOffice Desktop Editors. Moreover, Linux users can also access the online applications of Microsoft 365 via Google Chrome or other web browsers.