Difference Between DropBox and Google Drive (Cloud Storage)
Dropbox and Google Drive are two of the biggest cloud providers in the world and are often mistaken to be very much alike, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. While Google Drive focuses on collaboration and real-time editing, Dropbox is a good old-fashioned cloud storage service.
With two different online editors (Microsoft Office Online and Paper) bundled within Dropbox, the cloud storage service has made things a bit complicated for users. Additionally, both text editors, combined, can’t compete against Google’s single offering — Google Docs.
In this battle of Dropbox vs. Google Drive, the latter will take the crown, because of its free and unconditional 15GB of storage, secure and easy collaboration, sharing features and Google Docs support.
In this battle of Dropbox vs. Google Drive, I will be testing their various features to see how they fare against each other. For each round, their features and limitations will be compared, to declare a winner. And the champion of the battle will be the cloud storage provider that wins the most rounds.
Starts from
$ 1.99 per month
Review$ 1.99 per month
- Great sharing and document collaboration capabilities
- Very easy to use
- Generous 15GB free plan
- Syncing only bare bones
- No selective folder sync
- No local encryption
Starts from
$ 13.25 per month
Review$ 13.25 per month
- Free 2GB storage (expandable)
- Good file syncing
- Great 3rd-party integrations
- Easy to use
- Good device support
- Works on all major operating systems
- Paid storage is relatively expensive
- Can’t share files with non-members
- Many consumer complaints
- A terrible rating with BBB
- Customer service needs improvement
- Concerns about security
- Minor privacy policy concerns (tracking)
- Based in the U.S.
- “Hostile to privacy“
