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Alternatives to Google Drive

OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, Google Cloud Storage, and iCloud are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Google Drive.
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What is Google Drive and what are its top alternatives?

Keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos, and more. Your first 15 GB of storage are free with a Google Account. Your files in Drive can be reached from any smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Google Drive is a tool in the File Storage category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Google Drive

  • OneDrive
    OneDrive

    Outlook.com is a free, personal email service from Microsoft. Keep your inbox clutter-free with powerful organizational tools, and collaborate easily with OneDrive and Office Online integration. ...

  • Dropbox
    Dropbox

    Harness the power of Dropbox. Connect to an account, upload, download, search, and more. ...

  • Box
    Box

    The Box API gives you access to the content management features you see in our web app and lets you extend them for use in your own app. It strives to be RESTful and is organized around the main resources you’re familiar with from the Box web interface. ...

  • Google Cloud Storage
    Google Cloud Storage

    Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables developers to take advantage of Google's own reliable and fast networking infrastructure to perform data operations in a secure and cost effective manner. If expansion needs arise, developers can benefit from the scalability provided by Google's infrastructure. ...

  • iCloud
    iCloud

    Sign in to iCloud to access your photos, videos, documents, notes, contacts, and more. Use your Apple ID or create a new account to start using Apple services. ...

  • Google Docs
    Google Docs

    It is a word processor included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google. It brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs. ...

  • Evernote
    Evernote

    Take notes to a new level with Evernote, the productivity app that keeps your projects, ideas, and inspiration handy across all your digital devices. It helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects, and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks. ...

  • Microsoft SharePoint
    Microsoft SharePoint

    It empowers teamwork with dynamic and productive team sites for every project team, department, and division. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization. ...

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OneDrive logo

OneDrive

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PROS OF ONEDRIVE
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    FREE
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    Dropbox

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      Easy to work with
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      Free
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      Shared file hosting
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      'just works'
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      No brainer
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      Integration with external services
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      Simple
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      Good api
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      Least cost (free) for the basic needs case
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      It just works
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      Convenient
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      Accessible from all of my devices
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      Command Line client
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      Synchronizing laptop and desktop - work anywhere
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      Can even be used by your grandma
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      Reliable
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      Sync API
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      Mac app
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      Cross platform app
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      Ability to pay monthly without losing your files
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      Delta synchronization
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      Everybody needs to share and synchronize files reliably
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      Backups, local and cloud
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      Extended version history
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      Beautiful UI
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      YC Company
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      What a beautiful app
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      Easy/no setup
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      So easy
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      The more the merrier
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      Easy to work with
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      For when client needs file without opening firewall
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      Everybody needs to share and synchronize files reliabl
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      Easy to use
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      Official Linux app
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      The more the merrier
    CONS OF DROPBOX
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      Personal vs company account is confusing
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      Replication kills CPU and battery

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    I created a simple upload/download functionality for a web application and connected it to Mongo, now I can upload, store and download files. I need advice on how to create a SPA similar to Dropbox or Google Drive in that it will be a hierarchy of folders with files within them, how would I go about creating this structure and adding this functionality to all the files within the application?

    Intuitively creating a react component and adding it to a File object seems like the way to go, what are some issues to expect and how do I go about creating such an application to be as fast and UI-friendly as possible?

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    Anyone recommend a good connector like Kloudless for connecting a SaaS app to Dropbox/Box etc? Cheers

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    Box logo

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    PROS OF BOX
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      Easy to work with
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      Shared file hosting
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      Great API
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      Ability to see who has downloaded the file you sent
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      No brainer
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      Integration with external services
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      Great web UI
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      Popular
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      Custom branding
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      Secure
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      Clean Interface
    CONS OF BOX
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      Anyone recommend a good connector like Kloudless for connecting a SaaS app to Dropbox/Box etc? Cheers

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      Google Cloud Storage logo

      Google Cloud Storage

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        Cheap
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        Reliable
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        Easy
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        Chealp
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        More praticlal and easy
      CONS OF GOOGLE CLOUD STORAGE
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        Context: I wanted to create an end to end IoT data pipeline simulation in Google Cloud IoT Core and other GCP services. I never touched Terraform meaningfully until working on this project, and it's one of the best explorations in my development career. The documentation and syntax is incredibly human-readable and friendly. I'm used to building infrastructure through the google apis via Python , but I'm so glad past Sung did not make that decision. I was tempted to use Google Cloud Deployment Manager, but the templates were a bit convoluted by first impression. I'm glad past Sung did not make this decision either.

        Solution: Leveraging Google Cloud Build Google Cloud Run Google Cloud Bigtable Google BigQuery Google Cloud Storage Google Compute Engine along with some other fun tools, I can deploy over 40 GCP resources using Terraform!

        Check Out My Architecture: CLICK ME

        Check out the GitHub repo attached

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        Aliadoc Team

        In #Aliadoc, we're exploring the crowdfunding option to get traction before launch. We are building a SaaS platform for website design customization.

        For the Admin UI and website editor we use React and we're currently transitioning from a Create React App setup to a custom one because our needs have become more specific. We use CloudFlare as much as possible, it's a great service.

        For routing dynamic resources and proxy tasks to feed websites to the editor we leverage CloudFlare Workers for improved responsiveness. We use Firebase for our hosting needs and user authentication while also using several Cloud Functions for Firebase to interact with other services along with Google App Engine and Google Cloud Storage, but also the Real Time Database is on the radar for collaborative website editing.

        We generally hate configuration but honestly because of the stage of our project we lack resources for doing heavy sysops work. So we are basically just relying on Serverless technologies as much as we can to do all server side processing.

        Visual Studio Code definitively makes programming a much easier and enjoyable task, we just love it. We combine it with Bitbucket for our source code control needs.

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        iCloud logo

        iCloud

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        A cloud storage and cloud computing service
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            I'm looking for a tool or set of tools to enable searching across all of our platforms including Confluence and Jira, Zoho CRM, Gmail, Gdrive for business, Dropbox and iCloud.

            Any ideas. Something like X1? IBM Watson Discovery?

            (And local Disk of course)

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            Google Docs logo

            Google Docs

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            PROS OF GOOGLE DOCS
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              It's simple, but expansive
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              Fast and simple
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              Jason Barry
              Cofounder at FeaturePeek · | 10 upvotes · 347.1K views

              If you're a developer using Google Docs or Google Sheets... just stop. There are much better alternatives these days that provide a better user and developer experience.

              At FeaturePeek, we use slite for our internal documents and knowledge tracking. Slite's look and feel is similar to Slack's, so if you use Slack, you'll feel right at home. Slite is great for keeping tabs on meeting notes, internal documentation, drafting marketing content, writing pitches... any long-form text writing that we do as a company happens in Slite. I'm able to be up-to-date with everyone on my team by viewing our team activity. I feel more organized using Slite as opposed to GDocs or GDrive.

              Airtable is also absolutely killer – you'll never want to use Google Sheets again. Have you noticed that with most spreadsheet apps, if you have a tall or wide cell, your screen jumps all over the place when you scroll? With Airtable, you can scroll by screen pixels instead of by spreadsheet cells – this makes a huge difference! It's one of those things that you don't really notice at first, but once you do, you can't go back. This is just one example of the UX improvements that Airtable has to the previous generation of spreadsheet apps – there are plenty more.

              Also, their API is a breeze to use. If you're logged in, the docs fill in values from your tables and account, so it feels personalized to you.

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              Michael Videlgauz
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              Hello community, I am looking for a self-hosted online document management solution. One that covers all my needs is Confluence but it is currently not affordable for my team. Key requirements are RTL support, WYSIWYG Editing (Word-like interface as much as possible), Concurrent Editing (the best experience I have with Google Docs where I can even see who else is currently editing a document) with conflict resolution, versioning (view history and switch between versions), PDF and Word export, complex tables, and some others, full list here in column "A". I found XWIKI covering all my requirements (including those "bonus features" that I didn't list here) except one - RTL. Here a hack is suggested to address this issues but I would prefer not to go with any hacks. I myself am ready to contribute to an open source development but other people who (hopefully) will use this tool are not software engineers and this fact must be kept in mind... Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

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              Evernote logo

              Evernote

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              PROS OF EVERNOTE
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                Search text in images (OCR)
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                Checklist
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                Dark mode
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                Great mobile app
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                Syncs quickly
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                Encrypt Text
              CONS OF EVERNOTE
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                On life support
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                No document structure

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              Microsoft SharePoint

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              PROS OF MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT
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                Great online support
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                Secure
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                Perfect version control
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                Stable Platform
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                Seamless intergration with MS Office
              CONS OF MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT
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                Rigid, hard to add external applicaions
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                User interface. Steep learning curve, old-fashioned

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