Overview
What is Dropbox?
Dropbox is a cloud storage solution, equipped with features that help users to save time, improve productivity, and collaborate with others. Users can edit PDFs, share videos, sign documents, and collaborate with stakeholders without leaving Dropbox.
Dropbox for Creatives
A step above
Casual User of Dropbox
Dropbox, great for teams!
WHO OWNES MY FILES
Dropbox Business
Excellent and friendly product.
Good for small businesses
Love Dropbox but has some bugs to fix
Dropbox- a great original.
Basic User Scratches the Surface.
A useful and powerful way to manage your and shared files.
Dropbox Review
Use Dropbox - Drop Email document share.
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Popular Features
- Reliability (558)8.080%
- File organization (554)7.878%
- Performance (556)7.777%
- File search (568)7.070%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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Pricing
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$9.99
Essentials
$18
Business
$20
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Dropbox - Overview
Features
File Sharing & Management
Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.
- 7.2Versioning(446) Ratings
Users can access the most up-to-date version of a document, track changes, and revert to older versions if needed.
- 8Video files(455) Ratings
Supports video file types
- 8.4Audio files(404) Ratings
Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav
- 7.6Document collaboration(509) Ratings
Users can edit files and attach comments to files.
- 7.5Access control(547) Ratings
Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.
- 7File search(568) Ratings
A search function that allows users to easily find files, and in some cases even search within multiple files.
- 7.5Device sync(538) Ratings
Device syncing that updates files connected to the cloud, keeping all files up to date regardless of where they are edited or viewed.
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Features related to security and administration for cloud storage platforms
- 7.2User and role management(508) Ratings
Administrators can manage users and user groups by role, in terms of setting permissions for things like file access, sharing, and editing permissions.
- 7.8File organization(554) Ratings
The ability to choose where files will be stored, and manage individual users' storage; includes control over file organization structure.
- 7.1Device management(472) Ratings
Administrators can manage devices connected to the cloud storage platform, including restricting access for certain devices or wiping files from devices remotely.
Cloud Storage Platform
Features around the functionality of the cloud storage platform.
- 7.7Performance(556) Ratings
Platform runs at a good speed on all browsers; files load and sync quickly.
- 8Reliability(558) Ratings
Cloud storage platform is secure, all features are consistently available, and the platform maintains file integrity.
- 7.1Storage Reports(423) Ratings
Includes reporting capabilities to monitor user activity and storage levels.
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews
(1-25 of 608)Good, but could use some improvements
- Organizing Files
- Company wide & limited access
- Document accessibility
- Simultaneous user editing
- Storage backup
- File recovery
Dropbox for Creatives
- Quick drag and drop file sharing
- Quick previewing of images provided the size isn't too large
- Sharing folders easily using generated links
- Easy sharing space for internal team members
- Proofing galleries for clients with integrated selection tools
- Better file folder management
- Integrate translation tools to enable users to work in the language of their choice
- The ability to schedule and share folders/assets
- Better batch selection. E.g. select all from selected date range, select all odd, even
A step above
- Has the least amount of steps to create a link to file or files
- Uploads in the background
- Generally synch pretty intuitively on android mobile and windows pc
- The speed and click-through to add media to a new or existing folder is more steps than through Google Drive, we used this single function 10s if not hundreds of times per day for our 2000+ clients, this needs to be simplified
- Not offering a pro-rated refund after having service with you for over a decade business & personal is totally unacceptable, regardless of any future service improvements, we fully intend to not use your service again
Casual User of Dropbox
- sharing files with others
- sharing video coworkers have recorded of their screen
- helping us work together at a remote company
- ease of access from my desktop
- organization of files
- real time document editing with multiple users
Dropbox, great for teams!
- Organization
- Sharing of files
- Quick uploads
- Time of upload of files
- Informing you who created a folder.
WHO OWNES MY FILES
- File sharing and storage
- collaboration
- archive
- in operation keeping files refreshed over time
- overtly complex operation
Dropbox Business
- keeps items organized
- cloud based
- syncs automatically with all users
- availability to edit at the same time, the same version (not create multiple versions)
It feels like a super robust filing system.
However, when it comes to collaborative work (multiple people working on the same document at the same time), dropbox is not ideal. It saves multiple version of the document which adds confustion. Because of this we use googe drive for collaborative work although Google Drive is less organized in my opinion.
Excellent and friendly product.
- loading all files needed for staffs
- staffs also load important task for me to see progress
- maintain everything in order
- I get to manage all my files
- I am not 100 professional user but the little I know works well
Good for small businesses
- Secure file storage
- Collaboration across teams
- Desktop based access
- Conflicted copies of documents and real time edits from multiple users is currently not supported
- Searching and organization of documents is not optimized
- Website based Dropbox has limited features
Love Dropbox but has some bugs to fix
- Storing photos
- organizing files
- making working from home easier to access assets
- file sizes
- sharing glitches
- load times
Dropbox- a great original.
- Organization of folders.
- Lots of space.
- Clean interface.
- Sometimes hard to find items.
- A way to drag and drop to other interfaces without downloading items.
- Cleaner way of organizing.
Basic User Scratches the Surface.
- Allows multiple users to access files from multiple locations.
- Secures data in an off-site location.
- maintains conflicted files for follow up.
- Allows local files to be updated and then synced with cloud copies when the internet is not available.
- Syncing sometimes stops and its difficult to notice.
A useful and powerful way to manage your and shared files.
- Sharing folders and file.
- Creating workspaces with different colleagues.
- Synchronize the work on different devices.
- The management of different favorite files.
- A security improvement.
- Better updates management.
Dropbox Review
- Sharing pictures
- Saving video training
- Sharing files with vendors
- Process
- Training
- Pictures
Use Dropbox - Drop Email document share.
- Easy access to specific folders.
- Size or capacity of the documents stored.
- Reliability of brand.
- When changing from different pricing levels, your account is in a frozen state and cannot resume the previous level until the end of the billing cycle.
Dropbox is Critical for the Success of My Photo Team Projects.
- Ability to both send and receive images from the creatives to the digital processors and then to the buyers.
- Uploading and downloading large files moves slowly. I'm not sure if the slowness is entirely due to the sender's wifi connection, but at times, it can be agonizingly slow.
Great for Business
- Folder creation
- Download ability
- Sharing links
- Renaming files -- too many clicks
Great Value and Service.
- Easy to navigate interface.
- Access anywhere with Cloud Based service.
- Easy to add files with drag and drop feature.
- Automation of file naming.
- Automation of Folder creation based on trends (ie new year folders).
- Integration into other apps like Gmail to easily upload and share.
Great Product and User-Friendly
- User-Friendly
- Dependable
- Secure
- Nothing I can think of
Fine
- Version control.
- Working across online + file explorer.
- Notifying when multiple people are editing a file.
- Lag in saving files for others to see.
- Losing edits because of overwritten data.
- Working concurrently in a file.
Connected, safe and accessible all in one storage.
- Access from any computer or Internet connected device
- Large storage
- Quick syncing
- Reliable and safe
- Requires a lot of storage locally
- Can end up with conflicted copies, if a file is left open elsewhere.
Dropbox Review
- Storage
- Organization
- Management
- Cumbersome
- User unfriendly
- Reverse
Dropbox is good to use
- sync immediately
- easy to use
- allow multiple users to access the same folder
- a reliable platform
- cannot view large documents online (download only) in my experience
- syncing issue
Way Clinic
- Before using Dropbox I was using excel sheets for all my different report and held it on my desk top.
- For several times due to various reasons(i.e computer crash) lost all my data and had hard time to gather and retrieve.
- Since I started Dropbox I am so comfortable and worry free with my daily work flows
- after working on one of my spread sheet and saved it not taking me back to the main menu screen for me to pick another spreadsheet.
- I have to go completely off and come back to Dropbox to see the original menu screen. Maybe it's my user's fault. There must be a way to go back and forth off of main menu screen.
Essential for Efficient Workflow
- Knowledgeable and accessible customer support
- Reliable and dependable cloud storage
- Important safeguards for when mistakes happen
- Versatile among a number of applications and scenarios
- Although I use a paid subscription, recommending the free Dropbox option to new users can be a little difficult to understand because it does not seem to be free up front.
- In-browser interface is a little clunky and sometimes it is difficult locating certain features.
- online/offline files and folders are difficult to understand.
- Increased usability with other software programs
It is less suited for companies and organizations that have the in-house infrastructure for local servers