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Alternatives to Box

Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, and Nextcloud are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Box.
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What is Box and what are its top alternatives?

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.
Box is a tool in the File Storage category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Box

  • Dropbox
    Dropbox

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

  • 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. ...

  • Google Drive
    Google Drive

    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. ...

  • 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. ...

  • Nextcloud
    Nextcloud

    A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services The most deployed self-hosted file share and collaboration platform on the web. Access & collaborate across your devices. ...

  • ceph
    ceph

    In computing,It is a free-software storage platform, implements object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage. ...

  • 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. ...

  • Alfresco
    Alfresco

    Alfresco Platform is an open, modern and secure system that intelligently activates process and content to accelerate the flow of business. ...

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Dropbox

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PROS OF DROPBOX
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    Easy to work with
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    Free
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    Popular
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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
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    Personal vs company account is confusing
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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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OneDrive

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Save your files and photos to OneDrive and get them from any device, anywhere
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PROS OF ONEDRIVE
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    Google Drive

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      Gmail integration
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      Enough free space
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      Collaboration
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      Stable service
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      Desktop and mobile apps
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      Offline sync
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      Apps
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      15 gb storage
    • 50
      Add-ons
    • 9
      Integrates well
    • 6
      Easy to use
    • 3
      Simple back-up tool
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      Amazing
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      Beautiful
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      Fast upload speeds
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      The more the merrier
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      So easy
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      Wonderful
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      Linux terminal transfer tools
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      It has grown to a stable in the cloud office
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      UI
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      Windows desktop
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      G Suite integration
    CONS OF GOOGLE DRIVE
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      Organization via web ui sucks
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      Not a real database

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    Joshua Dean Küpper
    CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · | 3 upvotes · 171.3K views

    We use Nextcloud for company-file-management, personal work-documents and for collaborative work (through collabora), organize our #TODOs, that are not covered by the Bugtracker. Existing solutions either were very expensive ( Google Drive ), missed a lot of features ( Trello ) or were pretty much overloaded with features ( Wekan within Sandstorm ).

    That made Nextcloud ud our natural fit for our company management and we're convinced of its integrations and flexibility.

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    Microsoft SharePoint logo

    Microsoft SharePoint

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    Content collaboration for the modern workplace
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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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    PROS OF NEXTCLOUD
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      Synchronous with all devices
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      CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · | 3 upvotes · 171.3K views

      We use Nextcloud for company-file-management, personal work-documents and for collaborative work (through collabora), organize our #TODOs, that are not covered by the Bugtracker. Existing solutions either were very expensive ( Google Drive ), missed a lot of features ( Trello ) or were pretty much overloaded with features ( Wekan within Sandstorm ).

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        Block Storage
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        iCloud

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            Alfresco

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