Why developers like Dropbox

What is Dropbox?

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

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

Who uses Dropbox?

Companies

1610 companies reportedly use Dropbox in their tech stacks, including Lyft, StackShare, and Accenture.

Lyft

StackShare

Accenture

Figma

Asana

trivago

Walmart

9GAG

Paralect

Developers

21526 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Dropbox.

Pubu

Evandro Magalhães

Clan Of The Cloud

Lubert

ytnobody

Hitalo Silva

Scott Williams

Taylor Berg's Stack

Codibook

Dropbox Integrations

Slack, Postman, Trello, Asana, and InVision are some of the popular tools that integrate with Dropbox. Here's a list of all 176 tools that integrate with Dropbox.

Slack

Postman

Trello

Asana

InVision

Figma

Jupyter

iOS

Squarespace

Pros of Dropbox

434

Easy to work with

256

Free

216

Popular

176

Shared file hosting

167

'just works'

100

No brainer

Integration with external services

Simple

Good api

Least cost (free) for the basic needs case

It just works

Convenient

Accessible from all of my devices

Command Line client

Synchronizing laptop and desktop - work anywhere

Can even be used by your grandma

Reliable

Sync API

Mac app

Cross platform app

Ability to pay monthly without losing your files

Delta synchronization

Everybody needs to share and synchronize files reliably

Backups, local and cloud

Extended version history

Beautiful UI

YC Company

What a beautiful app

Easy/no setup

So easy

The more the merrier

Easy to work with

For when client needs file without opening firewall

Everybody needs to share and synchronize files reliabl

Easy to use

Official Linux app

The more the merrier

Decisions about Dropbox

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Dropbox in their tech stack.

Aivan Minev

Jan 26, 2023 | 10 upvotes · 94K views

Needs advice

Node.js

React

and

React Native

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?

Fola Yahaya

Jan 6, 2021 | 2 upvotes · 100.6K views

Needs advice

AeroFS

and

Kloudless

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

Larry Gryziak

Apr 26, 2020 | 1 upvote · 222.5K views

Needs advice

Confluence

Dropbox

and

Zoho CRM

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)

See all decisions

Blog Posts

The Developer’s Guide to SSO

Sep 29 2020 at 7:36PM

WorkOS

+17

3163

Dropbox's Features

Dropbox Chooser- Get files from Dropbox into your web app with just a few lines of JavaScript
Sync API- Read and write to Dropbox from iOS & Android as if it were a local filesystem
Core API- The basics. Upload, download, search, and more from your web or mobile app

Dropbox Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Dropbox?

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

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.

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.

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.

G Suite

An integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps. It includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more.

See all alternatives

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