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Alternatives to Google Docs

Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Quip, and Smartsheet are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Google Docs.
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What is Google Docs and what are its top alternatives?

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.
Google Docs is a tool in the Document Collaboration category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Google Docs

  • 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. ...

  • Dropbox
    Dropbox

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

  • 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. ...

  • Quip
    Quip

    Edit and discuss in one place. Quip combines documents with messages so you can work faster, on the web or on the go. ...

  • Smartsheet
    Smartsheet

    It is an intuitive online project management tool enabling teams to increase productivity using cloud, collaboration, & mobile technologies. It provides your organization with a powerful work platform that offers exceptional speed to business value ...

  • Dropbox Paper
    Dropbox Paper

    It is more than a doc, it’s a workspace that brings creation and coordination together in one place. You can write together, share comments, embed images, and more. If you have a Dropbox account, you can use Paper for free. ...

  • 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. ...

  • OneNote
    OneNote

    Get organized in notebooks you can divide into sections and pages. With easy navigation and search, you’ll always find your notes right where you left them. It gathers users' notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. ...

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Google Drive

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PROS OF GOOGLE DRIVE
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    Easy to use
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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
  • 97
    Offline sync
  • 79
    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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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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CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · | 3 upvotes · 164.4K 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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Dropbox

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Build the power of Dropbox into your apps
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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
  • 2
    Extended version history
  • 2
    Beautiful UI
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    YC Company
  • 1
    What a beautiful app
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    Easy/no setup
  • 1
    So easy
  • 1
    The more the merrier
  • 1
    Easy to work with
  • 1
    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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Anyone recommend a good connector like Kloudless for connecting a SaaS app to Dropbox/Box etc? Cheers

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Evernote

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Feel organized without the effort
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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
  • 3
    On life support
  • 2
    No document structure

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Quip

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Messaging and documents. Combined in one place, on any device.
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PROS OF QUIP
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    Simple, reliable and fast
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    Enterprise worthy gdocs
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    Has no competitors for team documentation
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    Great UI and easy to find docs in colourful files
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    Smartsheet

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    An application for collaboration and work management
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        Dropbox Paper

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        A collaborative document-editing service
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            iCloud

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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?

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                OneNote

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                A digital notebook for capturing and organizing everything
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                PROS OF ONENOTE
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                  Works great with OneDrive
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                  Syncs quickly
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                  Dark mode
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                  Search text in images (OCR)
                CONS OF ONENOTE
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