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Box vs ownCloud: What are the differences?
Developers describe Box as "Build Innovative Applications on 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. On the other hand, ownCloud is detailed as "Open source self-hosted web apps with sync clients and sharing". It is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share app platform. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars & bookmarks across your devices. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it.
Box and ownCloud belong to "File Storage" category of the tech stack.
LinkedIn, Pandora, and Box are some of the popular companies that use Box, whereas ownCloud is used by Packet, Lap2Go, and budikom.net. Box has a broader approval, being mentioned in 50 company stacks & 92 developers stacks; compared to ownCloud, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Box
- Easy to work with8
- Shared file hosting6
- Great API6
- Ability to see who has downloaded the file you sent5
- Integration with external services4
- No brainer4
- Popular3
- Great web UI3
- Custom branding2
- Secure2
- Clean Interface1
Pros of ownCloud
- Open source1
- GDPR compliant1
- Self hosted1
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