Google Docs vs Google Drive

Overview

Google Drive

Stacks84.2K

Followers70.4K

Votes2.1K

Google Docs

Stacks334

Followers219

Votes6

Google Docs vs Google Drive: What are the differences?

What is Google Docs? Real-time docs collaboration. 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.

What is Google Drive? Integrate your app with Google Drive. The Drive SDK gives you a group of APIs along with client libraries, language-specific examples, and documentation to help you develop apps that integrate with Drive The core functionality of Drive apps is to download and upload files in Google Drive. However, the Drive SDK provides a lot more than just storage..

Google Docs belongs to "Document Collaboration" category of the tech stack, while Google Drive can be primarily classified under "File Storage".

According to the StackShare community, Google Drive has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2093 company stacks & 2019 developers stacks; compared to Google Docs, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Google Drive	Google Docs
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.	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.
Create & collaborate.- In Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see changes as they appear.;Work better with the products you use everyday.- Say goodbye to bulky email attachments. Send a link from Google Drive in Gmail and everyone has the same file, same version—automatically. Your pictures in Google Drive are instantly available in Google+, so you’re never more than one click away from sharing with your circles.;Powerful search.- Google Drive helps you get to your files faster. Search for content by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Google Drive can even recognize objects in your images and text in scanned documents.;View anything.- Open over 30 file types right in your browser—including HD video, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop—even if you don’t have the program installed on your computer.;Google Drive with your favorite apps.- Create, open and share files from a variety of apps directly in Google Drive.;Share the way you want.- You can share files or folders with anyone, and choose whether they can view, edit or comment on your stuff.;Start a discussion.- Create and reply to comments to get feedback and make files more collaborative.;Go back in time.- Google Drive tracks every change you make—so when you hit the save button, a new revision is saved. You can look back as far as 30 days automatically, or choose a revision to save forever.	-
Statistics
Stacks 84.2K	Stacks 334
Followers 70.4K	Followers 219
Votes 2.1K	Votes 6
Pros & Cons
Pros 505 Easy to use 326 Gmail integration 312 Enough free space 268 Collaboration 249 Stable service Cons 7 Organization via web ui sucks 2 Not a real database	Pros 3 It's simple, but expansive 2 Free 1 Fast and simple
Integrations
Trello DocuSign RingCentral Balsamiq Conceptboard HelloFax Notable Marqueed	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Google Drive, Google Docs?

Dropbox

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

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.

HackPad

Hackpad is a smart collaborative workspace that your team will love.

Quip

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

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

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.

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.

Dropmark

Dropmark offers super simple drag-and-drop file sharing, like a number of web apps before it, but if you want to use it for more you can create presentations, slideshows, and collaborate with others just as easily.