Google Drive vs OneDrive: What are the differences?

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.; OneDrive: Save your files and photos to OneDrive and get them from any device, anywhere. 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 and OneDrive can be categorized as "File Storage" tools.

Some of the features offered by Google Drive are:

• 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.

On the other hand, OneDrive provides the following key features:

• Storage
• Ransomware detection & recovery
• Expiring sharing links

According to the StackShare community, Google Drive has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2093 company stacks & 2018 developers stacks; compared to OneDrive, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.