We performed a comparison between Dropbox and ownCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Box, Microsoft and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."The way the tool is designed and using the tool itself is quite transparent."
"The solution provides great performance."
"The solution is reliable and user-friendly."
"The solution is very fast and simple. If I want to share a file I can put it on the cloud or on-premise. It's user-friendly."
"For me, the biggest thing is version history. I can easily go back and view older versions."
"It offers convenience. It can connect with all devices that you own."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"One of the advantages of Dropbox is that you can share files with people who are external to your organization without any additional costs. It is also easy to use, stable, and trustworthy."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"The free storage can be increased."
"We are moving to Microsoft Teams. Instead of Dropbox, we will be using Microsoft Teams that has the advantage of saving the versions. It supports file versioning so that you can always go back to the previous version if you want to. If somebody has made a change in one of the files and you don't know what changes have been made, you can always go back to the previous version. This feature led us to migrate to Microsoft Teams. With Dropbox, there is no option for simultaneous work. This feature is there in Google Files. In Microsoft Teams, you can invite team members to collaborate. That is the reason why I prefer Microsoft Teams over Dropbox. It should also have more integration with other solutions."
"I would like to see more storage included and more lessons on how to optimize it."
"While I feel the price being charged to be reasonable, it should either be more cost-effective or account for an increased amount of storage space."
"Sometimes, it takes a while to start Dropbox services and files are not synced."
"I'd like to see security improved a bit."
"They can do the scanning of viruses, and they can also do malware detection when they do the synchronization."
"The product could always offer more storage."
"Even with fast disks, it still takes a fair bit of time to write most schema changes to multi-GB tables."
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Dropbox is ranked 1st in Content Collaboration Platforms with 85 reviews while ownCloud is ranked 18th in Content Collaboration Platforms. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while ownCloud is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ownCloud writes "Self-hosted file sync tool used to deploy custom web UIs. ". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Office 365, whereas ownCloud is most compared with Kiteworks.
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