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."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."
"Many people can use the Dropbox service and edit the data, it is simple to use."
"The small business version gave us ample capacity."
"I had a good experiment with the technical support from Dropbox."
"The most valuable features I have found to be accessibility and ease of use."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It's very easy to use and quite accessible for everybody."
"Availability of dedicated Apps on any kind of OS."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"Improve the ease of use. Sometimes, occasional users struggle to login again and access documents."
"The arrangement of documents can be simplified. Personally, I am used to it, but for a new user, it might be a little confusing. It can maybe have a feature to allow people to collaborate or work on the same document at the same time. I'm just using it to load and access information, and I haven't faced many challenges. However, I have seen that the whole system or laptop slows down a bit when I am synchronizing files to Dropbox. I don't know if it is because of my system. It might be good if they can enhance the synchronization process so that we can specify that synchronization should be done after 30 minutes. In addition, synchronization should only be done for the documents that have been uploaded."
"I see that if you use a mobile device that does not allow you to properly configure the email part with Dropbox, then you cannot access it."
"I would like to see integration with Office products, it would be very helpful."
"There is room for improvement in Dropbox's security measures."
"The free storage amount should be increased."
"The solution could be more scalable."
"The only thing I have had trouble with is the ability to share files. The recipients of my requests have had difficulty accessing the files."
"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 83 reviews while ownCloud is ranked 17th 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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