We performed a comparison between Dropbox and ownCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Microsoft, Google and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."The solution is easy to use, everyone can use it."
"The initial setup is extremely easy."
"It offers security, accessibility, and user-friendly features."
"The solution is easy to use."
"I had a good experiment with the technical support from Dropbox."
"Dropbox's most valuable features are ease of use and performance."
"The solution is very clear and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Dropbox is its user-friendliness. You can drag and drop files you want to store easily. Additionally, the speed of the solution is great if you have a fast connection."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"The solution could provide more capacity for free."
"I would like to see an option to secure my files and set password protection to my folders."
"The pricing could be better and so could the amount of storage space. I feel like for the price, they don't offer very much storage space, especially when compared to competitors like Google."
"I'd rate the scalability maybe a seven out of ten. Once I stop paying, it is an issue."
"They can maybe provide a bit more free space. By default, they give you 2 Gigabytes. The storage space could be a bit more."
"They can provide more storage. Data is something that everybody is after. Any organization that has the requirement of data for any type of analysis will definitely need increased storage."
"The solution could be better integrated with other platforms."
"They should archive the data."
"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 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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