Dropbox vs. Google Drive: How creative teams get more done

Organizations often need more than Google Workspace to do their best work. And with Dropbox, teams can collaborate on terabytes of audio and video files, preview large Adobe design files, and collect feedback from clients and vendors with time-based commenting (and even frame-accurate commenting with the Creative Tools Add-On). The best part? It all works with the Google Workspace apps you use every day. 

Shifting between desktop and mobile in Google Workspace is challenging enough when it’s just you, but when your customers and vendors use different productivity suites, like Microsoft 365—or they’re Mac OS and you’re Android—things can really get frustrating. And if everyone’s trying to work together on large files, it can be downright chaotic.

Collaboration in today’s remote-working world is critical, so it must be effortless. Dropbox makes it easy for individuals and teams to quickly preview, manage, review and deliver complex files of any type from anywhere, on any device.

Dropbox is tailored to the needs of large-content creators—offering more TB of storage—so you can sync file uploads as big as 2 TB (even massive CAD files and 4K video) and keep on working. Google Drive, on the other hand, stops you from uploading additional files after hitting 750 GB in a single 24-hour period. And when that happens, you’re done for the day. 

Plus, small changes are quick and seamless, as our incremental backup function uploads only the updated portions of large files, so you don’t have to wait for transfers to complete. 

For marketing, advertising, design, and film/video workflows, Dropbox is a one-stop shop. It’s where you can start a project; write content; then share, review, edit files, comment on and deliver the end product to the client—all in one secure place. 

Google Drive only offers strong version history for their file types—Docs, Sheets, and Slides. For everything else, users need to enable version history tracking for each file, one by one, every single time. With Dropbox, teams can see a full history of changes made to each file, regardless of the file format. And with Extended Version History, you can maintain brand consistency across projects, because you have easy access to historical content. With one-click file recovery and backup, you can save, access, and update file versions—even recover a lost folder or project—for up to 10 years.

By previewing video and audio files entirely through Dropbox, you can save both time and bandwidth. You simply skip the download and streaming versions of your content, making things easier for you, your stakeholders, and your clients. 

The Dropbox robust preview engine supports 288 different file types, three times more than Google Drive previews, so when you need to get quick access to a file your review process won’t get tripped up with downloads.

Branded file transfer seamlessly delivers files up to 100 GB (250 GB with Creative Tools Add-on), ensuring your final project—whether it’s going to your client or CEO—is wrapped in a polished, easy-to-access, branded package. And you can even track downloads, add password protection, or set an expiration date, so you can control who sees what—as well as what it looks like.

Dropbox can help content collaboration go one step further in Google Cloud, powering deeper collaboration for rich media use cases and streamlining other Google-based workflows.