Discord is an app designed to connect users with communities over voice, video, and text chat, via Discord servers, a gaming and game industry oriented app for growing communities around video games and allowing developers to communicate with their customer base; the app may yet also be used for business communications of other kinds.
$4.99
per month
Dropbox
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Dropbox is a cloud storage solution, equipped with features that help users to save time, improve productivity, and collaborate with others. Users can edit PDFs, share videos, sign documents, and collaborate with stakeholders without leaving Dropbox.
Discord is better when addressing many people at once. I like how you can upload emotes, and it's just a lot more fun. I don't even use Whatsapp anymore. I'd rather text people than use Whatsapp for all intense and purposes. Discord also uses bots and I don't think Whatsapp does.
Dropbox offers a much larger amount of storage for a higher price-point than a simple Google Drive regular user would have. Because of this, if you are transferring large files between many users, Dropbox has an edge over Drive in many respects. If file size isn't a huge …
Drives poor ability to integrate shared folders and documents with your own documents, as well as its terrible starring feature, make Dropbox immediately superior from a basic file management standpoint. Dropbox sticks with the well-known filesystem representation of data, …
Features
Discord
Dropbox
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Discord
4.7
32 Ratings
49% below category average
Dropbox
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Ratings
Task Management
2.610 Ratings
00 Ratings
Gantt Charts
2.33 Ratings
00 Ratings
Scheduling
5.29 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow Automation
4.510 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile Access
8.430 Ratings
00 Ratings
Search
7.827 Ratings
00 Ratings
Visual planning tools
2.16 Ratings
00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Discord
7.1
32 Ratings
12% below category average
Dropbox
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Ratings
Chat
9.532 Ratings
00 Ratings
Notifications
7.531 Ratings
00 Ratings
Discussions
8.832 Ratings
00 Ratings
Surveys
7.422 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase
6.017 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting
10.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
4.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook
4.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Discord
7.1
31 Ratings
12% below category average
Dropbox
8.0
1336 Ratings
4% below category average
Versioning
5.313 Ratings
8.11110 Ratings
Video files
6.629 Ratings
7.91092 Ratings
Audio files
6.829 Ratings
8.2988 Ratings
Document collaboration
6.116 Ratings
7.81162 Ratings
Access control
8.019 Ratings
8.41234 Ratings
Advanced security features
6.013 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Device sync
8.021 Ratings
8.31230 Ratings
File search
00 Ratings
7.61280 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Discord
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Ratings
Dropbox
8.5
1265 Ratings
1% below category average
User and role management
00 Ratings
8.41130 Ratings
File organization
00 Ratings
8.41246 Ratings
Device management
00 Ratings
8.61110 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Discord works phenomenally if you want a chat platform that is free, quick to set up, and very flexible in the ways you can start using it. It doesn't require a complex set of logins for different servers and confusion about adding new members, or tough pricing right out of the gate. If you prefer to view full conversations all in one place without them "splintering" off into branches that are missed, Discord works great for this. All in all, Discord is great for startup companies or lean working companies, but it does not lend itself as well for larger, traditional "corporate" enterprises.
Let me describe a scenario that happened recently in our organization's marketing team storing thousands of images videos and pdfs and Dropbox is done a great perfomer in this situation by the product features which is very helpful for the team, such as smart sync reduces disc usage, preview support for many media formats & Integrate with Adobe Creative Cloud.
One to many Communications to ensure that we can quickly get messages out when we have to.
Quick polling of questions and issues
The ability to gate channels so we can focus on folks that we know are stakeholders gives them an added feeling of belonging and that they have a say in the direction of projects.
I can make projects available to editors so that they can do their work.
Dropbox is a place where I can store files that I can access from anywhere, even if I don't have my laptop with me at the time.
I have an old friend who is an acting professor in Tokyo. He loves the dialogue that I write in my novels. He converts chapters into scenework for his acting students. They get very excited when there's new material!
Better volume balancing between members on a call.
More customizability of the notification sound for each server. It would be nice to set each of my important servers with a different notification sound.
More expansive note section when you view another user's profile. I'd like to be able to contain more information there in a more organized way.
I’d like to be able to hover over an image/document and have it expand/enlarge without actually opening it
I’d love to see a carousel that lets me thumb through more quickly
I’m almost always in thumbnail view. I’d like to see them re-organize automatically when something is moved or deleted instead of leaving an empty space.
Dropbox is a user-friendly, easy tool which requires little to no skill and they offer a free version with a good amount of storage available. There are other file sharing tools available however at a cost. Dropbox free version I have used for years and it serves every purpose I need.
It just works, and works well. Very rarely does anything go wrong, and I can't remember the last outage (sure there's been some but very rare and not something I even think about or worry about). Desktop clients, web access, mobile clients - the lot. Very happy with our easy it is to use.
It works extremely well, and we have never had any issues with connecting or sharing files. It's very easy to use, and any team member can share, add, and delete files to a virtual drive. This is extremely helpful, and it's an amazing tool to use, ensuring everyone can connect and work together effectively.
I really recommend the product for the Dropbox availability is a great having very very less downtimes, they errors are less I have been faced yet, due to connectivity sometimes we are getting errors. Only sometimes the limitations of some features show some errors.
Dropbox is really useful, you can access any file from anywhere and you can upload and even edit files online, but, sometimes it can be slow. Downloading, uploading, and syncing is a bit slow, it can take several minutes. Furthermore, the search engine for large amounts of data can be slow too and it is not powerful.
There is plenty of online documentation and knowledge base articles. As well as having an open API to be able to tie it into other products makes it a really viable solution for any business. I have never had to contact support, any questions which I have need answered can be found in the documentation,
They immediately responded like in an example that I gave where one of our staff members accidentally deleted the whole Special Hope Network Dropbox, we immediately contacted Dropbox they walked us through the steps of how to retrieve the information and luckily enough we were able to retrieve the entire Dropbox and we have had back and forth with Dropbox on what to do when an employee leaves how to remove them how to add another employee.
The person for corporate product dealing and knowledge of the product explore and better and secure use are properly handover to us. Also provide full software and tool training from the basic to the pro level with each and every possible explanation. Provide many sessions regarding every doubt. Also Guide better suitable options for our business to migrate and integrate for the expansion in all places employee smoothly.
I did not personally take any training for Dropbox so I am self taught but I know when our Vice President selected Dropbox, he personally did do some training modules on it and I'm assuming it was very easy and simple to understand since he now acts like he is a pro at it!
I needed to stay current in improving my daily operations. Dropbox was suggested to me by a former colleague two-years ago and I've been using it just fine ever since.
I like Slack for more professional settings, but Discord is excellent for casual groups, especially when a few people do not have iPhones. They're very similar, but I think there are a lot of Discord features I don't take advantage of, mainly because there seems to be so much in the sidebar that overwhelms me a bit.
I prefer the layout and visual aspect of Dropbox as it mirrors my files on my computer. I feel that I am more organized, and it's easier to find my files in Dropbox than it was with Google Drive.
I would recommend to this product directly to the sales team of Dropbox for the best deal provide to my referred person and provide the best service to them.
It's easy to integrate with the systems of Windows and Linux, easy to have web versions accessible, which provide the web login credentials. Also, it can be installed for individuals for the best autosync features.
When it works (usually if a client already has Dropbox, so they don't get the solicitation to sign up), it works flawlessly.
I've had multiple clients not see the "continue with download only" at the bottom and email me to resend the media another way because they don't have a Dropbox account.