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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Workspace

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Workspace enables teams of all sizes to connect, create and collaborate. It includes productivity and collaboration tools for work: Gmail for custom business email, Drive for cloud storage, Docs for word processing, Meet for video and voice conferencing, Chat for team messaging, Slides for presentation building, and shared Calendars.

    $6

    per month per user

    Groove (legacy product)

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AGroove by Clari is a legacy Sales Engagement product for organizing prospect outreach, capturing sales activity, and guiding seller workflows across email, calendar, CRM, and campaign tools. On August 14, 2023, Clari acquired Groove and integrated it as the sales-engagement layer of the Clari Revenue Platform. Following Clari’s subsequent merger into Salesloft in 2025, Groove became part of the combined Salesloft platform. Salesloft unified the companies under its brand on September 2, 2026;…N/A
    Pricing
    Google WorkspaceGroove (legacy product)
    Editions & Modules
    Business Starter
    $6
    per user/per month
    Business Standard
    $12
    per user/per month
    Business Plus
    $18
    per user/per month
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    Google WorkspaceGroove (legacy product)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google WorkspaceGroove (legacy product)
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Workspace
    We used before on my previous role Microsoft teams where you can only casually exchange messages, but Google Workspace allows me to access all the applications that I need in just once access without closing the window that I'm currently working on and it can be used to email …
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    Discontinued Products
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
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    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove is the only platform I've used.
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Previously, I was utilizing dial pad for dialing and texting clients. Now, transitioning to Groove, the integration the Omni Dialer has is more accurate and detailed within Salesforce. Another reason I love Groove in comparison to other platforms is due to the user friendliness!
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove boost my productivity, my day to day workload has been notified in no time. It is integrated to our main tool which is Salesforce and it is usable because it has a lot of features to offer. I would love to know more improvements and integrations in the future.
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    before I only used Google Calendar as reminder on the clients or emails that I need to get back on but sometimes I still overlooked those task that I need to do but with Groove it really made an outstanding specially the auto-logging emails I don't need to manually set it up …
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove integrates seamlessly with all the systems I use, and that makes it easier for me and my daily tasks as a salesperson. The other systems did not have as seamless integrations when I used them. Things could be different, and they may have upgraded. Also, Groove has some …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    At my previous employer, we used HubSpot Sales Hub + HubSpot Marketing Hub. Although it had similar functionality to what we do with Groove it was something that we used connected to Microsoft Dynamics running on-premise and this limited the functions that we could perform. …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    It was not easy to navigate, and learning how to use the software took more time. It was just not worth the time or effort, the features of this software were not as integrative and engaging as I hoped it would be to allow me to automate many of my email functions, to allow me …
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    I had to manually log emails, calls, tasks, etc. in CampusNexus, but with Groove it does it for me automatically.
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    I did not select Groove for the department, however, I have a lot more flexibility and customization with Groove re: scheduling. I would use the mentioned products occasionally however I largely worked on Outlook, which is a nightmare for students re: scheduling, and …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Overall, Groove has an easier and more efficient UI compared to Yesware and has definitely boosted our outbound productivity. The "People" tab which shows how much effort we are putting in to a particular prospect vs how much engagement we are getting is really helpful as well.
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    We initially used Cirrus Insight. This was a good application, but was not very reliable in terms of loading for the user and syncing emails and calendar events. We frequently required the developer to "bootstrap" the app from their end. Groove improved on reliability (and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    I've used Hubspot in a limited capacity and I like how Groove makes it a bit easier to do off-the-cuff emails blasts
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    99%
    Would buy again
    679 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    446 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    57 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    682 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    400 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    46 Answers
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    394 Answers
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    Google WorkspaceGroove (legacy product)
    Small Businesses
    Google Workspace Essentials
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    HubSpot Sales Hub
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Apache OpenOffice
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Mixmax
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    Enterprises
    Microsoft 365 Business Premium
    Score9 out of 10
    Outreach
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google WorkspaceGroove (legacy product)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (121 ratings)
    5.0
    (706 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.9
    (33 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    5.4
    (542 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.2
    (12 ratings)
    4.5
    (145 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google WorkspaceGroove (legacy product)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Workspace does offer several different plans that can match well with the stage of your business. As your business grows, the higher plans can provide the better tooling or expanded features/products to scale with your needs. It would probably become very complicated to swap over to, if you are deeply embedded with another competitor. But, it could be a nice platform to consolidate several disconnected systems under one roof.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce. It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce.
    • Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Google Calendar...amazing. I don't need to ask team members when they're busy anymore and play this game of bouncing times back and forth. All I need to do is enter their email address and it shows my calendar and theirs side by side and then select the day and time I find that works best for the both of us.
    • I actually prefer Google Meet over Zoom. Zoom bogs down my computer and I find their UI overcomplicated for what it actually does. Google Meet is simple and does practically everything Zoom does without needing to pay any extra money.
    • Sheets integrates with our CRM (Copper) so it's perfect for us. Being able to export information out of our CRM into sheets and then create pivot tables from that data makes our lives a million times better.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
    • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
    • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Pricing is a little bit higher than other services
    • The cost of each email inbox costs the same whether you want just email or all of the features. For example, we wanted a support email address that we could setup our support desk with. The cost of that added account is the same as the account I use with all of the features.
    • They removed their free tier for small organizations like mine and restricted the free tier from adding new domain names. This was likely due to abuse, but everyone lost the privilege of the free service.
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    Discontinued Products
    • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
    • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
    • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
    • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    There is no better solution for cloud storage and real time collaboration. The amount of features included in G Suite is unmatched and out of other things we’ve tried over the years, nothing comes close to being as great of a tool.
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    Discontinued Products
    I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
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    Usability
    Google
    Google Workspace is incredibly intuitive and user friendly. It's easy to adopt through simple features, for example the prompts to enable Gemini on each call for note taking is reliable, and helps to stop you forgetting to use the feature. The main reason for a strong rating is the consistency and reliability, whilst there's definitely areas for improvement, for example additional calendar features (sharing), or deeper functionality in sheets. The level that it provides means that anyone adopting it will be able to take full use of features within a day or two. Gmail, calendar and the documentation suite contain all the basic features for a small / medium business to run at a high level day to day, with minimal downtime or learning curves.
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    Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my Salesforce, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Everything is good
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    Support Rating
    Google
    My experiences of getting support have been positive. Calling in is not overly difficult, but it does require getting a PIN. The knowledge of those responding to the calls has been impressive. I have managed to work with them to fix two Google bugs that I had identified. These bugs required a some technical expertise and the support staff were able to understand the issue and forward the concerns to the appropriate persons. The first bug was fixed with 24 hours. The second bug took a little longer, but it was also more complicated to reproduce.
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    My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
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    In-Person Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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    Online Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Easy to use
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    nothing to say
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    Discontinued Products
    At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    There are lots of competitors to various tools in Workspace, like Meet versus Zoom. However, Microsoft is the other big competitor I can think of for Google Workspace as a whole. To me, at least, the strength of Workspace is how easy it is to share and collaborate with others. For items that I only need for myself and can keep on my own computer, I typically rely on Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. For items that I need to share, I turn to Workspace a lot. Being able to collaborate in real-time and not having to send documents back and forth is so amazing, and such a time saver. And I love that Workspace is also a built-in tool with Dropbox now.
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    Discontinued Products
    Groove is simple. Like their competitors, they give you the ability to create templated "Flows" (sequences) of calls, emails, and LinkedIn touches. Some of them can be automated, but it's also simple to personalize outreach. Ultimately, my decision to purchase Groove over some of the competitors was based on their Salesforce integration, as well as white-glove customer service.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Zero to no time managing tools allows us to focus on work saving us time and money
    • Google Workspace allowed us to seamlessly transition to a fully remote workforce when the Coronavirus pandemic started - no lost time or productivity.
    • Easily able to extend our workspace and add features, e.g. Voice, saving us time implementing other services.
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    • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
    • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
    • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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