Skip to main content
TrustRadius
Dropbox Paper

Dropbox Paper

Overview

What is Dropbox Paper?

Dropbox Paper is a web-based, co-editing tool that includes word processing, document creation and coordination features. The tool is free to use and allows multiple people to collaborate on a document.

Read more

Learn from top reviewers

It’s ideal for non-writers and groups who want to collaborate in real time. Those who want to work regularly with images, videos, and other media files will appreciate the ease with which you can embed files in Paper.

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 6, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Dropbox Paper as a collaborative tool. It provides our users a way to collaborate on projects, create documents, calendars, to-do lists and keep track of milestones and...
Continue reading
Lori Houser
Manager - Sales
Sales Training & Development
United Rentals
Dropbox Paper2 years of experience

DropBox Paper can really help bring your team together, even when miles apart and not on the same schedule.

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 31, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We started using DropBox Paper in our company during Covid when everyone starting working from home. Getting together to collaborate via zoom or teams was not always a possibi...
Continue reading
Pamela Mitchell
Administrative Assistant - Engineering
Design & Construction Project Assistant
North Park Management Company
Dropbox Paper2 years of experience

You pay and it works!

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 12, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Dropbox Paper is an excellent product for creating documents that can be easily shared and edited by a team working together. This is something that is necessary for our team,...
Continue reading
Seth Lennon Weiner
Director - Other
Program Officer (Interim)
Life Comes From It
Dropbox Paper3 years of experience

Dropbox Paper is a natural choice for Dropbox Users to safe project collaboration

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 12, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Security, reliability and easy of access to document sharing online. Dropbox Paper offers us flexibility and control to project sharing via documents directly in the file mana...
Continue reading
Fabricio Velasco
Manager - Marketing
Demand Generation Manager
Ingersoll Rand
Dropbox Paper3 years of experience

Ditch the Pen and Paper and bring in the virtual Paper...

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 12, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Dropbox Paper as templates for documents within our company. By bringing up each template we created we have a way to always use the documents we need and Dropbox Paper...
Continue reading
Aaron Bielert
Executive - Corporate
Network President & Founder
Sparkk TV
Dropbox Paper2 years of experience
Log in with LinkedIn to see content from your network

Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing
Dropbox Paper

Dropbox Paper

N/A
Unavailable

What is Dropbox Paper?

Dropbox Paper is a web-based, co-editing tool that includes word processing, document creation and coordination features. The tool is free to use and allows multiple people to collaborate on a document.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?

1 person also want pricing

Alternatives Pricing

Quip

Quip

Free
What is Quip?

Quip offers a suite of productivity/collaboration tools. The vendor says Quip combines documents, spreadsheets, checklists and chat into one interface.

Nintex

Nintex

$480
Minimum 1,000 users per user
What is Nintex?

Nintex offers a platform that helps companies discover, automate, and optimize business processes.

Return to navigation

Product Demos

Dropbox Paper Demo (2016)

YouTube

How to Transfer Dropbox Paper to google drive

YouTube

Dropbox Paper Live Collaboration Tool for Project Teams Review Demo

YouTube
Return to navigation

Product Details

What is Dropbox Paper?

Dropbox Paper Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews From Top Reviewers

View all reviews
(1-4 of 4)

You pay and it works!

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
May 12, 2022
SL
Seth Lennon Weiner
Program Officer (Interim)
Life Comes From It (Philanthropy, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dropbox Paper
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Dropbox Paper is an excellent product for creating documents that can be easily shared and edited by a team working together. This is something that is necessary for our team, like so many, who are spread out geographically and across time zones. We are regularly creating applications, reports, job descriptions, etc. that need to be accessible. Being able to create simultaneously is something that has been invaluable for us.
Pros
  • Intuitive design
  • Glitch-free reliability
  • Quality customer service
Cons
  • Fairly expensive
  • Limited storage capacity
  • Without the benefit of a larger backdrop ecosystem, like Google
Likelihood to Recommend
Dropbox Paper is well suited to those who are seeking a closed-system platform for creating, storing and editing documents among a team - especially those who are at a distance. However, these are also services that are offered decently well by competitor companies with a free product- such as Google Drive/ Google Docs.
Most Important Features
  • Instant Delivery of large-sized documents
  • Customizable options
  • Information security
Return on Investment
  • We have had the positive impact of greater efficiency!
  • We have had the negative impact of higher bills
  • We have had the positive impact of well organized document cloud storage
Other Software Used
Google Drive, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

Dropbox Paper for Creating and Sharing Quick and SImple Documents

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
May 18, 2022
Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dropbox Paper
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Dropbox Paper allows me to quickly create and share formatted documents without having to download a program to my computer. I can also use Dropbox paper to collaborate with others. This is especially helpful when building long internal newsletters, where one or more departments are contributing to the document.
Pros
  • With Dropbox Paper, I can insert images and videos into your document, to make the document more visual, which is helpful for creating newsletters and simple flyers.
  • Once you create a document, you can save it as a template to be reused as a starting point for creating new documents.
  • Dropbox Paper has some basic formatting features like bolding text, adding links, and creating H1 and H2 headings.
  • You can insert tables into your Dropbox Paper document
  • Dropbox Paper also has an unusual but helpful feature, and that is the time line feature.
Cons
  • Dropbox Paper has very basic formatting features. However, it would be helpful, if I could change the text color and have more options for changing text size.
  • It would be helpful if I could upload a video from my computer. Currently you can only embed a video from youtube, Google Drive, and other third party applications.
  • I wish Dropbox Paper came with some preset templates to get you started with creating documents. It would be great if there was a meeting note template and a newsletter template
Likelihood to Recommend
Dropbox Paper is suited for creating very simple documents, where you are collaborating with other users. It is particularly useful in a work environment that primarily uses Dropbox as a storage and file management solution. If you need to create documents where you need more enhanced formatting features, you would need to use Google Docs, or Microsoft Word.
Most Important Features
  • Easy collaboration
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Simple formatting features
  • Ability to insert media - images and videos into the Dropbox Paper document.
Return on Investment
  • Limited formatting features, yields less visually dynamic documents.
  • Difficult to create organizations branded documents, since you can't change font family or color.
  • Lack of preset templates, makes it take longer to create documents.
Alternatives Considered
Dropbox Paper is a good choice for creating very simply formatted documents. Google Docs and Microsoft Word allow you to create documents with a wealth of features and formatting options. Goole Docs is great for collaborating and document sharing with others. Microsoft has the most robust features for document creation.
Other Software Used

A promising tool with a great future ahead.

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
June 30, 2022
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dropbox Paper
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Dropbox paper is used to create documents with multiple types of content in one place, on which our team can collaborate & present. For example, when working on brainstorming ideas for our innovative products or solutions all team members bring research materials & ideas in one place, on Paper, and work on them collaboratively.
Pros
  • Integrate & embed multiple media types, for example, youtube links, Spotify, dropbox content or Vimeo & many others.
  • For collaboration, the pointers with names showing who is working on the doc amongst your team or names written against the content created by different team members are super useful.
  • It's simply easy to use with quick access to available tools & page continuity makes it a lightweight and useful tool.
Cons
  • Its presentation capabilities can definitely be improved, including how page-by-page presentation is to be done & how aspect ratios are maintained for different resolutions.
  • More flexibility in text editing would be a great addition to the text editing functionality, for example, additional fonts would be a nice thing to have.
  • Introducing additional to-do list software capabilities or task management functionality would enhance the software greatly as well.
Likelihood to Recommend
When collaborating with a team on content creation with the purpose of bringing multiple inputs in a nonstructured or nonfixed media type, this is a great choice because of its diversity of content and collaboration tools, however, if you are looking to have high flexibility in a particular content creation stream, for example, sophisticated text editing or presentation, there are a lot of strong competitors out there.
Most Important Features
  • Content creation & keeping track of the important materials used in the content by bringing everything together in one place.
  • Sharing content, collaborating & collecting inputs of multiple people with clear transparency into the contributor or contributed content.
  • Easy access from anywhere and anytime to anything that's created and managed on Paper is one of the core advantages.
Return on Investment
  • The biggest contribution is the time saved and indirectly, the finances saved due to the efficiency of the content creation and management process.
  • Building high-quality products by performing better collaboration on the research done, and discussed, definitely impacts the investment done on the product.
  • Saving cost on the data storage of Paper content is another benefit as this content is not part of the data storage quota.
Alternatives Considered
Paper is a good option for those people looking for a lightweight content creation & collaboration tool & especially if you are already using dropbox. However, all the capabilities that Paper has are not so powerful in-depth of flexibility & range of functionality, for example, for to-do lists or task management there are many other better options out there.
Other Software Used

Ditch the Pen and Paper and bring in the virtual Paper...

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 12, 2022
AB
Aaron Bielert
Network President & Founder
Sparkk TV (Entertainment, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dropbox Paper
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Dropbox Paper as templates for documents within our company. By bringing up each template we created we have a way to always use the documents we need and Dropbox Paper gives an easy experience. One of the ways we use Paper, is for a filming guide so our Directors know what they are filming and how, and we have a template that allows us to just change the company information each time we need a new document created.
Pros
  • Templates
  • Documents Generation
  • Lists
  • Guides
Cons
  • Task Management
  • Markdown Support
  • Text Editing
Likelihood to Recommend
Dropbox Paper is best suited for companies or small businesses, even individuals who need quick documents or can take advantage of creating a template so if the need to use documents more than one time and just need certain elements of that document edited. Paper is good even if you aren't in the entire Dropbox eco-system as quick document creator.
Most Important Features
  • Templates
  • List Creation
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Storage Into Dropbox
Return on Investment
  • Time Saving
  • No Cost Option
  • Remote Access
Alternatives Considered
  • Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Apple iWork and Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)
Having tried all the other document suites from Google, Apple and Microsoft; I can say that Dropbox Paper is the easiest for template creation and management and being able to create documents the fastest. But as someone who is embroiled in another ecosystem, you will get almost the same feature set using another Office Suite. Dropbox Paper is still just another text editor/word processing application that has danced features tailored towards business needs.
Other Software Used
Return to navigation