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Google Drive

Overview

What is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a cloud file storage, synchronization, and collaboration platform and service, that features Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for document editing and presentation.

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Recent Reviews

Security for your files

9 out of 10
March 18, 2024
Google Drive helps in providing security to the information and the integration with other Google platforms is easy. It helps in sharing …
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The Best

10 out of 10
December 10, 2022
Incentivized
Google Drive is the cloud storage solution that I am most familiar with and most impressed with. I have used Google Drive at several …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Document collaboration (199)
    9.2
    92%
  • Reliability (196)
    9.1
    91%
  • Access control (197)
    8.9
    89%
  • File search (201)
    8.9
    89%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

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Google Drive Makes Collaboration Easier for New Users
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Google Drive: Flexible Cloud Storage Unlocks Collaboration
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Included Features Set Google Drive Apart
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Pricing

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Basic

$6.00

Cloud
per month

Business

$12.00

Cloud
per month

Enterprise

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Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://cloud.google.com/drive…

Offerings

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

Using the Google Drive Presentation App

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Features

File Sharing & Management

Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.

8.6
Avg 8.4

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Features related to security and administration for cloud storage platforms

8.3
Avg 8.6

Cloud Storage Platform

Features around the functionality of the cloud storage platform.

8.7
Avg 8.5
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Product Details

What is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012, Google Drive allows users to store files on their servers, synchronize files across devices, and share files. In addition to a website, Google Drive offers apps with offline capabilities for Windows and macOS computers, and Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, which are a part of an office suite that permits collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more. Files created and edited through the office suite are saved in Google Drive.


Google Drive Features

File Sharing & Management Features

  • Supported: Versioning
  • Supported: Document files
  • Supported: Image files
  • Supported: Video files
  • Supported: Audio files
  • Supported: Document collaboration
  • Supported: Shared folders
  • Supported: Access control
  • Supported: File search
  • Supported: Device sync
  • Supported: Web interface
  • Supported: File change notifications
  • Supported: Simultaneous editing

Cloud Storage Security & Administration Features

  • Supported: Single sign-on
  • Supported: Two-step verification
  • Supported: User and role management
  • Supported: Storage limit management
  • Supported: File organization

Cloud Storage Platform Features

  • Supported: Performance
  • Supported: Reliability
  • Supported: Multi-language

Google Drive Screenshots

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Google Drive Videos

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To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR

Google Drive Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Google Drive is a cloud file storage, synchronization, and collaboration platform and service, that features Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for document editing and presentation.

Box, Dropbox, and Dropbox Business are common alternatives for Google Drive.

Reviewers rate Document collaboration highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Google Drive are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive helps in providing security to the information and the integration with other Google platforms is easy. It helps in sharing files only with verified individuals and can allow only certain people who can view the information.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we use it to back up the data and cloud shared internally and externally. I used google drive for this purpose in a free plan when the business was small. it's covered all our needs in centralized data and backed it up. In addition, google drive is one of the most suppliers' trusted.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Drive for short-term sharing of files that are too large to send via email or WhatsApp. We also use the platform for storing business files to be accessed by multiple remote users. We even use Google Drive to provide uploading functionality to clients and other 3rd parties from whom we require files that are too large to send via email or WhatsApp.
Janet Ramos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Google Drive [for] sharing large files like PDF files, photos, and videos. Those files that we cannot send via email, we use Google Drive to send or receive it. It is easy to use by just using the link of our Google Drive account the receiver can access it. It is also safe by giving permission before the other party can access your files.
Yoga Prakasa, CAIA, CDIF | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Google Drive to synchronize teaching materials for my professor. He picked Google Drive because it is free, and his Dropbox account had already full. Google Drive is probably not my choice had I been given that authority. It does not quite correctly present or depict the final deliverable files (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). Other file-sharing services (or Microsoft's own OneDrive) would be better if you want to edit the deliverable files directly in the app. So, I ended up creating and editing files on their own native software app and then saving them to Google Drive, so my professor could review and download them.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am using it in the sales department. It is very useful to store important data. In my Real Estate company I need to maintain my clients' important data. It is very important for me to keep all the property related documents securely. So I manage all my clients' property documents in Google Drive. It is very easy and systematic to keep those documents in Google Drive.
Abhinav Bajpai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive is one of the best and the easiest tool that be be easily integrated in any organization. As google drive offers the ability to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings with up to 50 individuals at once, allowing for multiple versions of the same document to be circulated edited and manipulated. I am really very happy with Google Drive and its allied software.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Working in a remote setup, we have a lot of files to keep and maintain. Unlike if you're working in a physical office, you would have a secure server. With us, Google Drive allows us to easily access any information that is needed by the business. This also secures the file by letting you to either share or limit to view-access only. My scope is literally everything that can be done with Google Drive, edit, read, keep or maintain and share to intended users.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We share large sized files via Google Drive and this adds value as anyone at any place in the world can download the files shared just by clicking a link that we send them them. This has added a lot of value in putting our files into a cloud system rather than to store files on our servers.
Jose Ramon Melero Gomar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive is a really easy tool to use thanks to the Google ecosystem. Synchronization is very fast and effective. The basic version provides you with 15 GB, being the provider of this type of solution that gives you more storage in the free version. Their payment plans are very adaptable. Today it is one of the most used cloud-based tools.
Gregorio Torres Rancier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Excellent tool (product) we use for Chat, Mail, Drive, etc. several years of implementation to get data accurate with a single log in and share any document with our co workers and customers. Helped us to have a great tool to share data, info and surveys between our subsidiaries in DR and US. Easy and secure.. We use the product to Share Documents, videos, training materials and conduct surveys and data collection within the company.
December 10, 2022

The Best

Jeff Wise | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Drive is the cloud storage solution that I am most familiar with and most impressed with. I have used Google Drive at several organizations and use it exclusively for my home inspection business. We back up every inspection, including over 500 photos, for every inspection. We had never had an issue when we tried to access the data stored on Google Drive.
WaEl ELESAWY | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is considered one of the most important cloud storage outlets over the Internet, as it allows you to store 15 GB for free, which is good in that, and it is also possible to buy a larger version, fast, light, and smooth in dealing, and also good at linking files in all formats for downloading to others. I also liked it because I link important files to it through email and mobile. It is good and irreplaceable.
Cheryl Shelton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Google Drive as part of the GSuite line of products. We use Google Drive to provide 'at rest' encryption of data and to facilitate an easy way for staff to share and collaborate on files. The product is easy to use and provides flexibility for our employees and students so they can work from anywhere.
October 28, 2022

Love our Google Drive

Mark Laurie | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive is one of the tools we use to share files and projects easily. I use it for a project storage drive for quick access to the files. I like the security of it, the ease of use, and the options that come with it. My staff finds access to it from the top toolbar, we have macs, which makes it fast access. For my clients that we do retouching for it is an easy way to securely deliver and retrieve their images.
Juan Miguel Rojas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive is our main cloud storage tool at Lumen Studio. It addresses the availability of footage, resources and digital assets for creative projects. Enhances the organization remote capabilities and makes the collaboration with international clients/freelancers possible. The scope of our use is it works as a secondary storage besides our main physical one and we currently use the 2+TB service.
October 20, 2022

Google Drive.

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We collect meeting notes, write new blog entries, communicate information with clients, and more using Google Drive. Most of our customers also favor Drive over other file storage solutions. There are several causes for this, but Google Drive is just quick, easy, and safe. Here are a few additional justifications for why you should use Drive if you don't already: Utilize a computer, tablet, or smartphone to access data. There are no lost copies or forgotten saves to be concerned about because everything automatically saves in the cloud. Google offers 15GB of storage at no cost, with additional space available on a monthly basis. Who sees or edits your documents is under your control. We are collaborating with others in real-time. Apps for Google Drive - Use apps to edit Drive and add signatures, charts, and forms.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I usually use Google Drive to share files with my colleagues, it's pretty easy and helpful, the file system can be divided into sections just like the one used on your personal Operative System. The application for windows simplifies furthermore all the processes giving the possibility to perform all the operations from the OS's file system.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Google on a daily basis day to day life for creating and managing spreadsheets for creating PRD and SRS documents and many more. This is primarily used and we can share all the documents with any mode to another user like read, write, or comment so that according to this we can take the action on it.
Ivan Briceño | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive is the platform for daily use. We use it to manage all our documents, images, and formats in the cloud. Essentially it is the platform to work online from the agency with clients. It allows us to save time with collaborative work in real time, in web writing, reports, and proposals to clients using various formats.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have been using google drive on my laptop and phone. It provides easy access to the files and we can share the files with just one click. Google Drive provides free storage of 15 GB where we can store the files. It can be accessed in Gmail and the Google Drive apps in android phones.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Drive is an online briefcase where we store all the important files and folders. It is very easy to use. Is embedded in Gmail and is seperately accessible via our Android phones as well via a Gdrive App. It comes with a free space of abot 15 GB. For more space of course you can buy it however 15GB is a resonably good space for routine operational activities. Al our Google forms are by default saved in G drive and also the response to those forms via excel export. I think it is a great application.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Google Drive between my laptop, desktop, and phone. Whether, I am working in the office, remotely, or on the go, I have access to my files and I keep work moving forward. I use Google Drive for the desktop to keep my files synced. I can start a project on one device, and pick it up and edit the project as needed when working at a different location. I work with graphic design project files and video files, which take up a lot of space and I cant save all my files on my desktop, so it's great to be able to save everything to Google Drive.
Muhammad Waleed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses Google Drive to share files, that are too large to be shared via email, with the team. Moreover, Google Drive has been a very useful tool to save important files and data and can be accessed conveniently by anyone who has been authorized. Furthermore using Google Drive helps save the use of paper which can help save the environment.
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