

If you want something personal you can always whip it up with a script.ĭropbox is truly cross-platform and has by far the best integration with the cloud related services I’ve seen. So when you choose the privacy-first (SpiderOak over Dropbox) but then can’t connect with your favorite Markdown editor on iOS, you’ve got a problem on your hands.īusiness users who work on the web will appreciate Google Drive’s productivity suite and the plethora of extensions and apps available. When you’re buying hardware or software, what you’re really buying into is the “ecosystem”. Ecosystem And Servicesĭropbox is your way out of the ecosystem rut.

SpiderOak however, doesn’t really like to play Oprah with their storage space.
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You can make a couple of gigs easily just by sharing the links, sending out the referral code or buying a phone with bundled cloud storage like Galaxy S5 among many others (50 GB storage for 2 years for free is the usual deal and Drive does this for handsets like Moto G as well). But Dropbox is pretty generous when it comes to giving space away. While you can get 100 GB on Drive for $1.99 a month, the same costs $9.99 on Dropbox and SpiderOak. Available upgrades are on the expensive side. This means that if you’ve been harboring large attachment files in Gmail, it’s time to go on a cleaning spree.ĭropbox and SpiderOak both start you off with 2 GB of storage for free. But this is shared with all your Google services, including Gmail and Google+ photos ( the high-res ones that don’t qualify for unlimited free storage). Google Drive offers you 15 GB of free storage off the bat.

And right now, it comes down to the cost, ecosystem, and privacy. So in this article I’ll focus on the differences rather than the similarities.
