Box
Offers secure content management with workflow automation, AI-driven insights, 10GB free cloud storage, e-signature support, integration with 1,500+ apps, file-level security, offline access, document commenting, real-time search, and previews for 200+ file types.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Features
- Cloud Sync
- Selective Synchronization
IFTTT Integration- Unlimited storage
- Built-in viewer
Office Online integration- File Storage
- Encrypted Notes
- Synchronization
- File Hosting
- One-link file sharing
- Cloud Hosting
- Team Collaboration
Tags
- File Sharing
- cloud-storage-services
- file-store
- online-file-storage
- online-harddrive
- online-file-storage-providers
- cyberlocker
- cyberlockers
- FTP
- cloud-drive
- personal-file-storage
- online-file-storage-provider
- File Upload
Box News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Box
Box launches 'Hubs' for enhanced information discovery and usage, integrated with Box AIBox has launched Hubs, a service designed to enhance information discovery and usage among employee...
- Maoholguin published news article about Box
Box has officially launched Box AI, integrating advanced AI models into the Content Cloud platformBox, the cloud content management and file sharing service, has announced a new suite of capabiliti...
Recent activities
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What is Box?
Box is a cloud-based platform that provides digital collaboration across different devices and locations. It offers advanced security, e-signature capabilities, workflow automation, AI-driven insights, and compatibility with over 1,500 applications.
The platform securely stores, manages, and shares files, photos, and documents, with 10GB of free cloud storage. Users can access their files from any device, share documents, preview over 200 file types in full screen, and give feedback through comments.
Box supports the upload of various file types such as PDFs, Microsoft Office files, photos, videos, etc. It provides file-level security controls, offline access to files and folders, and the ability to share large files via a link, removing the need for attachments. It also features a real-time search function, including within PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word files, and an updates feed to track recently viewed or edited files. Users can open files in hundreds of partner applications for functions like annotation, e-signing, editing, and more.
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Box, Inc. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $15 and $50 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
My university offers unlimited space on Box, and I assumed that Box Sync worked the same way as Dropbox. But unfortunately, it constantly spins without syncing claiming instead that it is "Scanning Files." I searched for this online and discovered that it is a common problem especially on Mac. Instead of scanning just the files that have changed, it rescans all of the files. So even though they claim that your space is unlimited, the number of files that you can sync is limited the time that they take to scan. You can choose to upload the files via FTP or web browser and then choose not to sync them at all (so that they don't need to be constantly rescanned). But that's not a replacement for Dropbox at all, and its not really as useful.
https://community.box.com/t5/Box-Troubleshooting-Forum/Box-Sync-is-S-LO-W/td-p/11100
[Edited by schackb, September 14]
Box, Inc.'s headquarters is located in Redwood City, California, U.S Aaron Winsor Levie is CEO. The Desktop App Box Drive puts a nice non-confusing icon in the drive tree area. You copy/paste or drag/drop your files in and there they are. A nice lilttle cloud symbol lets you know it transferred. From Brave AI : "Box complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) for the transfer of personal data it processes on behalf of organizations in business accounts, and it will also certify to a similar Data Privacy Framework adopted by the UK and Switzerland."
I lost all my folders and files because of rejection of the two-factor verification code
I use it to send large attachments as an alternative to dropbox, thus keeping within free storage limit. It integrates with Thunderbird mail, so is OK for that.
it works great. plays better with other parties than dropbox. also their free tier is amazing; i still haven't hit the limit
No Linux app, which makes it less useful for those working across platform. Web service still works, obviously, but is far from ideal.
Not a day goes by we don't have problems with box. It's document search capabilities are just as bad as Dropbox in 2010. It seems to give up after 1000 words and doesn't support pages or google docs. Drive at least supports the latter and seems to never give up indexing a doc. Google Drive File Stream is better in every way. The only thing it Box does "better" is it allows real time iCloud stuff through an iFrame, but the feature has no off button, makes document loading slower, and has terrible android/windows/chromeos support... if you need collab, use Google Docs like we have been doing for the past decade. The instances where real time collab is necessary are very rare.
Speaking of which, Box has the worst Google docs support out of any of their competitors. Yes, it does allow you to save gdocs on your box, but no one using their app will see it... unlike how you would see them in every other service, as shortcuts that open up in a browser. At this point, Google File Stream is easily the best Cloud Document Storage service out there, with Box being a distant second.
[Edited by Oldarney, December 03]
[Edited by Oldarney, December 03]