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Box

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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.

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows  With the client Box Sync
  • Online  Also Mobile web at [http://m.box.com](http://m.box.com)
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
1.9 / 5 Avg rating (7)
444likes
14comments

Features

Suggest and vote on features
  1.  Cloud Sync
  2.  Built-in viewer
  3.  Selective Synchronization
  4.  Unlimited storage
  5. IFTTT icon  IFTTT Integration
  6. Office Online icon  Office Online integration
  7.  File Storage
  8.  Team Collaboration
  9.  Synchronization
  10.  File Hosting
  11.  One-link file sharing
  12.  Cloud Hosting
  13.  Encrypted Notes

 Tags

  • File Sharing
  • online-file-storage-provider
  • File Upload
  • FTP
  • cloud-drive
  • personal-file-storage
  • cyberlocker
  • cyberlockers
  • online-harddrive
  • online-file-storage-providers
  • cloud-storage-services
  • file-store
  • online-file-storage

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    POX added Box as alternative to Voltaserve
    about 2 months ago
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    about 2 months ago
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    SudoVanilla added Box as alternative to myDrive Storage
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Box receives mixed reviews from users. Positive aspects include its strong integration with external services and a generous free tier. However, users report issues with the syncing process, poor customer support, and challenges with subscription management. There are criticisms around performance on various platforms, including missing features like a Linux app and slow document search. Additionally, some users experienced critical syncing flaws and registration issues, leading them to prefer alternatives like Google Drive.
Top Negative Comment
whiggs
May 8, 2018
2

If you are thinking about using this service personally or for your enterprise, I would highly recommend that you reconsider. Its expensive, and the features that make the product so expensive do not even function properly, though box would claim that they do. For example, in the below github issue post, a box employee describes a bug in the api which moves one user's box content to another user account, stating that it can timeout, which makes automation or application development all but impossible if that particular api endpoint is used: https://github.com/box/box-windows-sdk-v2/issues/481 With this information, I submitted a ticket to the support portal, which I found closed the next day with the rediculous comment below:

Jason Pan
Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. We're typically happy to have tickets open for bug fixes, but the behavior change planned for the future is considered to be feature release. Currently, the API endpoint is behaving by design. As always, any API changes are also reflected at the API changelog:
[https://developer.box.com/v2.0/docs/api-changelog](https://developer.box.com/v2.0/docs/api-changelog)

Apologies for the trouble. For now, we're going to go ahead and close this case on our end.

Thank you,
Jason Pan
User Services Platform Specialist

Apparently, box doesn't actually refer to the problems with its software as "bugs", or acknowledge that there is any problem at all. No, apparently the fact that certain features only work every once in a while is "behaving by design." Rediculous. The customer support for other, general use issues isn't any better either, so I would highly recommend a different solution for your cloud storage needs, as not only is the customer support horrible, but they don't even take accountability for the issues within their own development platform. Really sad for such a large company.

TBayAreaPat
Apr 4, 2025
0

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."

alhonaifi
Oct 2, 2023
0

I lost all my folders and files because of rejection of the two-factor verification code

Guest
Apr 27, 2022
0

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.

nee
Dec 26, 2019
0

it works great. plays better with other parties than dropbox. also their free tier is amazing; i still haven't hit the limit

rdef1984
Feb 10, 2019
0

No Linux app, which makes it less useful for those working across platform. Web service still works, obviously, but is far from ideal.

Oldarney
Dec 3, 2018
0

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]

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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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    US flagBox, Inc.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $15 and $50 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 1.9
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Bengali
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Hindi
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Turkish

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