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Dropbox vs Egnyte comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Dropbox
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
89
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Storage (5th)
Egnyte
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
14th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Dropbox is 9.3%, down from 13.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Egnyte is 5.6%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

Q&A Highlights

Mar 04, 2019
 

Featured Reviews

Edgar  Paez - PeerSpot reviewer
Work from anywhere and backup easily while being practical
I recommend Dropbox, yet not for all of the features it has. I am a basic user. In a personal mode, we have about 100 employees, and maybe 20 of them use Dropbox as a personal backup system. ShareFile is more secure than Dropbox. Five years ago, ShareFile was qualified as having better security control, access privilege management, and version control recovery, among many features that we were using for private documentation. Overall, I would rate Dropbox an eight out of ten.
John Michael - PeerSpot reviewer
Great search functionality and useful co-authoring capabilities with an easy setup
The best feature is the co-authoring. Before, in Egnyte desktop sync, it didn't have the capability to co-author. Now, since you have Egnyte Connect on your machine, it gives you the capability to co-author on a single file at the same time. Now that the Egnyte vendor upgraded the version and they introduced the Egnyte Connect, there are a lot of features that they added, including co-authoring. You can also access those files and folders using your mobile device, which is good. Some of our advisors don't have a desktop or laptop, so they are just accessing their files via mobile devices or tablets. Before, in Egnyte desktop sync, you could install it on a certain server. Now, with Egnyte Connect, you can install the application on a particular server, and then you can save your file from there. The initial setup is easy. It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint. The search functionality has been good. The user interface is great. Support is great. In Egnyte Connect, you can add more domains if you want to access files and folders.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Reliability is the most valuable feature."
"It is definitely stable. The main advantage of Dropbox is that you can see the files, and you can easily share them with all the team members. They can be accessed by whoever you give access to, and it is all secure. Dropbox is a seamless product. It provides you the privacy that you're looking for. Privacy is a major factor for my company, and Dropbox provides you that."
"For me, the biggest thing is version history. I can easily go back and view older versions."
"Simple to share files with others."
"Dropbox allows me to organize files well. I can name files in such a way as to lead students to the right destination."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"I think Dropbox is a good option for Windows users because it's easy to use in Windows and a user can access all other products and software."
"It is scalable and stable."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"It is a good storage solution."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
 

Cons

"For us, storage is an issue. The free version is too small in terms of the amount of storage on offer."
"The tool must be better protected."
"They can do the scanning of viruses, and they can also do malware detection when they do the synchronization."
"The storage is not large enough."
"Sometimes, it takes a while to start Dropbox services and files are not synced."
"The complex initial setup phase of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The search could be made more intuitive."
"Dropbox needs to improve its integration with Google platforms, including Google Sheets, Google Docs, and Google Slides, which facilitate easier collaboration."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We must pay when we upsize to a larger space."
"Dropbox could be less expensive, and I pay monthly."
"The pricing for non-corporations is expensive. They have raised their prices and have low storage capacity."
"The solution does not come with a licensing cost."
"The pricing varies depending on the version, and the one we currently utilize is the business version."
"My company makes monthly payments towards the licensing charges associated with the product. I think it's a reasonably priced product."
"I need to pay towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. The solution is expensive."
"We pay for the license yearly."
"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
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Answers from the Community

Mar 4, 2019
Mar 4, 2019
Try using Synology 1517+ which comes with bundle of software and one of them is SFTP which is secure and run with Linux. This solution address the requirements for FTP, FIle Share, Cloud Sync, etc. A single box can be deployed with multiple functionalities. I have used 1517+ with 5 X 10 TB disks with usable 35 TB (RAID 6) and cost approximately 2500 $. Below URLs for your reference. https://ww...
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it_user116337 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 17, 2014
Hia, I have been using Box.com on large scale. Think this will satisfy the above, it has certain limitations specially on the way top level shares are organize. Happy to give you more details. See this link for more info from the vendor. https://www.box.com/en_GB/pricing/
it_user147933 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 17, 2014
I work at Citrix ShareFile and our Enterprise edition offers hybrid storage and sync. You can learn more at http://www.sharefile.com/enterprise/ or I'd be happy to put you in touch with one of our specialists
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
61%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
4%
University
3%
Educational Organization
65%
Computer Software Company
6%
Construction Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
3%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dropbox?
For me, the biggest thing is version history. I can easily go back and view older versions.
What needs improvement with Dropbox?
Dropbox needs to improve its integration with Google platforms, including Google Sheets, Google Docs, and Google Slides, which facilitate easier collaboration. I would also like to see features rel...
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