Google Drive vs. One Drive vs. Dropbox

Automatic photo upload
Both Dropbox and One Drive have the option to automatically transfer photos from your phone to the cloud. This allows you to delete old photos and free up space on your phone. While you can upload photos to Google Drive, you’ll have to do so manually as there’s no ‘Automatic upload’ feature.

Camera backup on One Drive and Dropbox

Creating and editing documents
With Dropbox, you can open office documents such as spreadsheets and Word files. But you can’t edit them from within the app. However, are given the option to open files on any document-editing app such as Google Drive or Office Mobile.

One Drive opens documents, spreadsheets etc on Office Mobile – Microsoft’s free Office app for mobile. If you don’t have it installed, the app asks you to download the app so you can proceed. This is the default setting, but you can change this by un-checking Office Mobile in the settings.

You can’t edit documents in Google Drive for iOS either – it makes use of office apps such as Google Docs or Office Mobile for editing documents.

Privacy
If you intend to save personal files on the cloud, you can’t possibly ignore its privacy features. All the three apps – Dropbox, One drive and Google Drive ensure that files are private, unless you choose to share them with others. However, Dropbox and Google Drive also includes an option to lock the app with a passcode so that no one other than you can access the stored files.

Locking features in Dropbox and Google Drive

Sharing
Sharing is Google Drive’s strongest feature, which gives it an edge over Dropbox and One Drive. You can either choose anyone with the link to access your files, or assign specific people who can view, comment or edit photos.

Both Dropbox and One Drive let you share files only by sending the link to the files. The receiver gets a copy of the file and cannot make changes or add comments to the original file.

Features
Dropbox has some of the best features out of the the three options. It comes with a linking system, which allows you to connect your desktop to your Dropbox account. This it does by just clicking a picture of your desktop screen.

The Dropbox app lets you link to a computer in three steps

One Drive comes with 18GB of free storage space, while Google Drive comes with 15GB. Dropbox comes with 2GB of free storage when you sign up, though it increases as you use the app. For example, you get extra space every time you add a new device to Dropbox such as your smartphone or PC. Unlike One Drive and Google Drive, Dropbox does not have any file-size restrictions either.

All the three storage apps let you print, delete and move files between folders from within the app.