About Google Docs

Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time.

Pricing starting from:

US$6,00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Markets

Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India and 3 others

Supported Languages

Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch and 21 others

Pricing starting from:

US$6,00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Features

Total features of Google Docs: 17

  • Activity Tracking
  • Chat/Messaging
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Capture
  • Document Generation
  • Document Management
  • Document Storage
  • File Sharing
  • Full Text Search
  • Notes Management
  • Productivity Tools
  • Project Management
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage

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Reviews

Overall rating

4,7 /5
(27 591)
Value for Money
4,8/5
Features
4,5/5
Ease of Use
4,7/5
Customer Support
4,3/5

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German Liber
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The best cloud-based, auto-saving office suite, in the world!

Reviewed on 2021/01/16

Google Docs it's free, easy to try and use, and that's what matters the most. I didn't need to use...

Google Docs it's free, easy to try and use, and that's what matters the most. I didn't need to use something really powerful to classify all of that movies so my overall experience with it is great. I think that it have really elegant templates and useful tools. The whole thing works fast and good.

Pros

For my film series project in the city I live in, I had to keep a record of the movies we screened and the ones we would present at the complex. It was a massive list, and I even had to separate them in colors (the one I subtitled and the ones I didn't have the translation yet), weeks, days, months (because every month was a different movie theme) and even the times we would repeat them. Google Docs was able to do all of that, for free, with an Autosave option that literally saves every thing you write or correct, in a matter of seconds,  you can make a lot of tabs, text docs, slides presentations, and it even gives you the option to open a whole white board and draw on it. Collaboration with partners it's really easy with the Docs free suite, you can edit anything and the other user will see the changes almost instantly. And the best thing about it, it's that you only need a Google account, (everybody has one!).

Cons

Page numbering, organizing and formatting can be faster on other office suites, Docs presents a few number of issues on it. Also, there is no password protection for documents, I would really like to use that.

Emmanuel
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The Benefits of Google Docs: A Comprehensive Guide

Reviewed on 2023/02/01

Overall, it was an extremely pleasant experience, and I would heavily recommend Google Docs to...

Overall, it was an extremely pleasant experience, and I would heavily recommend Google Docs to anyone out there.

Pros

It easily integrated into my business and helped boost productivity with assignments.

Cons

I really cannot think of a downside to acquiring this software.

Daniel
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Welcome alternative to Microsoft Word, but still lacking some of the more powerful features

Reviewed on 2017/12/05

Excellent on the move, in browser (as long as you use Chrome) document editing that can rival MS...

Excellent on the move, in browser (as long as you use Chrome) document editing that can rival MS Word for most use cases.

An incredible collaborative writing experience when working with a team of authors and going through an iterative review and correct process. Far better than 'track changes'

Integration with Google Drive and ecosystem of other office suite products

Pros

Simply the best thing about Google Docs is the realtime version controlled collaborative writing features. If you are jointly writing a document as a team, this works so much better than typical dogged workflows of sharing docx files with tracked changes by email.

The material design interface is familiar and enjoyable if you like Google products. It is rapidly becoming a UI standard which means the barrier to entry is low.

Availability of apps for many mobile and tablet platforms is welcome, although they do not necessarily work as well as the web version. This is a difficult thing to get right, and GDocs is certainly ahead of Word mobile.

Really nice base styles and encouragement of good authorship practice promoting the use of styles rather than the common practice of changing the font size in Word.

Really great handling of fonts from the Google font library

Nice integration with Sheets for the inclusion of data in reports

Cons

Scripting and templating is light years behind Microsoft Word

Mail merge (no need to say more, where is it?)

Handling of footnotes and references

More control over typography would be nice, especially when it comes to things like tables and bulleted lists

Tables are very primitively implemented

Bhushan
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  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Company size: 51-200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy to use and reliable tool for create documents online

Reviewed on 2022/11/23

Best document tool, easy to use and access, has no font issues, is collaborative and reliable.

Best document tool, easy to use and access, has no font issues, is collaborative and reliable.

Pros

Easy to use, no need to download can access online from anywhere, easy to share with other colleagues.No hang or crash issue, it automatically saves.

Cons

There is no major issue or least thing as per my experience, but yes its a online internet or connectivity can affect auto save

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Word

Reasons for Choosing Google Docs

adaptability easy to use, implementation, collaborative tool, and easy to share

Switched From

Microsoft Word

Reasons for Switching to Google Docs

Cost-effective, no need to purchase
Nikhil Kumar
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501-1 000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Awesome and free tool for simple document management and collaboration

Reviewed on 2023/02/06

Pros

I use google docs personally in my day-to-day life for a number of tasks from making notes to keeping a track of my work also for creating a diet chart for myself.

Cons

Nothing as it is free and easy to use I like this software.

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Google Docs FAQs

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Google Docs offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$6,00/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

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Google Docs has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1 000, 1 001-5 000

Google Docs supports the following languages:

Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

Google Docs supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)

Google Docs integrates with the following applications:

Dropbox Business, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, HipChat, OneDrive, Slack, Trello, Zoho Writer

Google Docs offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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