Google Workspace - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

“It is not super important to be able to integrate with slack, as it's only used for automations that could be done elsewhere. However, due to how my team is set up, it is a very useful integration that provides live updates for business activities.”

“Being able to easily access and send documents and more from Drive in slack is so important. Slack is much more robust as far as an IM system goes than Google's, so it was super important to be able to easily access Drive items into it.”

“Integrating with Slack streamlines communication, enabling real-time updates and file sharing in channels. It keeps teams aligned, enhances collaboration, and reduces app-switching.”

“Slack is our main way of communicating, we need all our programs that we use for collaborations to work with Slack. We use it for reminders or document sharing. ”

“When you want to know if someone is working or editing some document, better to sync it on slack so you have yet another way of notifiying and syncing.”

“Few of my clients uses slack so in addition to Google Hangout (which is our go to tool for internal communication), we also uses Slack. ”

“I get important notifications from Google delivered to my Slack! Such a helpful integration so I never miss a notification again. ”

“It’s easy to share files in. Next to that, you get notifications when someone edits a file you shared with a colleague. ”

“It keeps our team updated on file changes and calendar events directly in Slack, without switching tools constantly.”

“Slack is our daily office, so we need to sync a lot of info with Google calendar, drive, Gmail and keep.”

“Helps combine our productivity with out communication, further enhancing collaboration and productivity.”

“Slack is our official internal communication tool, so integration was crucial when choosing a product.”

“We talk via Slack for every day communication, so integrating Slack w/ Google was a no-brainer. ”

“Because we can share permissions and documents easily in chats between team members. ”

“You can get comments notifications, meetings reminders and invites, and so much more.”

“Very good integration for sharing docs and enforcing a data leak prevention policy”

“Slack is our virtual office - being able to sync Workspace with that is vital”

“For remote work the ability to talk to your coworker is central. In addition to Google's chat ability we integrate Zoom calls into our Workspace which allows immediate establishing of "where" a meeting will take place when one shows up on your calendar. The integration allows you to schedule a calendar event and automatically create the Zoom meeting that everyone will be joining.”

“Super useful for organising meetings with larger groups of people, especially in the scope of webinars and such. When you book in a zoom meeting, the integration automatically sends the invitation into your email and it appears in your calendar, making it easy to see upcoming meetings in future.”

“We use google meet and zoom interchangeably according to the convenience of the other party. Google calendar automatically updates meeting details when we schedule a meeting at zoom. ”

“All our meetings are virtually as we are all working remotely and we use Zoom for everything. This needs to work with email and Google Calendar. (and it does) ”

“We currently use Zoom as our default video conferencing tool - and it's essential that we can add Zoom links to our Google Calendar events.”

“It's super important for me to be able to sync my meetings and webinars with my Google calendar so that I don't double-book appointments.”

“It's important for Google Workspace to integrate with Zoom Meetings to allow meetings to be easily scheduled and my calendar updated.”

“We use Zoom for all our customer video meetings and it also works perfectly and makes scheduling a lot easier.”

“I use Zoom for my business. So to have it sync up with my Google calendar saves time a hassle.”

“They work seamlessly when needing to schedule video meetings and add them to the calendar ”

“As I stated above Google Meet has not met my video conferencing needs for teletherapy. ”

“Zoom gives us better resolution in the videoconferences and live collaboration tools.”

“It makes it easy to schedule video calls with my team through Google Calendar.”

“Allows Zoom to work with Google calendar and makes scheduling meetings easier”

“Gmail is the starting point of everything, it is the gateway to Workspace, it is an incredible product that I use personally for a long time and now I use it in my company, it has integration with Calendar, Docs, Sheets Slides, etc, etc. that allows information to flow, from here to there, mail filters are very powerful. It is not just a mail tool it is the backbone of the Suite.”

“Gmail is housed within the workspace suite and it wouldn't be complete without it. It enables you to communicate with practically everyone in a convenient, fast and organised manner.”

“I have used gmail as my main, personal and professional, email for more than 10 years. I plan on continuing to use this email service as my main email provider. ”

“The files shared in Google at work can still be send to Gmail. Teams or users can edit files send by Gmail and still send them to google workspace.”

“Gmail serves as the primary source of communication for internal and external stakeholders and creates a hub to connect with others.”

“Messaging and email features we need in a team work environment, and there are features in Gmail that you will not find in others.”

“This integration is important as it syncs our work emails and allows us to communicate with clients and colleagues effectively. ”

“Because without mail you can't function in a company, and the Gmail service is excellent.”

“99% of my company is centralized in this tool, and I would not change it for anything. ”

“the main communication area for me and all the users, sites and apps online”

“Calendar that tool that at first you think is not important, how good is there because someone thought it would be necessary. One day you schedule your first meeting or receive a notification that you have a meeting and "true love begins". Then you start scheduling meetings, organizing your time, looking at what times your team can meet, you tell them what the meeting is about, you send them documentation before the meeting, you can schedule consecutive meetings, you can move them, you can go to Meet From any mobile device, from the phone if you don't have internet, you can schedule the meeting in a place and see with Maps when it will take you to arrive. It's great.”

“While you do not have to use Google Calendar, it meshes well with the Google Workspace environment to understand your availability as well as those you interact with during business needs.”

“This helps me see my schedule and plan my work day. I'd be lost without it and it's presented in a clear and easy to read and edit manner that makes it convenient for even a kid to use.”

“One of my favorite apps that Google offers. It sets reminders, communicates throughout the organization, and makes scheduling meeting or reserving workspaces a breeze!”

“This is important as it syncs our calendars and allows us to organise meetings and conferences with each other while having access to each other's calendars. ”

“Our organization is small so being able to implement a smoothly integrated series of applications makes sense.”

“Without a calendar software we would not be able to schedule meetings and be as efficient as we are.”

“We need a method of keeping track of appointments and meetings across time zones.”

“Google Calendar has all of the features needed to stay organized and on track.”

“Very useful, utilized every day multiple times per day by our organisation.”

“I rely on Calendly to book meetings with clients, and it is imperative that Calendly syncs with my Google Calendar in order to block out times that are unavailable. This way, I only have one calendar (Google) to manage. ”

“Through our work, we have to interview or talk with a lot of people. Google allows us to integrate Calendly into is easily so we can schedule these meetings easier and with a few clicks.”

“I have a few clients who still are adamant on using calendly and I am grateful at how well it integrates with Workspace so that hiccups don’t occur. ”

“Integration is important for members of my organization. I have not personally used it but they are super thankful that it is there. ”

“The integration with Calendly seems pretty seamless but I just integrated so I can't comment much on functionality just yet.”

“we integrated calendly calendar in another software than passed it through Zapier to add it to a shared google calendar.”

“This is where I have clients book their time and it Automatically appears on my google calendar. ”

“We use calendly and this is essential to working well with our google calendar and gmail”

“My reception service sets my consultations and they are also imported into my cRM ”

“We do a lot of whiteboard collaboration on lucidchart so being able to integrate easily is really important so all this useful information can be moved into more formal documents seamlessly”

“A powerful product with an assigned agent once you purchase the package with constant updates on how to change the product with handy hints and tools. ”

“We utilize Lucidchart a lot for making process maps to improve our overall efficiency without sacrificing the human element. Very handy.”

“I like Lucidchart a lot, since Jamboard is going away. Lucidchart works well and integrates the ways I need.”

“I wish Lucidchart sheets could be customisable within Google Slides. This would make my job way easier.”

“The application works in synergy with organisation goals and works better with workspace integration.”

“During meetings by Meet, in the realization of workshops, to do activities in a collaborative way.”

“It is not collaborative if you cannot share it with any coworker, at any time and from any mobile device. I use a drive not only for my work but for my family, it is simply a great product that allows fast synchronization that integrates with anything, pc applications, mobile, printers, it is a great product and I seriously have several drives in the cloud.”

“We use Drive as a database for all of our current (and some old) projects and information. It's easy to use and inter-organizational communication is fantastic!”

“Google Drive is an essential document management application that has a large storage capacity and allows end-users to quickly navigate to content.”

“Space and ability to quickly save and update or access everything I've ever used for a job or project is at my fingertips saved here.”

“My industry relies on me to have complete files so this is great for document backup”

“Hugely important to be able to all have the same files ready for everyone to use.”

“Docs is a great word processor, at first, it has a learning curve, but when you learn to use it it is great, it allows you many things, working collaboratively is the best, several people working on a document at the same time, making comments modifying text is amazing”

“Google Docs is a super useful tool to create different documents for the organization, sharing the documents and access to a template library.”

“While there are some programs that are a little more feature-rich, it's nice having Docs communicate with the rest of our Google programs.”

“I write all my documents on Docs and use Workspace to share or display them as examples via email or on my website.”

“Easy to use but could use some improvements in the features when comparing to Microsoft docs on the desktop”

“It is the essential word-processing application in the Google Workspace environment.”

“HubSpot CRM is free to use so integrating it with Workspace made sense because Workspace is a bit pricey so HubSpot CRM just made sense. The integration was easy, quick and straightforward. I use it for CRM purposes and having everything on one dashboard really gives a better perspective of things.”

“We write a lot of documents in google docs, including email templates used for marketing and knowledgebase articles, blog posts, and more, so it was easy to write it in Google Docs and then shoot it over for posting in HubSpot”

“Using Hubspot allows us to see when emails have been opened, but it often logs out of Hubspot randomly and needs to be logged back into which causes Gmail to refresh which can be annoying at times. ”

“Our CRM tool used every day for reporting KPIs, tracking deals and customer conversations - able to add info straight from Gmail tab which saves time”

“All of your meetings are automatically connected to our calendar, making our time management a lot simpler.”

“Yes, you guessed it! This is a Chrome extension and works beautifully with email.”

“Great for a voice/video meeting solution! Admittedly, other similar tools are another option but Google Meet is a great choice too!”

“Google Meet is one of the key products in Google Workspace which could be used to schedule meetings and video conferencing.”

“Due to the way of communicating with the users of the platform and the ease it offers”

“It is used for our weekly meetings and other meetings important to the company”

“It helps to directly go to the meeting using the meeting link on the emails.”

“Zapier integrations are the key to an entire world of APIs including marketing platforms, CRMs, ERPs, and even automating daily tasks and reporting.”

“It saves our team time by automating repetitive emails like website orders, transactional emails and sending out brochures. ”

“Via Zapier I update spreadsheets with numerical data so I know exactly how many sessions my clients have remaining. ”

“We like the ability to take our google information and have it set up to do automatic commands. ”

“I tried to integrate it when I trialed Zapier, but it wasn't used in the end.”

“It's a must with filing pre-lien and legal land documents, all products come into play when you need unfindable information. I have a series of products and software that make my job easy and I can always find what I'm researching or looking for!”

“Integration of Google maps is important for navigating to space and places needed in a professional context.”

“Yes I use Google maps quite often it makes it easier, a picture is worth 1000 words... (Henrik Ibsen)”

“We use links in our documents or notes that we use Google Maps to give us the locations.”

“I only use google maps for the map feature and synchronization is very important to us.”

“As a Product Owner, I extensively work with Jira for creating User stories, Epics and Features. This integration is extremely helpful to me. I can connect Gmail, Hangouts, Google drive and even my Google calendar to Jira cloud and easily create, comment or make changes on my Jira stories/tickets.”

“Great integrations and allows us to use both google docs and Jira ticketing seemlessly”

“We push to Google Chat messages when deployment do Stage and Prod starts & finishes”

“It's more a Jira to Google integration that allows us to view tickets within email.”

“Could have a better integration for more robust info dump to Jira workspace”

“It's a lot easier to import & export files directly, rather than downloading them onto my desktop then having to upload them onto the platform. Saves you a step.”

“I love the way I can have these two platforms communicate to help stay organized! ”

“The integration allowed to share designs within the workspace which is useful”

“I still have some creations I produced with Canva from years ago in archives!”

“1. Create and manage projects in Workfront and use Google Drive to store and share documents. 2. Track tasks and collaborate on projects in Workfront, and use Google Calendar to schedule tasks and meetings.3. Set up notifications in Workfront for updates, and use Google Hangouts for video conferences. ”

“The integration with Adobe Workfront is important because it facilitates effective project management, allowing teams to plan, execute, and monitor project progress in one place. It enables real-time collaboration among team members using Google tool”

“Work management and project management software that features enterprise work management, issue tracking, document management, time tracking and portfolio management and very critical”

“I was able to integrate everything right into Google Workspace with ease and to make it more streamline for our business ”

“Google allows us to integrate Trello so we can easily create and assign tasks to employees and contractors with ease and without logging into Trello.”

“Used by our creative department as a product management, it's important to share the status updates on our creative initiatives. ”

“Good integration, but unfortunately our team rarely needs/uses Trello. Some issues in syncing with Google Chat/Calendar.”

“for project management to keep track of tasks and share with other clients freely.”

“The Notion integration centralizes project management and knowledge sharing, making it easy to track tasks, access documents, and keep project details organized within a single platform.”

“We use notion for project management and the integration for emails, calendars, and scheduling is very crucial in our workflow.”

“This is my project management system, so it is important to link meeting docs, etc. to Notion. ”

“Notion allow for personal notes and can sync with Google Calendar and Docs. ”

“At the time, I used webhooks to send registration information into our kajabi account, where new members' payment plans and fulfillment were managed. It also integrates easily with google calendar.”

“Monday is the primary project management platform I use with larger businesses and the integration capabilities are beyond my expectations to support project and task management! ”

“We stopped using Monday.com when we realized Google Workspace offers a lot of similar functionality if you know how to use it.”

“Feeds information to my CRM and in turn the CRM creates emails and calendar events.”

“There are some higher features that are not available in Google Workspace, which is understandable. However, these types of features are slowly being available in the workspace”

“Must for any organisation that is growing as it offers complete collaborative experience ”

“It was important because it allowed me to use my applications in the new software ”

“It enhances collaborative brainstorming and planning within Google Workspace. This integration streamlines the process of sharing and editing visual documents in real-time, fostering more effective communication and creativity within teams.”

“Miro is used to Create, collaborate and centralize communication across your company and google to save it”

“As a Product Owner, I extensively work with Confluence for product requirement management. And having the integration between Google workspace and Atlassian has been such a breeze for me. ”

“We used Confluence to communicate with our product managers and software team. Integration with Google Workspace made things easier.”

“We use Zoho for all our CRM tasks and the integration with Gmail is a huge help!”

“Sales workflow needed an automated software for billing and traces of business ”

“I got google workspace through the squarespace startup process. Was free for first year and enabled me to have a email that matched my domain however it now costs me almost $150p/year”

“Squarespace allows us to utilize Google Workspace through our website domain.”

“It's vital that Acuity Scheduling and Google Workspace integrate with one another to allow for a shared calendar.”

“Super easy to link my Google calendar to Aquity Scheduling, the integration is quick and seamless.”