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OneDrive

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OneDrive FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does OneDrive offer?

OneDrive has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $1.99/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of OneDrive?

OneDrive has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does OneDrive support?

OneDrive supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

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Q. Does OneDrive support mobile devices?

OneDrive supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone

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Q. Does OneDrive offer an API?

No, OneDrive does not have an API available.

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Q. What other apps does OneDrive integrate with?

OneDrive integrates with the following applications:
Microsoft 365

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Q. What level of support does OneDrive offer?

OneDrive offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Email/Help Desk, Phone Support

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OneDrive product overview

Price starts from

1.99

Per month

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What is OneDrive?

OneDrive is a secure access, sharing and file storage solution which enables users to store and share photos, videos, documents, and more anytime, anywhere via any device, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobiles. Offering a centralized platform, OneDrive gives users quick access to all of their photos and documents. OneDrive allows users to keep all of their favorite photos and videos safe, even if something happens to their device, with remote device wiping technology.

Key benefits of using OneDrive

  • Smart files: Access OneDrive files anytime, anywhere without using all your storage or bandwidth. Choose the files you want online and offline.

  • Easy saving: Every Windows Store app can save files directly to OneDrive without any extra work

  • Camera roll backup: Choose to automatically upload all of the photos and videos you create with your built-in camera to the Camera Roll folder, in either good or best quality. It even works on a metered connection.

  • Sync settings: You can now backup as well as sync your PC/device settings, including start screen settings, installed apps, app data, and even your Internet Explorer favorites.

  • Mobility: Native mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows phones give you the flexibility to access and share files on the go.
  • Typical customers

    Freelancers
    Small businesses
    Mid size businesses
    Large enterprises

    Platforms supported

    Web
    Android
    iPhone/iPad

    Support options

    FAQs/Forum
    Knowledge Base
    Email/Help Desk
    Phone Support

    Training options

    Videos

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    Value for money

    4.4

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    OneDrive features

    Functionality

    4.4

    /5

    11.6K

    Total features

    34

    9 categories

    Most valued features by users

    Collaboration Tools
    Access Controls/Permissions
    Document Management
    Alerts/Notifications
    Third Party Integrations
    Search/Filter
    Document Storage
    File Sharing

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    OneDrive users reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.5

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    11.6K

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    Rating breakdown
    • Value for money
    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend8.38/10
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    Pros
    Quick synching and the ability to organise folders and sub-folders is great. Overall, a decent program and certainly useful for small businesses such as myself.
    What I like best about this software is its ease of use and integration with Microsoft products and services.
    This allow my team members files to be in its own "space" and this was a good thing. This was what I liked about the OneDrive but.
    Cons
    OneDrive has changed in 2021 and this change has brought about headache for all. No syncing because the OneDrive is locked and awaiting action by users who has no idea as to what is wrong.
    Where do I begin, it constant instability, it is very hard to use use, sharing process and access permission are coming from hell and the version control is simply sadistic.
    The most problem I have as a user is the sync problem, sometimes it gets stuck and you have to restart your computer.

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    Andrew R P.

    Director of Family Minstries

    Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees

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    Well integrated Document Sharing; Lacks Polish

    Reviewed 2 years ago

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    Andrew P.: Hi, I'm Andrew. I'm a pastor. I'm reviewing OneDrive. I give it three out of five stars. And...

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    Chris S.

    Lead System Engineer

    Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees

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    Overall Rating

    Easy to use and Functional Cloud File Storage

    Reviewed 2 years ago

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    Damian C.

    Management Consulting, 1-10 employees

    Used daily for 2+ years

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    • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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    Benchmark in Cloud File Sharing and Collaboration.

    Reviewed 3 years ago

    I'm pretty sold on OneDrive due to it's key integration across the Office family. I use both Windows and MacOS and have to say MS do need to up their game on their offering to Mac users. The experience is still integrated and seamless but OneDrive interface lacks the depth of its Windows counterpart. Pricing is negated when part of the 365 Suite and you get 1TB too (readers to check at time of reading). Taken on its own, you can probably find cheaper storage solutions per buck but you may lack security and collaboration tools. OneDrive works extremely well on mobile devices too and makes document management on the go, easy. It's ability to collect a file from any PC you've setup a OneDrive folder one is hugely beneficial.

    Pros

    I rate OneDrive highly due to the safe-guarding/keeping features, the straightforward nature of One Drive and the intuitive UI. If you are fully integrated with Office then it provides a seamless experience to connect all Office apps for collaboration and synchronisation. I need files across various devices and OneDrive provides apps for all popular desktop OS's and device. Specific areas in order...

    Cons

    Storage - If you take it as a stand alone I would say that there are better options for storage capacity relative to OneDrive, for price versus storage. I have yet to experience the issue myself, but I have had colleagues who have claimed that they cannot gain access to folders or files that are shared and password protected. OneDrive lets MacOS down with it's less inspiring offering.

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    Mark Joseph F.

    Financial Services, 11-50 employees

    Used daily for 2+ years

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    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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    Cheaper Alternative to Dropbox plus Added Benefit of Microsoft Office Products

    Reviewed 3 years ago

    I have been using one drive for 2 plus years now and I could say it was a great decision to transfer from dropbox to one drive.

    Pros

    For several years I used dropbox to store files. Then I realized that there is a cheaper option and it is One Drive. This software is relatively cheaper at 1TB file storage. It also allowed me and my family members to share the software because it can be shared up to 5 users if you use the family plan. Overall, we are very satisfied with this software.

    Cons

    The software has some minor bugs if you use it with a Mac and not on a Windows OS. Further, the uploading of the files takes longer unlike in dropbox, the uploading is faster because dropbox only uploads changes made to the file and not the entire file. Further the problem is also when one drive detects duplicate files for example you are using your one drive in your macbook and windows laptop. There are times that the files get duplicated. It would have been nice to allow us to see those duplicate files so we can decide which one to retain or not. It seems difficult at this point. But I am hoping in the future versions it will be easier.

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    Rudy R.

    Real Estate, 1-10 employees

    Used daily for 2+ years

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    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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    One place to go, OneDrive to use.

    Reviewed 2 months ago

    Overall it's wonderful. It keeps all my pictures, good or bad....

    Pros

    How quickly I could set it up. I began using it when I needed to free up space very quickly for new customer fies.

    Cons

    I wished I received a bit more storage on the free version.

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    Andrei P.

    Computer Games, 1-10 employees

    Used other for 2+ years

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    • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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    Good integration but an average product with ups and downs

    Reviewed 3 years ago

    Losing some of my work and Microsoft changing their minds about the features of OneDrive (downgrading basically) and the slower speed made me change to other services. The first thing I do when I reinstall a machine is to turn it off and save the resources, which ~ 2 years ago were insanely high for what it had to do. OneDrive is basically bothering me when I am using Windows 10 as the OS pesters you to use it to the point where I struggle to turn it off and to keep it that way. I was quite surprised to see it getting activated every now and then after some major operating system updates.

    Pros

    I found that nowadays (as of May 2020), OneDrive has great integration with the Windows ecosystem and their other services such as outlook.com. A short while ago it always seemed like the integrations were in some sort of beta, sometimes working, sometimes not. Unfortunately I do not have any more pros for this as the competition does as good as a job as OneDrive, there really isn't much OneDrive stands out apart from the integration.

    Cons

    The biggest issue I encountered with OneDrive happened a few years ago, so I don't know if it's still relevant, however I feel that I should mention it because it was a turning point for me in switching from OneDrive to Dropbox and Google Drive. This also showed how vulnerable a cloud service is. I had files syncing in the sync folder and it was taking forever for some reason. I swapped to another...

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    Thien D.

    Education Management, 5,001-10,000 employees

    Used daily for 2+ years

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    • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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    Easy cloud storage service for Windows users

    Reviewed 2 months ago
    Pros

    Right now OneDrive is offered as part of the Microsoft 365 package, so it's definitely a good choice for frequent users of MS Office (such as attaching a large-sized file over email sent in Outlook). The accompanying mobile app for smartphones and tablets works decently most of the time.

    Cons

    Sharing files with non-Microsoft users is still somewhat limited in OneDrive. Syncing is also pretty slow, especially on devices running on a different operating system. Most of the time, this is not a big deal. But it's pretty annoying when I need to switch across devices during a work session.

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