Box

Box

About this app

Winner of PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award: "There are plenty of excellent file-syncing storage services, but, on Android, the Box app takes the cake."

Securely store, manage and share all your files, photos and documents with 10GB of free cloud storage from Box.

With Box, you can easily:
* Access and work on all your files at your fingertips
* Access your content online, from your desktop, and on your Android phone or tablet
* Share important documents, contracts, visuals and more
* Preview 200+ file types with full screen quality
* Give feedback from anywhere by commenting and mentioning colleagues and partners

Box for Android features:
* 10GB of free cloud storage to back up all your docs
* Upload PDFs, Microsoft Office files, photos, videos and other files to Box
* View and print 200+ file types, including PDF, Word, Excel, AI, and PSD
* File-level security controls
* Offline access to files and folders
* Share huge files with just a link - no need for attachments
* Add comments to documents to send feedback
* Real-time search
* Search within PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, Word files
* Updates feed to find recently viewed or edited files
* Open files in hundreds of partner apps that let you annotate, e-sign, edit and more
* Box for Android mobile app is "Box Shield" enabled

Box helps you get work done on the go. It's fast, secure and simple to use, so you can be productive from anywhere, which is the reason 57,000 businesses, including Eli Lilly and Company, General Electric, KKR & Co., P&G and The GAP securely access and manage their critical information with Box.

Ratings and reviews

Latest version is using up gigabytes of local storage for data, uploads fail due to lack of local storage, it's a bit of a mess at the moment (I don't really trust it to work properly, and have to spend time on housekeeping my phone as it uses up all the free space available, and I get the "some functions may not be available" problem). Kind of dissappointing as it used to be problem free.

App is good, the speed and facilities are good and the backup support is helpful, if not especially capable. I'd recommend the service and the app, but my single biggest issue with this service, and it's a HUGE negative is the fact that shared links require people you're casually sharing to sign into an account of their, and it seems, in an app on their own device. Quick and easy share of a file to be viewed just in a browser by someone without a Box account seems to be impossible.

I've been using this for personal stuff for years. It syncs with my laptop and I can access Box via a browser on any device. I have had one or two minor issues with this app but have found that uninstalling and reinstalling sorts things out. So far I really can't fault it. It's the best thing out there for what I need. But I would like a way of letting at least one person have full access after I die, without letting them have the password now. Is that possible?

What’s new

The Box team is always working to make your experience better, so you can 10x your work life.
This version includes:
- Bug fixes
- Performance improvements
Thank you for using Box!