Box for Android

Scanning docs into PDFs from the app is great!

I’ve been using Box for about a year now, and it’s really proven itself to be a worthy competitor alongside other cloud storage providers these days. The upload speeds are pretty remarkable, and for the base subscription you get a lot of storage for a reasonable amount of money. For someone who primarily uses the mobile application though, a few feature improvements I could highly recommend would be related to the trash file and profile management. Updating card payment information requires the desktop site, and if you attempt to access it from a mobile browser you have to do a couple of things to bypass auto-opening the app and having to start over again from the browser. The trash file is only accessible on desktop as well, which isn’t the most convenient when you quickly decide that you have something in there that needs to be restored. Overall, happy with the service and quality of this. A few adjustments would only make it more user friendly and appealing overall.

This helps me do my job, its a great tool. The only thing I wish is that it displayed the full resolution of photos. It displays low-res, so annoying. Have to download things to get a better look

I love Box and all it’s functionality. Easy to use, navigate, and share files. Well done, Box Team!

Box works just fine if you wanted to share files with family members or schoolmates, but it doesn’t have the features in a power user or corporate environment. For example, there aren’t any mass-edit abilities, so I have hundreds of shared files at the top level that I have to remove one-by-one. Also, on iOS I can’t edit text files, just viewing. CMD+F doesn’t search either, as well as a host of other expected hot keys. It appears the developers are spending most the effort integrating into Apples productivity tools like Numbers/Pages/Keynote, but very little effort has been spent making the general experience better. Overall, it works well if you’re in high school or under, but not great otherwise.