Productivity Review
Box
Deep Dive Analysis
Box stores and shares files with enterprise governance: retention policies, legal holds and detailed permissions.
Target Audience
Regulated organisations that need content governance, not just storage.
The Final Verdict
"Buy it for compliance requirements. For plain file sync it is more than you need."
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What we checked
Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.