What do you think? Do you agree with our conclusion? Let us know in the comments.OCR works well in OneNote, but the conversion quality will depend on the quality of the source image or file printout you use. However, if you already have an account with both, neither, or are up for persuasion, Office Online, in our opinion, offers the better overall experience. Which of these services you choose to use will largely depend on which company’s productivity suites you use more extensively now – if you only have a Gmail account, you may well want to stick with it rather than signing up to, and vice versa. Office Online vs Google Docs: the verdict Where Microsoft’s offering falls down, however, is the iOS version requires an Office 365 subscription. On the other hand, there are free Office Online apps available to download for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. There’s no Google Docs for Windows Phone, though. Free, usable apps are available on Android and iOS, the two biggest mobile operating systems in the world, although you do have to download Sheets, Docs and Slides separately. This is an area where Google Docs comes out shining. Office Online vs Google Docs: mobile integration Unlike Office Online, it’s not displayed in the side-bar menu – in fact, you have to go to the “even more from Google” section of the company’s website, which will open in a new tab, to find it and even then it’s tucked away right down the bottom.

If you didn’t go looking for it, you wouldn’t know it was there. Google’s note taking app, Google Keep, by contrast, is buried. As mentioned earlier, it’s very easy to move between them. Where Office Online has the upper hand again is it also brings together the Calendar, People (contacts) and, importantly, OneNote apps with its productivity services.

Office Online vs Google Docs: IntegrationĪs mentioned, when you sign up for or Gmail, you get the companies’ other free cloud services thrown in.īoth Google Drive and OneDrive are well integrated with their respective cloud storage offerings, and accessing them will also give you access to your documents created on Google Docs or OneDrive, as well as anything else you have in there.īoth offer grid view with document previews and list view, so on this front there’s really little difference between the two.

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