OneDrive vs. OneNote

OneDrive

1,027 Reviews and Ratings

OneNote

927 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
OneDrive	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	OneDrive from Microsoft is a cloud storage and file syncing service.	$5 per month
OneNote	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's OneNote is a digital note-taking app, supporting photos, annotating, web page clipping, emailing, and synchronizing notes across devices.	N/A

Pricing

OneDrive

OneNote

OneDrive for Business Plan 1: $5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
OneDrive for Business Plan 2: $10.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Standard: $12.50
Per Month (Annual Commitment)

Microsoft OneNote: Free

Pricing Offerings
OneDrive	OneNote
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

OneDrive can be purchased as a standalone tool, or as part of a Microsoft 365's business suite.

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	OneDrive	OneNote
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose OneDrive Though Dropbox has been in existence and popular, I found OneDrive to be much more effective in terms of pricing. And app support is better with OneDrive. Also as mentioned the new feature of not downloading all files but showing the names gets my vote for OneDrive. One more … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Henkel Consultant in Finance and Accounting at Jeff Henkel (Accounting, 1-10 employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive seems to work similarly to both Apple iCloud and Google Drive. I have used Apple iCloud for a longer time and tend to keep all my personal files in iCloud. But for my small business, I mainly use OneDrive. I have used Google Drive less and mainly for collaboration with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive It's roughly the same as Googe Drive but underperforms when compared to Box and Dropbox. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Lauer Software Engineer in Engineering at Earth Networks (Environmental Services, 51-200 employees) Chose OneDrive I would say OneDrive is better than Amazon and Dropbox and about on par with iCloud and Google. OneDrive was best for us since we are a Microsoft shop. Its storage, collaboration, and office integration made it the best option for us. Google Drive is also used by us when … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive Though I would say that iCloud is more reliable, it is only compatible with Apple products. I use iCloud personally, but we do not own any Apple products as a business. I find that Dropbox can be confusing and not consistent with storage management. OneDrive solves the problem … Incentivized Helpful? Filip Witkowski Web Developer in Research & Development at TMP Worldwide (Marketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees) Chose OneDrive Dropbox might be less popular and slower. It is not that well integrated into document editing software (Office or OneNote), but Dropbox has one key (for me) feature that OneDrive does not. In Dropbox you have to upload simple HTML page, share the link to that HTML document and … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose OneNote Integration with other Microsoft Office products is much better with OneNote than any other note-taking tool. It's also crucial to have cloud-based syncing because I have used other products that only do local storage and you lose a lot of important information if that software … Incentivized Helpful? Joel Brache Technology Consultant in Customer Service at OneStrand (Publishing, 51-200 employees) Chose OneNote I tried using Evernote and it is an equally usable tool, however, I prefer the interface and capabilities of OneNote. OneNote seems much easier to use and understand. I think that may primarily be because OneNote is a Microsoft application and I am very used to using Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneNote For me, OneNote is way simpler and easier to use. Furthermore, the storage options was one of the key factors that I choose OneNote. Since it's a software for my PC, I can just store all the documents on my computer and I will never have the fear of running out of space and … Incentivized Helpful? Tiago Martines Graduate Assistant / Web Developer in Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose OneNote S-Note is very local and works only on your Samsung device. Attempting to share S-Note notes across devices will turn them into pictures, which are hardly useful on a PC. OneNote's format is standardized between PC/Mobile/Web. Also, OneNote is clearly better for the different … Incentivized Helpful? Brad Daugherty Virtualization Network Engineer in Information Technology at Onramp Access (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose OneNote OneNote is by far the easiest to get familiar with for our end users as well as its integration into the Microsoft suite has made adoption much easier with our employees. OneNote allows for Active Directory setting internally which help us administer and deploy the product … Incentivized Helpful? Babin Saha Sr. Technical Lead in Information Technology at First American Financial Corporation (Real Estate, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneNote I had used IBM Doors for requirement gathering though a document repository. It was hard to maintain as we had to always download the latest docs on a local [drive]. OneNote overcame this issue. Incentivized Helpful? Eugene Bodrero Product Engineer in Engineering at Dyacon, Inc. (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1-10 employees) Chose OneNote The handwriting recognition is ideal. I also trust Microsoft to be around in 10 years. The integration with Outlook might be used at some point to manage tasks. Helpful? Jeremy Ma Application Developer in Information Technology at CVS Caremark Corporation (Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneNote OneNote has a wider selection of fonts. OneNote also allows for more flexibility in formatting. Evernote, on the other hand, is a free service. Even though Office 365 allows for several GB of space on OneDrive, it is still a paid service, and Evernote gives free users more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneNote OnenOte has a great usability features that I like and the way it is integrated with the rest of the MS ecosystem of products which I use makes it that much more valuable. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

OneDrive

OneNote

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of OneDrive and OneNote
Feature	OneDrive 7.7 114 Ratings	OneNote - Ratings
Versioning	7.290 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video files	7.2101 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	6.395 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	8.1108 Ratings	00 Ratings
Access control	8.1109 Ratings	00 Ratings
File search	8.9114 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	8.1112 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of OneDrive and OneNote
Feature	OneDrive 7.2 109 Ratings	OneNote - Ratings
User and role management	7.297 Ratings	00 Ratings
File organization	8.1109 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device management	6.392 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of OneDrive and OneNote
Feature	OneDrive 7.1 113 Ratings	OneNote - Ratings
Performance	6.3112 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reliability	7.9113 Ratings	00 Ratings
Storage Reports	7.187 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	OneDrive	OneNote
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (114 ratings)	8.0 (71 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (5 ratings)	10.0 (13 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (13 ratings)	8.0 (11 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.8 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (36 ratings)	8.7 (10 ratings)