Dropbox (service)

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Dropbox

Developer(s)
Initial release

Dropbox, Inc.
June 2007; 9 years ago

Stable release

6.4.14 (July 7, 2016; 2 months ago[1])

Preview release

[]

7.4.30 (February 8, 2016; 7 months

ago[2]) []

Development status Active

Python[3]
Written in
Go[4]
(Alphabetical) Android,
BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry OS,
iOS, Linux, MeeGo Harmattan,
Operating system
OS X, Symbian, Windows NT,
Windows Phone, Windows 10
Mobile
Available in
17 languages
List of languages
(Alphabetical) Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian,
Italian, Korean, Malaysian, Polish, Brazilian
Portuguese, Portuguese, Russian, Castilian Spanish,
Latin American Spanish, Ukrainian
Type
Online backup service
Combined GPLv2 and
License
proprietary software[5] (Linux
Nautilus)
Alexa rank
82 (September 2016)[6]
Website
www.dropbox.com
Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox, Inc.,
headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file
synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.
Dropbox allows users to create a special folder on their computers, which Dropbox
then synchronizes so that it appears to be the same folder (with the same contents)
regardless of which device is used to view it. Files placed in this folder are also
accessible via the Dropbox website and mobile apps. Dropbox uses a freemium
business model, wherein users are offered a free account with a set storage size and
paid subscriptions for accounts with more capacity.[7]

Dropbox was founded in 2007, by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi,
as a startup company from the American seed accelerator Y Combinator.[8] Dropbox
provides client software for the OS systems Linux, OS X, and Windows NT; for the
mobile systems Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, and Windows Phone; and for web
browsers; as well as unofficial ports to MeeGo and Symbian.