Dropbox Paper vs Hancom Office

Dropbox Paper is a collaborative document tool for teams, built around documents with timelines, to-dos, and tables. To-dos can be assigned and given due dates, then viewed in a Things to do sidebar. Timelines collect deadlines, files, and to-dos and can be viewed by week, month, quarter, or year; on mobile, timelines are read-only. Paper is free, and a Dropbox account with sign-in is required to create or access documents. There is no limit on the number of Paper documents in an account, and each uses less than 100 bytes of Dropbox storage. The separate Dropbox Paper mobile app was discontinued on October 9, 2025, while Paper remains available on the web. In the Dropbox desktop app, Paper documents open on dropbox.com unless exported as PDF, DOCX, or Markdown. Paper supports real-time collaboration, track changes, and offline editing. Some users can connect Paper with Google or Outlook calendars to link documents to events and make meeting notes. Documents are encrypted at rest with 256-bit AES and in transit with SSL/TLS.

Hancom Office is a suite of document applications including Hwp, Cell, Show, Addons, Word, and PDF tools. It runs on the web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, with offline desktop apps for Windows and Mac. On Android, the app opens and edits HWP, Office Open XML, PDF, CSV, TXT, and other documents; mobile tools include freehand drawing, notes, annotations, and tablet presenter screen sharing. Hancom Docs adds real-time collaborative editing across devices and can manage Dropbox, Box, Evernote, Google Drive, and OneDrive in one account. The suite supports HWPX documents with tags for reuse as data. Hancom Docs can edit Office files stored in Google Drive, but cannot view or edit Google-created Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Forms. A free plan is listed at free with 2GB storage, viewers for Windows and Mac, and web/mobile Hancom Office. Commercial users and organizations must use the Business plan; pricing is listed on request.