Dropbox Paper vs Thinkfree 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.

Thinkfree Office combines an online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool for creating, viewing and editing documents. It supports DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX and ODF files in ODT, ODS and ODP formats. The product supports collaborative editing, real-time collaboration and track changes, with a maximum document size of 300 MB. Organisations can deploy it on-premises, in a private cloud or through the Hosted API option; Docker and Kubernetes are supported. In a self-hosted setup, documents, version history and access logs remain on infrastructure managed by the customer. Hosted API adapters include Google Drive, Dropbox and Amazon S3, with WOPI support for platforms such as SharePoint and Nextcloud; saved files return to customer storage. White-labeling and interface customization include logos and colors. A Doc2PDF option converts Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats to PDF while preserving layout. A free 30-day trial is available; the MCC License costs $900 a year, billed based on active browser tabs with a 30-tab minimum.