Can we have a Dropbox Family plan?

[Jean-Marc K.]

Hi Dropbox,

I currently have a Dropbox Pro account that we share with the family of 4. I would like to have a separate account per family member, but I am not willing to pay for four Dropbox Pro accounts. I think there is a market for a Dropbox Family plan. My thinking is that the total space for the family is 1 TB, the size of a Pro account. You could charge a reasonable amount per additional family member. I envision that you limit the number of family members such that this will not compete with your Dropbox Business offering.

Kind Regards.

[Walter]

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[Michael B.2]

Dropbox is great and better than any other cloud storage... I only have two issues 1) the plans 2) shared folder quota. 1) It would be awesome if they had a shared family plan, $10 per month 1TB for 1 user + $2 per month for additional users up to 4 users. 2) Most other cloud storage providers dont included shared folders to the quota of the people you share with, I understand the reason why Dropbox does this but I think any paid account should be able share folders with impacting the other persons quota. Because of these 2 issues I am looking for an alternative, I would go Google Drive but I don't like how photo from Smartphones are uploaded to Google Photo and not Google Drive.

[Mark]

This has been suggested a few times but the general consensus seems to be it'll almost certainly never happen as it would become a 'cheap' version of Business.

[Michael B.2]

Hence having a limit of 4 users, im sure dropbox is targeting businesses big than 4 people. It will happen but is Dropbox going to lead or follow the competition. Anyway found a solution to my Google Drive issue of uploading photos from a phone to Google Drive and not Google Photos, use Gallery Drive Sync app. Guess I might just use Google Drive instead. Let me know Dropbox once you get over your mindset of having a simplify product offering with a one size fit all mentality and ill be happy to give you my money.

[Chad L.1]

This is certainly a good idea. My wife has pro, and we are planning on putting all our photos in there. I would pay $2 per month to share that space, but I won't spend $10 per month to get pro myself. I will either find a work around, or just deal with it.

[Jean-Marc K.]

I am also looking for a family plan. My wife and I currently share one dropbox pro account. In the root we have folders that we share, and we have one folder each. It's not perfect, but not worth $10 a month for separate pro accounts. Especially since we don't even reach 100 GB of data in our shared dropbox account.

[Mark]

I'd love this as well, but, personally cant see it happening - it would be too similar to Dropbox for Business and I imagine too many people would 'downgrade' to it same as they use Pro for business use now

[Rory C.1]

I completely agree that there is a market for a Family Plan. I posted the same idea about 8-12 months ago, and who certainly pay for this service. the Business offering is overkill for a family.

[Dan C.38]

I'm looking to change from Dropbox due to the shared folder issue. The file's owner should determine whose quota the file counts against. Double, triple, quadruple counting files - doesn't work for me. And the inability to share folders with people who don't have the larger plan - that's not the space for. Looking at Google Drive or OneDrive. Used to love Dropbox, but it looks like I'll be leaving soon.

[Jean-Marc K.]

I have looked at OneDrive. Last I checked OneDrive doesn't sync shared folders to PC's. Therefore OneDrive is not an option for me.
I have looked at Google Drive as well. It appears to have all the options I need for my family. But the Google Drive software had a severe impact on performance of my laptop. Could be because I had the dropbox software installed as well, or some other reason. In the end I decided to stick to Dropbox. But, I think I am going to give Google Drive another try.

[Michael B.2]

Also with OneDrive last time I checked you couldn't access shared folder via the desktop app you could only access shared folders from the web portal. I run both Google Drive and Dropbox on multiple computers and have never had an issue.