Drive solved storage so well that the problem moved somewhere else. The file is safe and shareable, and the conversation about it is in a chat, the decision is in an email and the task it produced is in a third place. Six months later the file is there and the reason for it is gone. Delorean puts the thread inside the document.
| Google Drive | Delorean | |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | Excellent, with search and version history | A folder and file tree per company |
| Editing | Docs, Sheets and Slides, collaborative in real time | Open and edit Excel and Word; plain text notes |
| The conversation | Comments inside the file | Each document has its own thread, visible to whoever has access to it |
| Permissions | Per file and per folder, shareable by link | The company's: roles and projects, with guests limited to theirs |
| Generating a PDF | Yes | Not yet — it is on the roadmap |
| Real-time co-editing | Yes, several people at once | No |
| Connection to the work | A file in a folder | The document sits next to the ticket, the quote and the client it belongs to |
Written from each product's public documentation. They are mature tools and this page says where they are still better. No prices here: they change on their own and the page would end up lying without anyone touching it.
For company documents that belong to a project or a client, yes. For real-time collaborative editing with several people in one file, Drive is better and it is not close.
Real-time co-editing, search across everything, sharing by public link, and unlimited practical storage.
It keeps the conversation inside the document and under the same permissions as the rest of the company, so the reason for a file does not live in someone's chat history.
Yes, open and edit both.
Yes, plain text end to end — no proprietary wrapper around three lines.
Not yet. It is on the roadmap and it is a known gap.
Whoever has access to its project. A guest only sees theirs.
Not yet. Sharing tickets, documents and chats across companies is on the roadmap.
The file is stored and replaced; full version history per document is not there yet.
It depends on the plan, and the panel shows what you are using before you hit it.