- What does Google Keep do: Google Keep is an easy-to-use, note-taking service that’s part of the free web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. With Google Keep, users quickly capture different kinds of ideas, thoughts, notes including text, lists, images, & audio and set remainders. It allows the users to record plain text, collaborate, organize, edit, or share them with others using collaboration tools.
- Launch year: 2013
- Company Name: Google
- Headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States.
- Number of Google Keep subscribers: 500 million (2019)
- Platforms: Web, Android, iOS
- Total Downloads: 300K in August 2021 Worldwide
- Google Keep is most often used by companies with employees’ size: 50-200 employees
- Industries that use Google Keep: Computer Software industry, Higher Education, Marketing and Advertising and Information Technology and Services
- Top 3 countries for Google Keep usage: United States, India, Canada
- Top 3 Competitors or similar products: Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Zoho Notebook
- Key features: Extract text from images and audio, add background color, upload files to your notes, add custom labels, sort notes using color coding, users can set reminders to their notes and configure them to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, annually, or at any custom interval. Share ideas easily with friends and family
- Pricing plan: Google Keep is a completely free app with 15 GB of free storage. Also, available in subscription plans with Business Starter ($6 per user per month, one can get more by paying $1.99 per month for 100GB total, $2.99 per month for 200GB, or $9.99 per month for 2TB) comes with 30 GB per user, Business Standard ($12 per user per month) and Business Plus ($18 per user per month) upgrade that limit to 2 TB and 5 TB, respectively. Custom storage plans are also available for larger organizations.
- Awards: Google Keep won TabbyAwards in the year 2018, Top 3 Most Worthy Software, Top 10 Fastest-Growing Software, Top 10 Most Popular Software
- Criticism:
- No text formatting
- Difficult to undo changes
- Has character limit i.e., 20,000
- No notifications are sent when tasks are added to shared lists.
- Google Keep doesn’t integrate with Google Calendar or Tasks
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