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About Google Docs
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Create, edit and collaborate with others on documents from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Docs app. With Docs you can:
- Create new documents or edit existing files
- Share documents and collaborate in the same document at the same time.
- Work anywhere, anytime - even offline
- Add and respond to comments.
- Never worry about losing your work – everything is saved automatically as you type.
- Research, right in Docs with Explore
- Open, edit and save Word documents.
Permissions Notice
Contacts: This is used to give suggestions of people to add to files and share with.
Storage: This is used to save and open files on USB or SD storage.
- Create new documents or edit existing files
- Share documents and collaborate in the same document at the same time.
- Work anywhere, anytime - even offline
- Add and respond to comments.
- Never worry about losing your work – everything is saved automatically as you type.
- Research, right in Docs with Explore
- Open, edit and save Word documents.
Permissions Notice
Contacts: This is used to give suggestions of people to add to files and share with.
Storage: This is used to save and open files on USB or SD storage.
App Store
Create, edit, and collaborate on the go with the Google Docs app.
Work together in real time
* Share documents with your team
* Edit, comment and add action items in real time
* Never lose changes or previous versions of your document with version history
Create anywhere, anytime—even offline
* Capture spontaneous ideas on the fly
* Get things done, even on the plane, with offline mode
* Save time and add polish with easy-to-use templates
Search Google right in Docs
* Use Google Search without leaving your document
* Search all of your files in Drive, right in Docs
Edit and share multiple file types
* Open a variety of files, including Microsoft Word files, right in Google Docs
* Frictionless collaboration, no matter which application your teammates use
* Convert and export files seamlessly
Part of G Suite: Google’s intelligent apps for business
* Connect and collaborate with your team, using one suite—Gmail, Drive, Calendar and more
* Use Google’s AI to bring data insights to every employee
* Join more than 4M paying businesses who trust G Suite to power their organization
Permissions Notice
Camera: This is used to takes photos to insert into documents.
Photos: This is used to access photos under the control of Photos Application to let the users pick images to insert into documents.
Work together in real time
* Share documents with your team
* Edit, comment and add action items in real time
* Never lose changes or previous versions of your document with version history
Create anywhere, anytime—even offline
* Capture spontaneous ideas on the fly
* Get things done, even on the plane, with offline mode
* Save time and add polish with easy-to-use templates
Search Google right in Docs
* Use Google Search without leaving your document
* Search all of your files in Drive, right in Docs
Edit and share multiple file types
* Open a variety of files, including Microsoft Word files, right in Google Docs
* Frictionless collaboration, no matter which application your teammates use
* Convert and export files seamlessly
Part of G Suite: Google’s intelligent apps for business
* Connect and collaborate with your team, using one suite—Gmail, Drive, Calendar and more
* Use Google’s AI to bring data insights to every employee
* Join more than 4M paying businesses who trust G Suite to power their organization
Permissions Notice
Camera: This is used to takes photos to insert into documents.
Photos: This is used to access photos under the control of Photos Application to let the users pick images to insert into documents.
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Love it, but crashes often
Aug 13, 2019 I’m a writer and google docs is my go-to for writing. I love it, it’s simple and accessible from any device and saves automatically so I don’t lose anything if I accidentally close out. Actually, it’s pretty much perfectly me except for the fact that it starts lagging a bit if my document begins getting too long (I’ve had to start writing the second part of a story in a separate document which can get sort of annoying but also it’s not The Worst), AND that also brings me to the point of y review: this app crashes on me All. The. Time. I’ll be writing, and suddenly my screen will go black and then I’m on my home screen bc. Well, it crashed. No clue why, it’s happened on so many occasions with all different sized of documents, it just happens, and it’s so annoying because sometimes it kills y writing groove, you know? It’s be great if this could possibly be fixed. Happens on both iphone and iPad, probably more often with longer documents (maybe a hundred pages idk) but has also happened with shorter ones. I’ve been writing for maybe four hours and it’s happened to me three times today. Again, it’s definitely not a deal breaker, I love docs and I’ll never go for anything else, but it is super irritating.more -
Better for Personal Use
May 5, 2019 I’ve been a longtime user of Google Docs—around three or four years—and it’s been great for storing important documents. I’ve also used it a lot for jotting down ideas, writing creative stories, and other personal uses. I feel that these are what the app is best for. I’ve tried to use it several times for academic essays, and the current format does not support certain basic functions, especially with indentation, adding page numbers in MLA or APA, and so on. The spell check for Google Docs is also flawed, and frequently marks everyday words as misspelled, and then other words not in the regular dictionary as perfectly correct. The syncing is also kind of finicky sometimes, and you can lose work or have to restart the app multiple times in one sitting, if you’re somewhere that there is no ideal connection. So if you’re a student or a professional, you are also going to want Microsoft Word, which has more features and is easier to use. However, the syncing generally works very well, and I love being able to back up all my documents. The aesthetic appearance of the documents are also very appealing, and most of the basic writing functions are easy to access. Keyboard shortcuts still work, and those shortcuts match to whichever model of computer you are using, so you don’t have to learn anything terribly new to use the app competently. It’s super easy to add other contributors, and to restrict privacy/use settings. All in all it has served me very ell.more -
Sep 19, 2020 It's great but there are some issues they need to fix. It's terrible for editing documents on slow connections. Even if the document is saved offline, it doesn't open any document until it establishes an internet connection which can take a really long time with a slow internet. So if my connection is very slow, I can't open any file even if it's saved offline. Also it used to let me click on a misspelled word from the edit window and correct it instantly but in now that's gone.more -
Highly recommended, but definitely room for improvement
Aug 6, 2018 Google Docs is very, very useful as a whole, providing services that allow seamless collaboration and that solve many past horrors of word-processors (like the classic “I didn’t save my doc and now it’s gone foreverrrrr!!”). As great as it is on desktop, I personally found the transfer to mobile devices a little, well, less great. It’s obviously difficult to find an intuitive way to lay out all the functions of Docs on desktop onto a smaller screen, but it’s honestly such a huge hassle navigating comments and suggestions, even when I’m on my iPad. It’s also kind of annoying that I can’t zoom out more on a doc—basically, once the width of the page fills the screen, I can no longer zoom out. This doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it makes for a lot of tedious scrolling when an already long document has relatively large text. Additionally, there are these small annoying glitches that occasionally occur. For example, when I was editing a doc, I kept trying to delete a space, but it would always delete the space and the letter behind it. I tried over and over again to no avail... sigh.... It also seems to me that Docs can get kind of slow? I’m on a new device, so the hardware should be working fine, but there’s a huge lag when I’m trying to type in the app. Other than these few problems, everything else has been working fine and going smoothly.more -
Sep 27, 2020 There is a big problem with this app. When I write letters or novels in Urdu, the typing is very good, but when I make a PDF, some of Urdu letters get distorted. That's why I can't send PDF copies of novels and letters. Please fix this major problem as soon as possible so that an author can easily create a PDF.more
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Sep 25, 2020 It is great for turning documents to PDFs and other forms that you may need but what I don't like about it is that you can't take a downloaded document and upload it to this app to edit it it doesn't even have an edit option anywhere so that was a negative for me because their documents that are mine and I was unable to do thatmore -
Sep 25, 2020 I am trying to sign documents on a tablet and there is no way to do it within this app. Where are the File, Edit, Insert etc headings? The regular way to add a signature was Insert, Picture, Scribble. Why isn't part of the headings in android tablets.more -
Sep 21, 2020 I was very disappointed, this app is difficult to use. The app also lacks the option for selecting multiple photos at a time to create a file. There where lot of gliches and blinking of pages that I chose to create from my album. And I'm uninstalling rn. 🙁more -
Sep 21, 2020 App/Updates Horrible, no support don't want an automated message.Error messages kicks me off. Forced to reset my phone problem still there lost info because I am cautious about updated so do them manually. Concerns, hacking seems like the issue w GOOGLE.Its ridiculous me along w/others get an I am sorry and heres link GO! SMH Apparently there is a problem, get it together u all needs to contact by email or phone. NOT A LINK tons of hacked emails in my spam back along w a few in inbox😕more -
Sep 23, 2020 This is great but being able to copy and paste things onto this app would make my life a whole lot easier. More times than I can count, I had all of my work copied yet I couldn't paste it onto this app so I had to type it all out a second time.more
- Take your documents on the go when you create new or edit exiting files that can be shared to collaborators
- No matter where you are you can access your documents offline
- Simple to use interface makes it easy to add and respond to comments, research topics with Explore, and turn into Word documents
Reviewed by Chris on November 15, 2018
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Love it, but crashes often
Aug 13, 2019 I’m a writer and google docs is my go-to for writing. I love it, it’s simple and accessible from any device and saves automatically so I don’t lose anything if I accidentally close out. Actually, it’s pretty much perfectly me except for the fact that it starts lagging a bit if my document begins getting too long (I’ve had to start writing the second part of a story in a separate document which can get sort of annoying but also it’s not The Worst), AND that also brings me to the point of y review: this app crashes on me All. The. Time. I’ll be writing, and suddenly my screen will go black and then I’m on my home screen bc. Well, it crashed. No clue why, it’s happened on so many occasions with all different sized of documents, it just happens, and it’s so annoying because sometimes it kills y writing groove, you know? It’s be great if this could possibly be fixed. Happens on both iphone and iPad, probably more often with longer documents (maybe a hundred pages idk) but has also happened with shorter ones. I’ve been writing for maybe four hours and it’s happened to me three times today. Again, it’s definitely not a deal breaker, I love docs and I’ll never go for anything else, but it is super irritating.more -
I use this app a lot
Aug 10, 2019 I write original works and fan fics, and this app lets me work on them at any point. Just waking up and I have an idea, just hopping out of the shower, in the line at the store, lunch break, moments of clarity while gardening, you get the point. Since the first time I’ve used this app, to the many years later, I have stopped worrying about forgetting some idea I had before I get to my computer. Even if my phone is offline, I have been able to work on my stories. I think it really is my most used app on my phone. Also, because it auto saves, I HAVE NEVER HAD MY STORIES DISAPPEAR! Unlike other writing programs, that have lost me hours of work because of a blue screen, freezing, or other issues, I have never had the pain of opening a Google Doc and finding all my work gone. I do wish it had a better way to organize your files, as what it does have seems “meh.” But, at least, it has some form of organization. Lastly, I love that I can share the doc in various ways. This has been so helpful for me when I comes to sharing my stories. It lets those who are my beta reader comment and make suggestions, those who I wrote for have full access, and those who I want to let just read all have their own set of restrictions.more -
Essential Tool!! A Must-Have
Jul 9, 2019 Google Docs is a comprehensive cloud document service that let’s me share and create just about anything I could ever want or need. I’ve used it to polish up my resume, capture notes and ideas, record song lyrics, journal my dreams, create schedules, write stories, and more! The sharing features are fantastic; my sister and I co-authored a novel using Google Docs! We can edit and read each other’s work in real time, leave comments and suggestions, and use the chat to stay on the same page. Google Docs is THE essential writing tool for creative and practical uses — plus it has cloud storage that makes it seamless to work on your projects from any device! I’ll often be working on a story on my computer and move to my phone for edits, or pull it up to add an idea quickly while on-the-go. There’s also free templates to chose from that helped me format my resume and other official documents. I love Google Docs, and it definitely earned those 5 stars. I suggest it to anyone looking for a modern word processing application that is catered to usability and will exceed your expectations.more -
Sep 20, 2020 Has some major options missing. I love it but mostly as an extension to Google Keep - an app for notebooks rather a document editor like MS Word. Like most note keeping apps, it has files that only open in this app. You can download files in docx format among other but not in gdoc format. It means you can't back up your Google docs. Also missing a number of features like special indentmore -
Sep 28, 2020 The app is really good!The only problem for me us sometimes I delete stuff and it comes back to my documents, but I'm fine with that! I hope you have s great day and many more!more
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Better for Personal Use
May 5, 2019 I’ve been a longtime user of Google Docs—around three or four years—and it’s been great for storing important documents. I’ve also used it a lot for jotting down ideas, writing creative stories, and other personal uses. I feel that these are what the app is best for. I’ve tried to use it several times for academic essays, and the current format does not support certain basic functions, especially with indentation, adding page numbers in MLA or APA, and so on. The spell check for Google Docs is also flawed, and frequently marks everyday words as misspelled, and then other words not in the regular dictionary as perfectly correct. The syncing is also kind of finicky sometimes, and you can lose work or have to restart the app multiple times in one sitting, if you’re somewhere that there is no ideal connection. So if you’re a student or a professional, you are also going to want Microsoft Word, which has more features and is easier to use. However, the syncing generally works very well, and I love being able to back up all my documents. The aesthetic appearance of the documents are also very appealing, and most of the basic writing functions are easy to access. Keyboard shortcuts still work, and those shortcuts match to whichever model of computer you are using, so you don’t have to learn anything terribly new to use the app competently. It’s super easy to add other contributors, and to restrict privacy/use settings. All in all it has served me very ell.more -
Highly recommended, but definitely room for improvement
Aug 6, 2018 Google Docs is very, very useful as a whole, providing services that allow seamless collaboration and that solve many past horrors of word-processors (like the classic “I didn’t save my doc and now it’s gone foreverrrrr!!”). As great as it is on desktop, I personally found the transfer to mobile devices a little, well, less great. It’s obviously difficult to find an intuitive way to lay out all the functions of Docs on desktop onto a smaller screen, but it’s honestly such a huge hassle navigating comments and suggestions, even when I’m on my iPad. It’s also kind of annoying that I can’t zoom out more on a doc—basically, once the width of the page fills the screen, I can no longer zoom out. This doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it makes for a lot of tedious scrolling when an already long document has relatively large text. Additionally, there are these small annoying glitches that occasionally occur. For example, when I was editing a doc, I kept trying to delete a space, but it would always delete the space and the letter behind it. I tried over and over again to no avail... sigh.... It also seems to me that Docs can get kind of slow? I’m on a new device, so the hardware should be working fine, but there’s a huge lag when I’m trying to type in the app. Other than these few problems, everything else has been working fine and going smoothly.more -
Sep 26, 2020 This is very good, it's great for school work and just normal work, it saves automatically and it easy to access. You don't have to pay for a thing. It's easy to do and if you don't understand something there are loads on the Internet. In total this is amazing it's great for those who need to write stuff down!more -
Great, except...
Jun 18, 2018 Like most people of Generation Z, the later years of my education (8th grade-present) have greatly benefited from using Google applications such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google Docs’s amazing accessibility, collaboration tools, storage, and auto-save have always been what’s made it better than competing office tools. The app itself is great, and once you get the hand of using it on a hand held device, it makes working from almost anywhere possible. I’ve found myself using these Google applications for more than just essays and presentations now a days, as I begin to need work resumés and finance budgets. So really, Docs (and other Google applications) are great! Except, I’ve encountered an issue when using this Docs app. Now, this could be because of several reasons, however, I’ve found that after prolonged used, when typing, the keyboard begins to lag a bunch, making working on documents so frustrating. At first I thought that the keyboard could be lagging because my iPad might’ve over heated? But, the keyboard has lagged even when the iPad doesn’t feel warm. I’m not sure if internet connection might have something to do with it, but my Wifi is pretty strong, and I rarely encounter issues with it. That’s my only complaint, but other than that I really do love the app.more -
Love Google docs
Feb 19, 2018 I absolutely love google docs, especially since I’m in college and it saves your work automatically when your up at 2:00am trying to finish an essay that is due that same day and you fall asleep. There probably is away to do this, but if not I wish there would be away to categorize documents into different folders for different projects or classes and or poor year. I think this would be very helpful for me since one day I would love to show my kids that hard work does pay off. The slide shows are excellent and great for presenting history projects to make them at least semi fun and very easy to use once you learn to switch over from PowerPoint... but the basic outline I personally feel is similar yet differently. The docs were it is like Microsoft Word is very identical just a few extra perks of not having to save, having all of your work in one place, and very easy usage. The only reason for a 4 star was the fact is that if it doesn’t have the filing system “ I would be surprised if it didn’t” again probably haven’t figured it out, but have been using this program since 2015 at-least so I think I would have found it, but things fly over everybody's head sometimes “am I right or am I right?”more
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Sep 19, 2020 It's great but there are some issues they need to fix. It's terrible for editing documents on slow connections. Even if the document is saved offline, it doesn't open any document until it establishes an internet connection which can take a really long time with a slow internet. So if my connection is very slow, I can't open any file even if it's saved offline. Also it used to let me click on a misspelled word from the edit window and correct it instantly but in now that's gone.more -
Sep 27, 2020 There is a big problem with this app. When I write letters or novels in Urdu, the typing is very good, but when I make a PDF, some of Urdu letters get distorted. That's why I can't send PDF copies of novels and letters. Please fix this major problem as soon as possible so that an author can easily create a PDF.more -
Okay but needs change..
May 10, 2020 So I’m just a kid but I have to start off and say this app helps me do my homework but, it’s really hard to work on a phone but with an computer it’s hard to download. But for the phone you can kinda see what your typing but it is so hard!! I would say that it needs to make the lettering bigger on phone but keep it normal if you print it. Also I love updates to thing but this app is always the same, I mean I know it’s a really good app and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t get it, but it just needs some new features. But on a computer when you try to type with your group like in a group project and I’m just saying this because it’s really annoying do you really need to have there full name when there typing because I have friends that have long names and it has to show there full name and I don’t understand why you can’t just use there first name again not hating just telling you what’s going to happen and on top of that when your on a phone and you are trying to give it a title or just your teacher says to write is on the right side it is so hard because the pictures that they made are so small and it’s just really annoying. Okay just saying that you could change it and if your new it will be cool but after like a week or two it’s going to get really annoying. Okay y’all stay safe and byyyyeeee🙃more -
Google did me wrong at the worst possible moment
Nov 22, 2019 You know how we all rely on google for turning in class assignments? Well... IT DID ME WRONG AT THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT!!! I take AP World History and had something due today and couldn’t get on it until this weekend but this week it was updated for a big fix that has going on for weeks now that is still going on!!! The app crashes at random times whether it’s long or short periods of time, and this week it’s gotten worse to the point I can’t even see my cursor when I type on my phone anymore and whenever I try to exit out of the page to refresh, I suddenly see two icons of my own account that was recently on the doc and and still see the cursor I recently used on my doc. I was copying and pasting my work from one box onto another but suddenly no matter how many times I double tapped on my screen, I couldn’t paste, forcing me to restart my phone and try again and once I got back on my doc, I realized I never pasted my paragraph back on the doc and now my work is lost until I can get on a computer tomorrow and search my version history and revive my lost work!! Sad to say, google can’t be relied on for everything especially when it’s been having a problem that gone unnoticed and unsolved for over 2 months now.more -
Sep 2, 2020 Please add some FEATURES like in MS Word. The PDF feature is of very poor quality and we also can't increase or decrease the image size. And also there is a limited Font style.And make a instant file saver mode for people working in office.more
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Sep 25, 2020 It is great for turning documents to PDFs and other forms that you may need but what I don't like about it is that you can't take a downloaded document and upload it to this app to edit it it doesn't even have an edit option anywhere so that was a negative for me because their documents that are mine and I was unable to do thatmore -
Sep 23, 2020 This is great but being able to copy and paste things onto this app would make my life a whole lot easier. More times than I can count, I had all of my work copied yet I couldn't paste it onto this app so I had to type it all out a second time.more -
For the “world’s most powerful search engine, you sure can’t build a user friendly document creator”
Feb 4, 2020 I love that google docs lets you share your document and work simultaneously with others. It’s very convenient in that regard. However if there were another option for that purpose, I’d probably switch over. There are so many things in google docs that make it way harder and more frustrating than it needs to be. You can’t put text over an image, it’s a million steps just to find where text boxes are located, you can’t paste something in from Microsoft Word without the formatting being destroyed, it’s hard to set a tab-stop that will stay there when you move on to a new line, there are cntrl shortcuts that work for other document creators but not for google docs, and it’s almost impossible to customize a document to look different or engaging if you’re trying to make a handout. I could go on. I’m in my early 20s so it’s not like I’m just tech-incompetent—google docs is just needlessly frustrating to use. It’s all made more frustrating by the fact that google is such a huge company; they have the resources to make docs better but for some reason they don’t.more -
Sep 20, 2020 This is a good app for students but like a Google user named Gregory Fox said, the documents many a don't get backed up even after by saying the document is backed up. My work many a times gets discarded. Please fix this problem.more -
Not Quite Adequate — Especially for Real-Time Collaboration
Dec 21, 2017 Do you want to type stuff into a Google Doc that other people can read later? This is fine. Do you want to edit documents other people have created? This will do it. Want to do that collaboratively while several of you are sitting around a table? Put away your iPad and go get a laptop. This app has significant deficiencies. Suggestions and comments are entirely divorced from their location in the document. Other features are similarly hobbled. The enormous list of “Recent” documents is useless. Creating a new document doesn’t even put it at the top of the list. That new document goes right at the root of your Drive, by the way, with no option to create it exactly where you want it. The only way to keep things organized is through a long series of taps to move your new document to the desired location. The modal Edit/View interface is enormously frustrating. I don’t really like using Google Docs on a traditional computer. Using it on an iPad is worse.more
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Sep 25, 2020 I am trying to sign documents on a tablet and there is no way to do it within this app. Where are the File, Edit, Insert etc headings? The regular way to add a signature was Insert, Picture, Scribble. Why isn't part of the headings in android tablets.more -
Sep 21, 2020 I was very disappointed, this app is difficult to use. The app also lacks the option for selecting multiple photos at a time to create a file. There where lot of gliches and blinking of pages that I chose to create from my album. And I'm uninstalling rn. 🙁more -
Sep 21, 2020 App/Updates Horrible, no support don't want an automated message.Error messages kicks me off. Forced to reset my phone problem still there lost info because I am cautious about updated so do them manually. Concerns, hacking seems like the issue w GOOGLE.Its ridiculous me along w/others get an I am sorry and heres link GO! SMH Apparently there is a problem, get it together u all needs to contact by email or phone. NOT A LINK tons of hacked emails in my spam back along w a few in inbox😕more -
Sep 24, 2020 I am having a lot of problems with this app, for example, when I copy a text, the app hangs. If I try 3/4 times to restart the app, then it is copied.more -
Deletes data
Nov 22, 2019 I use google docs to type up reports, nearly everyday. I type my notes on a variety of apple devices, and usually it works well enough. But occasionally it will pull up an old version of the document, sometimes a few weeks old, and it’ll delete all the previous weeks worth of notes I’ve written. Today I typed up my daily note on my ipad, all my notes were on there (I had used a MacBook Air earlier that week with no problem either). Afterwards I went onto an iPad mini to add to my note and it pulled up a version from over 2 weeks prior, showing none of my notes that I had recently written. I quickly pulled out my phone and checked the doc and it was the exact same on there, both completely sync’d up. I tried to check the history of the notes to see if I could see my deleted notes, but it didn’t have anything recent to show. The only was I was able to save my doc was by turning on airplane mode on my iPad and then opening the doc so that it wouldn’t update, and then turning the WiFi back on so it could make the others sync to it. This is extremely worrisome to use a service that is supposed to sync your notes across devices, but may actually delete all your data.more
What’s Groovy
I have been using Google docs for years. I read some recent reviews and if anyone is having an issue backing up a file for editing a file, it's probably a login issue. If you have more than one Gmail, then you have more than one Google drive. The file has to be on the drive that you're logged into through Google docs. You can copy and back up files using the Google drive app. I save files both on my phone and on my drive so I have no problem editing offline.
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What’s Subpar
First time using , making an inventory of household items. Made table 4colums × 20 rows. Selected paragraph centered so info will be centered in each box, but every time I click on a new box it reverts back to offset paragraph. So it is set paragraph enter info, click on next box, set paragraph enter info, ect. ect. ect. It will take forever to complete inventory, I will probably uninstall.
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Love it, but crashes often
I’m a writer and google docs is my go-to for writing. I love it, it’s simple and accessible from any device and saves automatically so I don’t lose anything if I accidentally close out. Actually, it’s pretty much perfectly me except for the fact that it starts lagging a bit if my document begins getting too long (I’ve had to start writing the second part of a story in a separate document which can get sort of annoying but also it’s not The Worst), AND that also brings me to the point of y review: this app crashes on me All. The. Time. I’ll be writing, and suddenly my screen will go black and then I’m on my home screen bc. Well, it crashed. No clue why, it’s happened on so many occasions with all different sized of documents, it just happens, and it’s so annoying because sometimes it kills y writing groove, you know? It’s be great if this could possibly be fixed. Happens on both iphone and iPad, probably more often with longer documents (maybe a hundred pages idk) but has also happened with shorter ones. I’ve been writing for maybe four hours and it’s happened to me three times today. Again, it’s definitely not a deal breaker, I love docs and I’ll never go for anything else, but it is super irritating. -
Better for Personal Use
I’ve been a longtime user of Google Docs—around three or four years—and it’s been great for storing important documents. I’ve also used it a lot for jotting down ideas, writing creative stories, and other personal uses. I feel that these are what the app is best for. I’ve tried to use it several times for academic essays, and the current format does not support certain basic functions, especially with indentation, adding page numbers in MLA or APA, and so on. The spell check for Google Docs is also flawed, and frequently marks everyday words as misspelled, and then other words not in the regular dictionary as perfectly correct. The syncing is also kind of finicky sometimes, and you can lose work or have to restart the app multiple times in one sitting, if you’re somewhere that there is no ideal connection. So if you’re a student or a professional, you are also going to want Microsoft Word, which has more features and is easier to use. However, the syncing generally works very well, and I love being able to back up all my documents. The aesthetic appearance of the documents are also very appealing, and most of the basic writing functions are easy to access. Keyboard shortcuts still work, and those shortcuts match to whichever model of computer you are using, so you don’t have to learn anything terribly new to use the app competently. It’s super easy to add other contributors, and to restrict privacy/use settings. All in all it has served me very ell. -
It's great but there are some issues they need to fix. It's terrible for editing documents on slow connections. Even if the document is saved offline, it doesn't open any document until it establishes an internet connection which can take a really long time with a slow internet. So if my connection is very slow, I can't open any file even if it's saved offline. Also it used to let me click on a misspelled word from the edit window and correct it instantly but in now that's gone.
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Highly recommended, but definitely room for improvement
Google Docs is very, very useful as a whole, providing services that allow seamless collaboration and that solve many past horrors of word-processors (like the classic “I didn’t save my doc and now it’s gone foreverrrrr!!”). As great as it is on desktop, I personally found the transfer to mobile devices a little, well, less great. It’s obviously difficult to find an intuitive way to lay out all the functions of Docs on desktop onto a smaller screen, but it’s honestly such a huge hassle navigating comments and suggestions, even when I’m on my iPad. It’s also kind of annoying that I can’t zoom out more on a doc—basically, once the width of the page fills the screen, I can no longer zoom out. This doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it makes for a lot of tedious scrolling when an already long document has relatively large text. Additionally, there are these small annoying glitches that occasionally occur. For example, when I was editing a doc, I kept trying to delete a space, but it would always delete the space and the letter behind it. I tried over and over again to no avail... sigh.... It also seems to me that Docs can get kind of slow? I’m on a new device, so the hardware should be working fine, but there’s a huge lag when I’m trying to type in the app. Other than these few problems, everything else has been working fine and going smoothly. -
There is a big problem with this app. When I write letters or novels in Urdu, the typing is very good, but when I make a PDF, some of Urdu letters get distorted. That's why I can't send PDF copies of novels and letters. Please fix this major problem as soon as possible so that an author can easily create a PDF.
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I use this app a lot
I write original works and fan fics, and this app lets me work on them at any point. Just waking up and I have an idea, just hopping out of the shower, in the line at the store, lunch break, moments of clarity while gardening, you get the point. Since the first time I’ve used this app, to the many years later, I have stopped worrying about forgetting some idea I had before I get to my computer. Even if my phone is offline, I have been able to work on my stories. I think it really is my most used app on my phone. Also, because it auto saves, I HAVE NEVER HAD MY STORIES DISAPPEAR! Unlike other writing programs, that have lost me hours of work because of a blue screen, freezing, or other issues, I have never had the pain of opening a Google Doc and finding all my work gone. I do wish it had a better way to organize your files, as what it does have seems “meh.” But, at least, it has some form of organization. Lastly, I love that I can share the doc in various ways. This has been so helpful for me when I comes to sharing my stories. It lets those who are my beta reader comment and make suggestions, those who I wrote for have full access, and those who I want to let just read all have their own set of restrictions. -
This is very good, it's great for school work and just normal work, it saves automatically and it easy to access. You don't have to pay for a thing. It's easy to do and if you don't understand something there are loads on the Internet. In total this is amazing it's great for those who need to write stuff down!
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Essential Tool!! A Must-Have
Google Docs is a comprehensive cloud document service that let’s me share and create just about anything I could ever want or need. I’ve used it to polish up my resume, capture notes and ideas, record song lyrics, journal my dreams, create schedules, write stories, and more! The sharing features are fantastic; my sister and I co-authored a novel using Google Docs! We can edit and read each other’s work in real time, leave comments and suggestions, and use the chat to stay on the same page. Google Docs is THE essential writing tool for creative and practical uses — plus it has cloud storage that makes it seamless to work on your projects from any device! I’ll often be working on a story on my computer and move to my phone for edits, or pull it up to add an idea quickly while on-the-go. There’s also free templates to chose from that helped me format my resume and other official documents. I love Google Docs, and it definitely earned those 5 stars. I suggest it to anyone looking for a modern word processing application that is catered to usability and will exceed your expectations. -
Okay but needs change..
So I’m just a kid but I have to start off and say this app helps me do my homework but, it’s really hard to work on a phone but with an computer it’s hard to download. But for the phone you can kinda see what your typing but it is so hard!! I would say that it needs to make the lettering bigger on phone but keep it normal if you print it. Also I love updates to thing but this app is always the same, I mean I know it’s a really good app and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t get it, but it just needs some new features. But on a computer when you try to type with your group like in a group project and I’m just saying this because it’s really annoying do you really need to have there full name when there typing because I have friends that have long names and it has to show there full name and I don’t understand why you can’t just use there first name again not hating just telling you what’s going to happen and on top of that when your on a phone and you are trying to give it a title or just your teacher says to write is on the right side it is so hard because the pictures that they made are so small and it’s just really annoying. Okay just saying that you could change it and if your new it will be cool but after like a week or two it’s going to get really annoying. Okay y’all stay safe and byyyyeeee🙃 -
Has some major options missing. I love it but mostly as an extension to Google Keep - an app for notebooks rather a document editor like MS Word. Like most note keeping apps, it has files that only open in this app. You can download files in docx format among other but not in gdoc format. It means you can't back up your Google docs. Also missing a number of features like special indent
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I am out of words It is the best App.
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The app which helped me in many ways
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Nice app for content writter
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I would like to see what else Google have to offer
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Love it, but crashes often
I’m a writer and google docs is my go-to for writing. I love it, it’s simple and accessible from any device and saves automatically so I don’t lose anything if I accidentally close out. Actually, it’s pretty much perfectly me except for the fact that it starts lagging a bit if my document begins getting too long (I’ve had to start writing the second part of a story in a separate document which can get sort of annoying but also it’s not The Worst), AND that also brings me to the point of y review: this app crashes on me All. The. Time. I’ll be writing, and suddenly my screen will go black and then I’m on my home screen bc. Well, it crashed. No clue why, it’s happened on so many occasions with all different sized of documents, it just happens, and it’s so annoying because sometimes it kills y writing groove, you know? It’s be great if this could possibly be fixed. Happens on both iphone and iPad, probably more often with longer documents (maybe a hundred pages idk) but has also happened with shorter ones. I’ve been writing for maybe four hours and it’s happened to me three times today. Again, it’s definitely not a deal breaker, I love docs and I’ll never go for anything else, but it is super irritating. -
I use this app a lot
I write original works and fan fics, and this app lets me work on them at any point. Just waking up and I have an idea, just hopping out of the shower, in the line at the store, lunch break, moments of clarity while gardening, you get the point. Since the first time I’ve used this app, to the many years later, I have stopped worrying about forgetting some idea I had before I get to my computer. Even if my phone is offline, I have been able to work on my stories. I think it really is my most used app on my phone. Also, because it auto saves, I HAVE NEVER HAD MY STORIES DISAPPEAR! Unlike other writing programs, that have lost me hours of work because of a blue screen, freezing, or other issues, I have never had the pain of opening a Google Doc and finding all my work gone. I do wish it had a better way to organize your files, as what it does have seems “meh.” But, at least, it has some form of organization. Lastly, I love that I can share the doc in various ways. This has been so helpful for me when I comes to sharing my stories. It lets those who are my beta reader comment and make suggestions, those who I wrote for have full access, and those who I want to let just read all have their own set of restrictions. -
Essential Tool!! A Must-Have
Google Docs is a comprehensive cloud document service that let’s me share and create just about anything I could ever want or need. I’ve used it to polish up my resume, capture notes and ideas, record song lyrics, journal my dreams, create schedules, write stories, and more! The sharing features are fantastic; my sister and I co-authored a novel using Google Docs! We can edit and read each other’s work in real time, leave comments and suggestions, and use the chat to stay on the same page. Google Docs is THE essential writing tool for creative and practical uses — plus it has cloud storage that makes it seamless to work on your projects from any device! I’ll often be working on a story on my computer and move to my phone for edits, or pull it up to add an idea quickly while on-the-go. There’s also free templates to chose from that helped me format my resume and other official documents. I love Google Docs, and it definitely earned those 5 stars. I suggest it to anyone looking for a modern word processing application that is catered to usability and will exceed your expectations. -
Has some major options missing. I love it but mostly as an extension to Google Keep - an app for notebooks rather a document editor like MS Word. Like most note keeping apps, it has files that only open in this app. You can download files in docx format among other but not in gdoc format. It means you can't back up your Google docs. Also missing a number of features like special indent
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The app is really good!The only problem for me us sometimes I delete stuff and it comes back to my documents, but I'm fine with that! I hope you have s great day and many more!
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Fantastic with some suggestions
I love the way docs works because it saves your data constantly and it doesn’t glitch on you and it provides you with so many ways to type notes for school, writing, and much more. I do have some suggestions to make the work flow for taking notes easier though. When it comes to fonts, there are specific ones I like to use for notes, but it becomes a pain to have to go back and switch it to the font you like instead of the default Ariel. The same goes for the headings and other text variations. They default to Ariel instead of the font that you were using before hand. Another suggestion I have is to make a keyboard short cut for the horizontal line. That would make dividing sections of writing way easier. The last suggestion I have is to also make a key board short cut for the list option styles. For example, I don’t like using the default dot style for the list. I like using the star one because it makes the list more interesting to look at. So instead of defaulting to the dot style it could default to the style of list that you were using before hand. For example, I would be using the star style of list and then I would section that list off with a horizontal line and then begin to start a new list that would then default to the star style. In general, maybe you guys could make google docs more customizable or at least have let it have the option to be more customizable with custom keyboard commands for different things. -
I had edited the title of document by touching 'Untitled' in Google Docs. But this convinient way is now not available since the updates that I don't know when it is updated. Please way back this function.
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Accessible anywhere
Before knowing about Goggle Docs I would use word, a coworker who was also in school showed me how to access it on my phone if I’m on the go, or just sitting at my desk. It was much more enjoyable and easy to use when needing to jump back on at any time. I have told others in my class about google docs, it just took a while for me to actually access all my emails that I can link to . It saved me time logging into a computer, when I’m already looking at my phone. It’s better than word. Also when having errors it allows you to see a correction or just add a comment on the side so you can either fix or re word later. I really like that I can pull it up on my phone and allow a friend to read from my laptop for a review on some thing I’ve missed while working and writing. The application saved me a lot of time. Thank you! I think if there were step for first timers also once you open a google account explain the many options you can do with the application!!! -
I ❤️ Google Docs but...
Well, honestly, Google Docs is AMAZING! I love all the features and it just has this very nice atmosphere and it’s just...AWESOME!!! But there is just ONE little problem. You see, before I had an iPhone, I had an LG phone. Specifically, the LG Fortune. And when I had that phone, you could put emojis in the text. But NOW I can’t even add an emoji! I bet you’re thinking this is useless, but what about when I’m writing a story or something? Like for example, I add a texting part to my story. Then, I do it like someone adds an emoji to their text. It WOULDN’T appear! It kinda get’s me a little disappointed because it ruins the whole book. I don’t care if whoever’s reading this thinks I’m dumb or stupid, but hey! I’m saying MY opinion! Isn’t that what a review is for? To share your opinion about a thing (in this case, an app)? Anyway, I just think that Google Inc. should consider this and improve it or fix it. But overall, Google Docs is an extraordinary app that I recommend to everyone. 😄 -
50/50
I’ve been using google docs for 3 years now. Personally, I prefer the laptop as it is easier to type on, and type much more freely. But, on my laptop, accessing google docs, contains needing WiFi/service to type on / loading chrome or a web browser. By that, it’s not portable, or able to use on the go. I’ve used google docs on my iPad before, and I type pretty OK on my iPad, but not nearly as fast on my laptop. But you can use it on the go-to, but without WiFi. I’m pretty sure there isn’t the great ‘add-ons’ like the ones on computer, or laptop. Google docs, is a free, accessible great essential for any student of all ages. It’s great, it’s literally like word, but you don’t have to pay an expensive budget for it. Docs is just perfect for anyone, and it’s so great. Literally, they’re add on(s) for people who also need it. Highly recommend, all though it’s worldwide to schools, throughout everywhere. Google docs will always be a great essential.
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Better for Personal Use
I’ve been a longtime user of Google Docs—around three or four years—and it’s been great for storing important documents. I’ve also used it a lot for jotting down ideas, writing creative stories, and other personal uses. I feel that these are what the app is best for. I’ve tried to use it several times for academic essays, and the current format does not support certain basic functions, especially with indentation, adding page numbers in MLA or APA, and so on. The spell check for Google Docs is also flawed, and frequently marks everyday words as misspelled, and then other words not in the regular dictionary as perfectly correct. The syncing is also kind of finicky sometimes, and you can lose work or have to restart the app multiple times in one sitting, if you’re somewhere that there is no ideal connection. So if you’re a student or a professional, you are also going to want Microsoft Word, which has more features and is easier to use. However, the syncing generally works very well, and I love being able to back up all my documents. The aesthetic appearance of the documents are also very appealing, and most of the basic writing functions are easy to access. Keyboard shortcuts still work, and those shortcuts match to whichever model of computer you are using, so you don’t have to learn anything terribly new to use the app competently. It’s super easy to add other contributors, and to restrict privacy/use settings. All in all it has served me very ell. -
Highly recommended, but definitely room for improvement
Google Docs is very, very useful as a whole, providing services that allow seamless collaboration and that solve many past horrors of word-processors (like the classic “I didn’t save my doc and now it’s gone foreverrrrr!!”). As great as it is on desktop, I personally found the transfer to mobile devices a little, well, less great. It’s obviously difficult to find an intuitive way to lay out all the functions of Docs on desktop onto a smaller screen, but it’s honestly such a huge hassle navigating comments and suggestions, even when I’m on my iPad. It’s also kind of annoying that I can’t zoom out more on a doc—basically, once the width of the page fills the screen, I can no longer zoom out. This doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it makes for a lot of tedious scrolling when an already long document has relatively large text. Additionally, there are these small annoying glitches that occasionally occur. For example, when I was editing a doc, I kept trying to delete a space, but it would always delete the space and the letter behind it. I tried over and over again to no avail... sigh.... It also seems to me that Docs can get kind of slow? I’m on a new device, so the hardware should be working fine, but there’s a huge lag when I’m trying to type in the app. Other than these few problems, everything else has been working fine and going smoothly. -
This is very good, it's great for school work and just normal work, it saves automatically and it easy to access. You don't have to pay for a thing. It's easy to do and if you don't understand something there are loads on the Internet. In total this is amazing it's great for those who need to write stuff down!
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Great, except...
Like most people of Generation Z, the later years of my education (8th grade-present) have greatly benefited from using Google applications such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google Docs’s amazing accessibility, collaboration tools, storage, and auto-save have always been what’s made it better than competing office tools. The app itself is great, and once you get the hand of using it on a hand held device, it makes working from almost anywhere possible. I’ve found myself using these Google applications for more than just essays and presentations now a days, as I begin to need work resumés and finance budgets. So really, Docs (and other Google applications) are great! Except, I’ve encountered an issue when using this Docs app. Now, this could be because of several reasons, however, I’ve found that after prolonged used, when typing, the keyboard begins to lag a bunch, making working on documents so frustrating. At first I thought that the keyboard could be lagging because my iPad might’ve over heated? But, the keyboard has lagged even when the iPad doesn’t feel warm. I’m not sure if internet connection might have something to do with it, but my Wifi is pretty strong, and I rarely encounter issues with it. That’s my only complaint, but other than that I really do love the app. -
Love Google docs
I absolutely love google docs, especially since I’m in college and it saves your work automatically when your up at 2:00am trying to finish an essay that is due that same day and you fall asleep. There probably is away to do this, but if not I wish there would be away to categorize documents into different folders for different projects or classes and or poor year. I think this would be very helpful for me since one day I would love to show my kids that hard work does pay off. The slide shows are excellent and great for presenting history projects to make them at least semi fun and very easy to use once you learn to switch over from PowerPoint... but the basic outline I personally feel is similar yet differently. The docs were it is like Microsoft Word is very identical just a few extra perks of not having to save, having all of your work in one place, and very easy usage. The only reason for a 4 star was the fact is that if it doesn’t have the filing system “ I would be surprised if it didn’t” again probably haven’t figured it out, but have been using this program since 2015 at-least so I think I would have found it, but things fly over everybody's head sometimes “am I right or am I right?” -
Folders, please!
I am a young writer and I use Google Docs for school and writing. I have many documents that are currently organized by last modified. This means that I have stories that I wrote, stories that my friends are writing that I get to edit, and rubrics, lists, and assignments that my teachers created for distance learning all jumbled together. As you can imagine, there is no rhyme or reason to this mess and I can never find what I need. This is annoying to me. I am trying to get myself together and be more organized, but this is hard when there is no visible means of organization. I want to keep my books separate from my gajillions of distance learning assignments, and that’s not possible. This is a suggestion, not for the app, but for Google Docs in general. My teacher told me about Drive folders, but they were difficult to use and they did not separate my work from my schoolwork, as I had intended. I’m thinking maybe when you go into Docs, instead of seeing all your stuff, you see all your folders. Then you click on a folder and it shows you all the documents inside that folder. This would make using Google Docs so much easier. Please add folders; it would make life SO MUCH EASIER!!! -
Love Google Docs…but there is SUCH weird stuff sometimes
I love Google Docs so much. I use it through iPad and school Chromebook. It’s really helpful and useful. The only thing is that sometimes the spell check just does the weirdest stuff and from my iPad I have to either do what it wants or have blue lines under a lot of stuff, and it’s not because I have bad grammar. There should be some way on the iPad to say that what you wrote is the grammar you want, because it gets annoying to have blue lines everywhere where you don’t want them. Also through iPad you can’t do an indent unless from your other device you already started to do them, and sometimes if you don’t want an indent in a certain spot but do in the rest you can’t take it away. And if you are working with someone else and you both try to fix something it fixes it twice instead of once and it’s annoying. Also one time my WiFi was fine and I went onto a doc and all my fonts were gone and it took like five minutes for it to get back to what I wanted and it isn’t that long but it also wouldn’t let me fix it cuz it didn’t show all my fonts that I had. All this stuff seems small but it gets annoying -
The app is fine, I can easily edit documents but the tools are lacking; text boxes, shapes, fonts, graphs, equations, and a lot more features. It would be very helpful to add them in this app. Thank you.
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Great for writing, but hard to insert equations
Google’s Docs is fantastic! It is nice to have your document constantly backed up without hassle. I have grown to prefer using this app over Microsoft’s Word and Apple’s Pages. I use this app mostly on an iPad and keyboard. One thing that stand out for google docs over the other word processing apps is its ease to format using keyboard shortcuts. In iOS this is HUGE!!! The ability to use keyboard shortcuts drastically improves productivity when working in a touch based operating system! With that being said, I cannot do all my work on this app. I can type up most of my documents using this app, but I need to switch to a different device to do some finishing touches before publishing my documents. For example, it would be nice to change a documents margin’s while using this app. It also would be nice to insert equations using this app. As it stands, those features remain on the web based version of docs and not on the iOS version. That being said, google docs is my go to app for any word processing on an iOS device. It is clear the team at google have put a lot of work into developing this app, perhaps even more than its competitors. -
Google Docs has been my only app for writing ever since. It was convenient as I can edit my files offline and on any device. However, earlier today I experienced an issue. I wasn't able to edit my own document, instead I was told that I can only view it. I didn't give anyone permissions, yet my editor and owner role has been revoked! Please help!
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It's great but there are some issues they need to fix. It's terrible for editing documents on slow connections. Even if the document is saved offline, it doesn't open any document until it establishes an internet connection which can take a really long time with a slow internet. So if my connection is very slow, I can't open any file even if it's saved offline. Also it used to let me click on a misspelled word from the edit window and correct it instantly but in now that's gone.
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There is a big problem with this app. When I write letters or novels in Urdu, the typing is very good, but when I make a PDF, some of Urdu letters get distorted. That's why I can't send PDF copies of novels and letters. Please fix this major problem as soon as possible so that an author can easily create a PDF.
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Okay but needs change..
So I’m just a kid but I have to start off and say this app helps me do my homework but, it’s really hard to work on a phone but with an computer it’s hard to download. But for the phone you can kinda see what your typing but it is so hard!! I would say that it needs to make the lettering bigger on phone but keep it normal if you print it. Also I love updates to thing but this app is always the same, I mean I know it’s a really good app and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t get it, but it just needs some new features. But on a computer when you try to type with your group like in a group project and I’m just saying this because it’s really annoying do you really need to have there full name when there typing because I have friends that have long names and it has to show there full name and I don’t understand why you can’t just use there first name again not hating just telling you what’s going to happen and on top of that when your on a phone and you are trying to give it a title or just your teacher says to write is on the right side it is so hard because the pictures that they made are so small and it’s just really annoying. Okay just saying that you could change it and if your new it will be cool but after like a week or two it’s going to get really annoying. Okay y’all stay safe and byyyyeeee🙃 -
Google did me wrong at the worst possible moment
You know how we all rely on google for turning in class assignments? Well... IT DID ME WRONG AT THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT!!! I take AP World History and had something due today and couldn’t get on it until this weekend but this week it was updated for a big fix that has going on for weeks now that is still going on!!! The app crashes at random times whether it’s long or short periods of time, and this week it’s gotten worse to the point I can’t even see my cursor when I type on my phone anymore and whenever I try to exit out of the page to refresh, I suddenly see two icons of my own account that was recently on the doc and and still see the cursor I recently used on my doc. I was copying and pasting my work from one box onto another but suddenly no matter how many times I double tapped on my screen, I couldn’t paste, forcing me to restart my phone and try again and once I got back on my doc, I realized I never pasted my paragraph back on the doc and now my work is lost until I can get on a computer tomorrow and search my version history and revive my lost work!! Sad to say, google can’t be relied on for everything especially when it’s been having a problem that gone unnoticed and unsolved for over 2 months now. -
Please add some FEATURES like in MS Word. The PDF feature is of very poor quality and we also can't increase or decrease the image size. And also there is a limited Font style.And make a instant file saver mode for people working in office.
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Meh.
The only reason I use Google Docs over programs like Pages and Word is that my school system uses it and I have unlimited storage for Google Docs in my drive (which by the way is great). But the app is just sooooo s l o w. I don’t know if this is an issue with my iPad (which has plenty of performance issues itself) or with the app, but it’s nearly unusable for me. When I use my bluetooth keyboard with it the text is very laggy (or with the onscreen keyboard for that matter) and text editing is an iOS 12-style nightmare. You can’t drag your finger over text to select it like in iOS 13, you have to tap on the cursor, select “Select,” and then drag over all the text you want to select (which is very slow and laggy). I would really appreciate a couple of features, like viewing the same app in multiple spaces in iPadOS (because I find myself needing to look at multiple docs at once more and more these days) or at least some kind of similar system and a better Explore feature like on desktop. And as several other people have mentioned the text correction is nowhere near perfect. It always marks weird things as grammatically incorrect that are perfectly fine. Google please please please please listen and thanks for reading -
Google Docs is OK but painful on iPad
I think if I used an external keyboard it might be better, but formatting and getting spreadsheets to function like excel is really not an option. I find that trying to select text to cut and paste or copy or for formatting font size or color is very frustrating. You have to grab and roll your finger just right or you select too much. Also, when backspacing, use caution. I couldn't stop it from deleting far more than i wanted. Make sure you select what you want to delete instead of relying on bkspc to stop when you want it to. I am happy I found a way to do my budget on my iPad since my laptop is tedious to start up just to work on my finances, but i do wish it wasn't so painful to toggle into edit mode. Google should talk to more end users, and I am also not a fan of the company being that I have a 35 yr Career in Technology and I am FEMALE...so I am sure they will wake up and come into the 21st century soon with their treatment of women, and get more women managing projects and holding positions of power. Their tolerance for misogyny is incredibly sickening. I wish someone from a more progressive company would invent a better alternative since I don't trust or like Google. -
Spellcheck...Really?
Don’t bother using Doc’s spellcheck, as it is almost as good as having a third grader edit your paper. Sometimes it catches a few mistakes, but it doesn’t catch but a small fraction of what Microsoft Word finds (and will fix automatically, or at least notify you immediately that something is jacked up). Also, sometimes it seems not to work at all. I’m not sure if it’s a “lagging” issue, a glitch, like one person mentioned in a previous post, or otherwise. I also dislike the ability to format, as all features (in general) seem harder to use and are more problematic than Word. Am I biased because I used Word for a decade or so before Docs arrived on the scene? Probably, but I still think there are many fixes needed before this is a reliable and user friendly platform. I’ve spoken to people who believe several of my gripes are due to a connectivity problem, as we use Docs in my school to write essays etc., but I don’t know...it seems pretty frequent and we have issues often enough for me to complain to random strangers on this platform. Sooo, General Google, get on this please. -
Great but crashes often and offline use is poor
I really wish I could give this five stars because it has been so helpful for my writing, but the offline use function is basically useless. I’ll select “available offline” for a document , and when I’m in an area where I can’t get Internet access, it will tell me that I can’t load that same document because I don’t have Internet access. I also dislike the way that if I’m working on something and go to another app for literally a few seconds, when I go back it will sometimes have taken me out of the document so I have to reopen the document and find where I left off. This wouldn’t be so bad except for when I don’t have internet access, it will tell me that I can’t access the document I was just using because I don’t have internet (again, even though I selected the “available offline” option). If they could just fix these two things, it would be perfect. I’m still giving it four stars because despite the bugs it has been invaluable. -
Good, but pls optimize this app for more heavy usage
While this app is a great substitute for the PC version of Docs, its not fully optimized for IOS or apps. Its nice if you’re quickly pulling up a document to type something up that’s last minute or doesn’t require a lot of time or presentation, but for people who use the app heavily, like on the iPad Pro, it’s frustrating. For one, the Office-Docs compatibility format doesn’t save, which means that in order to print you have to make a billion copies on order for it to save in an edited, print ready format, which even then doesn’t work. Another frustrating feature is that multiple documents can’t be opened and viewed at the same time, which should be possible for iPad Pro split screen viewing but unfortunately is not and leads to annoying back and forth flipping. Overall, good app if wanting to make last minute tweaks, but for heavy users, this app needs some work.
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It is great for turning documents to PDFs and other forms that you may need but what I don't like about it is that you can't take a downloaded document and upload it to this app to edit it it doesn't even have an edit option anywhere so that was a negative for me because their documents that are mine and I was unable to do that
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I am trying to sign documents on a tablet and there is no way to do it within this app. Where are the File, Edit, Insert etc headings? The regular way to add a signature was Insert, Picture, Scribble. Why isn't part of the headings in android tablets.
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I was very disappointed, this app is difficult to use. The app also lacks the option for selecting multiple photos at a time to create a file. There where lot of gliches and blinking of pages that I chose to create from my album. And I'm uninstalling rn. 🙁
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App/Updates Horrible, no support don't want an automated message.Error messages kicks me off. Forced to reset my phone problem still there lost info because I am cautious about updated so do them manually. Concerns, hacking seems like the issue w GOOGLE.Its ridiculous me along w/others get an I am sorry and heres link GO! SMH Apparently there is a problem, get it together u all needs to contact by email or phone. NOT A LINK tons of hacked emails in my spam back along w a few in inbox😕
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This is great but being able to copy and paste things onto this app would make my life a whole lot easier. More times than I can count, I had all of my work copied yet I couldn't paste it onto this app so I had to type it all out a second time.
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I am having a lot of problems with this app, for example, when I copy a text, the app hangs. If I try 3/4 times to restart the app, then it is copied.
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For the “world’s most powerful search engine, you sure can’t build a user friendly document creator”
I love that google docs lets you share your document and work simultaneously with others. It’s very convenient in that regard. However if there were another option for that purpose, I’d probably switch over. There are so many things in google docs that make it way harder and more frustrating than it needs to be. You can’t put text over an image, it’s a million steps just to find where text boxes are located, you can’t paste something in from Microsoft Word without the formatting being destroyed, it’s hard to set a tab-stop that will stay there when you move on to a new line, there are cntrl shortcuts that work for other document creators but not for google docs, and it’s almost impossible to customize a document to look different or engaging if you’re trying to make a handout. I could go on. I’m in my early 20s so it’s not like I’m just tech-incompetent—google docs is just needlessly frustrating to use. It’s all made more frustrating by the fact that google is such a huge company; they have the resources to make docs better but for some reason they don’t. -
This is a good app for students but like a Google user named Gregory Fox said, the documents many a don't get backed up even after by saying the document is backed up. My work many a times gets discarded. Please fix this problem.
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Deletes data
I use google docs to type up reports, nearly everyday. I type my notes on a variety of apple devices, and usually it works well enough. But occasionally it will pull up an old version of the document, sometimes a few weeks old, and it’ll delete all the previous weeks worth of notes I’ve written. Today I typed up my daily note on my ipad, all my notes were on there (I had used a MacBook Air earlier that week with no problem either). Afterwards I went onto an iPad mini to add to my note and it pulled up a version from over 2 weeks prior, showing none of my notes that I had recently written. I quickly pulled out my phone and checked the doc and it was the exact same on there, both completely sync’d up. I tried to check the history of the notes to see if I could see my deleted notes, but it didn’t have anything recent to show. The only was I was able to save my doc was by turning on airplane mode on my iPad and then opening the doc so that it wouldn’t update, and then turning the WiFi back on so it could make the others sync to it. This is extremely worrisome to use a service that is supposed to sync your notes across devices, but may actually delete all your data. -
LOADED WITH BUGS!!
Download latest version of app and it’s loaded with BUGS. Do not count on this app to edit your documents. Commands such as “select” “copy” and “paste”. Do not perform right. If you can get select tool to finally select a paragraph and either copy or cut it no matter what commands you do from that point forward the app holds onto that selected text in its memory and you cannot do anything other than paste that selected text! If you try to select “new” text before you have even selected the text the app pastes the old text again. If you try to even report this as a big to developers by clicking on the link to report a bug you cannot because the window to write the feedback has just once again pastes the old text!! Yes again! It will not release this memory! It’s like it needs therapy or something! Lol. Do not count on this app to edit or retain your documents. Like many google products it’s failing. Google in general is going downhill. Don’t even try to use google nest cameras! That entire app crashes a hundred times a day! I’m done with google in Genetal. I’m sure their stock is declining rapidly too.
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It's not much useful!
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Good app
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UR APP IS THE W WORST
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Slow
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Worst app in terms of implimentation of dark mode. Works fine in light mode but .... Loads nothing in dark.....
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Lag
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Very confusing
I can’t get things to open when I click to review them. It also doesn’t transfer fueled efficiently between parties. -
Please do not get!
This app is completely garbage, if you even try to cite anything.... NOPE! There is no tool for that on iPad. Even trying to format it or just trying to plain select everything messes everything up. More sweetness on the cake there is no ‘tab’ tool so try to get that spaced out and it not looking like a complete mess. By the way this is 0 stars not 1. If you need to get work done I suggest TRYING To get a Another app. -
No
Don’t you have homework the will bad now the blue he is po like their the it ether it’s money -
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It is great for turning documents to PDFs and other forms that you may need but what I don't like about it is that you can't take a downloaded document and upload it to this app to edit it it doesn't even have an edit option anywhere so that was a negative for me because their documents that are mine and I was unable to do that
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This is great but being able to copy and paste things onto this app would make my life a whole lot easier. More times than I can count, I had all of my work copied yet I couldn't paste it onto this app so I had to type it all out a second time.
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For the “world’s most powerful search engine, you sure can’t build a user friendly document creator”
I love that google docs lets you share your document and work simultaneously with others. It’s very convenient in that regard. However if there were another option for that purpose, I’d probably switch over. There are so many things in google docs that make it way harder and more frustrating than it needs to be. You can’t put text over an image, it’s a million steps just to find where text boxes are located, you can’t paste something in from Microsoft Word without the formatting being destroyed, it’s hard to set a tab-stop that will stay there when you move on to a new line, there are cntrl shortcuts that work for other document creators but not for google docs, and it’s almost impossible to customize a document to look different or engaging if you’re trying to make a handout. I could go on. I’m in my early 20s so it’s not like I’m just tech-incompetent—google docs is just needlessly frustrating to use. It’s all made more frustrating by the fact that google is such a huge company; they have the resources to make docs better but for some reason they don’t. -
This is a good app for students but like a Google user named Gregory Fox said, the documents many a don't get backed up even after by saying the document is backed up. My work many a times gets discarded. Please fix this problem.
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Not Quite Adequate — Especially for Real-Time Collaboration
Do you want to type stuff into a Google Doc that other people can read later? This is fine. Do you want to edit documents other people have created? This will do it. Want to do that collaboratively while several of you are sitting around a table? Put away your iPad and go get a laptop. This app has significant deficiencies. Suggestions and comments are entirely divorced from their location in the document. Other features are similarly hobbled. The enormous list of “Recent” documents is useless. Creating a new document doesn’t even put it at the top of the list. That new document goes right at the root of your Drive, by the way, with no option to create it exactly where you want it. The only way to keep things organized is through a long series of taps to move your new document to the desired location. The modal Edit/View interface is enormously frustrating. I don’t really like using Google Docs on a traditional computer. Using it on an iPad is worse. -
Editing/Commenting a Nightmare!!
I’m a hobby artist, so I recently decided to ditch my personal laptop in favor an an iPad and iPencil (I still have a work laptop). The Google Docs App, though, has made this transition incredibly difficult! First, Google blocks access to the browser version of Google Docs if you are using an iPad. Nevermind that the screen is the same size as my old MacBook. Nevermind that I have a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. The Google Docs app is my ONLY option for accessing google docs from my iPad. And unfortunately, the App is not an adequate replacement. The toolbar is pared down, and much harder to navigate. It took me forever to figure out how to change the setting for link-sharing, so that anyone with the link could edit. And the “suggest changes” function is incredibly clunky. The changes all show up as “hidden suggestions” or “hidden comments”, and the person viewing them has to laboriously click every individual suggestion and “view suggestion.” It’s also very difficult to do anything other than “accept” or “reject” once you have found a suggestion. If the suggestion requires more nuanced editing, forget it! Overall, the app works in a bind, but it is not a very intuitive app and it is a very inferior product to the browser version! Please consider a redesign Google, or at the very least allowing the browser version to be accessed in-browser on an iPad! -
Needs an equation feature for IOS.
Google Docs is an excellent text editing application. I use it to type various different documents. Creating worksheets, typing papers, and writing the occasional letter are incredibly easy to accomplish. The automatic save feature is wonderful, and I never have to worry about losing a document because of it being automatically uploaded to Google Drive. However, I believe Google Docs needs an equation feature for IOS. I am a Math teacher and currently working towards a Master’s in Mathematics. Recently, I purchased the 2018 iPad Pro to hopefully integrate more technology into the classroom, but I was appalled when I found out that Google docs doesn’t have an equation feature for their mobile app. This makes editing worksheets and working on research papers for analysis classes much more difficult. If Google Docs would add the equation feature, then it would be the perfect text editing app. -
Less effective than browser
My biggest issue with this app is how it closes out of the opened document when you switch apps. As a paid beta reader and content editor, working with documents sometimes several hundred pages long, it is incredibly frustrating to have to re-open the document, wait the rather long time for it to load (even when it’s made available offline), then hope I remember where I was. There are times when I genuinely need to use another app in tandem with Docs, such as researching something an author is describing, etc. I have tried troubleshooting on my own with no luck so far. I suppose this could be a security feature or something of the sort, but it’s really an inconvenience that costs me valuable time. I’ll stick with the browser version that at least won’t exit out of the document because I had to walk away for a bit. -
Adequate
Less than intuitive controls for finding and organizing documents. Editing not robust compared to Word, lacking many important features. No real “track changes” option and collaborators can easily make changes that you would not be aware of without doing some Investigating, which often leads to embarrassing and time consuming errors. Far better to use Word and share docs through Dropbox. If you track changes everyone’s revisions show up color coded and if you want temporarily to see the document with all changes accepted, you can and then still easily go back and display all of the edits until you are ready to accept them. Google docs doesn’t come close nor does it provide a full suite of tools that a decent word processing program should have. My stomach clenches every time I’m asked to look at a document on google docs.
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I am trying to sign documents on a tablet and there is no way to do it within this app. Where are the File, Edit, Insert etc headings? The regular way to add a signature was Insert, Picture, Scribble. Why isn't part of the headings in android tablets.
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I was very disappointed, this app is difficult to use. The app also lacks the option for selecting multiple photos at a time to create a file. There where lot of gliches and blinking of pages that I chose to create from my album. And I'm uninstalling rn. 🙁
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App/Updates Horrible, no support don't want an automated message.Error messages kicks me off. Forced to reset my phone problem still there lost info because I am cautious about updated so do them manually. Concerns, hacking seems like the issue w GOOGLE.Its ridiculous me along w/others get an I am sorry and heres link GO! SMH Apparently there is a problem, get it together u all needs to contact by email or phone. NOT A LINK tons of hacked emails in my spam back along w a few in inbox😕
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I am having a lot of problems with this app, for example, when I copy a text, the app hangs. If I try 3/4 times to restart the app, then it is copied.
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Deletes data
I use google docs to type up reports, nearly everyday. I type my notes on a variety of apple devices, and usually it works well enough. But occasionally it will pull up an old version of the document, sometimes a few weeks old, and it’ll delete all the previous weeks worth of notes I’ve written. Today I typed up my daily note on my ipad, all my notes were on there (I had used a MacBook Air earlier that week with no problem either). Afterwards I went onto an iPad mini to add to my note and it pulled up a version from over 2 weeks prior, showing none of my notes that I had recently written. I quickly pulled out my phone and checked the doc and it was the exact same on there, both completely sync’d up. I tried to check the history of the notes to see if I could see my deleted notes, but it didn’t have anything recent to show. The only was I was able to save my doc was by turning on airplane mode on my iPad and then opening the doc so that it wouldn’t update, and then turning the WiFi back on so it could make the others sync to it. This is extremely worrisome to use a service that is supposed to sync your notes across devices, but may actually delete all your data. -
LOADED WITH BUGS!!
Download latest version of app and it’s loaded with BUGS. Do not count on this app to edit your documents. Commands such as “select” “copy” and “paste”. Do not perform right. If you can get select tool to finally select a paragraph and either copy or cut it no matter what commands you do from that point forward the app holds onto that selected text in its memory and you cannot do anything other than paste that selected text! If you try to select “new” text before you have even selected the text the app pastes the old text again. If you try to even report this as a big to developers by clicking on the link to report a bug you cannot because the window to write the feedback has just once again pastes the old text!! Yes again! It will not release this memory! It’s like it needs therapy or something! Lol. Do not count on this app to edit or retain your documents. Like many google products it’s failing. Google in general is going downhill. Don’t even try to use google nest cameras! That entire app crashes a hundred times a day! I’m done with google in Genetal. I’m sure their stock is declining rapidly too. -
Great Website, HORRIBLE iPad App
I love using google docs, i use it for school and i have the new iPad with the keyboard so it sometimes feels like a laptop. Well I downloaded the google docs app, and the whole interface is nothing like the web version. I tried using it today for an essay and I ended up opening safari and using google docs there because all the controls i needed were on the web version. Why limit the app to basic things like bold,italic,highlight, and font/size? There’s not even a size issue because I can load the same google docs that’s on computers on the safari app on the iPad. And the fact that you have to manually open the settings and tap “print layout” every time you open the app to make sure its not just a continuous white roll of paper is so annoying. Then you always have to tap the screen to bring up a menu that has a button to edit the doc as if you don’t already want to work on it. What do you think I’m doing? Staring at my paper? No I got work to do, If I wanted to review my paper without editing it I’d just I don’t know... not type words into my doc. -
Fix this
I always use this app as my go-to for schoolwork, but there are so many issues. For one, when I try to select a few certain words, it either selects the whole row and the one below it and it won’t let me unselect it, or it selects one letter and won’t move. And when I am making a list like: 1. (Words) 2. (Words) And so on, when I try to return down to start an example, it creates a 3 and then I return again and it disappears. I write my new thought and type 3. And then click the space bar and it doesn’t do anything. I spacebar the 3. up to where the rest are so it looks clean, and when it starts a new sentence behind the list, I can’t space it up like the rest. The spacebar does nothing. I have to create white text to move it up. And when I tab on those sentences trying to align them, it tabs over the sentence above the one I am on and when I click the delete to undo the tab, it moves up again and deletes the last letter on that section. It is just so frustrating. Please fix these. -
Terrible for iPad
Don’t get me wrong, I like google docs. It’s very easy to collaborate and share amongst others, and there are plenty of useful templates. That’s where my favor ends. Let’s start with the overall features. There are way fewer capabilities than on the website. There are so many things that I need to do that simply cant be done in the app. Next we move on to the support of accessories. I use a 2018 iPad Pro with the new magic keyboard that has a trackpad. On virtually all other apps there is built in cursor support, not on google docs. What I mean by cursor support is the cursor adapting to what its scrolling over. For example in other apps if you go over text the cursor changes to a text selector. It is a nightmare to select text on google docs. here are also no built in command shortcuts for the app. It’s also worth mentioning there is no trackpad or keyboard shortcut support for ANY of the Google suite of apps. Google could’ve made this app so much better but they simply haven’t. -
Very frustrating to use on an ipad
I’m trying to edit documents on the ipad pro with the apple smart keyboard, so I expect to be able to edit a document at least as well as a desktop in-browser experience. Instead, every time I try to move the cursor somewhere and pull up an editing/reviewing menu, I get nothing useful and my selection disappears. You need more menu buttons up top and/or better context-menu access, the latter of which should come up every time I select something with shift+arrows. Additionally, editing edit mode to even bring up a cursor is frustratingly difficult because it seems to revert to a useless view mode. Lastly, typing/editing/commenting are all slowed with erratic flushing of the typing buffer because it’s busy searching my gmail contacts for possible suggestions of friends to talk about in a work document. Beyond being just creepy, this is quite limiting to the function of the app.
- Take your documents on the go when you create new or edit exiting files that can be shared to collaborators
- No matter where you are you can access your documents offline
- Simple to use interface makes it easy to add and respond to comments, research topics with Explore, and turn into Word documents
Reviewed by Chris on November 15, 2018
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