--- title: "Privatta vs Google Drive: No Cloud Copy" description: "Google Drive stores and shares files through Google's cloud. Privatta moves a file directly between two computers and stores nothing. When each one fits." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/vs/google-drive/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- Privatta vs Google Drive # Privatta vs Google Drive: sharing a file without a cloud copy. Google Drive is where a lot of work already lives, and for good reason: documents open in a browser, several people edit at once, and sharing is a matter of adding a name. Privatta is for the moments that model does not suit, when a file should go to one person and be stored nowhere on the way. Free to download, no account · Pro €19 a month · Windows · Android [Download free](https://royalsoftworks.com/download/#privatta) ## vs Google Drive, in 3 short pages 1. [1 Privatta and Google Drive, side by side. What happens to your file with each of them, and the two side by side, row by row.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/vs/google-drive/side-by-side/) 2. [2 When to use which. When Privatta is the better tool, when Google Drive is, and what each costs.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/vs/google-drive/which-to-use/) 3. [3 Questions people ask. Whether the other person needs Privatta, whether both computers have to be on, and whether the file passes through a server.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/vs/google-drive/questions/)