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Really, Really Bad App
This app is horrible. Unlike the version on the computer you can not chat with people when they are on the same doc, making collaboration impossible. This app has absolutely NO compatibility with hyperlinks. You can’t change the browser your link sends you to and also can not delete hyperlinks. You try to and it will either take you straight to the website OR it will stop and freeze instantly. When that happens, you can not use it until you swipe it up and go back in. Even then, once you do that it still won’t work. Horrible, Horrible app. Very Disappointed.Show less12345678guy
Great and all, a lifesaver, but might need some adjustments
So, my life is very packed and full, and every time I want to write something, I usually use google docs. It makes life so much easier that I don’t have to use my laptop to write when I have this great mobile app.
The only reason I gave it 4/5 stars is because there are more functions on the computer version than there are on the app. For example, on computers you can indent and such. However, I can’t indent on the app. Also, I love it, but I wish there would be an easier way to sort everything, like a folder or something. There probably already is something like this, or I just didn’t find it yet.
Compared to Microsoft word, google docs is a worthy competitor. Microsoft has more functions, but google docs are free and Microsoft costs.. I don’t even know.
I wish they would add a way to insert charts and text boxes onto a doc. However, compared to word, I like it better because you can collaborate/work with friends while on Microsoft word, it is much harder.
I like google docs.Show lessMethrionDiamond
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.Show lessivd37950
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT.
At school our teacher makes us use it for everything and it is the most easiest thing in the world to use. I
I also use it a lot at home for reports and other things and keeping record of other stuff like that.
I recommend that you use this all the time.Flossy Em
The best for anything!
Google Docs has been the most useful app for me to be able to create multiple pages of Stories, Characters, Poems, and more! This is often the go to app for schools. It’s very simple to be able to share it to others like teachers or other students for projects, and that’s not the only limit since I use it when sharing with friends. I use this both in the computer and with my iPad. With google doc just logging in to your account is very quick and it holds all your data for you so you don’t need to worry which is a great relieve! I hope that this app stays on forever because I won’t be able to find another app like this, being free as well. If there were any recommendations I also like Google Slides although it’s a bit harder to use on the go.
Sincerely,
Google Doc User.Show lessMarshmellow Pumkin
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?”Show lessKeltonisayapperdog
Prepare to waste time tapping and sighing, tapping and sighing..
Google Docs really ought to be great. And yet, somehow, it’s massively irritating. An example, you tap on a link, presumably because you want to open it. A dialogue opens up, one of the options being open link. So, sighing a little, you tap on that. Another dialogue opens up. Would you like to download Chrome to view that link. No, no I wouldn’t. So you hit the slider to tell it to stop asking you that question, and you hit the open button next to Safari. Finally, after 4 taps, the link opens. Then you try to open the next link, and the whole tedious process repeats itself. I’d cheerfully delete the thing were it not for workplaces clinging to Google Docs like the last piece of driftwood in the middle of a lake. Every encounter I have with Google Docs just makes me sad.Show lesspaulosbourne
Embrace it - don’t get stuck on the fact it’s not ‘word’
Google Docs is great.
As a word processor, it does everything I need it to do. Sure, it lacks some of the fancier features of word and pages, but the accessibility, in my opinion, more than makes up for it!
Being able to edit live documents on the move is brilliant. Shared live docs mean that you can work on things simultaneously. I have found this so useful so many times.
And all this from a free app!?
As a bonus, (unless something has changed recently) I understand these docs don’t count towards your google drive capacity.
I really haven’t missed the added features of other word processors, it does everything I need, and the simplicity is almost refreshing. You can still print your docs, and make quite lengthy docs with a table of contents, headers, page numbers, and even images where necessary. What more do you need?
Try it, embrace it, and your reward will be the free flexible editing on the move that it offers.Show lessKay Sera Sera
Occasionally Glitchy but Otherwise Great
Generally the Google Docs app works pretty well. I only use it for writing and making minor edits to class notes on my phone. But often I find when I’m typing that the screen will jump around. It also doesn’t play nice with Apple’s autocorrect at times. But the accessibility across devices is great. I can be editing or typing on my phone, and immediately switch to my computer and it updates in real time. This is also helpful for class projects, wherein I can be working with a group and we will all edit in real time and work on the same project, whether it’s an essay, brainstorming, or on the other google groups, the Slides app for PowerPoints. My biggest complaint over everything is just that each part of the google drive docket comes as a separate app. Docs is separate from Slides is separate from Spreadsheets is separate from plain ole Google Drive.Show lessmanquedamour
Google Docs Rock!
This has practically changed my life!! No more having to email myself before I leave the house if I need to access some documents whilst I’m out. No more carrying the laptop around and certainly no more having to remember a trillion passwords with some of the other doc apps I’ve tried. The ease of this is absolute bliss!! The only thing that I would say that’s a downer is the fact that I don’t seem to have a ‘save as’ option. So I’m having to save then edit the version I’ve been working on (if using a template of some sort) however aside from the minute thing defo thumbs up from me.Show lessSexiPink
