

And there are two useful syncing options for you to let Google Workspace Shared Drive sync to desktop automatically. And the most important thing is that Google Drive for desktop allows you to easily use Shared Drives (Team Drives) on your PC by adding the corresponding Google Workspace or Google Workspace for Education account to the app.Īfter adding an account, you can access Google Shared Drive directly from the file explorer of your computer. Featuresįrom the comparison, you may find that among these three Google Drive apps, only Google Drive for desktop supports most of the functions.

Here we sum up the differences between these three applications in detail. But Google has mixed the main functions of these former applications into Google Drive for desktop, making Google Drive for desktop the most powerful desktop application nowadays.

Google Drive for desktop application shares similar functions to its former products like Backup and Sync and Google Drive File Stream.
