Dropbox adds new integration features after hiking prices by 20 per cent

Refreshed apps with extra features come a month after the company hiked prices on its Dropbox Plus plan

Dropbox has overhauled the company's desktop and mobile apps, adding a series of new integration features. However, the company has also increased pricing at the same time.

Dropbox will now integration with cloud services like Google's G Suite and Microsoft Office, as well as the popular Slack collaboration tool. The company has also made it easier to integration content from Dropbox into video conferencing.

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There are a number of other tweaks as well, along with a redesigned user interface. The redesign, the company claims, is intended to make Dropbox more of a 'collaboration' platform for business, rather than just a convenient place to dump documents and other files.

"It's a single workspace to organize your content, connect your tools, and bring everyone together, wherever you are," the company claimed.

For heavy Dropbox users then this shift might be welcome. However, it will come at a cost. To get the most out of the new features will require a Dropbox Plus plan, which increased by more than 20 per cent, from £79 to £95.88 a year, when Dropbox upped its prices last month.

In compensation, Dropbox doubled the level of storage available on the Plus plan from 1TB to 2TB, although that's scant consolation given the cheap cost of storage these days.

For users on Professional and Business plans the pricing remains the same, but they will also get an extra terabyte or two added to their plan.

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