Dropbox Dash

Dash connects to your work apps (Google Drive, Slack, Notion, Gmail, Confluence, GitHub, etc.) and lets you search across all of them at once. Instead of opening each app and searching separately, you type one query into Dash and it returns results from everywhere, ranked by relevance. More powerfully, Dash uses AI to read the relevant content and give you a synthesized answer with citations, so you can ask natural-language questions and get direct answers instead of link lists.

For teams juggling 5+ SaaS tools, yes. The math is simple: if each team member spends 30 minutes a day searching across apps, Dash can easily save 2+ hours per week per person. At $10/month per user, payback is usually measured in days. The Business plan unlocks unlimited integrations, unlimited AI queries, and admin controls, which are essential for teams that actually depend on it.

For evaluation and light use, yes. The free plan gives you up to 5 connected apps and limited AI search credits per month. That's enough to test the core value prop and decide whether unlimited access is worth paying for. Most individual knowledge workers find 5 apps too few for real daily use — Business or the Dropbox Plus bundle ($11.99/mo including 2 TB storage) makes more sense for ongoing reliance.

Glean is enterprise-focused (companies with 200+ employees, $40-80/user/month), while Dash targets small teams and individual knowledge workers at $10/month. Glean has deeper enterprise features (knowledge graph, people search, advanced admin). Dash is more affordable and accessible for small teams. For companies under 100 people, Dash is usually the better fit. For large enterprises, Glean may justify the higher price.

Yes. Dash is SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, and supports SSO, audit logs, and admin controls on the Business plan. Dropbox has been a trusted enterprise vendor for over a decade. That said, Dash does require OAuth access to each connected app, so you are giving one company (Dropbox) read access to Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, etc. Privacy-conscious users may prefer local search tools like Raycast for the same use case.

Those tools only search within their own product. Dash searches across everything at once. If you remember that someone said something about the new pricing page but can't remember if it was in Slack, Notion, Google Docs, or Gmail, Dash will find it in one search. Notion and Slack can't do that — each only sees its own data. Dash's core value is the cross-tool nature of the search.

Dash is best for small-to-medium teams who want AI search across fragmented tools at a reasonable price. Glean is best for large enterprises with deep admin and compliance needs. Guru is best for teams who specifically want a knowledge base/wiki layer rather than search. For most 5-100 person companies in 2026, Dash is the easiest and most affordable starting point, especially if you already use Dropbox.