How Filex AI compares to the alternatives
Honest, detailed side-by-side comparisons. Every tool here does something well, and we say so. The question is not which product is best overall, but which one solves the problem you actually have.
Cloud storage
Filex AI vs Google Drive
Google Drive gives you storage and a folder tree to fill in yourself. Filex AI reads every document you upload. It renames each file, files it under the right category, extracts the dates and amounts inside, and runs OCR on every image, so your library organizes itself and you find anything by simply describing it. Here is the full side by side across search, AI features, file types, and devices.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Dropbox
Dropbox syncs whatever folder structure you built, quickly and reliably, but it is still your structure to maintain. Filex AI reads every document you upload, renames and files it from its contents, extracts the dates and amounts inside, and runs OCR on every image, so retrieval works by description instead of memory. Here is the full side by side across search, AI features, file types, and devices.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs OneDrive
OneDrive is deeply woven into Windows and Microsoft 365, which makes it excellent for Office work and painless backup. What it does not do is decide what your files are. Filex AI reads each document on arrival, renames it, sorts it, pulls out the dates and amounts inside, and runs OCR on every image. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Apple Files & iCloud Drive
The Files app is a competent browser for folders you create and maintain yourself. Filex AI reads every document you add, renames it from its contents, sorts it into the right category, extracts the dates and amounts inside, and runs OCR on every image. Here is the full side by side across search, AI features, file types, and devices.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Box
Box is enterprise content management, built around permissions, retention, audit trails, and compliance. Filex AI is built around reading documents: naming them, filing them, extracting the dates and amounts inside, and running OCR on every image. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs SharePoint
SharePoint can do almost anything with documents, once someone has designed the site structure, content types, and metadata columns to do it. Filex AI reads every document you add, names it from its contents, files it automatically, extracts the amounts and dates inside, and runs OCR on every image. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonScanner apps
Filex AI vs CamScanner
CamScanner turns paper into a clean PDF, then hands the file back for you to name and file yourself. Filex AI reads what it just scanned, renames it from the contents, sorts it into the right category, extracts the amounts and dates inside, and makes it searchable in plain English. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Adobe Scan
Adobe Scan produces excellent PDFs with reliable OCR, then leaves the naming and filing to you. Filex AI reads the document it just scanned, renames it from the contents, sorts it into the right category, extracts the amounts and dates inside, and makes it searchable in plain English. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Genius Scan
Genius Scan is built to be quick and unfussy — open the app, capture the page, get a clean PDF in seconds. It does exactly that well. What it leaves for you is everything after: naming the file, choosing a folder, and remembering where you put it. Filex AI takes over from there automatically.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Scanner Pro
Scanner Pro is one of the most polished scanners on iOS, with real automation through Shortcuts and rule-based workflows for people willing to build them. Filex AI skips the setup step entirely — read the document, name it, file it, and make it searchable, automatically, with nothing to configure.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Microsoft Lens
Microsoft Lens is a genuinely useful free scanner, especially if you already live inside Office and OneDrive. It captures a clean document and saves it where you tell it to. Filex AI reads what it captures, names it, files it, and makes it searchable — automatically, without you choosing a destination.
Read the comparisonNote & knowledge apps
Filex AI vs Notion
Notion is an excellent place to write, plan, and build databases you design yourself. It is a weaker home for the PDFs, scans, and receipts that arrive without warning. Filex AI reads every document you add, names and files it automatically, extracts the amounts and dates inside, and runs OCR on every image. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Evernote
Evernote got there first on searching inside scanned documents, and that mattered. What it never did was decide where anything belonged. Filex AI reads every document you add, names it from its contents, files it into the right category, extracts the amounts and dates inside, and runs OCR on every image. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Obsidian
Obsidian is a local-first markdown tool for linking ideas you write yourself, and it does that better than almost anything else. It is a weak place for the PDFs, scans, and receipts that arrive from outside. Filex AI reads every document you add, names and files it automatically, extracts the amounts and dates inside, and runs OCR on every image. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonAI assistants
Filex AI vs NotebookLM
NotebookLM is a research assistant. You hand it a set of sources and it answers questions grounded in them, which it does very well. Filex AI is where documents live permanently: read on arrival, renamed, filed, with amounts and dates extracted and OCR run on every image. Here is the full side by side.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs ChatGPT
A lot of people try to get ChatGPT to sort out their Downloads folder and hit the same wall: it can describe an organization system in a chat message, but it has no access to your files, no way to rename them, and nowhere to put them. Filex AI is built to actually do the part ChatGPT can only talk about.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Claude
Claude is genuinely strong at understanding a document you hand it — a contract, a report, a messy PDF. What it does not do is keep that document anywhere, rename it, or build you a searchable library out of the hundreds of files sitting in your Downloads folder. Filex AI is built for exactly that part.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Gemini
Gemini has real advantages other AI assistants don’t: it can search across a Google Drive you already have and answer questions about files sitting inside it. What it does not do is fix the actual problem — a Drive full of "Untitled document," duplicate scans, and files nobody can find. Filex AI does that part.
Read the comparisonFilex AI vs Grok
Grok is fast, current, and good at conversation, with a personality built around real-time information and X. Personal document storage was never the goal. Filex AI is built specifically to be the place your receipts, contracts, and scans actually live — organized, searchable, permanent.
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