Box vs Easydict
Box and Easydict are both document management software. Box is a commercial product from Box, Inc. Easydict is open source under GPL-3.0, with 15k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Box when
- An enterprise wants secure external file sharing and governance independent of Microsoft or Google.
- Pick Easydict when
- You read or write in several languages on a Mac and want quick lookups.
Side by side
Cloud content management with file sharing, collaboration, security controls, retention, e-signature and many integrations.
A macOS dictionary and translation app that looks up selected text or OCR'd screen text across Apple, DeepL, Google, OpenAI and Chinese translation services.
It duplicates what Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace already include for many customers.
Several services need your own API keys, and docs lean Chinese.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Desktop app
Not published
Swift, Objective-C and Python
Closed source, sold by Box, Inc.
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
1.2k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
15k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 2.25.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.