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Google Drive is great for collaboration. It's terrible for sharing documents externally when you need to know what happens next. You paste a Drive link into an email, hit send, and then... silence. Did they open it? Did they read past the first page? Are they sharing it with their team? With Google Drive, you'll never know. Peeeky is purpose-built for outbound document sharing — pitch decks, proposals, reports — where tracking engagement isn't optional, it's the whole point.
| Feature | Google Drive | Peeeky |
|---|---|---|
| View tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Page-level analytics | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time per page | ✗ | ✓ |
| Email gating | ✗ | ✓ |
| Password protection | ✗ | ✓ |
| Real-time open notifications | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI Chat on documents | ✗ | ✓ |
| Engagement scoring | ✗ | ✓ |
| Download control | Limited | ✓ |
| Collaboration / editing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Storage | 15 GB free | 5 docs free |
| Price | Free / $12/mo | Free / $39/mo |
When you share a Google Drive link, the analytics stop at “link copied.” You can't see who opened the document, how long they spent on each page, or whether they forwarded it to a colleague. For internal team docs, this is fine. For a sales proposal you sent to a $200K prospect? It's flying blind. Peeeky shows you exactly who viewed your document, when they opened it, how many seconds they spent on each page, and whether they came back for a second look. Every view is logged with a timestamp, device info, and location. The difference is the difference between guessing and knowing.
Google Drive permissions are binary: either someone has the link or they don't. Anyone with the link can forward it to anyone else, download it, and do whatever they want with it. Peeeky gives you layered access controls — require an email address before viewing, set a password, disable downloads, set an expiration date, or limit the number of views. If you're sharing a confidential financial model or an investor update, these aren't nice-to-haves — they're requirements. With Peeeky, your documents stay under your control even after you share them.
Google Drive is a storage and collaboration tool. It excels at letting five people edit a spreadsheet simultaneously. Peeeky is a document intelligence tool. It excels at telling you what happens after you share a document externally. Most teams need both: Drive for internal collaboration, Peeeky for external sharing. Upload your final PDF or deck to Peeeky, generate a tracked link, and send that instead of a Drive link. You keep Google's collaboration. You add Peeeky's intelligence. The combination gives you full visibility across the entire document lifecycle — from creation to consumption.