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Product or service · Productivity and education

Google Drive, cloud files with 5 GB free (2012)

Announced by Sundar Pichai, Drive brought creating, sharing and storing files into one place. Each user started with 5 GB free, with 25 GB, 100 GB and 1 TB plans. It had apps for PC, Mac and Android, integrated Google Docs and recognized text in scanned documents.

Google Drive on a desktop computer, a tablet and an iPhone
Image from the launch post on Google’s German blog. Google, April 24, 2012 · Source: Wir stellen vor: Google Drive... Ja, wirklich! · Image by Google, displayed from the original server; not covered by the museum’s CC BY 4.0 license.

April 24, 2012

Google Drive

Product or service · Productivity and education · Active

sources · timeline 2010–2014

Interpretive reconstruction · Unification Early-2010s conventions: a dark top bar, flat white surfaces, solid red and blue buttons. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

  • April 24, 2012 Launch · exact date [1]

What the sources say

ClaimRecordConfidenceSources
Free storage 5 GB 2 · Single primary source [1] primary
Paid plans 25 GB ($2.49/month), 100 GB ($4.99/month), 1 TB ($49.99/month) 2 · Single primary source [1] primary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

No archived capture has been located for this record yet.

Sources

  1. Wir stellen vor: Google Drive... Ja, wirklich! — Sundar Pichai — Google Blog (Alemanha), April 24, 2012. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · in German · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

  • Portuguese launch post

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Google Drive” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"Google Drive, cloud files with 5 GB free (2012)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/google-drive/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: google-drive · Reviewed on November 2, 2026