Dropbox Paper was described in the official announcement post as "a flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together.

While the user interface was liked for being minimal, reviewers cited the lack of a fixed formatting bar and missing features present in competitors' products as making Dropbox Paper seem like a "light" tool.

[3][4] Dropbox Paper was officially announced on October 15, 2015,[5][6][7] followed by an open beta and release of mobile Android and iOS apps in August 2016.

In addition to Dropbox, Paper supports media from a variety of popular services including YouTube, Spotify, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Facebook, and Google's productivity suite.

Paper also "boasts essential collaboration tools including comments, editing attribution, and revision history.

He praised the collaboration tools, writing that they "are as extensive as you'd hope, and then some", citing its invitation system with permission controls, lists of changes and revision history, comment and chat support, and "perhaps best of all", the ability to assign tasks with a "@" mention.

[18] Writing for The Verge, Casey Newton praised Paper's handling of rich media, complimenting it for being "great", and added that "I imagine that creative types who work on teams will appreciate having rich media embedded in the documents they're working on rather than in a series of infinite tabs".