G suite (formerly known as Google Apps for Work) is Google’s flagship SaaS (Software as a Service, basically a suite of cloud apps and services available through a browser in a subscription based model), and the direct competitor to Microsoft 365, at least in the enterprise productivity and collaboration space.
It includes about 20 products and services (all plans combined), but depending on what subscription you have, you might get only a few of those.
So, What does G Suite include exactly? and what subscription plans is each app or service available for?
Here’s the complete list of apps and services included in Google’s G suite:
Gmail
Gmail Business Email provides a professional, secure and ad-free version of the well-known mailbox, with custom business emails (example@yourCompany.com), unlimited group email addresses, 99.9% guaranteed uptime, twice the storage of personal Gmail.
It also offers access to 24/7 support, robust integration with the rest of G suite apps and services, in addition to G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook (to sync the two).
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Google Meet
Google Meet provides secure, enterprise-level video and voice conferencing for teams & business communication and collaboration, using Google’s robust global infrastructure.
It allows for phone dial-ins and external guests without any 3rd party tools, and it is available directly through the main browsers (Safari, Edge, Chrome & Firefox), as well as through a mobile app on iPhone & Android.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Google Chat
Google Chat provides secure 1:1 direct messages as well as group conversations, and allows for fluid team & business collaboration efficiently from anywhere, with shared chat, files and tasks.
Google Chat is meant to replace Google Hangouts, with seamless migration Hangouts customers. Google Chat offers an easy integration with both Google (powerful search through emails and chat conversations) and third-party apps (Salesforce, Jira…etc), in addition to support for task automation through smart bots.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Calendar
Google Calendar offers integrated online calendars for teams & businesses, so they can focus on work instead of scheduling / planning, with shareable calendars that are integrated with Gmail, Drive, Sites and Meet.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Drive
Google Drive is a cloud storage service that allows you to securely store, access and control the sharing of your files.
Google Drive allows the use of hundreds of integrated apps, such as DocuSign for e-signatures, CloudLock for additional security layers, and LucidCharts for mock-ups …, it also has plugins for MS Office and Outlook, and supports 40+ file types.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic (only 30GB), G Suite Business and G Suite Enterprise (unlimited storage or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users)).
Docs
Google Docs offers simple online word processing for teams and businesses, right in the browser with offline support and robust real-time commenting, chat and collaboration / editing right in your documents, as well as unlimited revision history archiving.
Google docs allows you to import your documents to make them instantly editable, including Microsoft Word and PDF files. Once you are done you can export your work in .docx, .pdf, .odt, .rtf, .txt or .html format.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Sheets
Google Sheets provides real-time secure collaboration on spreadsheets for teams and businesses, right in your browser with built-in compatibility with other spreadsheet systems including Microsoft Excel, and with integrated AI insights for friction-less collaboration.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Slides
Google Slides is an online presentation builder for teams and businesses, that supports real-time collaboration, chat and commenting right in your browser, with built-in controllable sharing and revision history archiving.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Forms
Google Forms is an online surveys builder, that allows the creation of custom forms for surveys and questionnaires, and the gathering and data analysis of results / responses in a spreadsheet right in Google Sheets with automatic summaries and everything.
The forms can be private to your team / organization, or shared publicly in an email, or a website or through a shared link. the forms support different types of data validation, and can handle up to 2 million data cells of responses.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Sites
Google Sites is an online website builder, that allows you to collaborate on the effortless creation and publishing of responsive websites without design skills or programming experience, through simple drag & drop interfaces.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Currents
Google currents (formerly known as Google+ for G Suite) is an internal enterprise social network for teams and businesses to facilitate the exchange of ideas and engage employees in meaningful conversations throughout the organization.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Keep
Google Keep is an online tool to organize your notes and lists across all your devices, which allows you to capture inspiration and to-dos lists, and to collaborate on notes with teammates and coworkers while setting reminders (time based reminders as well as location based ones) to stay on track.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Classrooms
Google Classrooms is a web service developed for schools that aim to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. Its primary purposes are to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students, organize student work, boost collaboration, and foster better communication.
Available for: only G Suite for Education & G Suite Enterprise for Education.
Assignments
Google Assignments is an application for your learning management system (LMS), that gives educators a faster, simpler way to distribute, analyze, and grade student work.
Basically it gives educational institutions the same features of Google Classroom, but without having to use Google Classroom, they just integrate Google Assignments to their already existing LMS solution, and voilà!
Available for: only G Suite for Education & G Suite Enterprise for Education.
Apps Script
Google Apps Script is the only low-code platform that allows you to build business solutions that integrate, automate, and extend G Suite.
With Apps Script, users can build custom solutions on top of G Suite – no professional development experience required. Apps Script is available to everyone with a Gmail account, and only uses HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise).
Google Cloud Search
Google Cloud Search provides the power of Google to search across your company’s content throughout G suite.
From Gmail and Drive to Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar …, It crawls all content and answers your questions, while delivering relevant suggestions in total respect of your security and privacy settings.
With powerful web and mobile apps, Cloud Search also allows you to find people faster, by searching your company directory, that way you can see your coworkers’ contact details, in addition to events and files you have in common.
Available for: only G Suite Business and G Suite Enterprise subscription plans.
Admin
Google Admin offers centralized security and administration controls for G Suite. It allows you to manage users & devices, and to configure your organization’s security and privacy settings so your data stays safe.
Google Admin uses integrated Cloud Identity features to manage users and set up security options like 2-step verification and security keys. And it leverages the Security Center for security analysis & insights, and recommended best practices.
And you can use the G Suite Marketplace to find hundreds of 3rd party integrated solutions like CRM, project management, compliance, and more.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise), but with varying features, G Suite Enterprise has obviously the most Admin options.
Endpoint
Google Endpoint offers easy management of your organization’s devices whether they are on Android, iOS, Windows, Chrome OS, MacOS, or Linux.
With the rising use of the BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Devices) approach to work, agent-less Endpoint management allows you to:
- Remotely and securely implement screen locks and strong passwords
- Erase all confidential data with device wipe or selective account wipe for Android and iOS.
- Block access to specific Windows, Chrome OS, Linux, and MacOS sessions.
- Securing your company in case of stolen / lost devices.
- As soon as your employee’s device gets enrolled, all WiFi and email configurations including server-side certificates and business apps get pushed to the device instantly.
- Separation of Business apps from personal apps in Android, so the employee can use the same device for work and leisure without a conflict.
- All this from one centralized location in Google Admin.
Available for: all 3 main subscription plans (G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise), but G Suite Enterprise has context aware access, and Cloud Identity Premium as additional features.
Vault
Google Vault offers data retention and eDiscovery for G Suite, with it you can track, retain, archive, search and export data across some of the apps and services of G suite.
You can set retention rules and holds on data from certain G Suite apps for an entire domain or specific business units. Here’s a list of supported apps in Vault:
Vault also allows you to retrieve valuable information, even from suspended accounts, to gather what your legal team needs and prevent data loss from employee turnover.
You can audit reports as well, to keep track of user activity within Vault. with trails that let you see user searches, content views, exports…etc.
Available for: only G Suite Business and G Suite Enterprise subscription plans.
Work Insights
Google Work Insights provides insights on work patterns across G Suite. It allows to get real-time insights on adoption, work patterns, and team collaboration across different G Suite apps and services.
Please note that:
- Access is restricted to admins who can increase the aggregate view threshold to more than 10 people for their domain. Work Insights does not include the ability to drill down and see any individual’s activities.
- Work Insights allows you to share reports with execs so they can view the overall status of their G Suite deployment on an ongoing basis.
- View progress over time by comparing reports on a month to month basis.
Available for: only the admins of the G Suite Enterprise subscription plan.
Separate Add-ons
In addition to the products above, there are several add-ons available separately for purchase to G suite subscribers:
- Jamboard: a collaborative whiteboard with a robust canvas (named Jamboard Display), to brainstorm & visualize ideas, store them and securely share them. It has a mobile app too (Android/iOS), and it supports up to 16 simultaneous touch-points. It costs more than 5000$ + 600$ / year in management and support fees.
- Google Meet Hardware: video meetings for any conference room including touch-less controls with Hey Google voice control. Its curated set of components work together end-to-end to make engaging HD meetings affordable, with a +2000$ price tag.
- AppSheet: a no-code app development platform, allowing you to quickly build mobile and desktop apps with your existing data.
- Google Voice: a telephone service that provides call forwarding and voicemail services, voice and text messaging, as well as U.S. and international call termination for Google Account customers in G suite.
And last but not least, please remember that Google is continually innovating on behalf of their costumers, so they are introducing new apps and services every now and then to G Suite, and they keep improving and expanding the features of the existing ones.
With Microsoft’s rebranding & expanding of their productivity suite (Office 365 is now Microsoft 365), which is the direct competitor to G Suite, and the undisputed leader of enterprise SaaS at the moment, we can expect Google to follow in their footsteps to keep up with them, and expand their tool-set beyond the current productivity and collaboration scope.
I hope this answers your questions, and provides you with the complete list of G Suite apps and services that you were looking for. And I’ll try to keep this list up-to-date with each new product / feature release from Google.