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Grants vs Google Docs for grant applications
Real-time co-editing is great. Up-arrow comments and broken numbering on a 30-page Ideenpapier are not.
EXIST
Google Docs
Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering
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At a glance
Google Docs is the default for two-person founder teams - free, real-time, share-by-link. Grants trades the generic-document flexibility for purpose-built grant structure: an Ideenpapier outline reviewers expect, deadline + status carried forward, the 4-week post-rejection revision window tracked. Hosted in Germany. Pick Docs for the long tail of "any document"; pick us for the EXIST.
Grants vs Google Docs: feature comparison
When to pick which
Pick Grants when
EU/German hosting is required by your university, your investors, or your own conviction.
Submission is more than 20 pages, with figures, references, and a budget table.
Pick Google Docs when
Your team already lives in Workspace and the cost of a tool switch outweighs the structure win.
Try Grants
Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. You can export and delete everything self-serve.