![]() Google One offers 15GB of storage for free to all Google users. How much storage will you get for your photos with Google Photos or Amazon Photos? Google Photos offers an app to sync photos from your smartphone easily (Image credit: Apple) Google Photos vs Amazon Photos: Performance Both Google Photos and Amazon Photos have photo recognition built-in, meaning if you’re looking for a photo of a bicycle, all you have to do is search “bicycle.” You can also sort photos by a person or pet, by date, or by location.Īn important consideration for creative professionals is that Amazon Photos rules stipulate that you can only use the service for non-commercial uses, explicitly saying that you cannot use the service to operate a photography business.īesides that one small, albeit crucial, consideration, Amazon Photos and Google Photos are comparable when it comes to features, offering all the essentials. However, this option would be more useful for sharing photos with friends than with customers or collaborators.Īnother important tool for creatives is the ability to find what you’re looking for quickly among your many files. With both services, you can easily allow another user access to a created album, or share it via text or email if your collaborator doesn’t use the service.Īmazon Photos makes it slightly easier to share photos with other Amazon Photos users with a built-in messenger-style app, enabling users to share photos, messages, and reactions. Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C.Collaboration is important for creative professionals, and both Amazon Photos and Google Photos have features that enable you to share your photos with other users. Subscription fatigue is real, but chipping away at these expenses is one way to feel less wary about this cost of doing digital business. Credit card cash-back offers such as a targeted American Express 20%-off deal for Google One may trim your costs, but you can also often purchase Apple and Google gift cards, good for their cloud services, at a discount.įor example, Target rewards buying a $100 Apple gift card with a $15 gift card, Amazon earlier offered a $5 credit for buying a $50 Apple gift card, and AARP members can buy $15 Google Play gift cards for $13 through that organization’s AARP Rewards page. My other advice: Try not to pay list price for cloud storage if you can help it. In my case, that device is an HP laptop running Windows 10, so I pay for OneDrive to sync its documents, photos and music. My advice: Let the computer that most needs online backup – meaning the device that spends the most time out of the house and holds the most content in need of safekeeping – drive your cloud choice. ►Unfriending Facebook: How to deactivate or permanently delete your Facebook accountīeyond those three, you can also buy cloud storage from the likes of Dropbox, where 2TB runs $119.88/year, while Amazon Prime subscribers get unlimited Amazon Photos storage those third-party services, however, lack their integration with major computing platforms. ►How to get it together: 5 tips to help you organize your iPhone, Android apps and control the chaos Google’s backup service does not come with add-ons to match Apple and Microsoft’s – but it’s also your only recourse for a Gmail inbox that’s grown beyond your ability to keep it under the 15 GB line. ![]() In Windows, OneDrive provides an equally simple backup of your core data folders as well as the useful extra of Microsoft Office’s apps. On Macs, iPhones and iPads, iCloud+ allows for the simplest backup and now offers such additional privacy features as iCloud Private Relay to cloak your browsing and Hide My Email to create random addresses that forward to your actual email. Microsoft’s OneDrive provides 5GB free, followed by a 100GB tier at $23.88 a year and a 1TB offering at $69.99 a year, plus a family plan with 1TB per person for up to six people for $99.99/year.Google One starts with 15GB free, then offers 100GB for $19.99/year, 200GB for $29.99/year, and 2TB for $99.99/year.Apple’s iCloud+ gives 5 gigabytes of free storage, after which you can buy 50GB for $11.88/year, 200GB for $35.88/year, or 2 terabytes for $119.88/year.Here are your options from Apple, Google and Microsoft, with costs on an annual basis: ![]()
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