So you have hundreds (or thousands) of photos on your phone, but what are the best online photo storage options for them? Digital photo storage seems like a convenient alternative to physical photos, but many image hosting sites have a cap on data for their photo storage online. To help you sort through the options, we have compiled a list of the best photo storage sites and apps for your image storage in 2021.
1. Amazon Photos
Amazon Prime members have access to Amazon’s photo storage service for free. Using Amazon Photos you can store unlimited photos, and use Amazon photos to order photo prints, cards, and calendars. Amazon Photos also has a Family Vault feature, which allows up to five people to store unlimited photos together. An annual Amazon Prime membership costs £79.
2. Google Photos
With Google Photos, users can store photos as well as editing them with access to editing options such as colour correction, cropping, and resizing on this photo storage app. Google Photos users can create albums that can either be shared publicly or shared privately with other Google users.
Google Photos allows you to store an unlimited number of photos making this one of the better online photo storage options which is free and unlimited. However, while Google Photos allows you to store unlimited photos for free, your photo resolution is capped at only 16 MP. To store larger photos, you have to opt for the paid plan.
3. iCloud Photos
iPhone owners will already be familiar with iCloud; Apple’s file storage service. It is designed to be used as an extension of Apple Photos on Macs and iPhones, but Windows users can use it too.
Using iCloud you can upload photos online and display them in a photostream. Once you upload your photos, you can tag these images names and locations, and other iCloud users can contribute by adding their own photos to the stream as well.
With iCloud, users have access to 5GB of storage for free but have to pay monthly to upgrade to more storage.
4. Photobucket
Photobucket is a photo storage site with the added benefits of photo editing tools. On Photobucket, users can also organise their photos into albums, which is a good feature for photo storage.
With a free Photobucket account, you have 2GB of storage, which you can upgrade to 500GB of storage with paid accounts ranging from $5.99 to $12.99 per month.
5. Pixpa
Pixpa is great for eCommerce merchants as it allows you to store photos in addition to being able to build an online portfolio, eCommerce store, and client galleries. It is easy to build your own website without any IT expertise. Every Pixpa plan includes cloud storage space for your photos, of either 10GB or 10TB, but Pixpa only offers a paid service, ranging from $7 – $16 a month.
6. Adobe Portfolio
Users of Adobe’s Creative Cloud software, have access to Adobe Portfolio to save their images. Using this photo storage solution, you can create a portfolio for your photography and store it securely. There are also customisable templates available to assist users in organising their photos, which they can also tag and comment on.
You can only access My Portfolio as a user of Creative Cloud, which costs £9.98 per month.
7. Smug Mug
SmugMug offers unlimited photo storage and allows users to create personalised websites and your own web address, and access to photo editing tools. SmugMug is a paid service only; users have to pay for subscriptions to access the service, ranging from $8 – $50.
8. Flickr
With Flickr, users can is upload 1,000 photos and videos for free. If you need unlimited storage, you’ll need to upgrade to Flickr Pro.
Like iCloud, Flickr displays your pictures in a photostream. On Flickr, people can follow you and comment and like your photos, which is a nice feature for photo sharing.
9. Dropbox
Dropbox is possibly the most popular file-hosting site on the internet. Dropbox has a very well-designed user interface which makes it easy to organise photos and other digital files into folders, which can be easily shared. Dropbox works well on all operating systems and is available for both iOS and Android.
Dropbox has a tier system allowing you to either use a free Dropbox account with 2GB of storage, or pay for Dropbox Plus at £7.99 a month, which gives you 2TB of storage. A third option, Dropbox Professional, is available for £16.58 a month, which grants you 3TB storage.
10. The SplentoApp
The SplentoApp is the best photo storage app, with the added benefit of organising your photos into albums and being able to share your photos privately – unlimited and all for free. Using the SplentoApp is the perfect way to store your photos because it is easy to use, convenient, private, and secure.
It also has a beautiful user interface.
SplentoApp has an albums feature that is incredibly easy to use. You can categorise your photos – rather than having them in your phone’s default photo gallery – meaning that you can organise your photos into specific albums. This makes it so much easier to look back on photos and enjoy them, to find them to show friends and family or to find them to upload to social media.
You can even view your photos just the way you want to as the Splento App allows you to view photos in four different timelines:
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- Sort by Date uploaded: Latest → earliest and Earliest → latest
- Sort by Date created: Latest → earliest and Earliest → latest
One of the most unique and cool features of SplentoApp is the ability to share privately by generating a link that takes your friends and family to the photo album without the need to save the photos to their phone, but they can choose to save it if they want to.
When sharing your photos with others, you have the option to enable the following functions for the way you share them:
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- View only
- View, like, comment
- All the above plus collaboration (the ability to upload photos to the album)
Collaboration means that at a social event (for example, a wedding or party), everyone attending can take photos and upload them to the same album, making them immediately available to anyone who has been invited.
The SplentoApp is also incredibly safe and secure as your data is encrypted, and will never be sold to third parties.
And it goes without saying – safe also means that you can never lose a photo again, as they are all backed up, automatically and forever.
Try SplentoApp today – free – to store and share your images with ease. Opening an account is simple and within moments you could be storing and sharing all your favourite photos with ease.
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