Flickr is a reliable photo management and online sharing application that allows the user to show off their captured images and videos to the world. Indeed, Flickr isn’t as popular as other social media platforms, but they changed some of their policies in 2019, which made this app more reliable. Now Flickr is offering 1TB of free storage to their users for photos and videos. People who have been using Flickr for a long time see it as the biggest positive change on the platform.However, Flickr is not the only app that offers this much free storage. Google also offers its users 15GB of free storage to upload their photos and videos in high quality. Users can get more storage by purchasing a subscription. In the 15GB of free Google Drive storage, users can store their Documents, Photos, Videos, and many more things.There are people in the world who don’t prefer using Google Photos because of privacy and security purposes and rely on other alternative services and apps. So if anyone is confused about which photo storage service is better, they should explore a little bit about the variety of apps and services like Dropbox and OneDrive.
Google Photos
As mentioned above, Google Photos offers free 15GB of storage to its users. After creating a Google account, users get 15GB of free storage to store their photos and videos. If any user uses the entire 15GB of Google Photos space, they can buy more.Right now the cost for an additional 100GB space is $1.99/month and $19.99/year. While the 200GB storage costs $2.99/month and $29.00/year and the highest storage of 2TB comes at $9.99/month and $99.99/year along with a VPN for Android devices.
iCloud Photosi
Cloud Photo is a part of the Apple ecosystem. Any user that is using apple products like Mac, iPhone, or iPad can access iCloud. It is similar to Google Photos that offer specific storage to store data. iCloud can store every data of the device, and its iCloud Photo section shows those images that are uploaded in the iCloud drive. Users get 5GB of free iCloud storage and can enhance it by spending $0.99/month for 50GB. The 200GB of iCloud storage comes at $2.99/month and 2TB of storage comes at $9.99/month.
Flickr
Flickr has a free plan for their users in which users can unlock 1000 photos with some specific guidelines. The photos file must be within 200MB and videos should be under 1GB. Anyone who wants to get more benefits from Flickr services can spend $6.99/month and $59.99/year to get unlimited storage and no ads.
Deviantart
Indeed, Deviantart is the biggest art community. Users can find a huge variety of visual artists and their phenomenal arts. Any user can visit and view the art gallery of an artist that is divided into several categories, such as animation, traditional, and many more. Deviantart membership doesn’t have any special restrictions for their users. It allows everyone to upload their art for the public to view. There’s a special Deviantart (DA) community for popular artists, arts, and art lovers. There are additional features for core members that cost $3.95/month and 39.95/year.
Photobucket
Photobucket provides a limited free plan to its users. It allows its users to upload only 250 photos for free. However, if anyone wants to explore Photobucket more, they can start its beginning plan that starts with $5.99/month and $64.68/year. It offers 25GB storage to use with no ads and a photo editor.
Amazon Photos
Amazon offers several services to its Prime members that include free shipping, early offers, music & video streaming, unlimited photo storage, and many more things. All these things cost $119/year.The great thing about unlimited storage is that five family members or friends can access it through the Family Vault feature. Every member that is connected to the vault can access the vault images and videos. There is a huge variety of storage plans that starts at
$1.99/month.ConclusionAs per the details, it is clear that several companies offer cloud services to store photos and videos. Every company has different policies and costs to get additional benefits. However, if anyone only wants a spare cloud space to store their photos and videos, then Google Photos and iCloud Drive are some of the best options.
I’m Edward Lewis. I’m an art director living in 737 Northcrest Shopping Center, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, United States. I am a fan of photography, technology, and design. I’m also Online Marketing Expert with 3 years of extensive and rich experience of Marketing through Social Networking Platforms.
