Best Alternatives to iCloud for iPhone: Storage and Prices

What iCloud offers for your iPhone

Perhaps iCloud is not the service that offers the best rates, nor does it have many plans or annual payments. However, there are many advantages offered by using this service on the iPhone. The first thing is that being a native service you will not need to install absolutely anything . Also thanks to this, you can make complete copies of your data from Settings> your name> iCloud> Copy to iCloud.

These backups are made automatically and are able to allow you to restore the phone leaving it as you had it previously, with the same applications, same settings, wallpapers, ringtones, etc. But it also stands out for the fact of synchronizing the following data, regardless of whether you do a full backup or not:

• Photos
• Contacts
• Calendars
• Reminders
• notes
• Messages
• Safari
• House
• Health
• Wallet
• Game center
• Siri
• Key chain
• Pages
• Numbers
• Keynote
• Shortcuts
• Maps
• Voice Notes
• Other native and third-party applications

Another good advantage of this is the synchronization with other Apple devices such as the iPad or Mac, being able to instantly obtain the data related to the applications mentioned above. Although even from Android or Windows you could access them.

The rest of the services that we will see in this article are also cross-platform, but the truth is that these will not have an identical synchronization to that of iCloud and will not allow full backups of the iPhone as this one does, so this is an important point. differentiator in favor of Apple.

As for the cloud service as such, there is iCloud Drive in which you can save all kinds of files and documents, organize them by folders or add labels that make your search easier. This is also accessible from other devices and accessed from the iPhone with the Files app. In fact, you can even share folders with other users if you have a version equal to or later than iOS 13.4.

It should be noted that you can share with your Apple family all the paid storage plans, which could mean considerable savings.

Google Drive, infinite photo storage?

Of the Google service, we must highlight a very positive aspect that goes beyond the rates seen in the previous table. We refer to the possibility of storing your photos and having them synchronized in the cloud with Google Photos without having to pay absolutely nothing. To do this you must select that the photos are saved in high quality, so that they will not consume anything of the 15 GB that you have as standard for free, although it will if you select to save the original photos in their settings.

In any case, beyond this storage of photos, Google services stand out for having some of the best prices on the market if they are contracted annually. Also its wide range of online programs available are a great option for group work, highlighting Google Docs or Google Spreadsheets.

It should be noted that all these services have apps for iPhone , which can be downloaded completely free from the App Store.

The advantages of Microsoft OneDrive

If we can continue to say that Apple and Microsoft are rivals, the OneDrive service would be the quintessential iCloud rival. In fact, despite not having similar rates in terms of capacity, the truth is that their prices are equivalent. However we find that their rates not only provide storage for the cloud, but offer other elements.

For example, the 1 and 6 TB rates include very popular Office programs such as Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They also allow sharing it with 6 more people in the case of the 6 TB and with 1 in the case of 1 TB. They also have the possibility of sharing applications on several computers, as well as advanced security.

The versions of 5 and 100 GB do not offer programs, nor the possibility of sharing the storage, nor do they offer maximum security. However, this does not mean that it makes the service unsafe or that it cannot be enjoyed, since you can continue storing your files with total comfort and confidence that only you will be able to access them and do it from your iPhone, iPad, Mac or any other another team.

Dropbox, storage everywhere

This service has no middle ground, since it goes from offering just 2 free GB to offering 2 and 3 TB. For storage it will not be, of course, since practically any user can be calm about not running out of space to store their files in the cloud.

Again we find the disadvantage of not being able to make full copies on iOS as if it happens on iCloud, but the truth is that this is one of the most popular systems for its optimized application that allows you to intelligently upload files, share documents, view versions Previous of these and even create a virtual hard disk on which to work from a computer.

Of course, it has an important disadvantage and it is the fact that two people cannot work on the same file due to creating conflict when creating a copy of it. Also not positive is the fact that syncing only occurs when you store files in the My Dropbox folder. For everything else, it is an excellent manager that will surely satisfy your needs, becoming one of the safest systems and with the greatest capacities on its servers to provide extra storage for your iPhone and other equipment.

There are other storage services to consider, which are likely to be added to this list. In any case, we would like you to tell us in the comment box which are your favorite services as an alternative to iCloud on the iPhone.