There's also a Lightroom Classic plug-in and a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. The service includes apps for Windows (XP through 10) macOS 10.9 or later Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Fedora 21, Debian 8 or later derivative distributions) iOS 9 or later and Android 5.0 or later. As with all file-syncing services, the setup process encourages you to download and install the pCloud Drive software, though it's not required. You can sign up for pCloud using your Facebook or Google credentials or by entering an email address and password. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Apple iCloud Drive Review Degoo offers a whopping 10TB for $9.99 per month. Microsoft includes 1TB of OneDrive storage with a $6.99-per-month Office 365 Personal subscription, and 6TB (1TB each for six users) with the $9.99-per-month Home subscription. By comparison, Apple charges $9.99 for 2TB of cloud storage, as do Google and Dropbox. PCloud's 500GB Premium plan costs just $3.99 per month, and $7.99 per month gets you 2TB. Newcomer Degoo offers a whopping 100GB to free accounts, with feature limitations. Apple and Microsoft give free accounts only 5GB, and Dropbox only provides a paltry 2GB.

One service that's more generous in terms of free cloud storage is Google Drive, with 15GB gratis (though email and original-quality photos count against that).

Like Box, pCloud provides free accounts with 10GB storage. What distinguishes pCloud most are its generous pricing plans and no-knowledge local encryption option. Most of these present the same claims of letting you access files from anywhere, free up local storage, share documents, and collaborate on them. Yet services like pCloud pop up from time to time, looking to muscle in on the big boys' territory. It's reasonable, therefore, to wonder whether there's a need for more entries in the space.

Appears as Removable Disk in File Explorer.Īll major platforms-Apple, Google, and Microsoft-provide cloud storage, as do established players like Dropbox and Box.

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