Apple iCloud

Apple iCloud

598 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apple iCloud	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Apple iCloud is a document management software offering from Apple. It includes features such as access to music, photos, calendars, contacts, and documents, and it is built into every new iOS device.	$0.99 per month

Pricing

Apple iCloud

50GB: $0.99
per month
200GB: $2.99
per month
2TB: $9.99
per month

Pricing Offerings
Apple iCloud
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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	Apple iCloud
Considered Both Products	Apple Verified User Chose Apple iCloud Apple iCloud allows to track devices when lost and uses end-to-end encryption for data such as iMessages of Health data. It also includes features of shared albums to optimize storage and can access these items through any Apple device in a quick and efficient way. Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Henderson Marketing Specialist in Marketing at MK Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Apple iCloud Egnyte was a good system, but there were two things that I didn't like. One, once your data was in their server, it was in their server. It came across as you did not have control or even ownership of it anymore - plus you had to maintain the payments to them, or it was all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud Dropbox is more universal but has a higher price point that Apple iCloud and google while mid price point offers more options in software that allows for file editing and sharing directly in the document. Apple iCloud does not have that on offer. Apple iCloud is the lowest … Incentivized Helpful? Chetan Patel Head sales in Sales at Ecosmob Technologies Pvt Ltd (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Apple iCloud Nowadays local storage are having a lot of bottleneck and upgrading process require time and money, iCloud are one of the safest and most secure platforms, its End User License Policy is in favor of customer and reliability. Apple iCloud collaboratively works with iOS and macOS … Incentivized Helpful? Doug Fish Finance Director at Navigate Bookkeeping (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Apple iCloud Google Drive is similar to Apple iCloud, but since I prefer Apple products and have operated within the Apple ecosystem for many years, I use iCloud. Some clients who don't use Apple share documents with me in Google Drive so I have experience with the product, but I prefer … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Myers Associate in Marketing at C21 Myers Lakeland (Real Estate, 51-200 employees) Chose Apple iCloud Dropbox is the king of cloud environments, and where Apple iCloud should go to. I have tried others but don't even remember their names now. We have our own personal cloud as well. I have used cloud environments since 2007 and would love to see Apple iCloud step up to a full … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud While I have to use Dropbox on occasion, I greatly prefer to use iCloud for file sharing. I also have used Google's Apps, and because I'm a Mac/iPhone user, iCloud has more easily fit into the normal routine of what I'm already doing and using. Dropbox has some minor features … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud Apple iCloud is specially made for iOS devices. Nothing and no one will ever be able to service an Apple product's needs better than Apple themselves. The Apple iCloud software is designed specifically for iOS devices, ease of use, and mindless security for automatic backups. … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Moore Assistant Director of Admissions at Oklahoma Baptist University (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Apple iCloud The basic premise among these is the same. Where Apple iCloud stands apart for our team is that there is not a separate app to be downloaded to access these features on most phones or tablets (most of our staff has iPhones, and we provide iPads). This allows everyone to obtain … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Kennicott Vice President of Communications at The Waite Company (Public Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees) Chose Apple iCloud The security and functionality of iCloud beats out any other products I've tried. While two-factor authentication is available elsewhere, Apple seems to take security a step further with notifications across all devices. In addition, the pricing is right - the low cost of 1TB … Incentivized Helpful? Sandy Hinding Systems Administrator iOS/OSX (Casper Suite) in Information Technology at ISD # 197 West St.Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Public Schools (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose Apple iCloud We have found that Google Backup & Sync and Apple iCloud between them have all the bases covered. While Google is excellent for many things, as an Apple-centric environment, we utilize both systems. Between them, we have been able to reduce our expensive on-prem file storage … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Melder Customer Account Manager in Corporate at Quad (Printing, 10,001+ employees) Chose Apple iCloud Overall, iCloud performs quite well against some of its larger competitors. In my opinion, iCloud may be better suited for personal and social sharing compared to business cloud platforms like OneDrive and Google Drive. iCloud is incredibly strong if your organization is fully … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud Did not evaluate other products like Apple iCloud.... Incentivized Helpful? Rene Agredano Advocacy Journalist and Co-Founder in Finance and Accounting at Tripawds.com (Veterinary, 1-10 employees) Chose Apple iCloud Amazon AWS interface is clunky and too unintuitive for me. It's like going from a Mac to a Windows machine. YUCK. I realize that Apple iCloud is really just relying on Amazon AWS servers for data storage but it's so much nicer to work with the Apple interface for my daily data … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud They are different platforms but both reliable and easily used by those who need to access and use it. I am a happy customer for both Apple iCloud and Boomr and would highly recommend them to anyone who is looking to use and purchase something to give them the reassurance and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud One Drive can allow users to collaborate in realtime and rare crashes on documents. The storage is very generous, and pricing for business, especially non-profits, is fair. One Drive also allows for better photo storage for us as a school. We can keep yearbook items and also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud Already a part of the Apple ecosystem, so if it suits our needs, we will use it. We have a Department shared Dropbox account specifically for sharing large projects with vendors, so Apple iCloud is for lighter internal projects such as shared spreadsheets for project … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud Apple iCloud is extremely similar to Google Drive. You’re able to access files from anywhere, even a PC, without needing to be on the device where the file was originally created. Incentivized Helpful? Gavin Scott-Miller IT Consultant in Information Technology at Self-Employed (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Apple iCloud iCloud is probably the best option for someone who uses primarily Apple devices and services. If you are multi-platform in your technology use I would make sure you test out the free version of iCloud before you make the switch, Apple likes to play nice with Apple, which means … Incentivized Helpful? James Hicks Chief Technologist and Founder in Corporate at HicksNewMedia (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Apple iCloud Google Drive is still my primary repository - I use iCloud as a secondary. This is primarily due to the issues noted with iCloud.com. Incentivized Helpful? Gary Gray Founder in Information Technology at Tech Haven (Entertainment, 1-10 employees) Chose Apple iCloud While the others are superior for file sharing with other people or teams, they aren't part of the Apple ecosystem and as such don't provide the core functionally that iCloud provides of in-app integration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud Unlike other solutions, iCloud automatically backs up data without the user needing to download an additional application. Additionally, iCloud is the only application to keep and manage iPhone backups. Lastly, iCloud's pricing options are much more favorable than the other … Incentivized Helpful? Shelby Bowden Graduate Research Assistant in Research & Development at Western Kentucky University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Apple iCloud I selected Apple icloud mainly because it is the best for using with pesky apple file types, but overall it does a pretty poor job against competitors. It is more expensive, offers less storage, and is much more difficult to use. I'd stick to an alternative program if it were … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud A major dislike is the limited free space. I love how Google Drive allows photos at a certain size to be free. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apple iCloud Initially, I was using Google Drive and I was completely satisfied with its services. But after sometimes when I upgraded my mobile device and computer system to Mac OS and iOS, I shifted to iCloud because iCloud works flawlessly in the Apple ecosystem and It also provides a … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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Features

Apple iCloud

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Apple iCloud
Feature	Apple iCloud 8.5 77 Ratings
Versioning	8.753 Ratings
Video files	9.373 Ratings
Audio files	9.370 Ratings
Document collaboration	7.166 Ratings
Access control	7.764 Ratings
File search	8.669 Ratings
Device sync	8.676 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Apple iCloud
Feature	Apple iCloud 7.5 73 Ratings
User and role management	7.057 Ratings
File organization	8.269 Ratings
Device management	7.470 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Apple iCloud
Feature	Apple iCloud 7.2 77 Ratings
Performance	7.277 Ratings
Reliability	8.177 Ratings
Storage Reports	6.260 Ratings

User Ratings
	Apple iCloud
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (77 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (4 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (23 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (12 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (20 ratings)