Take Degoo Cloud for what it is – a mobile-focused, consumer-focused, photo-focused archive tool – and it's a pretty polished solution, especially if you spend a bit of money a month on a subscription. It’s worth bearing in mind Degoo’s reasonably competitive pricing strategy: for the same price as its 500GB plan, iCloud Drive and Google Drive users only get access to 200GB of space, though this does include a more comprehensive document solution. Each friend that signs up gives you an additional 10GB of storage on paid plans (or 5GB on the free plan), up to a maximum of 100 friends. Paying for the service removes the ads, lets you back up photos and videos from more devices (10 for the 500GB plan and unlimited for the 10TB plan), and adds encryption too.Īll accounts, paying or not, have the ability to increase storage by the nature of friend referrals. If you're serious about giving it a go with Degoo, then you can upgrade to 500GB of space for $2.99 or £1.89 a month, or go all the way to 10TB of space for $9.99 or £6.39 a month. Users need to log in at least once a year to keep their free account active. The free, ad-supported tier available on Degoo - which you can use if you just want to try the service out or you don't have that many photos to store in the cloud anyway - gives you 100GB of storage space which can be used on up to five devices (this was previously capped to just the one device). These are removed for paying customers, however free subscribers can choose to allow personal ads - or not. Part of the way that free accounts are kept free is that they contain ads. ![]() The service also offers two-factor authentication (2FA) as long as you use a Google account to sign in – we'd prefer it if Degoo had its own 2FA solution in place, but support through Google is better than nothing. It's something that Degoo seems to take very seriously, and is another point in its favour, though this particular feature is another of those only available to paying members.Īcross all tiers you get very decent 256-bit AES encryption that is applied to data in transit and at rest in the storage facility - and on that note, users’ data is stored across various sites for optimal security. One interesting security feature Degoo Cloud offers is what it calls zero knowledge storage (opens in new tab): supercharged end-to-end encryption, so not even Degoo employees can access your files, and data spread out across multiple servers for extra redundancy. (Image credit: Degoo ) Degoo Cloud security On the mobile side, you can set uploads to only happen when you're connected to Wi-Fi in order to preserve mobile data, but it lacks the finesse and control that a more powerful desktop client would have, such as bandwidth throttling. The same file took just over one minute to download, which is about as good as it gets. On average, a 1GB test file took a little over nine minutes to process and upload, which is fairly average though can be beaten by the likes of iCloud Drive, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, all of which reside natively inside their respective operating systems, working smoothly in the background. Upload and download speeds were mostly fine, though we noticed occasionally sluggishness – more so with the mobile apps than with the desktop interface. However, if you're in a rush and just want to see some best picks, it can be helpful. ![]() It’s a similar story with other automatic highlight-pickers, like the ‘Days’ view in iCloud Drive’s Photos. If your cloud storage needs are more complex, you might have to look elsewhere.ĭegoo's attempts to pick out the highlights of our photo roll were a bit hit and miss, so we can't say that's something you can particularly rely on – but then again we'd rather choose our own highlights rather than have an AI engine pick them out anyway. You only get simple options for uploading and filtering files, but to be fair that's all that a lot of users are going to want – Degoo Cloud might be right for you if you're looking for something that's as accessible as possible and that requires the minimum of effort to use. It's not the most sophisticated set of interfaces we've ever seen, but finding your way around is straightforward enough. (Image credit: Degoo) Degoo Cloud interfaceĭegoo Cloud is obviously aiming for intuitive, easy navigation when it comes to the interface of its apps: big text, cartoon images, chunky on-screen elements, and so on.
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