IDrive Photo Backup

I wish it had Album and Archive feature to organize uploaded photos. Otherwise, the upload speed is quite fast and the optional end-to-end encryption is a plus point. However, without the Album feature, this app is quite useless.

The only thing missing **would level UP!** is file folders. Been a venture since before 2020.

waste of money

peace of mind, ease of use, & reasonable priced.

I'm not sure cuz it's 7 days Free trial but I don't like it immediately starts backing up your device before you have a chance to stop what you don't want backup. immediately started backing up every photo on video on my phone by the time I undid everything 25 already backed up that's unacceptable

This app is a total mess. When uploading images or videos, instead of considering date taken or date modified, it relies on date created making all uploaded image dates today only. second, when deleting photos fromt the web, the app still keeps the thumbnail. While it can't load the full image, it still ahows the thumbnail, which you need to delete from the app again.

It's a great app.

pretty bad app

Crashing while opening on S22 ultra

basic app. uploads fast. wanted a program that has more features.

slow backup, sems to be a inbuilt feature of these apps

lightning fast backups at cheap cost

Album feature would be good

so far so good, very affordable plans. 2.95 a year for 100gb!

Thank you IDrive team for keeping my membership

does not recognize purchase after paying 1 year... garbage

well app for android

I'm not sure how you guys are syncing the files from mobile device. I uploaded files from different folders and all the files are backed up in idrive at file level and not at folder level. It gets tough to segregate and categories. Not sure how you guys missed such basic thing. Since it looked like a recycle bin with all files in one place, I tried to delete them thinking it will delete from idrive, but unfortunately It deleted all the files from my device too....

good app plenty of storage

nice .

I've been using IDrive Photos for a while, and I’m genuinely impressed with its performance. Uploading photos is lightning fast — noticeably quicker than Google Photos or iCloud. It maintains original image quality. The app is simple and clean, making it easy to navigate. However, there’s one drawback: you can’t create albums or organize photos into folders. All uploads land in a single feed, which can feel cluttered if you have thousands of images. I feel you will be update this feature.

Excellent photos backup app.

Good app fast and always on point

I'm still trying this app, so far it's very bugged. When I open the app some of the pictures and videos display a grey placeholder instead of the picture thumbnail. It would be nice to fix this bug. Also not being able to sort the pictures is annoying, wish I wouldn't have pictures displays only by date...

nice App

great product and price.

too many bugs in the app

Never leave your card details on this app. They deducted the yearly subscription twice from my card 14 days apart. Will report this app for fraud.

great value for your buck, not that intuitive but great for backups

Love itttt!

Functionalities are very limited but work as they should and the price is very competitive.

good

better than idrive main app...

Dont subscribe to this garbage app.The uploaded photo dont show in app inside.

Time line,it's terrible, one time in Idrive photo app (random), another in Idrive app in order

Good

I honestly didn't get the point of this app. Considering current features of iDrive photos, imho it makes a lot more sense using the iDrive mobile app and centralise cloud drive and backup there. If it is reassessed to provide a better photo-oriented experience, then it could make sense to have a specific app for this.

It continuously tries to auto upload. Restarting doesn't fix it. Force stop, restart, anduninstall then reinstall doesn't work. I'm on S24 Ultra.

the app offers no control over what it uploads. in my case it started auto uploading gigabytes of divx movies. idrive also doesn't have any useful organization features, grouping photos for example. the developer doesn't seem to have any plans to make it better. edit: devs added control over which folders auto upload. 3 stars now. pls add album folders for 5 stars.

waste

I am facing constant issues with new uploads. I have cleared the cache multiple times with no success. Been a long time subscriber since 2021 and funnily I paid my yearly subscription fees 2 weeks ago and then this problem started.

Good

Limited GUI. This is certainly no Google Photo replacement. No ability to create albums, no AI processing, no search feature. All images get dumped into one folder. It's a cost effective backup solution at most.

Very basic, reliable and stable app. No sharing though.

Use full app

Responsive team that addresses app concerns

Awesome but confusing - good pricing BUT not sure if I'm getting the best use because the instructions and video tutorials aren't helpful. I want to download my photos and documents and music off my phone and not keep them on my phone anymore, & share those pictures to others or move them to a different laptop - can I do that???

Good

not good

it's affordable and works for the most part. It glitches and stops uploading in the background until you physically open the app again. I've complained about this going on 3 years now. Edit, in every technical support phone call, more than 10. Not one Tech said this. If this is the case.... Your Tech support personal need way better training. I've spent 3 years on this bloody issue

Superb App with latest updated features

Edit: They made a bug fix 1 day after signaling the issue, very good team of devs. Original: I paid a yearly subscription but on my new phone it's saying that my device is unsupported. (Pixel 8 Pro) I can't access or backup my photos anymore. Need a fix ASAP. thx

Auto upload does not work on WiFi or cell, data from 2 weeks ago still not uploaded even tho it knows it has to upload it. Never does. App needs work it's way behind other cloud services and not reliable.

good

thanks good 👍👍👍

lost app

Things appear to be simentaneously working via the phone app and computer. Thanks!

Saviour App when compared to Google photos

Download doesn't work. Ridiculous!

Good for backup

Good for backup

Good but would be great if the app take the metadata information like location and also would be great to see file details (location, size, type, etc) in the app. Also, if you already have purchased a plan, the notifications inside the app regarding that free trial has expired and upgrade plan should not appear.

Is this a legitimate replacement for Google photos because already in testing it I cannot see any way to create albums and there is no geolocation data or meta data. It just scrambles all your photos and lumps them into one big homogeneous soup. As a professional photographer with over 60,000 hi res images ready to upload and organize that would be a complete disaster for me.

Good app

nice

As the guy mentioned it was a great deal. It uploaded my photos quick!

super app for backing up photos and videos

Nice app for photo backup recommended.

Very nice app also pocket friendly must have app for photos backup.

A very bare-bones interface, but does what it is supposed to.

Very nice app.

Very nice application.

Best part is unlimited backup of photos and videos.

Update March 23, 2024: installed on a new phone, and after taking a while to supposedly scan files, it hasn't uploaded any files and videos. It displays the check mark saying everything is uploaded, but I only see previously uploaded files displayed. Clearing data and uninstall/reinstall has not corrected this. Please help

this app not working

Good app for photos and videos

Fast backup

❤️

Faque app

I have no idea how to use idrive and idrive photo - it is so so hard to find information about how laypeople can use it effectively to store photos online in folders that are easy to access in the cloud :(

thik aa

I've been really happy with the upload speed and quality of all IDrive products

Love it

amazing

After I installed IDrive Photos on my device, I tried to sign-in 4 times but the app keeps crashing. I tried to sign-in the second time after a reboot but still keeps crashing. I have also uninstalled, and then reinstalled the app and still kept crashing. So I had to uninstall the app, for good.

i wouldn't recommend this. photos never upload and it's a hassle to use.

Better management of photo backups than the main idrive app has. Only issue is it seems to take a while to discover and upload all your photos. I had to refresh the photo list on the app and free times before it found everything. Possibly an Android limitation. Also, like other photo apps, does not let you view photos by source folder.

Exceptional cost and ease of use

good app for backup

Affordable storage, but not the most user friendly. It sometimes has bugs that stop photos from uploading, so you have to keep checking that your photos are auto-uploading.

Not user friendly

Excellent 👍

Edited review: I maintain the 3 stars despite the fact that folder backup selection has been included since some tie ago. The app is very laggy, and it never loads up all the pictures. There are pictures that appear as dark square even when you click on them to see it. Sharing pictures keeps being half useless a it still requires the user to download one by one. Can't really download the whole group of shred pictures

Good App for heavy storage of photos and videos

The iDrive photo app is great. Please fix the timeline functionality using "date taken" field for heif or other file formats. Currently using "date modified" or "date created" field gives wrong timeline outcome.

I like having my photos backed up I lost a lot of my pictures when my Daughter stole my phone before she passed away a year ago

ok

West app

My pics are safe now

Excellent storage app

The service as such is good and very competitive, but the application leaves a lot to be desired. It doesn't give you the option to delete photos/videos you've already uploaded to clean local storage. I contacted them months ago and they made a note to add it, they still haven't implemented anything.

Simple clean interface. Easy to use. Seems to upload my new photos quickly. Went pro version for great price which was ridiculously low...so I'll see how it goes. So far....very nice. Revision-it stopped working quite often, so after a great start it failed and unsubscribef

This app is pretty foolproof and simple to use. That's both a strength but primarily a weakness. Upon discovering photos "backed up" from my phone, I found out the app backs up EVERY photo on your phone not just from your camera. Photos that other people posted in WhatsApp were being backed up for Idrive Photos. I have yet to discover a way to stop this. Also, user is not able to download (to PC) a group of photos like in Google or File Explorer. This is a BIG pain!

The android app for photos get stuck all the time, you have to manually open the app and press the upload button all the time. They need to rethink about the whole app.

Impossible to upload multiple photos/videos at once. I recently subscribed as I was looking for a good option to keep my photos/videos safe. I selected photos to upload for about a month (approx 250) but none are getting uploaded. I tried wifi and cellular data... Nothing ! The notification remains on "uploading 1/250" and it's been over a week! I am very disapointed. If I cannot fix this soon, i'll cancel my subscription.

Please add option to throttle bandwidth. Thanks to the developers, many things have been fixed, but the app seems to take all the bandwidth and phone cpu. Whenever I turn on the sync the internet and phones become much slower in response. This problem happens in Samsung Xiaomi and apple products that tested. Please add an option to prioritize the bandwidth for other apps when in use.

The app is simple and user friendly. BUT just recently I found out that the quality of video backed up to iDrive Photos is drasticaly reduced if the same video is deleted from phone. So, my thinking is: what is the purpose of backing up videos and photos if video quality is degraded upon deleting the same from phone (in order to make space in phone storage). Developers, any idea why is this so and how to fix it?

the notification that it can't connect to backup has got to stop. have it just wait till there's a connection. I'm about to just get rid of this and resign myself to Google photos

Great photo and video solution. I wish there was an option for iDrive to only start the automatic backup only when the device is being charged. Other than that one minor detail it's a great solution!

The biggest issue this app has that it uploads all the photos and videos again from my phone every single time it updates itself from the play store. Is this a joke? To release an update and then keep on repeating upload of the same files again. None of the issues mentioned earlier are addressed. Hopefully you see this review and fix defects. Don't reply to this review if you going to mention your support email Id to mention the issue.

stuttering while scrolling, no video player, and no option to delete files after backed up to cloud, please add all of this and i will rate 5 stars

Ultimately not worth it. It just needs a basic feature to choose what to automatically back up and it then becomes workable. But as you may be able to tell from the reviews, this app doesn't let you do that and hasn't let you for a long period of time. Note that I am a paying customer, not the trial version so there is not an improvement there. I am also unable to upload particular photos for backup. I'm going to have to find another alternative to Gphotos.

Affordable and simple photo backup, but as others said, it lacks the option to choose which folders to upload...

It has exciting potential to become a very substantial player thanks to its blazingly fast upload engine, beating the likes of Google Photos and Microsoft OneDrive. However, it is still in its infancy regarding functionality once photos and videos are backed up: 1. Folder selection for backup - most unnecessary photos are backed up anyway in WhatsApp so no need for double backup. 2. Lacks the option to free up space in device after backup. 3. Lacks AI indexing and tagging engine (Geo, face recognition) and sorting by these parameters.

First impressions, Take CAUTION. After accepting permissions, it immediately began backing up my photos. ONLY THEN did i received email notification of the successful account creation. I didn't have time to read the email b4 photos were being autobacked up, much less open the email to see if i needed to validate anything. I immediately paused the auto backup feature. THAT concered me! No email validation link? Auto backup immediately? Concerning! I'm Uninstalling until i can investigate more.

Affordable GPhotos option but cannot select folders to upload. The app uploads the entire gallery to cloud storage. Including all the useless graphics that you get on WA, screenshots etc. There is no option to select and backup either. The app will be much more useful if it allows selecting folders on my device to backup.

Needs some critical features before becoming a game changer 1. Select which folders to automatically back up from. No Whatsapp or messages. 2. Option to clean/remove local photos and videos after successfully backed up. 3. Albums, groups 4. Sort by location, date 5. Ability to rate photos up to 5 star in addition to existing favorite capabilities and apply tags to further sort by. 6. Ability to find matching faces and ai search for content (nice to have but not absolutely necessary).

Despite the photos doesn't count on quota, it would be great if I could select which folders to backup, WhatsApp received photos or downloaded images, I don't want to be backed up as it is mixed with personal photos and everything gets very messy. Also would be great if I could organise the photos in the cloud in folders, tags or groups.

Great app, have too add the filter option to not consider specific folders/files sizes and the possiblity to create folders tho! Please let me know when enhancements are ready and released!

Good app but lacks some features. If following 3 features added then I will definitely buy. 1. Album Option: If given this option I can create albums of particular event. 2. There is no option to upload a particular photo or video and particular folder. It generally uploads all photos videos which consume a lot data and time. 3. If I have video file of 4-5 gb want to exclude from uploading, then there is no option.

Pros: great price to Google photos, unlimited storage Cons: Crash when backing large number of files, no album function, no delete media on phone after backup. Bottom line: still like it but if you can improve the stability and more functions, that d be fab. Cheers.

Good pricing but.......... Needs option to make folders to separate pics vids. Everything in one big pile (as they have it now) is one big mess. Will uninstall until update.

Sharing isn't good. The backup works. When you share photos there is no download all button or an option to import the photos in to your idrive photos account. Please add theses features.

This app idrives me crazy. Doesn't backup like it's supposed to. Now it has decided to backup all 9000 photos again even though they are already backed up. What a waste of money.

Auto upload does not work, I haven't been able to use this app since the day I subscribed to the yearly plan. I reported this issue and also shared my logs, it's been a month and still no fix.

I'm having the same issue other reviewers have - app will not autoload photos 90% of the time. It will if I remove and reinstall the all, but it starts all over for some reason. I'm not seeing duplicates on the web so it just wasting time and battery re-uploading photos.

Use the app for 3 days now.. Need more features to add such as simple photo editing, auto rotation. Some photos are turned to left or right after uploaded to this app. Keep going.

Love it. Great price, works as expected. The only issue I have is it does not seem to run in the background and I have to open occasionally to make sure photos are being uploaded.

The low price is amazing but for some reason my photos or videos do not backup automatically. Even if I open the app the backup does not kick in. Not sure what the issue is as sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.

It does everything I wanted: one click backup of all the media on my phone, web portal, affordable price... but the autobackup stops working after a few hours. Start the app up again and it works for a few more hours. Talked to support and they recommended turning auto off and then on again and a phone restart, but it didn't help. This is on an s21 running Android 11. I'll come back after a few more versions, I guess. I really hope this app works out, because everything else tries way too hard.

You can add favourites and make albums on this app which will end up saving you so much time while scrolling through photos.

Cant upload photos using desktop and cant upload selective folders. This is a downside for this plan being so cheap. Its a total steal deal if you only use your phone to upload photos. Also Please enable users to upload photos using desktop.

The newest update has removed all the minor bugs and problems that existed in the app before. Now the transfers are more seamless than ever.

Every photo or video that I take automatically gets backed up so it's pretty amazing to see that I don't have to keep backing it up manually.

The resolution remains the same as the imagine so there's no way that your picture or video quality will deteriorate after taking pictures.

Hey guys, Idrive Photos is not automatically backing up new photos instantly. I presume it has got to do with the app not always running in the background. Any ideas?

This is seriously some next level stuff. If I would've known that it has unlimited storage capacity at rates much lower than other apps, I would've used it sooner and saved so much money.

The gallery is very well put together according to date and time so you'll have all your pictures and videos in a chronological manner.

So affordable to use especially because it offers unlimited storage at a low price when other apps would charge extreme amounts for it.

With social media being on an all time high, having more storage space and all your photos and videos backed up is so important.

Making an account on this app doesn't take much time. Even the main backup part was fast and happened in a few seconds.

It's easily a bargain! You get access to unlimited storage space for photos and videos at a very low price range that other apps do not offer.

Most definitely the most convenient and practical photo and video storage app to use. Smartest decision ever!

I love any app that organised things for me so it was great that along with a backup service, I was getting an app which organises all my photos and videos.

Usually long videos or photos that take up a lot of storage take a lot of time to back up but not while using this app.

Unlimited space! One charge only so it's pretty const effective and reliable to use.

Transfers are really quick and instant even from a distance. The network connection is awesome.

Barely took me anytime to figure it out. It's quick, efficient and totally safe for all your backing up needs.

Privacy is great and so it the pricing. I'm keen to see what else they can come up with. Maybe editing options?

Safety is a big deal for me!! I don't continue to use apps if I'm not fully convinced that they're safe. This was quite comforting as soon I started using it.

Reliability is one of the key factors when I look for a good app. It shouldn't be that one day it works well and the other it doesn't. This is perfectly reliable in that way.

I'd say that all the features I used on this app were fairly easy to use and had no such glitches or errors.

It's no easy thing to have so much storage space available to you at such a low cost but this app makes it easy..!

I used it for about a week, but I had to uninstall it. It was uploading my entire photo collection, not only the new ones, several times a day. Support advised me the reinstall it, but that didn't change anything. During the uploads, it was consuming a lot of battery power and the phone was heating up...it was quite annoying. I like that is cheaper, compared to similar solutions, but it's unusable to me, because of the issue mentioned above.

Free unlimited storage for 10$/year is a great deal. I would like to see an option to select only certain folders or just videos or just pictures, not jut to Backup everything. Aside from that the app works shamelessly and has good upload speed. Not many options, but it is a backup tool.

There is no clear cut indication of pricing. Have normal better pricing structure.

Managing your media can be tough. Whenever my storage would get full, I would have no clue about what to delete. Now I don't have to worry about that.

The resolution and quality does not change! I've transferred so many different photos and videos but the quality has always remained good.

i love the idea of photo and video backup at a reasonable price, but the app is glitchy and crashes when i try to open some of my media. hoping for some improvement in future versions

I like this aap bcz the transfer of data is done quickly and there is no storage limit , really this is best for storing our data

It was compatible with all my devices so I could access my media files like photos and videos anywhere at any time.

It honestly just took me a few simple steps to get my account up and running. Data storage has never been quicker.

Never thought backing up photos and videos could be fun. The sorting feature is probably my favourite because it makes everything so organised and accessible.

It will save you so much time and money. The transfers are super quick and you won't need other devices. In my opinions, it's much better than using dropbox or google photos.🥰

Due to this app I can have so much extra space on my phone because I can immediately delete the files after taking their backup and don't have to worry about it.

Backup of multiple devices can be done to one account which is so helpful as all your important files are stored in one place.

It takes a lot of time backing up files from this app. Tends to crash on large uploads. Wish it was little less time consuming.

Such a great tool in hand, I could hardly face any minor inconvenience while retrieving or uploading my files.

It's good initiative. Please add the backup folder selection. Currently it backs up every folder is phone, now a days there is lot of junk on chats that gets backed up.. Date and face indexing will be a great feature to add.

I like this app very much because it keep the deleted photos and videos and if your photos and videos are deleted from your gallery u can see there I love this app.

I've had nothing but a very pleasant experience with iDrive, I love it so much I pay for a larger storage option.

This is by far the best app for my media files. I love the fact that it helps me save my phone storage and still maintain high quality especially when saving my pictures.

The customer support is extremely helpful and polite. I had some problem in restoring my data but apparently I was doing it wrong. They helped me out a lot and made it work.

Use for personal use and for my business photos. Always easy to use, organize and share. Never have to worry about losing my treasured memories.

This app is very useful and love how it gives your photos a safe place. I love the easy back up and restore.

Good UI on all platforms, pretty easy to figure out. Robust feature set, especially for Sharing. Fantastic AI powered features

I installed the app because I needed to get rid of the extra photos I had. IDrive has successfully helped me in doing this!

This is a great app for photos. But please upgrade its quantity for deleting photos. It makes lot of time to delete photos.. please think in this.

The useful App is lovely and has relevance for storing Photos. It has its own memory or storage, with the option to send and share too.

Love it, love it, love it! Seamless back-ups, lots of storage, great organizational system, love the look back! Everything about it is A+!

Great start Idrive! Add these features and you'll have won me over. 1) make search real. Right now it's just a filtered for photos vs videos, not actually a search. 2) add image recognition + metadata recognition capability so we can start searching for people, places, things. 3) help us clear space on our phones by enabling local file deletion once backed up..... And that's it. Impressed for a first launch. Excited to see what's coming up.

Out of all the amazing features this app has, I loved the fact that I can backup my files immediately by using "backup now" option. I like how efficient this app is.

I like how I can store unlimited number of files here. The cost definitely adds up to be more affordable than Google Drive and other apps. I have photos from years and those along with the videos take up a lot of space.

You can set your backup start time. Select your desired day(s) of backup in a week or schedule it on a daily basis. A tiny feature that I really found very helpful. I can just schedule and forget - no need to keep the App running.