I use Flickr, Google Photos and Amazon Prime Photos. The first question that may come to your mind is the following: – Why do you need all three? The short answer is – you don’t. So here is the back story.
I joined Flickr in 2003. The cost is $24 a year for 1 TB (over 1/2 million photos) The main reason that I still use Flickr is the social connection to their worldwide photographers. You can use Flickr for free with limited storage and advertisements.
Amazon Prime Photos comes free with your annual Prime Membership ($119 per year). Like Flickr each photo is automatically saved to The Cloud and you can conveniently check your photos using a smartphone app.
Google Photos is totally free and has unlimited storage. The free version does not keep you original resolution. So be careful if you erase the original. The cloud storage looses some resolution.
Which one is the best?
Each of the services has their pluses and minuses. If I had to choose one it would be Google Photos for the following reasons:
- Free
- Super simple to use
- Best photo editor
- Automatically puts tags based on the GPs
- integrates with the Google platform of applications
- Did I mention free unlimited storage.