Google Photos
Effortless photo backup, with your library living in a Google account.
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Google Photos makes backup and search effortless, with excellent automatic organisation, so Delivery is a 5. The cost is dependence. Free storage is 15 GB shared across your Google account, backups in original quality count toward it, and Google warns that if you are inactive in Photos for two years or more your content may be deleted.
Google offers an export tool, but your library, albums and face groupings live with Google, and the service is paid for by a company whose business is advertising. Compare it with the encrypted photo tools in the directory.
- Effortless backup and excellent automatic organisation
- 15 GB free, and inactive accounts can lose content after two years
- Your library and face groupings live with Google
