With over 7 million users in India, Apple has made everyone a fan. There is no doubt that Apple can shake the tech world by just announcing a new product. With every Apple device comes its built-in cloud service, “iCloud” Both of them are the best Photo sharing platforms.

Most Apple users think of iCloud as their forever companion for storing and sharing photos. However, there are several other options for photo sharing and storage in today’s vast consumer tech world. One such option is the newly emerged “Kwikpic.” Kwikpic is specifically designed to make photo sharing simple, with some really cool features.

Can Kwikpic be considered an alternative to iCloud? Should you give it a shot over iCloud? 

Let’s find out in this blog.

Overview – Photo sharing platform

iCloud is a cloud service developed by Apple Inc. that stores your photos, files, and notes more safely and securely and helps you easily share them with your friends and family. iCloud is built into each Apple device, and you can access all your data from any Apple device you use, like an iPhone, Mac, iPad, etc.

Kwikpic automatically finds, tags, and shares all the photos with every person in your group instantly. It’s a dedicated photo sharing and storage app that helps you manage your pictures smartly and saves you from cluttered galleries.

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1. Storage and Pricing of Photo Transfer App

As you know, iCloud is a cloud storage service that lets you not only store your photos but other data as well, viz., your files, notes, and passwords.

It offers 5 GB of free storage for all your data (not only photos). If you need more storage and additional features, you can upgrade your account to iCloud+.

Apple offers different iCloud+ plans for its Indian users:

• Storage of 50 GB for ₹900/year
• Storage of 200 GB for ₹2628/year
• Storage of 2 TB for ₹8988/year

For a detailed description, visit iCloud Pricing.

Kwikpic is a dedicated photo sharing app. It lets you store photos and videos upto 10GB for free and also offers affordable paid plans for extra storage and premium features. 

• Basic: ₹790/year for 5,000 Photos
• Standard: ₹1490/year for 10,000 Photos
• Essential: ₹2990/year for 30,000 Photos
• Premium: ₹4990/year for 50,000 Photos

For a detailed description, visit Kwikpic plans

2. Photo Transfer and Groups

iCloud allows you to store and share your photos and videos with your friends and family using the following:

• iCloud Shared Photo Library: You can create an iCloud Shared Photo Library and share it with up to five friends. In this, everyone can add, edit and delete photos and videos.
• Shared albums: In this, you can decide who can add photos or videos to the album or just comment. You can also create a public shared album. Anyone with the link can view the album, even if they do not use iCloud.

Kwikpic allows you to make a separate group for every occasion with your friends and then upload all the photos in that group.
You can make 2 types of groups on Kwikpic – Personal and Public. Both of them have the Face Recognition feature. However,

• In a Personal Group, every member can see all the pictures in that group.
• In a Public Group, every member can only see their own pictures and the group’s highlights. Admins also have the option to allow specific people to see all the photos by sending them a full-access link.

3. Photo Quality

iCloud doesn’t hamper the quality of your photos as long as you share them with other iOS users.

One of the best features of Kwikpic is that it retains the quality of your precious photos while storing and sharing. Its proprietary optimization technology helps you share your magical moments without compressing or any quality loss.

4. Photo Sorting

Like any other photo sharing and storing app, iCloud allows you to sort your thousands of photos and videos using filters. For example, you can choose a filter to show you “only photos” or “only videos”. You can also arrange them from newest to oldest or vice versa. 

Kwikpic sorts your photos using its 99.9% accurate facial recognition by instantly identifying photos in which you appear among thousands of other photos and displaying them in a single place. It also allows you to make separate groups for every occasion to ensure easy access.

Furthermore, It also gives you to option to filter your pictures in the “all photos” tab according to date, month, or year.

5. Photo Upload

iCloud provides instant uploading, but it only has one method, i.e., direct upload from your device. Whereas Kwikpic seems like a better option here, it provides you with three options to upload the photos:

• Directly from your device: Upload photos directly from your gallery or computer by selecting them.
• One-shot Upload: It allows you to upload multiple folders at once. It detects subfolders automatically and will upload all your photos in respective folders only
• Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox Link: If you use any cloud storage platform (like Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox) for storing your photos, you can use your drive link to upload all your photos directly from the cloud storage. And you can see the real-time progress of the upload.

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Conclusion

After a detailed analysis of iCloud vs. Kwikpic, we concluded that Kwikpic is indeed an emerging star in the consumer tech world. It provides all the perfect features that a photo lover or a professional photographer would need.

Kwikpic trumps iCloud in the following ways, make a smart choice:

•  Kwikpic offers you ten times more free storage than iCloud.
• It sorts your photos instantly and automatically using its facial recognition feature. It instantly finds your photos using Facial Recognition and automatically sends you a notification.
• It gives you complete control over your groups by allowing you to give partial -access and full access to anyone you want.
• Kwikpic allows you to add as many people as you want to groups, whereas iCloud has a limit of 5 members only.
• Kwikpic also helps you as a professional photographer by letting you add your watermark, brand name, logo, social media handle, and contact information.