Didn’t you listen to the above-mentioned comic? Well, that comic is adequate to describe, how cloud computing has helped us to simplify process of managing files and documents. Now, we are in a situation that we do no longer need our own computers to access files (and sometimes to edit).
We have to thank cloud-computing technologies, since these sorts of technologies now let us break boundaries of location and other circumstances if we have an internet connection with our Smartphone or Tablet PC.
Here, what we are going to introduce is an effective cloud storage provider that impressed us using its nice features, power of simplicity and security to privacy – pCloud. pCloud is a free cloud-based file storage provider, which offers a number of clients for different platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux apart from its web interface, which is globally accessible.
Even though you may think that pCloud and other providers such as Dropbox or SkyDrive has same difference, pCloud has some innovative features to offer, and those features are what impressed us to use this platform and then to recommend it to our readers. First, we will check what pCloud does offer in its free version of service.
pCloud Offers You
In free version of its cloud storage service, pCloud offers a storage space of 10GB for each one who joins pCloud. But, if you have signed up using invitation link of your friends or others, you will get extra storage space of 1GB that adds up to 11GB, and the one who invited you will also receive 1GB of extra storage.
Similarly, there are options in pCloud to increase storage space up to 20GB by paying nothing. For instance, when you like official Facebook page of pCloud after signing up, you can receive extra space of 500MB, whereas completing ‘Get Started’ section of pCloud will bring you extra space up to 3GB.
Do you think 20GB will not be enough for you? Don’t worry, pCloud seems to offer some truly affordable plans if you are ready to pay for extra space up to 1TB. There are different plans that offer you 100GB, 300GB and 1TB space. All these plans have impressive features such as unlimited sharing, unlimited download/upload speed, unlimited number of upload link and 24*7 Email support etc.
In addition to these plans, pCloud is setting up an Enterprise package for those who are looking for file storage service, especially for business-based purposes and it is called pCloud for Business.
Availability of Service
We find nothing wrong in calling pCloud a globally available cloud storage service because of its availability in almost every operating system. The service offers a main web-based interface, which you can access using www.pcloud.com and dedicated clients for platforms such as Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Android, iOS etc.
Since we can access its web interface from almost any platform, we can say that availability of pCloud is impressive. In this review, we will have a closer look into web-based interface of pCloud, Android Application, iOS App and Desktop client for Windows PCs.
pCloud for Web
As we mentioned earlier, pCloud for Web is perhaps the method to access pCloud regardless your platform or device of yours. pCloud for Web is available for different languages such as Bulgarian, Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Russian French, Spanish, German etc. pCloud for Web boasts an impressive User Interface, which seems simple for anyone who does have basic knowledge about Internet services.
Dashboard
When you access the dashboard of pCloud, you can see a list of folders of root directory! In sidebar of this page, you can see a number of options to filter files. For instance, if you click on ‘Images’ button, you can see images from your account displayed in thumbnails.
Similarly, there are options for documents and archive files as well. In addition, we found another superb feature in pCloud – audio players and video players. Using the audio player, you will be able to play all music files through web-based interface as well. Apart from this neat design, the audio player has some cool features.
For instance, you can create playlists from music files, sort music according to album/artist etc. This means that you will be able to use pCloud audio player as an alternative, even if you do not have a media player in PC or Smartphone.
File Sharing
There are several options to share your files or folders with your friends or colleagues! You can create download link for each file, you may share this link with your friends or colleagues through Facebook, email etc, and they will be able to download that particular file. Similarly, you can make download links for folders as well so that one can download all files from one particular file folder.
In each download link, you have options to analyze traffic so that you can know how many people have downloaded that file or files. Obviously, this download feature, particularly folder sharing, makes enough sense. When you want to restrain downloads, you have an options to delete that download link.
Apart from this, you can share a file or folder with other users if they have a pCloud account. In this option, however, you can set specific rights for people you invite. This is more effective if you think that file or folder has sensitive info in it.
Other Features
There are some features in pCloud that really impressed us! Some of those are as follows.
Upload Links: This feature is very useful when you are using pCloud for business-based purposes. If you want to collect information (may be some kinds of certificates or documents) from a huge number of people, you can simply create an upload link. Using this link, your friends or colleagues will be able to upload those data into a specific pCloud directory or folder. Also, you can provide an email address to your friends. When they send those files as attachment to that email, those files would be stored in that directory. In addition, when you are creating an upload link, you can set some presets such as capacity of directory, number of files etc.
Social Backup: Some of you might be using social networks such as Facebook and Instagram to store photos, you have taken, and to publish them. pCloud has a special feature to backup all those photos and videos using a few clicks. Indeed, the social backup feature is indeed an effective one when you want to preserve photos and videos of social media profiles of yours.
NO LIMITS: Most of cloud storage providers set limits on speed! However, the case of pCloud is different, as the service does not have any limits. You can upload files to pCloud no matter their size. Similarly, when you are uploading or downloading files, you will have maximum speed offered by your ISP. Of course, this will be very useful while managing hue files.
pCloud for Android
When compared to the web-based interface, dedicated application of pCloud for Android lacks a few features. But, it is worth noting that pCloud for Android is best. However, this application for Android devices has option to favourite some files so that those files can be accessed even when your device does not have an internet connection in it.
Also, there are dedicated audio and video players in pCloud for Android! If you have a good Smartphone, you will be able to replace your native music application with pCloud audio player, especially when you want to play those files that you have stored in pCloud account.
Altogether, while considering its ability to upload files using different methods (capturing photos and file upload), we can say that pCloud application for Android is quite promising, and so does its User Interface.
pCloud for iOS
Just like the case of pCloud for Android, its iOS counterpart does well when it comes to managing your cloud-stored files ease. In addition, it offers all those features such as automatic uploading of photos and videos, offline access by clicking that ‘Favourite’ button, etc.
Apart from these, the application posses an extremely simple yet effective User Interface. Also, it is available in a few languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian etc. According to user experience and opinion from store, we can say that pCloud for iOS does its job very well.
pCloud for Windows
Duty of pCloud for Windows is quite simple when compared to that of others. Once you have installed pCloud in PC, it will create a virtual hard drive namely ‘pCloud’ in your computer, which you can see along with other local disks. It should be noted that the hard drive does not consume any space from your computer.
Now, if you have logged in after providing your pCloud credentials, all your files will be synced with the folder, and you can access it as if you are browsing a normal folder or drive in your computer.
So, the next time when you want to upload a file to pCloud, you can grab that file from anywhere and put it in pCloud drive, and the task will be done in a few seconds or minutes according to size of file and internet connection. Since pCloud does not have restrictions on size of file, this type of file management is quite easy, we hope.
pCloud Sync
So, we have gone through applications of pCloud for different platforms such as pCloud for Windows and iOS. Now, pCloud Sync is a special tool that will help you to synchronize folders on your PC with pCloud.
This application is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Once you have installed this, you will have to provide your pCloud credentials. In the upcoming window, which will be like show in given image, you have to select folders that you would like to synchronize with pCloud servers.
You have freedom to set behaviour of synchronization. There are three options – download only, upload only and two-way synchronization. Indeed, this tool will be quite useful when you would like to preserve your information and to make it available in different platforms.
Bottom Line
Writing the bottom line for pCloud is a simple task, because the tool itself keeps power of simplicity in every aspect. Apart from its simple User Interface and reliability, there are some impressive features as well.
For instance, we shall take a look to the case of uploading files. In this section, you have multiple options such as uploading a file, a folder or giving the download link of file so that the server will download the file for you. These kind of features are useful in some circumstances when you want to deal with heavy files. Likewise, pCloud is quite impressive in various sections.
In addition, website of pCloud has now acquired a number of impressive features, and the design is 10 times quicker than the previous one. Company is looking forward to make pCloud even useful for business and personal purposes. We hope it will be quite advantageous for all users. So, we do recommend all of our readers to check out this superb cloud storage service.
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