pCloud
Fast and very secure digital asset management platform with a user-friendly interface. Allows you to customize download links with your brand's style and logo. Controlled access to all your digital files-anytime, anywhere,on any device and more.
Summary
Our users have written 13 comments and reviews about pCloud, and it has gotten 119 likes
- Developed by pCloud AG
- Proprietary and Freemium product.
- One time purchase ranging between $175 and $350, and / or subscription that costs between $5 and $10.
- Average rating of 3.4
- 111 alternatives listed
pCloud is one of the few services that just shows up as a drive on my computer, which is exactly what I want. I don't want a backup program that just backs up any and everything on my hard drive.
Why I Don't Like Whole Hard Drive Backup Services
First of all, I have have multiple hard drives, my main one being 8 TB. I calculated that it would take, "3 years, 5 months and 25 days" to upload my entire 8 TB drive with my current available upload speed at 0.8 Mbps (which is the fastest available in my area). I'm sure my files wouldn't stay static the whole time it's being uploaded either.
Why I Don't Like Folder Sync Services
Syncing a folder is nice, as long as it's a smaller folder, which is why Dropbox Free works perfect for me (I've used referrals to get up my storage up to 20 GB). Their 'Plus' plan offers 2 TB of syncing space, which is way more that I'd like to be constantly syncing anyway. That would be 2 TB of files taking up space on my hard drive. The initial sync would take quite some time also. Plus pCloud does offer the ability to sync any folder on your hard drive (or multiple, different folders) if you do want syncing folder(s).
As a Drive
With pCloud all my files are in my pCloud drive (which happens to be drive P:\ in 'My Computer', 'Computer' or 'This PC' or whatever Windows decides to call it in the future). This way I can decide which files to put in the drive and it won't be taking up space on my hard drive. They also offer Lifetime plans for a fair price (when it's on sale). It's really nice to not have to pay any monthly or yearly fees. Plus the lifetime plans can stack, which I have done twice so far, which brought my storage to 4 TB.
Creates virtual drive on your computer which you can use as a normal drive in your file manager.
They act as scam. ~2 years ago they advertised themselves as being located in Switzerland and as so you'd have all protection from there, and leading you to believe that. Happens that their file storage servers were actually only in the US. Now they have servers in Europe, but they will charge you a 20$ or more fee to transfers your files, even if you're already a [victim] client of theirs. So you know what? Don't ever support a shady company like pCloud.
Great prices and just works. Hopefully this company will last forever.
"We have defined a Lifetime account as 99 years or the lifetime of the account holder, whichever is shorter."
pCloud's Lifetime plans are 65% off for lifetime too.
great support and app excellent works on Linux systems
It is expensive cloud storage with common features like on google drive, mega, one drive, cloud.mail.ru, Yandex. Disk but without something extraordinary.
Their yearly subscription costs around 100 euro for 2TB of data and 2TB of bw limit per ALL files in your storage. So this file storage not for sharing for sure.
What about the ability to use it daily, it's pretty okay. pCloud has API and tools to work with their file storage; this is a cute sign and gives you the ability to upload encrypted versions of files to their storage.
Why three stars?