Apple iCloud

Apple iCloud

Apple iCloud

637 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apple iCloud	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Apple iCloud is a document management software offering from Apple. It includes features such as access to music, photos, calendars, contacts, and documents, and it is built into every new iOS device.	$0.99 per month

Pricing

Apple iCloud

Editions & Modules

50GB: $0.99
per month
200GB: $2.99
per month
2TB: $9.99
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Apple iCloud
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Apple iCloud
Considered Both Products	Apple iCloud Tip Iuliucci Realtor / Team Lead Chose Apple iCloud Google Drive is clunky in my opinion. I feel like OneDrive syncs with my PC better. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Strader North America IT Support Manager Chose Apple iCloud Overall they are lightyears above Androids. Most companies are moving to only allow Apple devices because of how simple they are to manage and upgrade Incentivized Helpful? Justin Beckett Creative Design Director Chose Apple iCloud The biggest thing is Apple doesn't lose versions and changes. With Office 365 and various Google corporate programs, they would track versions — but not well. If someone sat with a file open and later closed it after a colleague had made changes, some of those changes would get … Incentivized Helpful? AP Adam Prose Service Manager Chose Apple iCloud Competitively priced, sometimes less expensive depending on storage needs. Apple iCloud is much easier to use on a macintosh computer since it is built into the operating system. Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Terrell Senior Pastor Chose Apple iCloud As I have mentioned, the seamless integration across Apple's ecosystem is what keeps us using this product. However, the robust value of the Microsoft 365 Business Premium suite and functionality of their AI companion - Copilot - makes it superior at an organization level. The … Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Dehner Owner Chose Apple iCloud For me Apple iCloud is the superior choice. Google Drive is acceptable but it feels much less safe (to me). I disliked MS Azure and would never use that system. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Apple iCloud Apple iCloud allows to track devices when lost and uses end-to-end encryption for data such as iMessages of Health data. It also includes features of shared albums to optimize storage and can access these items through any Apple device in a quick and efficient way. Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Henderson Marketing Specialist Chose Apple iCloud Egnyte was a good system, but there were two things that I didn't like. One, once your data was in their server, it was in their server. It came across as you did not have control or even ownership of it anymore - plus you had to maintain the payments to them, or it was all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Apple iCloud Dropbox is more universal but has a higher price point that Apple iCloud and google while mid price point offers more options in software that allows for file editing and sharing directly in the document. Apple iCloud does not have that on offer. Apple iCloud is the lowest … Incentivized Helpful? CP Chetan Patel Head sales Chose Apple iCloud Nowadays local storage are having a lot of bottleneck and upgrading process require time and money, iCloud are one of the safest and most secure platforms, its End User License Policy is in favor of customer and reliability. Apple iCloud collaboratively works with iOS and macOS … Helpful? Verified User Partner Chose Apple iCloud They are different platforms but both reliable and easily used by those who need to access and use it. I am a happy customer for both Apple iCloud and Boomr and would highly recommend them to anyone who is looking to use and purchase something to give them the reassurance and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Apple iCloud Already a part of the Apple ecosystem, so if it suits our needs, we will use it. We have a Department shared Dropbox account specifically for sharing large projects with vendors, so Apple iCloud is for lighter internal projects such as shared spreadsheets for project … Incentivized Helpful? Gavin Scott-Miller IT Consultant Chose Apple iCloud iCloud is probably the best option for someone who uses primarily Apple devices and services. If you are multi-platform in your technology use I would make sure you test out the free version of iCloud before you make the switch, Apple likes to play nice with Apple, which means … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Apple iCloud One Drive can allow users to collaborate in realtime and rare crashes on documents. The storage is very generous, and pricing for business, especially non-profits, is fair. One Drive also allows for better photo storage for us as a school. We can keep yearbook items and also … Incentivized Helpful? Doug Fish Finance Director Chose Apple iCloud Google Drive is similar to Apple iCloud, but since I prefer Apple products and have operated within the Apple ecosystem for many years, I use iCloud. Some clients who don't use Apple share documents with me in Google Drive so I have experience with the product, but I prefer … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Henkel Owner Chose Apple iCloud Apple iCloud works as well or almost as well as OneDrive. I also use OneDrive fairly extensively because I have free storage and it came along with my other Microsoft software. I only pay for additional storage on iCloud. I suppose it's because I operate in both Windows and … Incentivized Helpful? TM Thomas Myers Associate Chose Apple iCloud Dropbox is the king of cloud environments, and where Apple iCloud should go to. I have tried others but don't even remember their names now. We have our own personal cloud as well. I have used cloud environments since 2007 and would love to see Apple iCloud step up to a full … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Apple iCloud While I have to use Dropbox on occasion, I greatly prefer to use iCloud for file sharing. I also have used Google's Apps, and because I'm a Mac/iPhone user, iCloud has more easily fit into the normal routine of what I'm already doing and using. Dropbox has some minor features … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Apple iCloud Apple iCloud is specially made for iOS devices. Nothing and no one will ever be able to service an Apple product's needs better than Apple themselves. The Apple iCloud software is designed specifically for iOS devices, ease of use, and mindless security for automatic backups. … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Moore Assistant Director of Admissions Chose Apple iCloud The basic premise among these is the same. Where Apple iCloud stands apart for our team is that there is not a separate app to be downloaded to access these features on most phones or tablets (most of our staff has iPhones, and we provide iPads). This allows everyone to obtain … Incentivized Helpful? MK Matt Kennicott Vice President of Communications Chose Apple iCloud The security and functionality of iCloud beats out any other products I've tried. While two-factor authentication is available elsewhere, Apple seems to take security a step further with notifications across all devices. In addition, the pricing is right - the low cost of 1TB … Incentivized Helpful? Sandy Hinding Systems Administrator iOS/OSX (Casper Suite) Chose Apple iCloud We have found that Google Backup & Sync and Apple iCloud between them have all the bases covered. While Google is excellent for many things, as an Apple-centric environment, we utilize both systems. Between them, we have been able to reduce our expensive on-prem file storage … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Melder Customer Account Manager Chose Apple iCloud Overall, iCloud performs quite well against some of its larger competitors. In my opinion, iCloud may be better suited for personal and social sharing compared to business cloud platforms like OneDrive and Google Drive. iCloud is incredibly strong if your organization is fully … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Apple iCloud Did not evaluate other products like Apple iCloud.... Incentivized Helpful? Rene Agredano Advocacy Journalist and Co-Founder Chose Apple iCloud Amazon AWS interface is clunky and too unintuitive for me. It's like going from a Mac to a Windows machine. YUCK. I realize that Apple iCloud is really just relying on Amazon AWS servers for data storage but it's so much nicer to work with the Apple interface for my daily data … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Apple iCloud

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Apple iCloud 8.5 84 Ratings 2% above category average
Versioning	8.660 Ratings
Video files	8.579 Ratings
Audio files	8.876 Ratings
Document collaboration	8.272 Ratings
Access control	8.471 Ratings
File search	7.776 Ratings
Device sync	9.582 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Apple iCloud 8.2 79 Ratings 5% below category average
User and role management	7.563 Ratings
File organization	8.275 Ratings
Device management	8.976 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Apple iCloud 8.8 83 Ratings 2% above category average
Performance	8.983 Ratings
Reliability	9.383 Ratings
Storage Reports	8.266 Ratings

Best Alternatives
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User Ratings
	Apple iCloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (84 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (4 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (30 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (12 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (20 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apple iCloud
Likelihood to Recommend	Apple Our growing organization uses about 95% Apple hardware. The Apple iCloud functionality across our organization ensures interfaces and synchronization that makes information workflow seamless. The cost structure and limited AI functionality keeps us dependent on products like Microsoft and Google and unable to put all of our cloud "eggs" into the Apple basket. Incentivized Jeff Terrell Senior Pastor Read full review
Pros	Apple Syncing files, appointments, Notes and contacts. If I'm away from home, and set an appointment using my phone, that appointment automatically updates real time to my home laptop and vice-versa. It stores files (e.g photos) nicely Once it's set up, it's fairly easy to use. Incentivized Michelle Braun Learning & Organizational Development Manager Read full review
Cons	Apple Customization - iCloud is great at the stuff it does well. But it lacks features that some competitors (in Google Drive or Dropbox) do really well. API support for third-party apps is really great for some other people. Remote use - Managing or accessing information from iCloud while not on one of your logged-in apple devices can sometimes be an issue. From a work computer for example. It doable, but the experience is much less user-friendly. Ability to edit documents on the cloud similar to google docs or some other competitors Incentivized Gavin Scott-Miller IT Consultant Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Apple It's so seamless that I can't imagine another product doing a better job synchronizing all of my devices. I simply do not think about it at all. Everything happens behind the scenes and I'm confident that Apple keeps my data safe and secure. I'm a happy customer as far as this is concerned. I have not had a bad experience with this service. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Apple While it may be great to use with other Apple products, I find it's an absolutist-style workflow to be debilitating and to lead to many problems. When you sign into the cloud, it completely takes over your device in many ways that you don't notice at first until there is a problem. Incentivized Shelby Bowden Graduate Research Assistant Read full review
Performance	Apple Occasionally, large files that haven't yet been synced require a few minutes to pull down but I've rarely noticed delays. It does a good job of keeping data cached on my local machines while updating them with changes from other machines transparently. Incentivized Jeff Eaton Senior Digital Strategist Read full review
Support Rating	Apple Apple customer service is fantastic. iCloud is built with Apple in mind and its design is extremely intuitive and user-friendly. Additionally, whenever our team has encountered issues, the speed of Apple support has been more than timely in addressing our issues and solving our request. We have encountered relatively few issues in my time with the platform and this only improves our overall score for those who keep the platform stable. Incentivized Joshua Melder Customer Account Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Apple Google Drive is similar to Apple iCloud, but since I prefer Apple products and have operated within the Apple ecosystem for many years, I use iCloud. Some clients who don't use Apple share documents with me in Google Drive so I have experience with the product, but I prefer iCloud. I do think photos syncing is superior in iCloud. Incentivized Doug Fish Finance Director Read full review
Return on Investment	Apple Apple's iCloud service can run very slow in countries where they aren't very focussed, like India. Apple did not back up videos over the cloud for a long time and needed manual sync. You will see similar issues like not allowing mobile data for some tasks. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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