Never run out of Storage with these Awesome Cloud Storage Apps!

For those of us who love to stuff our phones with games, videos, music, and a ton of apps, storage space is worth its weight in gold. A full phone memory not only means that you don’t have space for any more data, it also leads to a laggy, slow experience for the user. Luckily, we have Cloud Storage to make sure this never happens.

What is Cloud Storage? While it sounds like it has something to do with weather fronts and storm systems, it really refers to saving data to an off-site storage system maintained by a third party. Instead of storing information to your computer’s hard drive or other local storage device, you save it to a remote database. You need to be online, to access your content from your Smartphone, Tablet or Computer.  There are some great Cloud storage apps to choose from, which allow you to keep your Smartphone and tablet clutter free, and more importantly, butter smooth. Read on to find out which ones are the best..

1) box

Simply titled box, this nifty app offers personal accounts starting at 5GB of free storage. Users have the ability to share files and folders with other Box users and create links to share externally. There’s an option to view who downloaded or previewed each file. box is hassle free and a delight to use.

2) Dropbox

Dropbox is a hugely popular cloud-storage service for personal as well as business users. Users can flip through photo albums, edit and share important documents, and attach emails straight from Dropbox. Even if you lose your Android device, your personal data will be safe in Dropbox, and can be retrieved anytime. Users get 2GB of free cloud storage with Dropbox, when they register.

3) Google Drive

Google Drive is the best combination of a cloud storage service and productivity platform. With Drive, users can access photos, documents, videos and other important files, much like other cloud storage facilities. What’s unique about Drive, however, is that you can make files available offline so you can view them when you’re not connected to the internet. You can also add collaborators to help edit spreadsheets and documents and view PDF’s, scan documents, and keep everything stored in Drive. The icing on the cake is that Google Drive gives you15GB of free cloud storage, way more than other providers.

There are dozens of Cloud Storage apps available on the Play Store, but the above-mentioned apps really stand apart for their versatility. Whichever app you chose, make sure you upload all your important data first (pictures, notes, PDF’s) as it cannot be easily replaced if you lose your phone. Cloud storage is a blessing for Smartphone and tablet users, and even saves you the price of buying an external memory card. In case you have a lot of data you need to backup, all these apps also have paid options, which let you save data upto 100′s of GB’s. We are already on cloud 9, are you?