iOS device users can now boast about the newly offered 100gb of cloud storage for $1 per year. idrive will offer iPhone and iPad users 50GB of cloud for data backup purposes and 50GB for syncing, thus matching its offer for Android devices. With iDrive, users will be able to back up their mobile data including contacts, calendar, photos, videos and other files, and sync files across all their devices. The app also lets users access files from other devices on their iPhone or iPad once they’re synced. Finally, the app will let users share files and folders with anyone else.
The iDrive app offers 1-button backup and it also offers a number of security measures, optional private key encryption, password protection, 256-bit AES encryption, and the option to remotely unlink devices that have been lost or stolen. The iDrive application is available as a free download from the App Store, and the 100GB offer can be activated via a $0.99 in-app purchase. iDrive requires iOS 6.0 or later to work.
As for Apple, the company sells 50GB of iCloud storage for $100 per year, while a 10GB upgrade costs an additional $20 annually. Google is perhaps the best offer short of iDrive; they recently dropped their prices to only $2 a year for 100GB of storage.