My Cloud Home vs BeeFiles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Cloud Home
Access, share, and automatically back up your photos, videos, and files from your My Cloud Home device. Stream content on the go and easily find and share your favorite memories with friends and family, all while keeping your data under your control.
- Remote access to files
- Automatic photo/video backup
- Video streaming
- Content sharing
- File search by name/location
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My Cloud Home app Store it all in one place. Access and share it from anywhere. The My Cloud Home app keeps you connected to all the photos, videos and files centralized on your My Cloud Home device from wherever you are. Automatically back up all the photos and videos from your phone so that you can make room for more. Smoothly stream videos on the go. Quickly find and share your favorite memories with friends and family. With the My Cloud Home app, all your content is under your control wherever, whenever you have an internet connection. Access your content on-the-go from anywhere in the world Automatically save the photos and videos from your phone Quickly search through your content by name or location. Play almost any video anywhere Share your memories effortlessly with your friends and family Note: The My Cloud Home app requires a My Cloud Home or My Cloud Home Duo product to work (sold separately). For more information on Western Digital’s Vulnerability Disclosure Policy please visit: https://www.westerndigital.com/support/product-security/vulnerability-disclosure-policy
BeeFiles
Organize and access your important files from anywhere with this cloud storage solution. Share documents easily via links and quickly find what you need through search and favorites.
- Organize files in one place
- Access files anywhere, offline
- Share files via links
- Search and mark important files
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BeeStation, your personal cloud journey Organize files with BeeFiles. Keep your projects, personal plans, and other important files, all in one place. Use BeeFiles to: - Access files anywhere, even when offline - Share files with others via a link - Search files or mark important ones for instant access
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: My Cloud Home at none against BeeFiles's shown. My Cloud Home also leads on ratings volume (15K vs 44) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). BeeFiles's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 40%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
My Cloud Home holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Cloud Home has 15K ratings behind it against 44, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of My Cloud Home's written reviews are positive against 50% of BeeFiles's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
My Cloud Home ships an update every 2 months, BeeFiles every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Cloud Home | BeeFiles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (15K ratings) — better | 4.6 (44 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.6% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 44 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 192 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | Synology Inc. |
Customer experience
My Cloud Home
BeeFiles
Bugs and requests
My Cloud Home
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent app crashes
- Unreliable auto-backup
- Inability to access public folders
Requested features
4 requests- Improved iOS integration
- Bulk file management options
- Support for more media formats
- Customizable folder structure
BeeFiles
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My Cloud Home
No in-app purchases
BeeFiles
No in-app purchases
