CloudMe vs PieCloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CloudMe
This service provides secure cloud synchronization and storage, offering anywhere access to your files from various devices. It allows selective syncing of multiple folders and supports file sharing with password protection and collaboration features.
- Anywhere file access
- Selective folder syncing
- Password-protected sharing
- Collaboration folders
- Automatic camera roll backup
- Streaming music and video
- WebDAV support
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CloudMe - The European Sync / Storage Service CloudMe is a secure European cloud sync/ storage service that gives you anywhere access to your files from any device. The service supports most common devices, but also smart TV's and NAS. With CloudMe you do not have to sync everything through a single folder, add as many folders as you like from your computer, from any hard drive and keep them synced to the cloud. Selectively sync the folders you need to each device. You get: - Access to your files wherever you are - File sharing through folders and http links - Sharing through text messages, email, Twitter and Facebook - Password protected sharing - What you share does not reduce the available storage at the receiving party - Collaboration folders to work in teams and projects - File inboxes, setup folders to receive files from people - Automatic camera roll backup - Streaming music and video player - Support for syncing unlimited number of folders through the CloudMe desktop app - Enables you to manage and organize your camera roll photos through a computer - Many supported clients like: Samsung SmartTV, WD TV Live, GoogleTV, smartphones, Mac, Linux and Windows - WebDAV support for connection to third party apps The CloudMe app requires a CloudMe account. If you don't have an account, you can sign-up for free from within the app. Need more storage? You can buy more inside the app. To learn more about CloudMe and all our supported clients, please visit our website.
PieCloud
Securely store and access your videos and photos from anywhere. This app offers encrypted cloud storage with offline viewing and scheduled uploads. It helps you manage space by identifying large files and provides a visual breakdown of your media.
- Encrypted cloud storage
- Offline viewing
- Scheduled uploads
- Identify large files
- Pie chart media view
- File restoration
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PieCloud is a private and safe cloud space to backup your videos and photos. With PieCloud app, here are the things you can do: • Securely store all videos and photos and access them anywhere in the world. (All files are encrypted so nobody other than yourself can access to your data) • Quickly access recent, and largest videos from each album using a fancy pie chart view • View uploaded content even when you are offline • Schedule video and photo upload even when you are offline (and uploads will automatically start once you are online) • Restore all uploaded files if you delete the app, or renew your iPhone PieCloud users can do these for free (no hidden fees, absolutely for free, no subscription required): • Use 5GB cloud storage completely for free, no hidden fees (when you login with your Apple id) • See largest videos and photos taking too much space in your iPhone • Get a pie chart view of each album, displaying per year videos and photos in sorted order by size (so that you can upload largest size medias to cloud), and per month videos and photos for latest files PieCloud is a very affordable app that comes with following pricing policy: • 5GB is FREE • $1.99/year for 50GB (once you subscribe for this option, first 2 months will be FREE) • $5.99/year for 200GB • $44.99/year for 2TB
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PieCloud at 100% against CloudMe's 46%. PieCloud also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). CloudMe's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. CloudMe sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and PieCloud sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PieCloud holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of CloudMe's written reviews are positive against 100% of PieCloud's.
CloudMe ships an update every 3 months, PieCloud every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudMe | PieCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CloudMe AB | PIECLOUD, LLC |
Customer experience
CloudMe
PieCloud
Bugs and requests
CloudMe
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes after setting passcode
- App crashes on iPhone 7 iOS 11.2
- Password reset doesn't work
- App crashes when loading photos
- App crashes when uploading photos/videos
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- App falls when getting documents
- Cannot access account after creation
- Memory used up when opening files
- Cannot restore/download pictures
- Takes forever to view pictures
- App not appearing on home screen
- Email is a bit buggy
- File Type Not Supported error for music
- Photo too large to display
- Cannot sign up online
- Username not accepted for sign up
- Page hangs during registration
- Cannot activate account on desktop
- No app seen on iPhone after download
- Code when opening an email needs formatting
Requested features
13 requests- Accessibility from Apple Files app
- Access CloudMe email
- Access CloudTop from mobile
- iPad version
- Background player feature
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- More free storage
- Tutorials for users
- Rename folders/files
- Multitasking support
- Ability to upload/download/edit content
- Compress large photos server-side
- Support for hour-long MP3s
- Play video/audio when phone locked
PieCloud
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CloudMe
- 1 year of 10 GB cloud storage$9.99
- 1 year of 25 GB cloud storage$39.99
- 1 year of 100 GB cloud storage$79.99
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- 1 year of 200 GB cloud storage$139.99
- 1 year of 500 GB cloud storage$299.99
PieCloud
- 50 GB$1.991 Year
- 200 GB$5.991 Year
- 2 TB$44.991 Year







