ElephantDrive vs PieCloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ElephantDrive
Access and manage your cloud backup, storage, and sync files from your mobile device. Select files for offline access and share them easily via text, email, or links. Offers 2GB of free storage for secure cloud backup and file synchronization.
- Cloud file access
- Offline file availability
- File sharing
- Automatic backups
- File sync folder
- Account management
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ElephantDrive allows you to access and manage files in your cloud backup, storage, and sync account from your iPhone or iPad. Features: • Access your files from anywhere when online • Select files for availability even when offline • Share files via text, email, url link • Get 2GB free storage When you use ElephantDrive for simple, safe, and secure backup to the cloud, you get much more than just world-class data protection. Unlike most other cloud backup services, ElephantDrive provides both automatic backups and a special file sync folder (called Everywhere) all in one product. ElephantDrive is easy to use and keeps all your stuff safe! With the ElephantDrive App for iOS, you can manage your account from your iPhone, iPad, or other iOS devices. Terms of Use: http://home.elephantdrive.com/about-us/terms-of-use/
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 rating: PieCloud at 5.0 against ElephantDrive's 2.9. PieCloud also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). ElephantDrive's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. PieCloud sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. ElephantDrive asks for nothing beyond the download.
PieCloud holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of ElephantDrive's written reviews are positive against 100% of PieCloud's.
ElephantDrive ships an update every 4 months, PieCloud every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ElephantDrive | PieCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ElephantDrive Inc. | PIECLOUD, LLC |
Customer experience
ElephantDrive
PieCloud
In-app purchases
ElephantDrive
No in-app purchases
PieCloud
- 50 GB$1.991 Year
- 200 GB$5.991 Year
- 2 TB$44.991 Year
