Comparison

Sync with Google Drive vs Beyond Link

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sync with Google Drive

This app automatically backs up your phone's photos and videos to Google Drive, preserving your album and folder structure. It ensures your cloud storage mirrors your device's library, uploading edited media and Live Photos. The service offers a one-way sync, never deleting files from your phone.

Highlights
  • Automatic photo and video backup
  • Preserves album and folder hierarchy
  • Uploads edited media
  • Supports Live Photos
  • One-way sync to Google Drive
  • Mirror or backup photo library
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Sync for Google Drive synchronizes your phone’s photo library, including the album and folder hierarchy, to Google Drive. For users who like to organize their photos into folders and albums, Sync offers many advantages over uploading your photos and videos to Google Drive and manually recreating your folder structure on Google Drive. - Sync automatically creates folders and albums you may have created in your phone’s photo library on Google Drive. - Uploads the video component for Live Photos. - Uploads the edited versions of photos and videos. - Mirror or backup your photo library. - Synchronize your entire photo library or only certain folders and albums. In summary, each time you run Sync, it will make sure any changes to your phone’s photo library are updated on Google Drive, overwriting, renaming, uploading, and moving items to Google Drive trash if needed. Sync will also NEVER delete any photos from your phone. Sync performs a ONE-WAY sync only, making a folder in your Google Drive account match your phone’s photo library. Any changes made on Google Drive will not be synced to your phone, rather, the changes on Google Drive will simply be overwritten the next time you run a Sync. Free Plan The free plan is limited to syncing up to 3 top-level folders and albums and up to 200 photos. Premium Plan Our affordable premium plan removes all restrictions and unlocks access to all future features. Subscription Pricing and Terms - Annual or monthly subscription billing will start immediately after you subscribe and will auto-renew each year or month. - Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled at least one day before the renewal date within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. You can manage and cancel your subscription by going to your account settings in the App Store. - Subscriptions are non-refundable, so please choose this option carefully. - Please refer to the In-App Purchases section for pricing. Terms of Use — https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy — https://sync.photosplus.app/privacy.php

About

Beyond Link

Features
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Beyond Link helps you capture and organize links in a clean, fast workspace. Use Beyond Link to: - Save web links with a title, notes, and tags - Share links directly from other apps using the Share Extension - Get suggested titles, notes, and tags with on-device Apple Intelligence - Search and filter your saved links quickly - Sort by date, title, or domain - Use Google Sign-In or Sign in with Apple Designed for a simple bookmarking workflow with a modern iOS experience.

Screenshots

Sync with Google Drive4 screens
Beyond Link4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beyond Link at none against Sync with Google Drive's 2. Sync with Google Drive's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sync with Google Drive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Beyond Link asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sync with Google Drive versus Beyond Link: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSync with Google DriveBeyond Link
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPixegram, LLCSteve Rioux

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sync with Google Drive

Subscriptions2
  • Premium - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium - Yearly$19.991 Year
None

Beyond Link

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sync with Google Drive free?
Sync with Google Drive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beyond Link free?
Beyond Link is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sync with Google Drive or Beyond Link have ads?
Beyond Link shows ads; Sync with Google Drive does not.

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