Sync with Google Drive vs DataGuard by Thorium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
DataGuard by Thorium
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DataGuard keeps your files safe by intelligently distributing them across your clouds using algorithm that gives you redundancy and security. HOW IT WORKS Every file you upload is automatically split into parts and distributed across your cloud providers. If you lose access to any one account, DataGuard recovers your files. No single point of failure. No data loss. KEY FEATURES • Automatic Recovery - files survive even if one cloud provider goes down • Secure Authentication - OAuth2 for each provider, Firebase for your account • Simple Management - upload, browse, and download all files in one place WHY DATAGUARD? Cloud providers go down. Accounts get compromised. Services get discontinued. DataGuard ensures your important files survive any single point of failure by distributing them intelligently across multiple providers - so you're never at the mercy of one company. Perfect for professionals, creators, and anyone who cannot afford to lose important files.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DataGuard by Thorium at none against Sync with Google Drive's 2. DataGuard by Thorium also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sync with Google Drive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. DataGuard by Thorium asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sync with Google Drive ships an update every 2 months, DataGuard by Thorium every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sync with Google Drive | DataGuard by Thorium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pixegram, LLC | Yehezkel Corly |
In-app purchases
Sync with Google Drive
- Premium - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium - Yearly$19.991 Year
DataGuard by Thorium
No in-app purchases
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