It has been few weeks since I switched to OneDrive as my preferring online cloud platform and to back up my mobile photos & videos. Post migration to OneDrive, I had hiccup of extracting my old photos from RAR file exported from Google Photos to OneDrive. However, in this article, I wanted to detail the comparison between Google Photos and OneDrive, focusing only about photos and its features
Google Photos:
- Memories: For each day, the app shows different memories happened over years.
- Uniqueness: At times, even shares some collage photos with similar photos taken earlier
- Effects:
- At times, the Google adds cinematic effects or 3D effects to photos
- Additionally, Google shares animation effects for group of similar photos or for videos
- Memories: Shares only the images/photos taken during same timeline
- Uniqueness:
- Saves Photos & videos with source format. Example:
- Stores live photos as it is
- Video files are saved in source quality and no compression of file is name
- Effects: No effects are applied, the file is saved and stored as it is.
Google Photos:
- Photo Search functionalities
- Search Term: card(s)
- Shows up results of only photos with single card
- Does not show up photos holding multiple cards
- Improvements needed
- Need to allow users to enable option for saving photos or videos in source format
- Photo search to be improved a little bit compared to OneDrive
- Photo Search functionalities
- Shows up results of photos of all photos having single card or multiple cards.
- Shows up results on filename having card as well
- Improvements needed
- Need memories function to be improved, so more such photos are shown up
- Photo Effects option to be enabled
- While searching, there should have been choice to filter out filetypes like PDF or JPEG files only