How Does SafeSync Compare With Dropbox?

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Awful lot like Dropbox

Trend Micro’s SafeSync software sounds an awful lot like Dropbox: it automatically syncs the files of your choosing directly from your Windows or Mac computer into the cloud, and lets you access them via mobile devices or share them with others. So what are the differences?

On the upside: or rather than being restricted to your standard Dropbox folder, you can share any folders or files of your choosing. You can rename pictures and other files on your mobile device earlier sharing. Pricing for the service is in Australian dollars, and even allowing for the strong US dollar, works out cheaper per gigabyte. A 20GB one-year subscription is $39.95, 50GB is $59.95, and 100GB is $99.95. Trend uses its own data centres, so you won’t be subject to outages from Amazon a la Dropbox.

The downside

On the downside: there’s no free version, so you can’t as a matter of fact try it out and see how you like it. There’s as well not the same range of integration with other apps or as many mobile customers. More to the point, I found the Windows software more intrusive and slower than Dropbox and it crashed occasionally, as so then as demanding a reboot every time it updated.

I dont think i’ll be moving away from dropbox anytime in the near future. There are just so many developers for android that incorperate it to make their apps way more awesome.