iCloud
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“the $2.99/month I pay for 200GB of backup space is worth not having to be angry all the time about storage limits.”
“iCloud. Great price. Great service.”
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“I use iCloud, Dropbox and OneDrive for family, professional use and junk files respectively.”
“I pay for iCloud for the family because I don't want to be Oncall 24/7/365.”
Caveats and dissent
“They also allow an app to start backing up their data in your iCloud quota without your explicit apoorval or enabling.”
“I’ve tried a few options, including iCloud Drive, but they are not quite reliably as Obsidian’s paid sync service.”
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“iCloud sync actually messed up every file I opened due to the lag between remote copy and local edits.”
“don't use iCloud (it's a privacy nightmare)”
Often compared with
1 moved from iCloud to Bitwarden
1 moved from iCloud to Immich
1 moved from iCloud to NextcloudGoogle Drive1 comment mention both
1 moved from Google Drive to iCloud
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone 1 mention
- Apple may have an iPhone 18 Pro demand problem 1 mention
- Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy 1 mention
- iCloud backup – 5GB available, but I can't use it 1 mention
- iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 1 mention
- Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? 1 mention
Also written as iCloud Drive. Data: icloud.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 20
“The only clutter on the iphone is icloud which stays out of the way and doesn't annoy me with subscription messages.”
“Meanwhile still paying rent for iCloud/sevices”
“I lay my coups dollars a month for iCloud family storage”
“the $2.99/month I pay for 200GB of backup space is worth not having to be angry all the time about storage limits.”
“They also allow an app to start backing up their data in your iCloud quota without your explicit apoorval or enabling.”
“I simply keep copies of debugged skill files in iCloud and copy them where I need them.”
“iCloud. Great price. Great service.”
“I've self-hosted for about 2 months, and promptly switched to iCloud.”
“My personal Dropbox was replaced by Google Drive, and then by iCloud.”
“I pay for 6TB of iCloud storage for my family”
“I’ve tried a few options, including iCloud Drive, but they are not quite reliably as Obsidian’s paid sync service.”
“including iCloud Drive which I use sparingly”
“I do use iCloud drive”
“iCloud sync actually messed up every file I opened due to the lag between remote copy and local edits.”
“I also created a folder on Apple's iCloud that I share.”
“I use iCloud, Dropbox and OneDrive for family, professional use and junk files respectively.”
“The only subscriptions I pay for are things that are almost impossible to replace like online storage (iCloud) or Spotify”
“don't use iCloud (it's a privacy nightmare)”
“I pay for iCloud for the family because I don't want to be Oncall 24/7/365.”
“I use iCloud sync and then on a macOS machine, I have code that commits it to VCS”