QuickShot with Dropbox is a nice little single-purpose app that lets you automatically upload photos to Dropbox. Dropbox is a superb online file sync service – that offers you 2GB of free storage and very reasonable prices for greater amounts of storage. Here’s a bit of its App Store intro:
QuickShot simplifies the process of uploading photos to Dropbox. Every picture you take is immediately uploaded to without the need for any additional actions. It has all the familiar camera features found in other apps, plus a few not found anywhere else. Queue multiple photos, upload photos in the background, and access all of the standard camera functionality from QuickShot’s simple interface.
Some of its key features:
– Select and upload multiple photos from your photo library
– Uploads continue even after the app is closed
– Configure flash modes, capture quality, geotagging, and upload path
– All uploads preserve image metadata
– Access both front and back cameras
– Tap to set focus and exposure
– Optionally require confirmation before uploading a photo
And a few limitations worth noting:
— It will not automatically upload photos you snap with the built-in Camera app, only those that are taken within Quickshot itself. You can choose to upload images from your photo library though, it’s just not automatic.
— The app requires Location Services, and permission for the app to use it, in order to work.
— iOS 4.1 or higher is required.
My Quick Thoughts:
This is a very simple but very handy little app to have if you’re a Dropbox user, or open to giving Dropbox a try. It works with the iPhone 4 and even with the new iPad 2 for automatic photo uploads. It’s a great way to have your photos synced and accessible from anywhere you can access Dropbox (i.e. on your desktop or via any major browser).
Setup is simple – all you do is add your Dropbox account details via Settings within the app.
Uploads are relatively quick, and since they happily continue in the background you don’t have to care about how fast they are anyway. The uploads go to the /Photos folder in Dropbox and are named with QuickShot at the beginning of the filename followed by the date and time.
There’s a Capture Quality setting but it’s not very informative; it just tells you that the ‘Photo’ setting is the highest quality, while the others (High, Medium, Low) reduce quality but improve upload speed. It would be nice if there was more detail given on this setting, so you could make better decisions on which setting works best for you.
If you use a free Dropbox account (with a 2GB limit), or even a larger premium account, you’ll want to keep an eye on your limit or babysit the /Photos folder a bit if you use this app a whole lot.
Overall, I quite like this app. I love the Dropbox service and this is a nice way to get photos synced to it, and to my desktop, without having to mess with a cabled iTunes sync.
You can find QuickShot with Dropbox in the App Store now; it’s a universal app and is priced at $0.99.
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