DropImage for Dropbox is nice little add-on app for users of the Dropbox app on the iPhone. As the name implies, it is an app that has a simple purpose – to help you add images more easily and quickly to your Dropbox. Here’s a slice of its App Store description:
Ever have a bunch of images you needed off your phone right now? Then, DropImage is for you.
DropImage is a simple app that allows you to select photos from your iPhone photo library and queue them up for sending to your Dropbox account. DropImage makes it fast and convenient to transfer photos from your phone and synchronize them across all your Dropbox computers, iPhone, or iPad.
Simply select the images you want, then tap the “Send to Dropbox” button and let it go. Your images will be available in your Dropbox Photos folder under the DropImage folder.
Important! DropImage requires Location Services permissions in order to access and upload your images.
I’m a huge fan of Dropbox on my Mac, iPhone, and iPad; and use it every single day.The Dropbox iOS apps have one big current limitation though – when you want to add a photo / image to your Dropbox you can only select one at a time.
That’s the problem DropImage for Dropbox solves. It lets you upload multiple photos at once to Dropbox. It creates a DropImage folder within the /Photos folder in Dropbox – images you upload default to there, but you can specify a different folder (or create a new one) from within the app as well.
I’ve been using the app for several days now, and it works as advertised most of the time – though I have seen it get a bit flaky with processing its image queue at times. I’ve never tried to crush it with a huge batch of images at once, keeping my queues to no more than 6-8 images at a time. Even so once in a while it just seems to get stuck – clearing the queue and starting again has always fixed this so far.
The app has a very basic UI and no real bells and whistles to speak of – but it does what it says on the box and, for now at least, fills a gap in the app it plays off.
DropImage is a good idea for now, though I don’t see it having a bright future. I imagine Dropbox’s own app will soon add the multiple photo upload capability and I can’t see why Dropbox would want to let others provide much functionality that they don’t.
For right now though, if you use Dropbox and often need to upload multiple photos, this may be worth its $0.99 price tag.
Details:
Version Reviewed: 1.1
You can find DropImage for Dropbox in the App Store now.
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