Smart photo apps for travellers

What’s a vacation without pictures to share with friends and family? With these smart apps, you’ll have all your photos right at your fingertips, even if you’re not super tech savvy.

Google Photos

This one’s a winner because it’s free for storing lower resolution photos, and it helps you keep reams of photos organized and readily accessible. Starting at just $1.99 per month, you can upgrade to a full-resolution plan for 100 GB of storage. Compatible with Android, iOS, Mac and Windows PC, your photos are safely stored in the cloud. It auto-detects and tags people and places, so you can easily search within your upload for specific items. It will even create collages and videos for you – or you can do it yourself.

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Microsoft Onedrive

This app manages not just photos, but videos as well. It is compatible with the Android, iOS, Mac, Xbox, and Windows PC , both tablets and phones. Now all your videos, photos and files can be managed in one place. A 5GB plan is free, or a 1 TB plan comes with an Office 365 subscription. Other plans start at $1.99 per month for 50 GB of storage. This app is so smart you don’t even have to turn it on; it uploads new photos as soon as your phone connects to Wi-Fi. You can even add your own tags and edit pre-designed ones.

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Photos by Shutterfly

Once you’ve got that Instagram post perfect, you want to save it, right? Compatible with Android, iOS, Mac, Windows PC and Kindle, this app is designed for you. It includes free unlimited photo storage, and video-storage plans start at $19.99 per year for 60 GB. You can easily import photos from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr and more. And when it comes time for gifts, the impressive plethora of Shutterfly products are seamlessly created using your own photos. This one doesn’t generate auto tags, but for social media fans, it’s a great one for direct importing.

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