This also gives you ad-free browsing of the site and stats on your most popular photos. If you do want more storage here, Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo storage from $5.99/£5.99/AU$7.99 a month. You can tag photos, add them to groups or easily share them to your social media. Rather than being a dumping ground for all of your shots, this a place to showcase your best shots to the world – or your friends and family. Flickrįlickr (opens in new tab) has been the go-to site for budding photographers for many years and while its days of offering 1TB of storage for free has gone, you can still keep up to 1000 images for free.

It’s not the simplest of solutions but it works. If you don’t own a Google Pixel you can pick up one second-hand for as little as $100/£70. If you have one of these phones tucked in a draw, you can use it as your very own photo launderer – transferring your shots to the Pixel first and then uploading to Google Photos. While more modern Pixel phones only offer free storage for a limited time, the original Pixel (and Pixel 1) are keeping their lifetime free storage assignment. You can upload any type of file from the browser or use the OneDrive app to back up your phone camera pics.

And if you have a family subscription (for up to 6 people) you get 1TB per person, so a potential 6TB for free.

Anyone with a Hotmail or Outlook account gets 5GB of storage for free but if you pay for a licence for Microsoft 365 (office package), you get 1TB of storage for free. Microsoft’s OneDrive (opens in new tab) is more like Google Drive than a dedicated photo storage platform, but the benefit of this is that you get to choose how you organize your images. AU$24.49 per year for 100GB, and offers packages up to 10TB if you need it. If you need more storage for video – or if you’re not a prime member – packages start at $1.99/£1.49/approx.

Google photos storage