Apple's Photo Stream is great, but what about all of those photos lurking inside iPhoto or Aperture on your computer? Picturelife can push them to the cloud, and add images from almost everywhere else, too.
AllThingsD is reporting that Picturelife has finally developed itself into an honest-to-goodness cloud photo service after being in the works for the past two years and a reported $4 million in funding.
The service combines a website with uploader clients for Mac and PC as well as iOS and Android, which sync photos and even videos to Picturelife, where they can be added to existing libraries from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Dropbox, Tumblr, Foursquare or SmugMug -- and the service is even smart enough to avoid duplicates.
Unlike competing cloud-based photo services, Picturelife isn't aiming to replace your favorite service but rather unite all of them under one roof. Users can search for specific photo names, GPS locations or even call up "photos from last summer" simply by entering that phrase.
Picturelife is free for the first 5GB of storage, with Premium subscription plans starting at $7 per month (or $70 per year) for 100GB, which the company claims is good for about 40,000 photos. A Premium Plus subscription is also available for $15 per month ($150 per year) which stores about 120,000 photos in 300GB of space, and the company plans to introduce terabyte-sized plans and photo printing services in the months ahead.
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