In Review: Is PickBackMan worth the hype?

If you are reading this, it is likely that you are interested in backing up and migrating photos/videos from your Mac or Windows device to an online service. Well, PickBackMan is designed exactly to do that.

PickBackMan is a tool that can easily backup your photos or videos from your computer to the cloud or photo-sharing sites. Sounds cool, but what benefit duplicate or visually similar photos would be? Clean them up with PictureEcho and then move the rest to the cloud/ photo sharing sites.

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Let’s dive into the needs and features of this particular tool and explore what’s so good about it.

Why PickBackMan?

At one point or another, we all must have gone through a heart-wrenching data loss. This especially hurts more when the data we lost was personal and memorable. One simple virus into the computer and boom! All our memorable pictures can disappear within seconds.

To avoid such heartaches, it is always suggested to back up your files somewhere safe. While copying files into a USB drive seems like the easy option, is it really helpful? What if you misplace that tiny thumb drive? This is exactly why the internet is the best place to back up your files. It’s usually permanent. PickBackMan makes the entire process of migrating and backing up data quite smooth.

What’s So Great About It?

The highlighted part of PBM is the fact that it is compatible with several different programs/services. Whether you want to migrate your data to a cloud service such as Google Drive, pCloud or Dropbox or you want to store it on a photo-sharing site such as Flickr or SmugMug, PckBackMan makes all of this possible. While transferring your files, you don’t even need to worry about the structures of your folders/subfolders. Your files will be moved as it is.

It’s also noteworthy that PBM works perfectly well for both Mac and Microsoft Windows.

Do you know what’s even great? All of this is done within minutes! Yes, you can now back up thousands of photos or videos in just a few minutes.

Not just this but PBM also allows users to download media content from different online sites in case someone needs to make local copies. Additional features include:

  • Advanced SmugMug Download: While downloading files from SmugMug via PickBackMan, you can download them along with their existing titles, captions, and keywords.
  • Advanced Flickr Download: As mentioned above, using PBM, you can download your photos from Flickr to your computer with titles, captions, and tags attached.

Another great feature that makes PickBackMan stand out amongst its competitors is its ability to detect duplicates. Yes, you read that right. With PBM, you can also detect and remove duplicate media content from your entire collection. This will simply help you clean up all the junk in your precious collection and save up a lot of storage space!

Side by side, PBM also ensure complete safety and security of your files. If you’re worried that your files will be lost or mishandled during the migration process, you have got nothing to worry about here. See their Terms & Conditions for more details.

Pricing

PickBackMan only has a single monthly plan, which costs $6.95 per month. While it’s not the cheapest tool, I believe the facilities it provides make the money worth it. The good thing is that you can cancel the subscription at any time. Backed up everything within a month? No need to renew your subscription then!

What’s even great is that PickBackMan also offers a free trial. Check it out yourself!

The Downside

Although it’s a pretty great tool there are still a few things that users occasionally complain about. Firstly, the free trial version only offers limited functionalities due to which users can’t fully depict the power of PBM.

Moreover, so far, PickBackMan is only compatible with Windows and Mac. If you are trying to backup files from your Android or iOS phone, unfortunately, this might not be your tool to check out. We hope that some upgrades are in the pipeline and that PBM will be available for more users soon.

PickBackMan’s stats speak volumes. According to their official website, so far, over 74 million photos and 110 million videos have been backed up via their cloud-based service. Woah! Those are quite huge figures. Users may really love this tool.

Overall, PickBackMan is a great tool that can make your data secure and your life easier. There’s absolutely no harm in trying. Once you do so, you’ll probably understand its worth. Go ahead, give it a try!