When comparing Photobucket vs Cloudup, the Slant community recommends Photobucket for most people. In the question“What are the best websites for image hosting?” Photobucket is ranked 4th while Cloudup is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Photobucket is:
Users can make GIFs to share. Speed, looping, forwards/backwards, and yo-yo are all adjustable.
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Pros
Pro Local GIF maker
Users can make GIFs to share. Speed, looping, forwards/backwards, and yo-yo are all adjustable.
Pro Automatically uploads photos to Photobucket
Any time a picture is uploaded to Android photos, it is automatically synced to Photobucket as well. This feature can be turned off.
Pro Shares directly to social media
While photos can be shared on Photobucket, this app also allows direct sharing to Twitter and Facebook.
Pro Search photos by keyword
In order to find specific photos posted by others, Photobucket includes a search by keyword feature.
Pro Media can viewed instantly
When uploading videos, photos or audio, CloudUp will transcode a version of the media so that it can be viewed right from within the app without requiring a download.
Pro Easy to use
After dragging & dropping files, a link for sharing will be in your clipboard. You can also paste from your clipboard into the web view. When you share a stream with someone they can start viewing it even before all files have been uploaded. All this makes it easy and straightforward to use.
Pro Password-protected files and streams
You can choose to put up a password for certain files and streams.
Pro Works on every platform
CloudUp is a web-based HTML5 app and website meaning it can be viewed from any modern browser form any device. There's a native desktop Mac and Windows app available and native iPhone and Android apps being worked on.
Pro Free
Each user can upload 1000 items that are not bigger than 200MB for free.
Cons
Con Can't upload multiple photos at once
The Photobucket app allows users to attempt to upload multiple photos, more it will often crash during the upload.