
A free Google One account gets you 15GB of space, a reasonable amount. To upload photos, you have to use the upload button on and select the 'Photos' Media folder from the sidebar that appears in the Finder window, then select the album you want. Google Photos is fast, smart, and maybe a better place to back up all your digital memories than Apple’s Photos app. You can't drag and drop photos from Photos.app to Google Photos website uploader.It insists on automatically uploading all your photos unless you carefully restrict it to a folder. In typical Google fashion, it's an all or none option. Google's photo backup utility isn't really designed for manual uploads.Even if there was a share extension, I'm not sure if we'd be limited by the arbitrary implementation snafus such as 30 photos at-a-time uploads that Flickr sharing has.

#Best app to use with google photos for mac mac os
So like many people, I use Mac OS Photos app to keep a local copy of the photos and do some local editing and library management, and upload select pictures to Google Photos so that I can share with my friends and family. There are several problems with using photo management apps by rival companies.

Apple offers their own photo sharing options via iCloud photo stream and iCloud photo library, but for various reasons that you can read elsewhere they leave a lot to be desired at least as of this writing. While it brings modern design and better performance to the table, its rough edges are still showing up such as limited photo sharing capabilities. Since then many amateur photographers like me have been using it either as their primary or secondary photo sharing tool. One the whole, Google Photos is great! It's unlimited storage (high quality you have to pay extra to store originals), ease of sharing and AI-powered search alone make it a useful tool.Īpple also replaced it mature but old iPhoto software with Photos.app in 2015.
