Dropbox got the online storage ball rolling back in 2008. Recently though, the cloud wars have shifted to photos. As in, which service provides the best way to backup and grant access to all your photos quickly and easily. The Dropbox app has offered automatic uploading of your iPhone photos and videos for some time now. But there was never a good way to browse them until Dropbox released Carousel. If you have a Dropbox account, Carousel will upload all your photos and videos in the background without you having to worry about it. It will even offer to delete these photos from your device once they’re safely backed up. This will help free up a lot of your precious local storage. Once uploaded, Carousel displays your photos in a beautiful arrangement. You can scrub through your timeline to find a particular memory. Or rely on the Flashback feature to pick a memory for you. If you’re a heavy Dropbox user and have enough storage in your plan, I think you’ll love Carousel.

Carousel is just one of our favorite photo storage and sharing apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

Here are a couple of our other picks of the best photo storage and sharing apps for iPhone and iPad:

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