Any reason to pay the extra $1 over
PhotoSync? Just curious -- I already bought PhotoSync based on recommendations here.
Regards,
Tom
Of the two, I'd definitely go for
PhotoSync:
- PhotoSync is easier to use (no need to explicitly enabling receive mode etc.)
- Photo Transfer needs to enable BT by hand; no such need in PhotoSync, which automatically falls back to BT when there's no (common for both iDevices) Wi-Fi
- Photo Transfer has no video transfer over Bluetooth, only Wi-Fi (PhotoSync supports video transfer over BT too), which means you won't be able to quickly send over your videos on the beach / in a bus etc. to an iOS bud.
- Photo Transfer has no interval image selection (only individual and Select All), unlike PhotoSync, which has double-tapping for the beginning / ending of mass-selection
- Photo Transfer has absolutely no image sorting etc. capabilities (PhotoSync can sort by date)
- Photo Transfer is more expensive.
The speed and the reliability of the two apps are appr. the same over both Wi-Fi and, when there's no Wi-Fi, BT. I've tested this between a lot of devices, both iOS 6 and 5.1.1 (iPhone 5, iPad 2, 3 etc.)
If you're jailbroken, you might also want to consider the absolutely excellent
AirBlue Sharing, which has about the same transfer speed as these two apps (it automatically uses Wi-Fi in exactly the same circumstances as these two AppStore apps) but, in addition, is fully OBEX-compliant and has absolutely no problem with sending files to / receiving from traditional dumb / Symbian / Bada phones at all. Its interface, however, isn't as polished as that of these two apps; for example, it completely lacks an image picker. This also means there are no multiselect etc. capabilities unless you fire up its file handler view, navigate to Media/DCIM, enable editing mode and select all the images you'd like to send in one step. It's, of course, not as easy to use as the image picker module of the two AppStore apps.
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Yup, go for PhotoSync, don't purchase new, unknown apps without decent and reliable reviews (for example, those of mine).
I've checked out Wireless Transfer App more closely. Not recommended: it doesn't even have Bluetooth support. The only truly Wi-Fi-less, p2p it has depends on Personal Hotspot. If neither of the devices have it, you're shot.