Pay once, own the storage for life. More cloud-drive than pure backup, but the lifetime pricing is genuinely rare.
Best for: People who hate subscriptions. Price: One-off ~£339 lifetime (2TB).
pCloud’s pitch is refreshingly different: pay once and the storage is yours for life. For anyone sick of monthly cloud bills, that lands.
A polished cloud drive with syncing, sharing and backup features, plus an EU data region and an optional client-side-encryption add-on (pCloud Crypto).
It leans more “cloud drive” than “set-and-forget backup”, the real encryption is a paid extra, and a lifetime deal only pays off if the company sticks around — worth weighing.
Subscription-averse people who want a lifetime cloud drive with backup features.
Anyone who needs hands-off, whole-machine automated backup as the priority.