Google crushes Apple when it comes to storing your photos online

Thanks to smartphones, it's never been easier to take photos. As the old saying goes, the best camera is the one you have with you - and our phones are always in our pockets.

But let's face it: the current state of photo storage is a nightmare.

Do you remember the last time you backed up your photos? When was the last time you bothered trying to sort your camera roll into albums? Or worse yet, how many times have you tried to capture a precious moment and been interrupted by your iPhone saying you're out of storage?

For a modern photo storage service to be useful, it needs to do the hard work for you. You should never have to worry about if your pictures of your kids are safe. It needs to be easy to use, offer an array of cloud storage options (both free and paid), and let you quickly find that one funny pic you took of your weird uncle on vacation two years ago.

Out of all the options out there - and there are a lot of them - Google Photos is the best overall.

Amazon, Flickr, Dropbox, and plenty of others are all contending to be the locker of choice for storing all your photos in the cloud, but they're either too confusing to use or don't offer the same level of features as Google.

But let's not ignore the elephant in the room.