Best Free Way to Move Photos from Dropbox to Google Photos

User Scenarios

"A few years ago, I got an iPhone. I used Dropbox to automatically backup my personal photos in iPhone. However, I don’t want to use Dropbox anymore because of the Google Photos will help me to do this job. Now I want to migrate all my photos from Dropbox to Google Photos, but I did not find an easy way. Anyone have some suggestions? Thanks a lot."

"I have thousands of camera RAW image photos in Dropbox. My PC cannot be used to store these pictures because there is no enough space to download these files. Thus, is there any way to transfer Dropbox photos to Google Photos without downloading and uploading? Or any reliable and trusted third party software could help me?"

Which is Better for Photos: Dropbox or Google Photos?

Compared with Dropbox, Google Photos has more advantages than Dropbox. Google Photos provides free unlimited storage space for users while Dropbox only offers 2GB free storage space, which is up to 18GB by other ways to get extra space. Besides, the photos in Google Photos will be organized and labeled automatically, and allowed to search via some labels.

As the two leading photo storage services, each has its own pros and cons. Here in the following content, you will learn more about them.

	Dropbox	Google Photos
Pros	Easy to use	Can automatically back up phone's photos
	Cross-platform desktop and mobile	Can search photos
	Desktop client has no file size limit	Can manually classify photos
	Folders can be downloaded compressed to save bandwidth	Can easily attach any of your Google Photos in an email message
	30-day version control	15GB free space
Cons	Too little free space: 2GB	The web version lacks certain features available on mobile apps
	Consumes a lot of CPU resources when syncing many files	Files may be compressed if you're using the unlimited storage option
	Low bandwidth	The site tends to lag and file uploads can sometimes fail

Since each one has its advantages and disadvantages, it is up to you to decide which one to use. If Google Photos is your favor and you want to move Dropbox photos to Google Photos, here you will find the best free way to make it.

How to Move Photos from Dropbox to Google Photos?

Usually, if you plan to move pictures from Dropbox to Google Photos, you have to download these files to your computer from Dropbox, then upload these files to Google Photos. This task is a great waste of time and energy if you have lots of files to move.

Solution 1: Using the Official APP--Google Backup and Sync

At present, there is another way used by many users, that is, with the help of the Dropbox app and Google backup and sync software, the specific steps are as follows.

Step 1. Download the Dropbox desktop application. Log in to your account, and the files in Dropbox will be stored on your computer accordingly.
Step 2. From the Google Workshop, download "Backup and Sync" app, log in to your google account, open the “preferences” interface, select the file to be synced (find the location where the Dropbox files are stored), select the option to upload to Google Photos, and finally click "OK" to execute the process.

This method does delete the upload and download operations, but there are still a few points to note:

Solution 2: Move Photos from Dropbox to Google Photos with MultCloud--Convenient

Is there any better reliable way to transfer from Dropbox to Google Photos? The best FREE multiple cloud storage manager – MultCloud will do you a favor.

Before you do, you could create a free MultCloud account and log in. then follow the instruction to transfer pictures from Dropbox to Google Photos easily.

Step 1. Add Clouds

On the main window of your MultCloud account, click Add Cloud on the left side. Tick Dropbox and press Add Dropbox after inputting a Display Name. Use the same way to add Google Photos.

Step 2. Cloud Transfer

Click Cloud Transfer at the top of page, select photos directory under Dropbox as the source, select target directory under Google Photos as the destination, click "Transfer Now" and wait for the transfer process to complete.

Tips:

• Schedule: If you want to transfer files regularly, you could enable "Schedule" so MultCloud can run your task as scheduled.

• To enjoy faster transfer speed, you could upgrade your account to premium account so you will get 10 threads to transfer files at once.
• As long as your task starts, you can close the page and even shut down your PC because MultCloud can run your task at the background.
• The "Albums" directory under Google Photos can only store album directories, but not media files.
• As you want to move photos from your Dropbox account to Google Photos account, you need you enable "Delete all source files after transfer is complete" through "Options".

Conclusion

Compared with downloading and uploading, MultCloud is more powerful and flexible to use. Apart from moving photos from Dropbox to Google Photos, you could move files from one Google Drive to another, sync files between OneDrive and Dropbox, etc., because MultCloud has the ability to transfer or sync files among more than 30 kinds of clouds like Google Drive, G Suite, Dropbox, Dropbox for Business, Flickr, Google Photos, OneDrive, Box, Amazon S3, etc.