Is pCloud Good for Delivering Photos to Clients?

Use pCloud to hand files to a retoucher, a second shooter or a client's agency. pCloud states that recipients get an instant preview in their browser, even without a pCloud account. On Premium, you can add a password. pCloud also offers link statistics to track who is viewing and downloading.

Use a gallery for a paying client. The client wants a page that looks like your studio, a way to mark favourites, and one button that downloads the set. A storage link is built around files, and that is what the client meets.

The reporting row deserves credit. A photographer who sends a pCloud link is not flying blind about whether the client looked. That is a real advantage over sending a bare file attachment.

pCloud publishes a monthly allowance for shared-link traffic on each plan. For photo delivery, this matters more than storage. A family may download a large set more than once, and each download moves data through your link.

The lifetime prices were shown as discounts off a higher list price. This page does not know when that offer ends, so treat the figures as a snapshot from the fetch date. pCloud also states that its Family plan is sold as lifetime only.

Compare the allowance with your own volume. A month of deliveries that adds up to more than 50 GB of downloads is past the free plan's figure.

None of this makes pCloud bad. It makes it storage. A client delivery asks for four things storage was not designed around.

A page that is yours. The delivery is the last thing a client sees, and often the thing they show friends. The pCloud shared-links help page describes no way to put your logo, colours or domain on it.

A way to say which frames they want. Proofing is a conversation. The client needs to mark favourites and send the list back. The pCloud help pages fetched for this answer describe no way to do that, so the list arrives by message and you retype it.

One download for the whole set. Clients expect a single button. The pCloud help pages fetched for this answer do not describe a one-click download of a whole shared folder. Open your own link in a private window, as a stranger would, before you rely on it.

A link that still means something next year. Clients lose links, and come back for them. A shared link points into your own storage, so the client's delivery depends on you never moving or tidying those files.

For a colleague, none of the four matter. For a wedding couple or a family, all four do.

On clientgallery.io, each gallery is a page on your studio's own subdomain, with no platform branding on it. Each gallery can have its own password.

The client likes and loves frames, then sends the selection. The two-way Lightroom Classic plugin pulls those picks back into your catalog. The client can download the whole gallery in one click or any single image.

On reporting, be precise. Analytics are account-wide: visits, unique visitors, photo views, favourites, picks sent, ZIP downloads, time spent and a device split. The only per-gallery signal is an opened indicator on each gallery tile, with filters for galleries seen by the client and galleries not opened yet. pCloud describes its link statistics as tracking who is viewing and downloading your shared content, so on that one point pCloud is not behind.

Uploads are browser-compressed proof JPEGs of about 0.6 MB each, and hosted galleries do not expire while the account exists. Full-resolution delivery is a paid feature: one ZIP per gallery, live for 3 days per handoff, re-uploadable any time, with 100 GB of standing ZIPs per account. Fair-use ceilings are 1,000 photos per gallery and 250 GB of proofs per paid account.

The plan is $10 a month or $100 a year, and the first gallery is free.

This is not a switch. The gallery hosts JPEGs and does not warehouse RAW files, so your masters need a home, and pCloud may well be it.

A sensible split looks like this. Masters and working files stay in pCloud. Transfers to colleagues go through pCloud links. The client gets a gallery, and the full-resolution ZIP when the edit is done.

If you are still deciding whether a gallery is worth it at all, the do I need a client gallery platform answer puts a threshold on it. The same argument made against another storage product is on the Dropbox alternative page. The full picture of delivery options is in the complete photo delivery guide.

• pCloud, cloud storage pricing plans, https://www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html, fetched 24 September 2026. Lifetime prices in USD and plan storage. Monthly and annual prices did not render.
• pCloud help centre, shared links, https://help.pcloud.com/article/shared-links, no article date shown, fetched 24 September 2026. Browser preview without an account, Premium passwords, link statistics, traffic per plan.
• pCloud help centre, plan details, https://help.pcloud.com/article/plan-details, no article date shown, fetched 24 September 2026. Basic storage, traffic per plan, Family plan lifetime only.
• pCloud help centre, Public Folder, https://help.pcloud.com/article/public-folder, no article date shown, fetched 24 September 2026. Plans that include it and what it does.
• clientgallery.io product facts as shipped, checked 24 September 2026: plan price, subdomain, per-gallery password, picks, Lightroom Classic plugin, account-wide analytics and the per-gallery opened indicator, proof size, fair-use ceilings and the full-resolution ZIP window.