Kwilt Shoebox Personal Cloud Storage

Today, the vast majority of photos or video are taken with a smartphone. Users consider photos and videos as personal precious private information and they wish to protect and control them. Is it a result of all the AI, ML… by the industry able to discover information from digital content and that promotion for quarters but users are more and more reluctant to upload photos on online public drives and folders.

Security holes and exploits are the second aspect. Google recognize also that and, during recent home stuff launch by Google, the Pixel2 product team announced infinite storage for free, a way to bypass hesitations with the price.

At the opposite, several vendors have started to offer for quite some time an external connection to their home NAS producing the effect of a personal cloud from home and accessible from anywhere.

Still in Beta and soon to be launched, Kwilt Shoebox developed by Kwilt based in San Francisco, CA, and founded by Marc-Antoine Benglia, CEO, and Mostafa Hosseini, CTO, has reinvented that approach in a more simpler way with a very small device, wi-fi client, with USB connection for disk drives.

Thus from home and from thousands kilometers away, you can upload your photo, secure them, protect them, share them directly from your mobile phone. Very easy to setup, with almost no setup, you just need to download an intuitive mobile app available for Android and Apple mobile phone.

It’s also very straightforward and the service is up and running in just a few clicks and globally in less than 2 minutes. There is no subscription for the service you just need to buy the device one shot – its MSRP is $69.99 – and create an account from the app. You can acquire this device directly from Kwilt web site and soon from the various electronic shops. The device has a HDMI port so you can leave it close to your TV to play photo and videos in large format.

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