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Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| MASV | Sync.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $58 | From $6 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Usage-based | Annual only |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Not stated | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android |
| Covers | Media Storage & Review | Media Storage & Review |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Large file transfer priced by the gigabyte
MASV moves camera files between people who are not on the same network, which is the job that breaks every consumer sync tool once a shoot goes over a terabyte. There are no seats: you pay for the data you send, and the first fifteen gigabytes each month cost nothing. Uploads sit in storage free for five days, after which keeping them there becomes its own small charge.
Our note
Do the arithmetic on storage as well as transfer, because a job parked on the platform for a month costs real money after the five free days. If you send less than about 230GB a month, stay on pay as you go rather than the subscription.
Encrypted storage where only you hold the key
Sync encrypts everything before it leaves the machine, so the company cannot read what you store even if it wanted to. For a creator holding unreleased footage or a client's raw files, that is the difference between a policy and a guarantee. End-to-end encryption also means a forgotten password loses the data, with nobody able to reset it for you.
Our note
The encryption is the product, and it cuts both ways: nobody at Sync can read your files, and nobody at Sync can recover them if you lose the password. Write it down somewhere that is not the encrypted drive.
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