Price: $84.99
(as of Nov 16, 2024 14:02:08 UTC - Details)

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Why Choose ThePhotoStick Omni?

Backup systems can be too complicated for the average user, which leads to tragic mistakes. In addition to taking a long time, a simple error can result in the loss of precious memories. It's always a nightmare to dig through folders to find all your important files, and you'll never know if you've missed an essential photo or video until it's too late.

About Us

The PhotoStick was created by Mark Oman, a former tech VP. Mark realized that since computers crash more frequently than we like, people run the risk of losing all their photos and videos.

Founder Mark Oman speaks from experience as he once lost precious photos from a special family vacation. This motivated him to come up with a way to easily find and save all the photos on his computer to prevent this from happening again.

Oman and his team at PrairieIT used their knowledge and expertise to create ThePhotoStick, ThePhotoStick Mobile, and ThePhotoStick Omni.

Keeps Your Files Safe & Organized - Never worry about your computer crashing or losing files in the cloud again. ThePhotoStick Omni securely backs up each file and automatically organizes them neatly into folders so they're easy to find.
Massive Storage Capacity - Back up over 51,200 photos and videos and easily access them when you're ready to view them.
Works On Many Devices - ThePhotoStick Omni works on PC and Mac computers, iPhones and iPads, and most Android smartphones and tablets. Safely and easily store your precious photo and video memories, no matter where they are, with one device.
Super Easy To Use - Simply download the app, plug the adapter into your device, and let ThePhotoStick get to work!
Saved File Types - It saves your standard JPEG, HEIC, PNG, GIF, MOV, and MPEG4, but it also saves a vast array of file types.
Compatible Devices - PC, Mac, iOS and most Android or Windows smartphones and tablets.
System Requirements - Android OS 8.0 and Later | iOS and iPadOS 13.0 and Later | Windows 7 SP1 and Later | Mac OS X Version 10.13 and Later
Reviewer: Sandra
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Took some figuring out
Review: It was not obvious figuring out how to get this to work. And it hasn't been seamless. Then they changed the app somewhat. My ability to easily eject the photostick stopped working, and I had to find an alternate way. Now that I've got a method that works, I appreciate having it. However, I wonder if a time will come that the app doesn't work and the stick isn't usable. I've had other USB sticks stop working and be useless.

Reviewer: B.T.Bullet
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Takes a LONG time to backup. Over 4 HOURS.
Review: Charge the battery on your device because the PhotoStick uses the charge port, and it’s been running for about two hours on my iPad and only 62% done. There’s only 52% battery juice left. In order to get a charger on I’m going to have to, what? cancel the backup. Now I’m wondering if the PhotoStick will share the charge port with a splitter. TWO HOURS and only 62% DONE. Whew. And the PhotoStick will not work with a lightning splitter. I also suspect it’s trying to backup the videos I’ve downloaded from streaming services, which I don’t really want backed-up. I have 4-6 streaming downloads on the iPad at any given time. I don’t want them as part of my photo/video archive. There also doesn’t appear to be a way to organize the files. They go on organized in folders, but once they are on the PhotoStick they don’t appear to be in any logical order.Backing up the iPhone took OVER 6 HOURS used 57% of battery, then went into PHOTOSTICK MOBILE NOT ACCESSIBLE mode. When I attempted to Chat with Support, the chat applications DID NOT WORK on my iOS browser. Also when attempting to clear the device there was NO DELETE OPTION available as shows up in the app examples. I mean, how bad can it get? Really?

Reviewer: Matt Lansberry
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works a bit too well
Review: Read the instructions. The default setting will pick up WAY more than you want or need. For instance, be sure your recycle bin is empty because it will find everything. Deselect the OS and program files or it will pick up files within there as well Carefully select which formats you need too. It saves files two ways: By file type or by your file structure. I find the file structure type to be more useful. The saving by file type (the default) puts all the files from every entry and all programs on a list strictly by type. This can be useful if all you want are specific types of files. It doesn't appear to work on XP or other older OS's. I'm still trying to get it to work on WIN 7. Works great on Win 10. Over all I'm happy with it.

Reviewer: Doc-G
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lacking accurate instructions
Review: Worked well after trial and error actions. The instructions were limited and did not fulfill the job. The instructions are good to get started only. It takes multiple addional steps to have the device gain access to the phone.

Reviewer: Mark Miller
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: ThePhotoStick
Review: Love this USB stick! I’m not tech savvy. I know enough to get by. Anything difficult, I have to ask for help. This was so easy. If it’s a phone, you have to have a full charge on it before you start. I plugged it into my phone, it said to go to the App Store to get the app. I did that & the procedure started. It wanted to know what I wanted to download. I clicked on pictures & it started. I had over 5,000 pictures & videos on my phone, so it took over an hour. At one point I had to pause the download & unplug ThePhotoStick because my battery had to be charged again. When I had what I figured would be enough of a charge to finish, I plugged it back into my phone & it started up where it left off & finished the download. After it was done it gave me the opportunity to check to see if all the photos were on the stick. I scanned through it & was happy that everything appeared to be there.I like that I didn’t have to jump through hoops to get this to work & that I was able to free up all that space on my phone. The next thing I’m going to do is get the photos off my computer!

Reviewer: W. Behm
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not user friendly/poor directions
Review: The directions are very vague and totally worthless except from telling you to download the Omi App which turns out to be the wrong one (for our Samsung phones) anyway. We ended up using the photo stick mobile app by trial and error. There really is no tech support. After hours of frustration I was able to use on iPad, computer and 2 android phones. Easy to do on iPad and Windows based computer. Have 2 Samsung S22 phones. One was not too bad, maybe 10 minutes of messing with it. Although identical to the first, the second phone was a real nightmare. We watched youtube videos of which no two are the same and they skip the parts that we needed. The menus people showed did not match what our Omni photo stick looked like. One video spent more time showing opening the package than useful content. Certainly not plug and play on the phones as advertised. Once we got it working it worked good.

Reviewer: RFH Jr
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Photostick held my 5,000 photos
Review: My phone photos were taking up most of the space on my phone's storage. The PhotoStick was easy to operate, but took a lot of patience. with my high volume of photos, it took quite a long time to download them. The company suggests having your phone fully charged before using. There's a good reason. My phone's battery was drained twice before totally downloading my photos. There is a pause feature that can be used while re-energizing your phone, but it took me two days to get all my photos on "the Stick". Having said that. I now have a "flash drive" that has all my photos, and today, I'lll start removing all but my essential photos from my phone. The wait was worth it.

Reviewer: Colin McLarty
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Just what I needed. Reliably delivered. Quality product

Reviewer: micralady
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I am delighted with the PhotoStick! I can see all my photos in one place, as advertised. However I gave 4 stars as I am a little disappointed that there are duplicates, when I understood that there would be none. some photos have 3 or 4 duplicates. I did ensure that the appropriate button was checked, so I'm not sure what happened.Also, I was surprised to see not only photos but documents too, which I didn't expect. Fortunately there is plenty of room on the PhotoStick.

Reviewer: Gary R.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The photo stick started working on my lap top and the half way through it decided it wasn’t compatible and stopped. It downloaded my videos but not my photos and now I can’t do anything else with it.

Reviewer: Linda Jones
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This stick can only search your phone gallery for photos, NOT able to search apps...i.e. Facebook, Instagram, Google photos, etc. So any photos saved anywhere but your phone Gallery, computer hard drive or tablet photos file will not be searched and saved to the photo stick. The way its advertised makes it sound like the stick will search and save all photos no matter where they are saved...umm NO thats not so. Beware before buying that you are computer literate to enable to save from other apps. Don.t recommend this product ..very disappointed.

Reviewer: Anastasia
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This product was not compatible with my device and have returned it for a refund. I read all the current reviews that have been posted and noticed that quite a few of them were not complimentary about this product. If I had read the reviews I probably wouldn't have purchased it. There's a lot hype and advertising on YouTube about this very expensive product, I don't recommend anyone purchasing this product. Also, if you do purchase this product please test it as soon as you receive delivery to enable you to return it within the 30 Day Returns limit.