How much free space you get with Dropbox Plus and Dropbox Professional. The company's first premium tier is Dropbox Plus. This subscription can be monthly or annual and starts at $11.99 for 30. To get your 1 GB of free storage, you must of course be signed up with Dropbox. If you don’t have signed-up already, then head over to Dropbox.com or install the Dropbox app on your iOS device and then create an account. Next, simply follow the below steps. To get the free storage, you need to upload photos and/or videos to Dropbox. You get 500 MB for the first photo you upload. Then you get 500 MB more free storage for every 500 MB worth of photos/videos you upload. In the end you get a total of 5 GB free storage space after you upload one photo plus 4.5 GB of photos/videos.

Dropbox is one of the most popular and reliable cloud storage servers at present. It's available on all major mobile platforms and integrated into both PC and Mac, supporting you to have access to your important files anytime wherever you are, providing you have an internet connection. However, Dropbox comes with only 2GB of initial storage, while Apple gives 5GB of iCloud storage, Microsoft gives 7GB and Goolge gives 21GB. Lucky enough, Dropbox offers us whopping free space as long as we perform the tasks. We will introduce some useful ways to get free Dropbox space in the following article.

Guide to Get More Free Dropbox Space

1Finish the 'Get Started' Tour

If you are a new register in Dropbox, you can complete five tasks in the 'Get Started' tour to get a 250 MB of storage as a reward from Dropbox.
2Refer Friends to Dropbox
Share a unique link with your families, friends or colleagues. If they click the link and sign up or install Dropbox on their computers, you will get 500 MB of bonus space for each. But the maximum is 16GB. Once you reached the maximum, you can no longer get free space in this way.
3Connect Facebook & Twitter Accounts to Dropbox
Connect Facebook and Twitter accounts to Dropbox, you can collaborate the contacts in those social media sites. You can also get 125MB for each account.
4Tell Why You Love Dropbox

Give a feedback to Dropbox team to tell them why you use and love this cloud storage provider, and they will add a bonus space of 125MB to your Dropbox account.
5Manage Emails with Mailbox
Download and install the mailbox app in your Android or iOS device, then sign in your Dropbox account. You can view new email on your mobile smartphones as soon as you receive it and do some other management. After installation, a storage space of 1GB will be automatically added to your account.
6Upload Photos with Carousel
Carousel, an app designed by Dropbox, helps you automatically upload and categorize every picture and video from your mobile device to Dropbox account. You can get an extra 3GB space in your account as soon as you install it on your Android or iOS.
7Join Dropbox Space Race
Dropbox launches Dropquest and Space Race for universities. You can keep an eye on the Dropbox blog and participate in the races to win the storage space.
If all the free space you've gotten from the ways mentioned above still not enough, you may upgrade your account to Dropbox Pro or Dropbox Business and pay for more cloud storage space.

Dropbox gives all users 2 GB of free storage. There are ways to increase this free storage to a maximum of 20 GB — such as referring friends, having a .EDU e-mail address, Dropquest, and Getting Started quests. Now there is a new way to get up to 5 GB of additional free Dropbox storage space; and it is as easy as uploading your photos and videos.

Dropbox Beta Testing

Dropbox wants to be the one-stop-shop for your cloud storage needs. As part of that endgame, Dropbox wants you to use them to store your photos and videos. As such, Dropbox recently introduced a new feature – which is currently in Beta testing – that allows users to automatically upload photos and videos from cameras and external storage devices to Dropbox. To encourage users to test this new feature and provide feedback to Dropbox, Dropbox is giving anyone that uses this automatic-upload-of-photos-and-videos feature up to 5 GB of free storage space.

This 5 GB of free storage space is permanent. As long as you have your Dropbox account, you will keep that 5 GB — even after Beta testing for this new feature has ended. To make the deal even sweeter, this 5 GB is on top of the already existing 2 GB. In other words, the 5 GB does not replace your 2 GB (or whatever amount of free storage you have) — it gives you 5 GB more storage. The cool thing is even if you have reached the 20 GB cap of free storage space, you still get the free 5 GB (i.e. 25 GB of total free storage, potentially).

This Beta is open to everyone with a Dropbox account. (You can create a new account if you don’t have one already.)

How To Get 5 GB Free Storage

To get the free storage, you need to upload photos and/or videos to Dropbox. You get 500 MB for the first photo you upload. Then you get 500 MB more free storage for every 500 MB worth of photos/videos you upload. In the end you get a total of 5 GB free storage space after you upload one photo plus 4.5 GB of photos/videos. If you don’t have 4.5 GB worth of photos/videos to upload, you can upload as many as you have because, as I just mentioned, you get 500 MB for every 500 MB you upload — so eek out as much as you can. You can check how much free storage you have attained via the Account page on Dropbox’s website. Since this storage is permanent, you are more than welcome to delete all the photos/videos you uploaded after you get the free storage, if you want to use the storage for other files.

The catch to this is the new automatic-upload-of-photos-and-videos feature is integrated with Dropbox’s desktop and mobile applications. So to take advantage of this new feature – and the free space – you need to use one of the applications — you can’t simply stick to Dropbox via the web. You can, however, uninstall/remove the applications after you have gotten the free storage. Continue reading to learn more.

…On Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux

Dropbox has desktop applications for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Dropbox has released Beta versions of their Windows (XP/Vista/Win7), Mac OS X, and Linux programs that have the new automatic-upload-of-photos-and-videos feature. You need to install and use these Beta versions if you want the free space. Do the following:

Free Dropbox Space Installer

If you already have a Dropbox program installed on your computer, uninstall it.
Download (Windows | Mac OS X | Linux x86-64 | Linux x86) and install the Experimental Build of Dropbox.
- Installing the Experimental Build is just like installing any normal program, with the difference being that you will have to login to your Dropbox account. Also take note you will be asked to enter your phone number to download Dropbox on your smartphone (if applicable); you are not required to enter your phone number if you don’t want to — simply leave it blank and click Next to continue.
If you are on Windows, make sure AutoPlay is enabled. If you are not sure if AutoPlay is enabled, then it probably is enabled because you would know if you disabled it.
After you have installed the Experimental Build of Dropbox, connect a digital camera or external storage to your computer. This can be any digital camera and any external storage, including your smartphone.
AutoPlay should pop-up and give you the option to upload photos and videos to Dropbox:

If you are not prompted with an option to Import pictures and videos using Dropbox, open Computer/My Computer, right-click the external storage drive/camera, and click on Open AutoPlay… — then you should be able to select to upload to Dropbox:

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