An official Mozy app has made its way to the Apple App Store and you might be surprised with what you can do with it. The Mozy team has decided to keep the features to a minimum in the beginning, relying on user feedback and an aggressive update cycle to get things up to speed. This app is being launched with a simple goal: to provide MozyHome customers an app for accessing their files backed up to Mozy.
Some of the features included in this release: emailing a file, opening in other applications, and viewing photos or sharing them to Facebook. If you’re a Mozy user, you might be scratching your head right now. Mozy is an automated backup solution that I highly recommend, but this set of features sounds more like Dropbox than Mozy. Instead of simply backing up your files, Mozy is now letting you access your files from anywhere. It seems that Mozy is using the mobile space to expand and enhance their backup solution.
- The Mozy app is listed in iTunes only for users in the US & Canada. (A global update is planned to release soon.)
- The Mozy app currently only works with MozyHome accounts. (An update for MozyPro customers is already under development.)
This means that it currently only works for free Mozy accounts, which I’m sure covers a lot of folks. If you haven’t signed up for a Mozy account, you can do so here.
Usually, this would be the part where I berate Mozy for not creating an Android app, but they actually have one in beta testing. Check out their Android community forum and follow this thread for details on downloading and installing Mozy for Android.