IDrive Personal

PRICE $52 per year from idrive.com

The IDrive client isn’t exactly ugly, but it looks like it was put together by a programmer rather than a professional designer. Still, it’s admirably functional: nearly all of its tools are accessible directly from the main window, via an obvious button with a clear text label.

It helps that IDrive isn’t overloaded with features. It’s first and foremost a cloud backup system, and that means the specifics of backup strategies, compression and so forth are handled