The new Livedrive Mobile iPhone app is free for Livedrive customers and lets users view their documents, play their music, watch their videos and display their photos on the device, with no need for copying or synchronising.

LONDON 23/12/2009: Livedrive, a popular provider of simple and secure online backup, today released a new iPhone app called Livedrive Mobile. The app is free for Livedrive customers and available from all iTunes App Stores worldwide. It lets Livedrive customers access their backups at any time from their iPhone or iPod Touch – including viewing Office or PDF documents, streaming music, displaying photographs and watching videos.

Livedrive already lead the way with extremely easy to use and simple to install online backup. Once the backup software is installed on a PC it just works in the background to protect files as the user works – there’s no need to set a schedule or remember to back up. And once the files are backed up online, customers can access them through a feature rich web portal – including playing their music, viewing their photos and watching movies from any web browser.

The Livedrive iPhone app in use. Screenshot provided by Livedrive.

The new iPhone app takes this accessibility to a new level – allowing users unprecedented access to the files on their PC. The app lets users quickly and easily browse through all of the files they’ve backed up, and then view them instantly – all streamed through the iPhone’s 3G or Wifi connection. iPhone users are therefore no longer restricted by the space on their device – if their music or photo collections are too big, they can still access them at any time.

Andrew Michael, Livedrive’s CEO, says: "We’re delighted to be able to launch the new iPhone app just before the festive season! Livedrive’s core goals are security and accessibility – we want to help people protect their data and be able to get at it whenever they want. This new iPhone app is a massive step forward in achieving these goals, and will enable our customers to get so much more from their Livedrive subscription."

Browsing the documents folder of a backup using Livedrive's iPhone app. Screenshot provided by Livedrive.

The iPhone application comes free with any Livedrive Backup account, which costs only $6.95 or £3.95 per month for unlimited storage space. It is available in the App Store immediately, or from www.livedrive.com/iphone

About Livedrive
Livedrive is creating technology that will revolutionise the way people store and access their files, photos, music, videos and other digital content. Livedrive is backed by Andrew Michael, founder of Fasthosts Internet Limited, the UK's largest and most successful Internet hosting company, which he sold in 2006 for over $120m. For more information, go to www.livedrive.com

Viewing an image using Livedrive's iPhone app. Screenshot provided by Livedrive.