The worst thing about loosing your phone is that you lose all your contacts along with your huge chunk of favorite and cherished messages and pictures. Of course losing the expensive phone costs you the money but losing the contacts and other settings are additional pain in *some part of your body*. While there are many free Android phone tracking apps available that could help you recovering your phone but there are high chances that you would have lost your phone data.

And believe me, loosing your phone is not the only way you could lose your data. So what can you do to avoid setting your Facebook status to “Friends, I lost my phone please send me your phone numbers”? Answer is simple: Backup your data.

I have several apps that takes the task of backing up your Android phone data to save your behind in rough times. In this post we will see a new app that backs up your data in cloud.

What is GCloud and how it works?

 is a new app available in Play store that provides you with an easy (we will see how easy) way to back up your phone data. The available for free in the store and that is first among many good things. When you download it and use it first time, it gives you the option of creating an account on GCloud:

Effortless Backup Process:

Once you register for a new account, considering you are a new user, you will be asked to choose the things to include in the backup. The free version of app provide you with 1 GB of free cloud space. This is more than sufficient to back up your contacts, messages, call logs and system settings.

Once you choose the things to back up, you can forget all about it. By default, it backs up the data automatically once in a day when you connect to Wi-Fi. You can start the backup anytime by choosing it from the dashboard.

Equally Effortless Restore:

Dashboard also provides you the option of restore, You can be selective while restoring and choose to restore only the required part of backup instead of all. Another good thing, eh? The restore does not take long and is, again, painless.

If you lose or change your device, you just need to install GCloud on the new Android phone and you will have all the saved data and settings back in your new phone.

Is GCloud worth downloading?

Before I say yes, I would give you enough reasons to justify my answer. There are several ways to back up your Android phone data. Google account is one of the most preferred way of backing contacts for many people. Dropbox provides 3 GB of free cloud space to back up your camera pictures and so does Ubuntu One. In fact there are many more ways to automatically backup your camera phone photos but these are good for backing up pictures not for contacts and messages. There is also GoMessage to back up your message but what makes it useful that you could have multiple things to backup in one app and that too completely automatic.

Salient Features:

• 1 GB of free cloud storage
• Fully automatic backup. Use it once and forget about it.
• Backs up your text message, contacts, phone settings.
• Selective backup and restore

If you think 1 GB is not good enough for you, you can upgrade it to pro version and you can have 10 GB for $0.99 per month or unlimited space for $3.99 per month.

My verdict is that GCloud is one of the nice free app that should be in your list of “good to have” apps, ig not in “must have apps” list. Give it a try. It does not cost you anything (other than some data usage).