One of the challenges of owning an iPhone and iPad is sharing files between devices. Many iOS owners, me included, pass on iCloud and turn to third party solutions like Plex or Dropbox to seamlessly share files. One competing service worth a look is Quik.io.
Quik.io is a self-hosted, streaming solution that uses a desktop server to connect to your iOS device. It sounds complex, but it's not as the setup of the system is easy. You first install a lightweight server application on your PC or Mac desktop. Once installed, the desktop server indexes files you have on your machine and serves up those files to the QuikIO app that is running on your iOS device.
The biggest advantage to Quik.io