A USB drive or local folder
Plug a drive into your phone, or pick any folder you can reach, and back up straight onto it. No network involved at all.
Android & iPhone
Your photos, backed up to storage you own.
SimplyBackup copies your phone's photos and videos straight to a place you choose — a USB drive, a NAS on your shelf, a server you rent, or your own cloud account. There is no SimplyBackup server in the middle, no account to make, and no copy we could read even if we wanted to.
- No account
- No SimplyBackup server
- Your own storage
- Credentials stay on your phone
Where your backups can go
Every destination is one you control. The photos travel directly from your phone to it — they never pass through anything of ours on the way.
A NAS or home server — SMB
Backs up over your own Wi-Fi to the network share you already have: a Synology, a QNAP, a Windows share, a Raspberry Pi.
Any SSH server — SFTP
Point it at a server you rent or run and it uploads over SSH. Unknown host keys are shown to you before anything is sent, and a changed key stops the backup cold.
WebDAV
Works with Nextcloud, ownCloud and anything else that speaks WebDAV over HTTPS.
Your own cloud account
Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive — your account, signed in on your phone, with the sign-in token kept on the device. We are not in the path.
Phone to phone, nearby
Move photos between two of your devices directly over the local network — paired with a QR code, without either phone touching the internet.
Built to leave you independent
A backup is only worth having if you can get the files back without the app that made it.
Plain files, not a vault
Your photos land at the destination as ordinary files you can open with anything. There is no proprietary archive holding them hostage.
A manifest travels with the backup
Each run writes a small index alongside your files, so any tool — or you, by hand — can restore from the destination alone, even without your phone.
Interrupted uploads never corrupt
Every file uploads to a temporary name and is renamed only once complete, so a dropped connection can never replace a good backup with half a file.
The privacy story, in three sentences
Most backup apps are a cloud service with an app attached. This one is just the app.
There is no SimplyBackup server
Your photos and videos go directly from your phone to the destination you configured. Simply AppHub never receives, stores or can access your photos or your backups.
Your credentials stay on your phone
Server passwords and cloud sign-in tokens are stored in the iOS Keychain or Android's encrypted Keystore, and are sent only to the server or provider they belong to.
What does use the network, named
Ads on the free tier, crash reporting, a small configuration file, and the app store when you buy. Each is listed in the policy with exactly what it can see.
Get the app
Built natively for each platform — SwiftUI on iPhone, Jetpack Compose on Android.