Coming soon for Windows and Android
Phones fill up. Cloud storage charges a fee every month, forever. Local Backup turns the computer you already have at home into the place your family's photos, videos and files are kept. Yours, with no monthly bill.
Sound familiar?
Every phone fills up eventually, and the only choices seem to be deleting memories or paying for more space.
Cloud storage is rented. Stop paying and your photos are at risk. Add a few family members and the bill keeps climbing.
Your family's private photos live on a company's computers, under rules you didn't write and can't change.
Local Backup is a small app for the computer you already own. Your family's phones send their photos, videos and files to it, and everything is kept in ordinary folders on your own disk. No rent, no strangers, no surprises.
How it works
One person installs it on the family computer. Everyone else just connects their phone and signs in.
One setup file on your Windows PC, no technical questions. Add an account for each person in the house, with their own folder and their own storage limit. Close the window and Local Backup keeps running quietly in the background.
Open the app on the phone and scan the code shown on the computer. The phone asks you to confirm the computer's name, then you type the short code the computer shows. That's it: the phone now knows your computer, and only your computer.
Each person signs in with their own name and password and sees only their own things. When a photo is sent, the computer saves it, reads it back and checks that it's complete before the phone says Saved. If the connection drops, it picks up where it left off.
Everyday use
Send your photos and videos to the computer at home instead of deleting them or buying more cloud space. Soon, the app will also back up new photos on its own and help you clear space on the phone once the computer has a checked copy.
Mom, Dad, the kids: everyone gets their own account and their own private folder on the same computer. Nobody sees anyone else's photos, and there's no per-person subscription.
Set up an account for them on your computer and connect their phone once. From then on, their photos have a home with the family, and nobody has to remember to pay for anything.
Everything you backed up stays on your computer, so a new phone starts with nothing lost. Connect the new one and sign in with the same account. Bringing photos back onto the phone is coming soon.
Features
Each person gets their own folder, their own storage limit and their own password. Only the person at the computer can add or remove accounts.
Scan the code on the computer, type the short number it shows, done. No account to create online, no settings to dig through.
A photo only counts as saved after the computer has written it down, read it back and confirmed it's complete. You can ask the phone to double-check any copy.
Lose Wi-Fi halfway through a long video? The upload pauses and continues from where it stopped, not from the beginning.
Backup only ever adds. Deleting a photo on the phone, or disconnecting the phone, never deletes anything on the computer.
Everything the computer needs comes in a single Windows setup. No extra downloads, no technical steps, and it runs quietly in the background.
Privacy
Your computer is private. Local Backup keeps it that way, while still letting your family's phones reach it over the internet.
Good to know: the photos are kept on your computer as ordinary files, so you can open and recover them. That also means whoever uses that computer can see them, just like any photo on a home computer.
Plain promises
FAQ
No. Your photos go to your own computer over your own internet connection, and that costs nothing extra to run. A few home networks can't be reached directly; if reaching one ever needs a paid service, we'll say so clearly up front.
Yes. The person who owns the computer creates an account for each family member. Everyone connects their own phone, signs in with their own name and password, and sees only their own things.
The phone waits. It shows that the computer can't be reached right now and continues when it's back on. Nothing is lost in the meantime.
No. One setup file on the computer, a few names and passwords, and a code to scan on each phone. No router settings and no technical steps.
It replaces the part you pay for: the storage. Your originals live on your computer instead of a rented cloud. It doesn't try to replace sharing, editing or the other things those apps do.
Windows and Android come first. Mac and iPhone are planned to follow, and we'll only call them supported once they're properly tested on real devices.
Soon. Local Backup is coming first for Windows and Android. Leave your email below and we'll tell you the moment it's ready.
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