Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A photo backup idea – to your own storage, not iCloud/Google
I’m working on a privacy-focused photo backup concept. Instead of syncing to cloud services like iCloud or Google, the idea is to let you back up photos directly to your own: PC or laptop HDD or NAS Private cloud or VPS It will use a secure peer-to-peer approach (similar to Tailscale) so your data stays in your control. I’m still validating the idea — would love feedback! If you're interested, join the waitlist: https://myphoto-vault.netlify.app
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Google Photos▲664Automatic backup and unlimited storage for all your photos
2015 · workspaceupdates.googleblog.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, Over the last year we've been building ente[1], a privacy-friendly, easy-to-use alternative to Google Photos. We've so far built Android[2][3], iOS[4], web[5] apps that encrypt your files and back them up in the background. You can access these across your devices, and share them with other ente users, end-to-end encrypted. You can also use our electron app[6] to maintain a local copy of your backed up files. We've built a fault-tolerant data replication layer that replicates your data to two different storage providers in the EU. We will be providing additional replicas as an…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Parachute Backup▲102Seamless backup for iCloud Drive and Apple Photos
2025 · parachuteapps.com · its alternatives →
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Encrypted vault, keep your photos & videos in a safe place
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Back up photos and videos to your own server instead of iCloud! - hamikm/sumu-backup
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Last week SWYX nerd-sniped me into building an Open-source Dropbox. Here is Locker: the ultimate open-source Google Drive/box/Dropbox alternative - Provider agnostic (S3, R2, vercel blob, local) - BYOB (Bring your own bucket) - Virtual file system - QMD Search plugin
Apr 2026 · locker.dev · its alternatives →
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Keep your photos and videos in a safe place.
2021 · photovault.2stable.com · its alternatives →
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Creator here. I was looking for something as simple as Backblaze Personal [1] but privacy focused and open source. This is my attempt to build that. Uses PyQt6 [2] for the GUI and Pyinstaller [3] for creating the platform specific binaries. The backup engine under the hood is Restic [4]. The server code is written in Laravel [5]. All the code is on GitHub [6]. I actually really like Backblaze (even use B2 for this offering behind the scenes) so this isn't meant to throw shade their way. Just wanted a private open source alternative. Something like Bitwarden but for backups. [1]…
2022 · blobbackup.com · its alternatives →
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Secure your photos & videos locally and in iCloud.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Cloud storage or cloud drive app for photo and videos backup
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Capsule▲105Automatic photo backup, sorting & sharing from your home
2017 · heycapsule.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Keep your photos & videos safe
2021 · photovault.2stable.com · its alternatives →
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LinShare▲91Private and secure file sharing and cloud storage solution
2022 · linshare.app · its alternatives →
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MemoryBackup▲12Fast Backup iPhone Library in minutes — direct to ext drive
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Drivebase▲98Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE
Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →
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