Photo Backup for Synology User Reviews

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Excellent tool

Was able to migrate 30k+ seamlessly to my Synology NAS while maintaining my iCloud photo albums and Favorites. Developer responded to questions quickly. Thanks for a great product!

Response from developer

We're thrilled to hear you're enjoying our app! Your kind words and support mean a lot to us. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback.

This works great!!

This is the exact software I would write to do this job. All the options I needed and it’s super fast.
Apple gives you little option to download your own pictures.
I like diskstation software but this app is even better than DS stuff.
Copied about 129GB in 8 hours. Much faster than apple or Google. About 32 items a minute.
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Response from developer

We're so glad you're enjoying our app! Thank you very much for your comment and appreciation.

Easy!!

It works well!

Response from developer

Thank you so much for your kind feedback!

Just works

Great functionality and works reliably, always. Excellent range of options and super easy to set up. Brilliant.

Response from developer

Thank you so much! We're thrilled to hear you're enjoying our app.

My Search is over.

This program is flawless. I have been searching for weeks and weeks different apps different programs to find a program that will back up the ALBUMS and FOLDERS containing the photographs created on my iPhone perfectly. I cannot emphasise enough, how good this program is because it we’ll backup all your albums, including the pictures inside the album, a brilliant package. That’s Synology for you.
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Response from developer

Thank you very much for your comment and appreciation. Delighted to hear you are happy with our app.

DDNS/IP

Great app, found its loads quicker not using the quickconnect name and going direct over IP.

Response from developer

Glad to hear you enjoy using our app and thanks for your feedback.

Not official synology app

I haven’t used it but this app require payment and I had to look into it before start using it. It’s not a official synology app. I have not used this app so can’t make any comments.

Response from developer

A free trial is available and we invite you to experience our app's ultimate photo backup solution.

Will it restore albums and shared albums?

Backing up photos individually is okay. But can it restore to their original albums and shared albums with all metadata intact?

Response from developer

To restore photos from your NAS, using iPhone Files app is recommended.

So far so good!

So far so good with this one, Im loving the ability to exclude certain albums from backup. This is great when I need to re-download an image from my NAS but don't want it backed up twice.

I would love to see the option to automatically delete photos after sync though.

Response from developer

Thank you very much for your comment and suggestion!

It works but lacks features

I’ve been looking for a solution to sync my photos from my iPhone to my NAS. Connecting to my NAS was confusing and lacked support. I kept receiving an error but there wasn’t any help in the app to resolve the connection issue. There was no option to search for my NAS.

The options for the backup offer lots of options and good descriptions.

The reason for three starts is the inability to operate in the background even for a very short period while I switch screens, sometimes I would come back and have to start the backup again from where it left off. You have to leave the program on your screen running. I have 24k photos to backup. It has taken three days and I still have 6k photos left. I’ve tried to backup overnight but it seems to stop at some point. I run it every chance I get.

Also, what happens when I have new photos or photos move around? From what I understand, I will have to backup again if I want to keep everything in the right folders, if anything has moved. There is no sync option.

I feel the app could be great but currently is just ok. It needs further development and features. It does what it says but it’s a lot of work and you will have to continue to manually manage it since it does not seem to backup on its own.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback, it is helpful for us to further improve the app. Third-party apps have a limited time to run in the background, please back up all your photos in the foreground first (as noted in the description of the app). Please go to “Options > Automatic Backup” of the app for more information.

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