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Parachute Backup Mobile

Parachute Backup Mobile

For iCloud Photos & Drive

79 ratings
75 reviews
#91 in paid Utilities
🔧 Utilities
📷 Photo & Video
$9.99

Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 14, 2025
  • July 16, 2026

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Developer

Leitmotif GmbH
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This app provides a secure backup solution for your iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive content. It allows you to transfer your photos, videos, and documents to various storage options you control, ensuring you retain full ownership and access to your data.

✓Backup iCloud Photos and Drive
✓Multiple storage destinations (external drives, cloud services, NAS)
✓Preserve original quality and edits
✓Automated backups via Shortcuts and Schedules
✓Privacy-first design with no data sent to app servers
✓Supports Live Photos, RAW, and slow motion
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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Parachute Backup Mobile. Based on 79 reviews and a 4.5/5 average, it highlights the 8 positives and 2 negatives reviewers mention most about this Utilities app.

Positive things

  • 🚀Fantastic option for backups
  • 👍Good, simple to use
  • 👍Straight forward and easy setup
  • 👍Super easy to use
  • 👍Clean and straightforward interface
  • 🔒Cares about privacy
  • 👍Works like a charm
  • 👍Beautiful and powerful UI

Negative things

  • ❓Doesn't tell backup size
  • 🐛Not working at all
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What's New in Parachute Backup Mobile

1.8.3

July 16, 2026

* Improved logging for technical support.

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📉 91-20

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This app dropped -20 positions in Utilities chart.

Last updated on August 16, 2026.

User reviews

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Essential

I really like the vision behind this app. It is trying to do something different, and fill a genuine professional gap in IOS / iPadOS functionality (Apple has made the APIs exist under the hood, but no app has exposed that functionality to the user). I can connect an external USB or SSD via USB C and get a useful, fast backup of essentially all my important iCloud data. I can increment the backup from multiple devices e.g. my phone, my iPad. The app has had numerous improvements over the past year, getting faster at backing up photos in particular and having more options to control and organise your backups. With storage getting more expensive and having offline control of your data this app should really become a default system app. There are some UX improvements that can be made, for example backing up to folders by album or having the backup mirror changes but in its current state it is very good.
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c.vicic.vici

Genius

Does what it says - the only thing missing is notes - but still brilliant
Colum_DevineColum_Devine

Excellente idée

Excellente idée que celle de proposer une sauvegarde des documents d’iCloud sur un disque externe ou sur un autre cloud.
Néanmoins les sauvegardes sont lentes, très lentes, trop lentes.
Et il manque l’option de sauvegardes incrémentales qui pourraient être beaucoup plus véloces.
Dans une prochaine mise à jour, j’espère !
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michelarnould35michelarnould35

Harmful for iPhone

If you want to backup huge iCloud folders (mine is around 900 GB), give it a pass. Drains battery within a few hours with barely 2-3% backed up, and heats up the phone.
O Zee 9O Zee 9

Response from developer

Hi O Zee 9, Florian here, Co-Founder at Leitmotif. Can you please reach out to us via contact@parachuteapps.com with some more details about your setup. Parachute Backup itself does intentionally put very little load on your system, as a backup tool is supposed to run on the side and not interfere with your device and network. I strongly suspect that you are backing up to an external drive connected via USB and that this drive is drawing a lot of power, causing the battery drain and the resulting heat. If you intend to back up 900 GB of data, you should use a USB hub that 1) delivers sufficient power and 2) guarantees that your iPhone can stay alive for a few days, because that's how long this will likely take. The reason is that in order to restrict local storage requirements, Parachute Backup will go through your files one by one.

Einfach, schön und transparent zu nutzen

Die Anwendung ist sehr intuitiv zu bedienen. Die Oberfläche ist sehr ansprechend und die Backup-Aufgaben von sogar großen Datenmengen (>20 GB) funktionieren sehr stabil sowohl über iOS als auch macOS
k.bugk.bug
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What does Parachute Backup do?

Parachute Backup acts as a companion app to back up your iCloud Photos library and iCloud Drive folders. It transfers your photos, videos, and documents to storage locations that you control, such as external drives, Google Drive, OneDrive, or network drives.

What are the key features of Parachute Backup?

Key features include backing up entire iCloud Photos libraries and Drive folders, preserving original quality and edits, supporting various backup destinations, and automating backups with Shortcuts and Schedules. It also emphasizes a privacy-first approach, ensuring your credentials are not handled by the app.

How much does Parachute Backup cost?

The application is a one-time purchase, meaning there are no recurring fees or subscriptions. This purchase unlocks all backup functionality.

Can I restore my files without using Parachute Backup?

Yes, you can restore your files without the app. The backups are stored in normal folders on your chosen storage destination, allowing you to browse and copy them back using Finder or other file management tools.

Can Parachute Backup back up folders not in iCloud?

Yes, the app can back up non-iCloud folders. You can add any folder you wish to back up by selecting it through the iOS/iPadOS file picker.