Parachute Backup Mobile Reviews: Is It Legit?

Name: Parachute Backup Mobile
Rating: 4.6 (110 reviews)

Parachute Backup Mobile

Leitmotif GmbH

🔧 Utilities

📷 Photo & Video

Customer Experience

Positive experience74.2% of reviews

Neutral9.0% of reviews

Negative experience16.9% of reviews

~ Based on 89 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Parachute Backup Mobile

Reviews of Parachute Backup Mobile are mostly positive: the Utilities app is rated 4.6/5 from 110 App Store ratings. What users like most: fantastic option for backups, good, simple to use. Top complaints: doesn't tell backup size, not working at all. Summarized from real user reviews.

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

Is Parachute Backup Mobile Safe?

Parachute Backup Mobile appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Parachute Backup Mobile is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 110 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.0% of ratings point to a safe experience

2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns

7.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 110 App Store ratings for Parachute Backup Mobile.

Is Parachute Backup Mobile Legit?

Parachute Backup Mobile appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Parachute Backup Mobile is 75/100.

Based on 75 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Most Recent Highest Rated Lowest Rated

Excellent app!

Been using the Mac version for a while and hoped the mobile version would get an update to include better shortcut support. As if the developer was reading my mind, I see version 2 is now out with this included. Awesome! Thanks!

Aaberg83

15 days ago

Got a NAS drive and this app is a perfect compliment to it

Just simple. I’ve just used the shortcuts to schedule updates each night. Works great.

BGBren Gun

18 days ago

Hammer!

Mit Version 2 ist nun keiner meiner Wünsche mehr offen! Besser geht’s nicht! 🤩

ZZegow

19 days ago

Will no longer connect

So what a waste of time

Ssurreychris

22 days ago

A Backup That Works

Did my first backup of my iPad with Parachute and it went flawlessly. It was easy to set up and the backup was pretty fast to my external hard drive. Haven’t tried the scheduler yet but I suspect that it will be as easy to set up. Only wish is that it could also backup other items like my Contacts, Calendar, Messages and especially, my Notes.

MMyNameWasRicky

a month ago

User friendly app

Working great now, I first had to figure out how to format my SSD to exFat in order to configure a destination file using my 17pro iPhone. Maybe a message if not able to get a configured Destination file to check format status of the SSD. Backing up now is so easy, love the way it organizes the picture files by years, months and days.

ODoutback dinner

2 months ago

German Language please!!!!

Apfelmann

2 months ago

Response from developer

Hallo Apfelmann, hier Florian vom Leitmotif Team. Vielen Dank für das Feedback. Lokalisierungen sind in Planung, und Deutsch wird die erste Sprache sein, in die wir übersetzen.

Nice Backup Solution for iPad OS

Very simple operation. Fast. I a see the sequential changes. Finally a backup solution that works. I backup to an external drive via USB or I can use the doubled ended USD C direct to the iPad and external drive.

Rrickatk

2 months ago

Funktioniert Top ⭐️

Spiegeln statt inkrementell wäre noch super als Option, damit in iCloud gelöschte Dateien auch aus dem Backup entfernt werden. 🙏

ZZegow

2 months ago

Reliable

I could’t believe I mansged to perform acvery fast backup.

Ccsatmrit

2 months ago

Super application

Vraiment top comme application, je ne regrette pas de l’avoir acheté.

JjeremieFv

2 months ago

Very good, but…

I wish it wasn’t dependant on the iOS Files app when connecting to a home (Synology) NAS.

ZZak197

2 months ago

All iPad and iPhone users should use this app…

Most folks think that keeping their data in iCloud means that it's backed up and it is. But how important is your data? To have an independent backup gives more confidence. Parachute enables you to have that independent backup.
Parachute is also available for your Mac (I purchased my copy today). The Mac version is just as easy to use as the iOS version and works just as well.
A hint for older device owners; lightning pirt devices backup easier to SD Cards.
Parachute is recommended for iOS devices AND Macs.

Ppja2536

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for the kind review!

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.

Cc.vici

3 months ago

Genius

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

CColum_Devine

3 months ago

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 !

Mmichelarnould35

3 months ago

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.

O9O Zee 9

4 months ago

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

Kk.bug

4 months ago

Love it…but

The app itself works great. Love it. You can automate it and it does unattended backups on the IPad. On the IPhone 17 Pro, it will not run on automation shortcut. You have to go in and deselect the back up destination which defeats the purpose of automation. I would give it 5 stars if I did not have to go back in every time and respect destination location and hit the play button.

RRrod6902

4 months ago

Response from developer

Hi Rrod6902, Florian here, Co-Founder at Leitmotif. Can you please reach out to us via contact@parachuteapps.com with some more details about your destination. Maybe even send us a log file via Settings > Contact Support. We need to find out why this is happening in your setup, so we can fix it.