Archive Angel vs TurtleBackup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Archive Angel
Easily back up your entire photo and video library, including iCloud content, to a chosen folder. This tool also helps free up space by identifying and removing duplicate images. Enjoy a smooth backup experience with progress tracking and the ability to cancel operations.
- Photo and video backup
- iCloud content backup
- Duplicate photo identification
- Storage management
- Real-time progress tracking
- External storage support
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Archive Angel is a powerful and user-friendly photo backup tool designed for iOS. Effortlessly back up your entire photo library, including iCloud backed images, to a folder of your choice. The app also helps manage storage by identifying and deleting duplicate photos. With easy-to-track progress, error handling, and the ability to cancel operations, Archive Angel ensures your photo backups are smooth and stress-free. Key features: Photo backup and deduplication Real-time progress tracking Preview Images as they are being copied External Storage support
TurtleBackup
This utility app allows you to back up files from memory cards to external drives or internal storage, ideal for travelers. It offers options for folder structure, file filtering, and incremental backups, ensuring data integrity and easy review of backup history.
- Backup memory cards to external drives or internal storage
- Organize backups by original structure, date, or date/type
- Filter files by creation date
- Incremental backup support
- Integrity check with checksum comparison
- Backup history log
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Easily backup files from memory cards to external drive (like USB flash drive) or to internal storage. Combined with a compatible USB hub / card reader, it’s a simple and lightweight photo backup solution for travel / short trips. Has 4 main features: Check, Backup, Integrity check, History. "Check" gives a brief overview / size estimate, and also confirms whether basic conditions (e.g. available space) are met. "Backup" copies files from source to destination. You have 3 options regarding folder structure on destination: • use original (same as source) folder structure • group files into folders by file creation date (YYYY-MM-DD, example: 2026-02-10/DSC_5555.JPG) or • group files by file creation date and type (YYYY-MM-DD/type, example: 2026-02-10/JPG/DSC_5555.JPG) There's also a filter feature - you can exclude files created before certain date (e.g. if you want to skip files created before the trip, but don't want to delete them from source). Incremental backup is supported as well - matching existing files are skipped, if size (and file creation time, depending on selected setting) is the same. Also, if you're using same backup source / destination each time, app will remember and pre-select them on startup, so in ideal scenario, backup can be performed just by clicking couple of buttons. "Integrity check" is optional, compares checksums of corresponding files from source folder to the ones in the destination folder. "History" is optional (can be enabled via settings) - saves (locally) basic statistics (date, number of files, etc.) about performed backups, which you can review later. App doesn't need a network connection and does not support backup to network locations (cloud etc.).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TurtleBackup at every 3 weeks against Archive Angel's every 19 months. Archive Angel's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Archive Angel against 5.0 for TurtleBackup. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Archive Angel ships an update every 19 months, TurtleBackup every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Archive Angel | TurtleBackup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Krishna Chaitanya Naragam | SERGEI SOKOLOV |
Customer experience
Archive Angel
TurtleBackup
In-app purchases
Archive Angel
No in-app purchases
TurtleBackup
No in-app purchases
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