AirBackup vs PhotoShuttle Backup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AirBackup
Effortlessly back up your iPhone photos to your computer using your local Wi-Fi network. This app offers a secure, fast, and hassle-free solution without requiring registration or cloud storage.
- Local Wi-Fi backup
- No registration required
- Secure data transfer
- Fast photo backup
- No cloud storage
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With LazyBackup, you can back up your iPhone photos to your computer in seconds — no registration, no login, no hassle. Just install the app on your phone and computer, scan a QR code, and your backup starts right away. Your photos are transferred securely over your local Wi-Fi network — no internet upload, no cloud storage, and no risk of your data ever leaving your home network. Download LazyBackup for your iPhone and computer at LazyBackup.app and enjoy the easiest, fastest, and safest way to back up your memories.
PhotoShuttle Backup
Securely back up your phone's photos and videos directly to your own devices like laptops or external drives, bypassing the cloud. Offers flexible backup options and smart skipping to avoid duplicates.
- Cloud-free backup to laptop, SSD, or USB
- Flexible backup by date or selection
- Browse backed-up photos on portable drives
- Faster transfers via Wi-Fi or cable
- Smart skipping of already backed-up files
- Live Photos support
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Your photos, your control Air Backup, Drive Backup, and Cable Backup all work without the cloud. Photos go straight to your own devices—your laptop, a portable SSD, or a USB flash drive. You don’t have to rely on the cloud, but you can still pull full-resolution originals from the cloud during backup and save them locally. Live Photos are supported. Flexible backup options Back up the last 24 hours, the last 30 days, or everything at once—or pick items yourself. Back up by where a photo was taken, or jump to a past date and back up every photo from that day. Works with your laptop With Drive Backup, you can browse backed-up photos and videos on the phone, right from the portable drive. With Air Backup or Cable Backup, download the free PhotoDepot app on your laptop to receive photos faster over peer-to-peer Wi‑Fi or a cable, then play and browse them there. Phone and laptop work together: you can back up, and also browse and manage a local photo library. Smart skip Every backup mode skips photos and videos that are already backed up, so you don’t copy the same files twice. For a large library, back up in batches; the next run skips what’s already done, saving time and keeping the process flexible. When it fits Back up quickly without a network or the cloud—handy for travel and business trips when you need photos and videos saved on the go. If you care about privacy, every mode stores files on your own devices, and can even pull cloud originals down to local storage as they are.
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Verdict
AirBackup and PhotoShuttle Backup are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 AirBackup against 5.0 for PhotoShuttle Backup. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
AirBackup ships an update every 2 months, PhotoShuttle Backup every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AirBackup | PhotoShuttle Backup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Li Li | 春鹏 曹 |
Customer experience
AirBackup
PhotoShuttle Backup
In-app purchases
AirBackup
No in-app purchases
PhotoShuttle Backup
No in-app purchases
