Arca Mail Backup

Mail backup on storage you own

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Back up your mail to a disk you own, as standard mbox files. Search all of it, even mail deleted on the server, and put it back in a few clicks. Arca Mail Backup copies your email to storage you control and keeps it in an open format you can read without us. It works with any IMAP account: your hosting or internet provider, Gmail and Google Workspace with an app password, and Outlook.com or Microsoft 365 with Microsoft sign-in. Arca backs up in the background, picks up where it left off if it's interrupted, and saves every message byte for byte in standard mbox files, one per folder and month, with a JSON manifest. Thunderbird, Apple Mail or any mbox reader can open them. SAVE • Scheduled backups in the background, and Back Up Now whenever you want. • Mail deleted on the server stays in your backup, marked as deleted. Arca never removes anything from your backup because it was deleted on the server. • Back up to a disk of your Mac, internal or external. With Arca Pro, also to a NAS, to S3-compatible storage (Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Hetzner, AWS and others) or to a folder synced with your cloud drive, and to several destinations at once. • Import .mbox files from Google Takeout, Apple Mail or Thunderbird as an offline account you can search and restore. SEARCH • Search by subject, sender, recipient or text across all your accounts. • Message previews never load remote content. • Check a backup at any time against what Arca saved. RESTORE • Restore into the same account: messages come back into a new folder and nothing already on the server is changed. • By default only what was deleted on the server comes back, so you get no duplicates. • Restore an imported .mbox into your connected account. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No server of ours in between: everything runs on your Mac. • Passwords stay in the macOS Keychain. • No sign-up, no analytics, no tracking. We never see your mail. FREE AND PRO Free: one account connected by IMAP (Microsoft sign-in included), backed up in full to a disk of your Mac, on a schedule of up to once a day. Back Up Now, search, checks, import and restore are always included, with no size limit. Arca Pro adds more accounts, NAS and S3-compatible destinations, folders synced with the cloud, several destinations at once and backups every few hours. If Pro ends, nothing is locked or deleted: your backups stay searchable and restorable. Whatever goes beyond the free plan is paused, and it resumes when you have Pro again. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PURCHASES • Arca Pro (yearly subscription) comes in levels of 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100 accounts. Each level includes a 2-week free trial for eligible customers. The app shows the price before you buy. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews every year until you cancel it in your App Store account settings. Moving to a higher level starts right away; to a lower one, at the next renewal. • Arca Pro for Life is a one-time purchase: Pro for 1 account, with no renewal. Terms of Use: https://arcamailbackup.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://arcamailbackup.com/privacy/ Requires macOS 14 or later.

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    Information

    Seller
    Color Vivo Internet, SL
    Size
    22.8 MB
    Category
    Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and Spanish
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    • Arca Pro for Life $44.99
    • Arca Pro, 5 accounts $29.99
    • Arca Pro, 50 accounts $149.99
    • Arca Pro, 1 account $8.99
    • Arca Pro, 10 accounts $49.99
    • Arca Pro, 100 accounts $199.99
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    Copyright
    © 2026 Color Vivo Internet, S.L.
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