Backfeed

Thermal Printer Manager

Free · In‑App Purchases

Backfeed finds the Zebra thermal label printers on your network and keeps them working — then prints your own labels, locally or from anywhere. FREE — NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP • Automatic discovery of Zebra ZD printers on your local network • Add a printer by IP when it sits on another subnet or a routed network • Set up a brand-new printer over Bluetooth — Backfeed hands it your Wi-Fi name and password • Live status: ready, paper out, head open, paused, buffer full, temperature • Manage your own label sizes, calibrate all four edges, and let the printer's gap sensor suggest the size that's loaded • Test prints: test label, boundary probe, wrap border • Diagnostics: connection checks, status flags, a print-geometry health check with one-tap reset, and an advanced console for raw SGD and ZPL • Maintenance: cancel all jobs, reboot the printer • Printer details: IP, model, MAC address, firmware and serial Finding, managing, calibrating and test-printing your printers costs nothing. Printing your own files is the paid part. BACKFEED LOCAL — ONE-TIME UNLOCK • Print your own PDFs and images over your local network, for good • Import in the app, use Open With, or drag and drop on Mac • A live 1-bit preview of exactly what the print head will burn, sized to your label • No account and no relay — nothing leaves your network BACKFEED CLOUD — SUBSCRIPTION • Print to your printers from anywhere, through the Backfeed relay • The printer dials out, so there's no VPN, no port forwarding and nothing listening for inbound connections • Includes everything Backfeed Local does, on your own network too, for as long as you subscribe • Tiers by printer count: 1 printer, 5 printers, or up to 25 • Export or delete your cloud data from inside the app MAC, IPHONE AND IPAD Native on every platform — a Mac split view with menu-bar commands, and a three-tab iPhone and iPad app. Backfeed Local and Backfeed Cloud are Universal Purchases: buy once and use them on every device signed in to the same Apple ID. NO ANALYTICS, NO ADS, NO TRACKING Backfeed ships no analytics SDK, no advertising and no third-party trackers. Local printing needs no account at all. HARDWARE Backfeed talks directly to network-capable Zebra ZD label printers — ZD410, ZD411 and ZD421 — over TCP. Direct thermal is what Backfeed is developed and tested against. Bluetooth setup works on models that have it. Automatic discovery needs your device and printer on the same network segment; for anything else there's Add by IP, or Backfeed Cloud. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Backfeed Terms of Service: https://backfeed.cloud/terms Privacy Policy: https://backfeed.cloud/privacy Backfeed Cloud is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Backfeed is an independent app for managing Zebra thermal label printers. Zebra and ZD are trademarks of their respective owners; Backfeed is not affiliated with Zebra Technologies.

Ratings & Reviews

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

Bluetooth setup now reads your printer's identity and Wi-Fi settings while pairing. If it's a printer Backfeed already knows, it offers to open it instead of rewriting its configuration and rebooting it — and it remembers your network name (never your password) for the next printer you set up. Fixed: opening a printer's details page or the setup guide no longer asks for Bluetooth permission before you've done anything that needs it. Plus a round of interface polish across printers, labels, and printing.

Version 1.0.1

The developer, Robert Owens, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Purchases
    • Identifiers
    • Other Data

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Information

Seller
  • Robert Owens
Size
  • 4.8 MB
Category
  • Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Cloud — 1 Printer $3.99
  • Cloud Pro $39.99
  • Cloud — 5 Printers $15.99
  • Backfeed Local $9.99
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Copyright
  • © 2026 Robert Owens
  • Developer Website
  • Privacy Policy