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PhotoBridge: NAS & S3 Backup
Backup & Restore · NAS · S3
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now with restore. Back up iPhone photos directly to your Synology, QNAP, Nextcloud, S3, or external drive. Your storage, your rules. Optional end-to-end encryption.
PhotoBridge backs up your iPhone photos directly to storage you own — Synology, QNAP, Nextcloud, AWS S3, MinIO, Aliyun OSS, or an external drive. No third-party cloud. No subscription to a stranger's photo silo.
Built for the moment your iCloud bill stops making sense, or you simply want your photos on a drive you can hold.
— WHAT MAKES PHOTOBRIDGE DIFFERENT —
• YOUR STORAGE, DIRECTLY
Photos travel from your iPhone straight to your destination. They never pass through our servers. We literally cannot see them — there's no infrastructure on our side to see anything with.
• MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS, ONE APP
WebDAV (Synology, QNAP, Nextcloud, Owncloud), S3 (AWS, MinIO, Aliyun OSS, any S3-compatible bucket), or external drives via the Files app. Set up multiple destinations and back up to all of them.
• OPTIONAL END-TO-END ENCRYPTION
E2EE encrypts each file before it leaves the iPhone. Even your NAS administrator can't read the archive without your recovery key. You hold the key. We don't.
• BACKGROUND AUTO-UPLOAD (Pro)
Uploads continue when you switch apps or lock the phone. Smart retry with exponential backoff recovers from flaky Wi-Fi. Resume capability picks up where a failed upload stopped.
• AUTOMATION RULES (Pro)
Trigger uploads on Wi-Fi connect, on charging, on app launch, or on schedule (daily, weekly, custom). Set it once, never think about it again.
• SMART CLEANUP (Pro)
After dual-checksum-verified backup, optionally free phone storage by deleting the local copy. 24-hour cooldown, auto-skip favorites, full undo history — designed paranoid because losing photos is unacceptable.
• TWO-WAY: BROWSE & RESTORE (NEW IN 1.1)
This isn't just a backup app. Browse what's on your NAS, restore single photos or whole folders back to Camera Roll, delete remote files, and compare local vs. remote sync state — all without leaving the app. Automatic decryption when restoring E2EE backups.
• PRIVACY BY DEFAULT
Zero tracking, zero ads, zero analytics SDKs. Credentials live in iOS Keychain, never on our servers (we don't have servers).
— WHO IS PHOTOBRIDGE FOR? —
• People paying more for iCloud each year and wondering why
• Synology, QNAP, and Unraid owners with an unused photos folder waiting to fill
• Self-hosters running Nextcloud, Immich, or PhotoPrism who need an iOS uploader that doesn't suck
• Photographers who want full-resolution originals on a drive they own
• Anyone moving away from Google Photos or iCloud for privacy reasons
— PRICING —
Free forever: full manual backup and restore to all destination types. Pro unlocks background auto-upload, scheduling, automation, and smart cleanup. Monthly $0.99 / Annual $6.99 / Lifetime $19.99. 7-day free Pro trial on first install.
— FEEDBACK —
Made by Peter Zhang. Every email at obeliskclubclub@gmail.com is read personally. NAS brand we don't connect to yet? Tell me.
Learn more: obelisk.club/photobridge-nas-backup
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Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://obelisk.club/photobridge-nas-backup/privacy
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v1.1 — Two-way backup is here
• Browse remote files inside the app — S3, WebDAV, and external drives, unified view
• Restore single photos, folders, or entire albums back to Camera Roll
• Encrypted backups decrypt automatically on restore — bring your own key, get your photos back
• Delete remote files from inside the app (single or batch)
• Local vs. remote sync compare — see what's backed up, orphaned, or out of sync
Reliability:
• SwiftData schema upgrade fixes encryption-metadata edge cases that could orphan records
• Three iOS 26 crash paths hardened (SwiftData fetch + restore pipeline)
• Cascading cleanup when deleting a destination — no more orphan records or stale thumbnails
NAS brand we don't connect to yet? obeliskclubclub@gmail.com
The developer, 永 张, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- 永 张
- Size
- 25.1 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- PhotoBridge Pro Annual $6.99
- PhotoBridge Pro Lifetime $19.99
- PhotoBridge Pro Monthly $0.99
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2025-2026 Peter Zhang. All rights reserved.