Only what is new gets copied — onto a USB drive you own. No iCloud, no storage subscription, no account, and an archive any computer can read.
Back up your photos and videos to a USB-C drive you own. No iCloud, no storage subscription, no account.
Plug in a USB flash drive, an external SSD or a memory card reader, pick a folder, and Gallerya copies the new photos and videos out of your library and onto it. The drive is the archive. The app is a window onto it.
ONLY WHAT IS NEW
Every run copies only what the drive does not already hold. A second backup right after the first copies nothing — no duplicates, no re-copying 40,000 photos to add yesterday's.
FREE UP SPACE ON YOUR IPHONE
Once a photo is safely on the drive, Cleanup can delete it from Photos. Every item carries a badge saying whether the archive already holds it, so freeing space never means losing a picture.
THE ORIGINALS, NOT RE-ENCODES
Full-resolution HEIC, JPEG and RAW. Original-quality video. Live Photo pairs kept together. Edited and unedited versions both.
VERIFIED, NOT ASSUMED
Every file is hashed while it is written, then size-checked afterwards. Nothing enters the catalog until it has been verified, and you can re-verify the whole archive whenever you like.
YOURS TO READ WITHOUT THIS APP
The archive is ordinary folders and files, sorted by date, with a plain-text catalog beside them. Any computer can open it. If Gallerya disappeared tomorrow, your photos would not.
BROWSE WHAT IS ON THE DRIVE
Your archive as a proper gallery: grouped by year and month, albums preserved, full-screen viewer, video playback with scrubbing and speed control. Share anything back out, or copy it back into Photos.
WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE
There is no server and nothing is uploaded. Gallerya has no idea whether you are online, which is the point: a backup that needs a signal is not a backup you control.
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Free to try: your first 200 items transfer, and your first 50 cleanup deletions, with nothing to pay and nothing to cancel. Whatever it copies stays on your drive whether or not you ever pay.
Unlock the full version for a one-time $4.99 and it is yours for life — no subscription, no renewal, no expiry.
Cleanup is an optional subscription, $0.99 a month or $7.99 a year, which covers deleting from Photos and removing from the archive. It renews automatically, monthly or yearly, until cancelled, and you can cancel any time in your Apple Account settings.
Privacy policy: https://getgallerya.com/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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iPhone Duo: Gallerya now fills the whole screen, on the inner display and the outer one. On the outer display, the next step in setup, Settings and the Archive's options stand beside the clock, out of your photos' way.
• On iPad, and on iPhone Duo opened up, the Backup screen now uses the width: what is waiting on one side and the button on the other, with your drive, verification, backup history and archive in tidy rows below.
• Safer Cleanup: when Cleanup checks the drive before deleting, a photo now leaves your phone only once its copy has been checked and matched. If the check can't finish, nothing is deleted.
• The reminder choices in setup are now described in German, French, Spanish and Japanese too.
Version 1.2.0
Subscriptions
Cleanup Yearly
Delete from your phone and free space on the drive.
$7.99
Cleanup
Delete from your phone and free space on the drive.
$0.99
In-App Purchases
Unlock Gallerya
One payment. The full app, yours for life.
$4.99
The developer, Amr Essa, 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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