PhotoBridge

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.

• BROWSE & RESTORE
  View your remote files inside the app. One-tap restore to Camera Roll for single photos or entire folders. 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