Photos Backup Pro

Your Photos library, backed up your way.

Keep a real, browsable copy of your entire Apple Photos library on any external drive, NAS, or local folder. Photos Backup Pro gives you full control over how your photos and videos are organized, exported, and kept in sync. No cloud lock-in, no proprietary formats, just your files on your storage.

Smart Incremental Exports
After the first full export, only new and changed photos are processed. The app remembers what was already backed up and skips everything that hasn't changed keeping your regular backups fast even for large libraries. Choose between Quick mode for everyday use or Precise mode when you need to catch every edit.

Flexible Folder Organization
Structure your backup the way you want it:
- By Year, Year/Month, Year/Month/Day, or flat
- Preserve album folders with copies, symbolic links, or hard links
- Choose between original filenames or date-time naming
- Export selected albums only, or your entire library

Complete Live Photo Support
Live Photos are exported as image + video pairs, keeping the motion component alongside the still image. Both files are tracked together across incremental exports, nothing gets lost between runs.

Scheduled Automatic Backups
Set it and forget it. Schedule exports hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. The app runs in the background and keeps your backup current without manual intervention. Edit schedule settings anytime.

Handles Large Libraries
Built for libraries with 20,000+ photos. Concurrent processing with bounded parallelism keeps exports fast without overwhelming your system. iCloud Photos integration downloads optimized-storage assets automatically when needed. Interrupted exports resume from where they left off.

Full Export Control
- Export in original format, JPEG, or PNG
- Preserve EXIF metadata and timestamps
- Automatically detect and clean up orphaned files from deleted photos
- Dry-run planning shows exactly what will be exported before anything is written
- Detailed progress tracking with file counts, transfer speeds, and time estimates

Works With Any Storage
External USB and Thunderbolt drives, network-attached storage, or any mounted volume. Security-scoped bookmarks remember folder permissions across app launches,

Album-Aware Exports
Select exactly which albums to include. Album folders mirror your Photos library structure on disk. In album-only mode, export just the albums you care about with a clean, flat folder layout. Album membership changes are tracked incrementally, added and removed files are updated automatically.

Privacy First
Your photos stay on your hardware. No accounts, no cloud uploads, no telemetry beyond anonymous crash reports. The app reads your Photos library and writes to the destination you choose. That's it.