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Keep Your iCloud Data. Forever.

Parachute for iOS is a set-and-forget backup companion for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive.

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Parachute Backup
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No Subscriptions. No Lock-In.

One-time setup. One-time purchase. Your files, backed up where you want.

Complete Backup Solution

Full iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive backup with complete fidelity preservation.

Scheduling & Manual Backups

Manual or scheduled runs, with the ability to override the schedule at any time.

Your Storage, Your Rules

Back up to a USB drive, network drive, NAS, Google Drive, S3, OneDrive and more.

Smart Offloading

Avoid filling up device storage during backups with intelligent management.

Live Activities + Dynamic Island

Integrated Live Activities and Dynamic Island status for easy visibility of backup progress.

Automate With Shortcuts

Create custom schedules and automate backups with Shortcuts integration.

What People Are Saying

Real App Store feedback from customers worldwide.

4.3

Based on 174 ratings

Excellent so far

Love the NAS support. Easy to setup

Taran Reese🇺🇸

Best backup for iPad

Easy to install and run. It backup photos and videos from iPad in just minutes. Future backups will only copy files not previously backed up.

babby4🇺🇸

A great idea, well executed

I’m a huge fan of this app. It has a few rough edges but that’s OK because its core functionality seems quite solid.

Avi Flax🇺🇸

Love it.

This back up app has immeasurably increased my confidence in the security of my data. Virtually all of my important content is either in my iCloud photos or my iCloud files. Parachute operates easily and efficiently from my new MacBook Neo to secure all of the files I use on my MacBook iPad and iPhone. I highly recommended it.

John A 44🇺🇸

Final the solution we have been waiting for

I’ve tried many ways to have a reliable way to back up files and photos and this is it. It’s not a subscription. That in itself is very important. Don’t rely on iCloud because when a file or photo is removed on your phone it disappears on your iCloud backup. Buy this. You won’t regret it.

success123🇺🇸

Amazing

Thank you for creating this 👌

JTJTW0🇺🇸

Nice app !

A great app for quickly backing up files, photos, and videos from my iCloud Drive to the NAS on my network. Simple and easy to use. I'm very happy with this app.

Gait67ghxf4gb🇳🇱

Great app

The app does exactly what it says it does, and works rather well. There’s room for improvements, like exporting AAE files, mirror mode for photo sync, and a bit speedier incremental backups, but overall it gets the job done. Highly recommended!

jselgen🇩🇰

Keep up to date

It’s a good app but has some issues likely due to how iOS handles background tasks. But iOS 26.1 will likely have support for third party background photo backup. Pls developers keep it up to date!

hfhjshwgjekfb🇺🇸

Great app

I use it to back up to my NAS. The only thing I miss is faster indexing of files that are already backed up, and the option to set a cutoff date so old files don’t get re-indexed every time.

tChAd^dK🇩🇰

Custom S3 Endpoint

This app WILL ALLOW you to define a custom endpoint for an S3 bucket to backup to. I didn’t see that mentioned in the description, and it was the most important feature for me. Apple family purchase sharing also works with this app so you only need to buy it once for the whole family. And beyond that it backups up real conveniently just like the description states. It’s not automatic like Google Photos or similar apps, but you can automate it with the shortcuts app which this app walks you through how to do. Really happy I found this and can use the S3 I already pay for instead of having to pay a monthly fee for a bloated cloud tool.

Ashy Taters🇺🇸

Everyone should think about backups

Great option to backup your ICloud based stuff. I am only using the option to backup files but should work for photos as well. Works as you would expect. One improvement would be to correctly set the creation/modification times of files processed.

Appreview67🇳🇱

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