SyncGallery: Photo Backup

Back up photos and videos to your own storage, save device space and protect private media. SyncGallery combines an Android gallery, on-device face grouping, search, a photo map, cloud backup and an encrypted vault.

A GALLERY THAT KNOWS YOUR PHOTOS

Choose Journal, Classic or Immersive layouts and customize your home screen.

Group similar faces on your device. Name people to find their photos by tapping a face or searching a name. Combine searches by person, place, date, album or scene.

Find photos with saved GPS coordinates by place name or on an interactive photo map. Revisit people, time together or trips through photo stories.

Face grouping analyzes local photos, not videos or cloud-only files. It requires a supported ARM-based device, Google Play services and initial model downloads. Face and scene recognition can miss or misidentify content.

YOUR PHOTOS. YOUR STORAGE. YOUR RULES.

Choose what to back up, where it goes and how changes are handled. Use ready-made setups or your own sync rules.

- Back up your camera folder, other folders or selected files.

- Use upload-only backup or two-way folder sync.

- Schedule automatic backup with network and battery preferences.

- Choose how edits and deletions affect device and remote copies.

- Send files once with Quick Upload or Android's Share menu.

- Include photos, videos, XMP sidecars or other files using filename patterns.

CONNECT YOUR CLOUD OR NAS

Use Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, pCloud, Yandex Disk or Nextcloud. Connect to compatible NAS and servers through SMB 2/3, FTP, FTPS, SFTP or WebDAV.

Files transfer directly between your device and chosen storage. SyncGallery does not relay or store those transferred files on its own servers.

SAVE SPACE WITH PHOTO AND VIDEO COMPRESSION

Keep smaller local copies while full-quality originals remain in connected storage. Supported JPEG photos and MP4 videos can be compressed after a sync rule verifies the remote original. Choose quality settings and restore originals while the connected original remains available. Keep a separate backup of important originals.

PROTECT PRIVATE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS

Create a Protected vault with a passphrase and recovery key. Optional vault sync keeps Protected files encrypted in connected storage too. Hidden vaults hide files without encryption.

Lock access to the app with supported biometrics or your device screen lock. Background sync continues while the app is locked.

WHERE YOUR FACE DATA LIVES

Face grouping runs on your device after model downloads. Face signatures, names and grouping associations stay in a private local database and are not uploaded for grouping. Turning face recognition off deletes those saved recognition records.

Place-name lookup shares photo GPS coordinates with your device's geocoding service, without photos or filenames. Disable place names separately in Settings. The photo map requires Google Play services and permission to read photo locations; place-name lookup is optional.

REVIEW CHANGES BEFORE SYNC

Review planned uploads, downloads and deletions before the first sync. After approval, rules can run automatically. Conflicts and large batches of changes can pause for review.

Track per-file progress and completed, skipped or failed operations. Transfer history records activity, not previous file versions.

A FILE MANAGER FOR DEVICE AND CLOUD

Browse device, SD card, cloud and network folders. Copy, move, rename and delete files. Use two panels on wider screens.

ORGANIZE, EDIT AND SHARE

Crop, rotate, adjust and annotate photos, edit backgrounds and trim videos. Correct photo and video dates. Share selected files or connect a shared folder. Folder sharing depends on the storage provider.

PERMISSIONS AND PLANS

All Files Access lets SyncGallery manage and sync chosen device and SD card folders, including files outside Android's media library and XMP sidecars. Use your own cloud storage.

Free download with optional paid plans.