BackiGo
True iCloud Photos & Drive backup for Mac, iPhone & iPad
Details
- External ID
- 1239445
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- BackiGo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9330233055377378
- Tags
- iOS, Mac, Photography
- Fetched at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
iCloud is sync, NOT a backup—delete on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and it vanishes everywhere. BackiGo delivers true backup & 1-click lossless restore. Back up to external drives, NAS, or cloud storage. Restore original-quality photos, Live Photos, RAW files, and albums to Apple Photos. Schedule automatic backups with optional AES-256 encryption. Available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, with Apple Family Sharing.
Enrichment
- Theme
- iOS and iPhone utility apps
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- backup for icloud photos and drive
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Deep integration with native Apple Photos frameworks (PhotoKit), handling proprietary Live Photo pairs, background synchronization, and bit-level file integrity across iOS and macOS requires low-level native systems engineering.
What it would actually take: A native Swift/Objective-C application for macOS and iOS using PhotoKit (PHPhotoLibrary, PHAssetResourceManager) to extract raw HEIC/JPEG and paired MOV components with all EXIF, GPS, and library metadata intact. The backend involves a native multi-threaded storage engine supporting local I/O, SMB/NFS protocols for NAS, and S3-compatible cloud APIs, coupled with cryptographic hashing for bit-for-bit deduplication and delta sync. This demands senior Apple platform systems programming expertise and deep familiarity with iOS background task lifecycle constraints.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #27 of 307 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
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- omarchy-icloud-photos · github · 2026-09-20 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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