Back up your phone
to a USB drive. Offline.
Copy photos, videos, Live Photos, and documents straight to a connected USB drive — original quality, byte for byte. No cloud upload. No subscription. No internet required.
01 · How it works
Three steps. No account. No upload.
Plug your USB drive into your phone, pick what to back up, tap go. That's the whole flow — your files travel over the cable, not the internet.
Plug in a USB drive
Use USB-C, Lightning, or any standard USB drive with the right adapter for your phone. Your phone detects the drive instantly.
Pick what to back up
Photos, videos, albums, documents, or specific files. Preview before you commit. VaultDrive remembers your selection for next time.
Watch the progress bar
Files copy directly to the drive over the cable. Nothing leaves your phone except over USB. Resume safely if you unplug mid-transfer.
02 · Where it shines
Use cases that don't fit cloud backup.
Cloud backup is great until it isn't — when your storage's full, your internet's flaky, or your data is too sensitive to send anywhere.
Free up phone storage on the road
Dump 50 GB of vacation photos to a drive on the plane home. No Wi-Fi. No iCloud upgrade.
Wedding & event photographers
Offload a day's shoot to a drive between sessions — without burning hotel Wi-Fi or risking a stuck upload.
Sensitive documents
Medical records, legal scans, journals. Some files shouldn't touch the cloud. Keep them on a drive you control.
Field work, off-grid trips
Hiking, sailing, remote villages. Drives don't need signal. Back up daily even with zero bars.
Switching phones
Drop everything to a drive from your old phone, plug it into the new one, restore. No proprietary cable dance.
True archival
SD cards or SSDs sitting on a shelf cost less than cloud subscriptions and outlast any vendor's "lifetime" plan.
03 · Why VaultDrive
Compared to cloud backup services.
Cloud backup has its place. So does keeping your files on hardware you can hold. Here's how they differ — and if you're weighing them up, why iCloud Photos isn't a backup covers what syncing does and doesn't protect you from.
| VaultDrive Best value | iCloud | Google One | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay | One-time purchase | $2.99 – $59.99 / mo | $1.99 – $99.99 / mo |
| Recurring bill | Never | Every month | Every month |
| Works offline | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Capacity | Limited only by your drive | Up to 12 TB (paid) | Up to 30 TB (paid) |
| Data leaves device | Never | Uploaded | Uploaded |
| Account required | No | Apple ID | Google account |
| Files yours forever | ✓ (on your drive) | Until you stop paying | Until you stop paying |
04 · The details
Everything VaultDrive does.
Core backup is free to try. A one-time Pro purchase unlocks unlimited backups and the power tools — no subscription, ever.
Core
Included free — up to 200 files / 2 GBOriginal quality, zero compression
Copied byte for byte — HEIC, ProRAW, ProRes, 4K and Cinematic all land untouched. No re-encoding, no downscaling.
Live Photos stay alive
The still and its motion clip are kept together as a real Live Photo — never split into two separate files.
Metadata & EXIF preserved
Every file keeps its original capture date, location, and camera data — so your timeline stays intact.
Mirrors your folder structure
Camera, Screenshots, and Albums are recreated as clean, readable folders on the drive — easy to find later.
Pause & resume anytime
Unplug the drive or close the app mid-backup. Reconnect and it picks up from exactly where it stopped.
Multiple phones, one drive
Back up the whole family to a single drive — each device gets its own labeled folder, tracked separately.
No account, files stay local
No sign-up, no email. Your photos and files are never uploaded, scanned, or analyzed — they travel over the cable only.
Pro One-time
Unlock everything with a single one-time purchaseUnlimited backups
Removes the 200-file / 2 GB free-tier cap. Back up your entire library, limited only by your drive.
Incremental backup
After the first run, only new or changed files are copied — every backup after that is fast and efficient.
See what's safe to remove
Once files are safely backed up to the drive, VaultDrive shows you what's already saved — so you can delete them from your phone yourself, the normal way, and reclaim space.
Background scan
Get notified when new photos and videos are ready to back up — so your archive never falls behind.
WhatsApp media & App Lock
Back up years of WhatsApp chat media, then clear it from your phone — plus biometric App Lock on the app itself.
Available in 15+ languages — English, Español, Français, Deutsch, 日本語, 한국어, 中文, हिन्दी, العربية, and more.
05 · Pricing
Try it free. Own it forever.
Start backing up for free. When you're ready for unlimited and the power tools, unlock Pro once — no subscription, no annual bill, ever.
Try it — no account, no card
- Back up up to 200 files / 2 GB
- Original quality — no compression
- Live Photos, metadata & folders preserved
- Pause & resume anytime
- Works fully offline, no account
No subscription. No recurring charge. Ever.
- Unlimited — removes the 200-file / 2 GB cap
- Incremental — only new files after the first run
- Free up space — see what's backed up and delete it yourself to reclaim space
- Background scan — get notified when new media is ready
- WhatsApp media backup & App Lock (Android)
- Plus new premium features added over time
Everything in Free, plus the above. One payment on the App Store or Google Play unlocks Pro on that device.
Download free and upgrade in-app whenever you're ready:
06 · FAQ
Common questions.
Any standard USB drive. On iPhone use a Lightning or USB-C drive (depending on your model); on Android use a USB-C drive or a USB-A drive with an OTG adapter. Drives formatted as exFAT (recommended), FAT32, APFS, or HFS+ work out of the box.
No. VaultDrive transfers files directly between your phone and the connected USB drive over the cable. Your photos, videos, and files are never sent to our servers or any cloud service. No account, no sign-up.
Free to download and try, with a 200-file / 2 GB backup limit. To back up unlimited files and unlock the Pro tools, it's a single one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring charge, ever. You provide your own USB drive (any capacity).
Free lets you back up up to 200 files / 2 GB at original quality, with Live Photos, metadata, and folders preserved. Pro (a one-time purchase) removes that cap and adds incremental backup, a free-up-space helper, background scan, and — on Android — WhatsApp media backup and App Lock, with new premium features added over time.
Your phone is full again.
It doesn't have to be.
Free to try · one-time Pro · no account · works without internet