What is OwnYourPics used for?

OwnYourPics is an iPhone and iPad app that copies your photos and videos to storage you choose, letting you free up iCloud space while keeping originals. It is a good fit for freeing space in iCloud while keeping originals, backing up an iPhone library to a home server and archiving photos to cloud storage you already pay for.

Yes. OwnYourPics has a free plan, and paid plans start at $0.99 per month.

Is OwnYourPics open source?

No. OwnYourPics is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Photos & Images category, open-source options include Lynavo Drive, PhotoPrism and Ente.

What are some alternatives to OwnYourPics?

OwnYourPics competes with Mylio Photos and Google Photos.

OwnYourPics: features, pricing and alternatives

About OwnYourPics

OwnYourPics copies the pictures and clips in your Apple Photos library to a destination you control, so you can reclaim iCloud space without losing anything. It indexes your library on the device and keeps full-resolution originals along with their metadata. Backups can run automatically in the background or selectively, and you can restore items back into your library whenever you need them.

Supported destinations are Local Files or USB, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, SFTP and your own server. Transfers go straight from the device to the destination and never pass through the developer's servers, which only handle sign-in and billing, so the photo data itself is never handled by the vendor.

Local backup is free. A Pro upgrade unlocks the cloud destinations and background backup, and is offered at $0.99 per month, $9.99 per year or $29.99 as a one-time lifetime purchase. The app requires iOS 16.4 or later and runs on iPhone and iPad.

Key features

Automatic background photo and video backup
Original quality with metadata preserved
Destinations like Dropbox, Google Drive and S3
SFTP and own-server backup
Restore backed-up items to the library
On-device indexing with no vendor servers
Free local backup to Files or USB

Good fit for

Freeing space in iCloud while keeping originals
Backing up an iPhone library to a home server
Archiving photos to cloud storage you already pay for

Tags: photo-backup; ios; icloud; s3; sftp; privacy; storage; iphone

OwnYourPics: questions and answers

What is OwnYourPics used for?: OwnYourPics is an iPhone and iPad app that copies your photos and videos to storage you choose, letting you free up iCloud space while keeping originals. It is a good fit for freeing space in iCloud while keeping originals, backing up an iPhone library to a home server and archiving photos to cloud storage you already pay for.
Is OwnYourPics free?: Yes. OwnYourPics has a free plan, and paid plans start at $0.99 per month.
Is OwnYourPics open source?: No. OwnYourPics is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Photos & Images category, open-source options include Lynavo Drive, PhotoPrism and Ente.
What are some alternatives to OwnYourPics?: OwnYourPics competes with Mylio Photos and Google Photos.