Memvo backs up every photo and video on your iPhone and Mac, in original quality, to a private channel in your own Telegram account. Telegram keeps it for free.
iOS 17 and macOS 15 or later. TestFlight and the App Store are coming. Memvo uses the Telegram API and isn't made or endorsed by Telegram.
HEIC, ProRAW, 4K HDR and Live Photos, backed up bit for bit with their dates and places.
Photos on this iPhone and everything in your backup, together by day, month or year. Pinch to change the size, drag the date bar to jump years.
The small mark on each photo tells you where it lives: green for backed up, a cloud for only in your backup.
Swipe through photos and Live Photos and zoom right in. Backed-up videos open at once in 1080p, and a tap switches to the 4K original, with seeking, Picture in Picture and AirPlay. Nothing fills up your phone.
Tap Back up now for everything, or select a few photos and back up just those. Share, save or delete in one go, exactly like Photos.
Original file name, size, dimensions, date and place. Memvo marks a photo as backed up only after Telegram has confirmed every byte.
Videos, Live Photos, Favorites and your own albums, plus the two lists that matter for a backup: what's only in the cloud, and what isn't backed up yet.
How many photos are on this iPhone, how many are safely in Telegram, and what's still waiting. Nothing uploads behind your back unless you turn on automatic backup.
Tap Continue with Telegram. There's no Memvo account to make.
Your phone number, then the code Telegram sends to your other Telegram apps.
Pick what to include and when it may upload, then tap Back up now. That's it.
Memvo has no servers and no accounts of its own. Your photos travel from your device to your Telegram account and nowhere else. No analytics, no ads, no tracking, and every line of code that proves it is public.
The short answers. Telegram's rules are Telegram's to set, so the answers link to Telegram's own pages.
In a Standard library, files are encrypted on the way and stored like any Telegram cloud chat, which isn't end-to-end encrypted (Telegram FAQ). In an End-to-end encrypted library, Memvo encrypts every file and its details on your device first, so Telegram only ever holds files it can't open.
Telegram describes its cloud storage as unlimited, with files up to 2 GB each, or 4 GB with Telegram Premium (Terms of Service, FAQ). That's Telegram's offer, not a promise Memvo can make, and Telegram can change it. Memvo splits bigger files into parts on its own.
Yes. Telegram opens its API to third-party apps under the Telegram API Terms of Service. Memvo follows them: it uses its own app key, says clearly that it uses the Telegram API, doesn't put "Telegram" in its name or use Telegram's logo, and doesn't change how Telegram works for anyone else.
Backing up your own photos to your own private channel is ordinary use. Bans come from breaking Telegram's Terms of Service, such as spam or scams. Memvo only posts to your private channel, uploads at most two files at a time with a pause between them, and waits whenever Telegram asks it to slow down.
Install Memvo, sign in with the same Telegram account and pick your library. Dates, places, albums and Live Photos come back, and photos already on the phone aren't uploaded again.
A deleted channel takes every file in it, and it can't be restored by Memvo or anyone else. Photos still on your phone are safe: after a re-scan they show as not backed up, and Retry uploads them again. Please don't delete or edit messages in the library channel by hand.
Only when you ask, and iOS always asks you to confirm. Free up space offers only photos that Memvo has just checked are complete in Telegram and unchanged since their backup.
Memvo is free and open source under the GPL-3.0, and every feature stays free. Your storage is your own Telegram account's, so there's no plan to buy. Making Memvo isn't free, though: the Apple developer membership costs $99 a year, plus test devices, the website and a lot of evenings. If Memvo saves you a storage plan, a small contribution keeps it going.
Frozen accounts, login codes, encryption, storage and more: read the full FAQ. Still stuck? Ask in Discussions.
Every line of Memvo is on GitHub under the GPL-3.0. Report a bug, suggest an idea, translate, or send a pull request. The contributing guide explains how ideas become features.