PhotoVault

A Mac menu bar app that backs up your Photos library, originals and edits, to your own Google Drive and to local or NAS folders.

Your storage, your files

Photos are copied as plain files into a folder in your Google Drive or on a disk you choose. There is no PhotoVault server.

Files are sorted into dated folders, with optional views by device and by place, and sidecars that keep albums and metadata.

PhotoVault only reads your Photos library. It never changes it, and it never deletes what it has backed up.

When you connect Google Drive, PhotoVault asks only for:

Access to files it creates in your Drive (drive.file). PhotoVault uploads your photos into its own backup folder and reads back only those files to check and resume backups. It cannot see, open or change any other file in your Drive.
Your email address (openid, email), to show which Google account is connected.

This data stays between your Mac and Google. Details are in the Privacy Policy.