SMS Backup

Jerry Zigo

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About this app

SMS Backup is a very simple app that makes a backup of your SMS and MMS messages (images and audio files), lets you share them and then restore/transfer to another phone (currently only SMS).

Important notice:
- This app doesn't restore deleted messages.
- If you're missing some messages or one side of conversation in your backup, it's probably because this app doesn't back up RCS messages (also known as Advanced Messaging) unless you use Google Messages as your default texting app. Turning Advanced Messaging off will allow the app to back up new messages only, not those already stored as RCS.

The app can export your conversations to two different formats:
1) nice-looking read-only HTML format with chat bubbles,
2) restorable JSON data file in case you plan to transfer your messages to another phone,
and saves them to your internal device storage.

You can easily send these files to your e-mail, Gmail, Google Drive or wherever you want. If you are switching to a new phone and you want to transfer your SMS messages, this app is exactly what you're looking for. It not only creates a data file which is required to restore messages, but also saves your text messages to HTML format. Therefore you can open and view your backed up messages almost anywhere, whether it is your computer or iPhone!

If you have any questions or any improvement ideas, please send an email to us at [e-mail]. Thanks!

Ratings and reviews

Great app!! Does the job!! I needed to transfer nearly 200k SMSes from my old phone that had almost no memory left. This app was the only app that worked for me because it allows you to bring each convo over individually. (I tried MANY other apps & they either didn't work, or my phone would crash due to the volume of messages.) Everything converted wonderfully. Thank you so much for making this app. I am so grateful for your hard work every time I see my old messages on my new phone.

Does not save both sides of the conversation From Samsung's galaxy 8, att All conversations. Only the other persons texts are saved, none of my replies... My bad on the review. I didn't realize that my issue was based on the Advance SMS feature from AT&T and not the app. Turning off this feature enbaled the app to do it's job. Chatted with developer, very personable and responsive!

Does a good job as far as it goes, but it doesn't go as far as I want. The fact that you can select individual senders for backup is an excellent feature, as is the ease of zipping up threads and uploading them to Google Drive. What turned me off is that there are media types that it doesn't back up (ogg audio, and no types of video at all, afaict). And what's really bad is that it DOESN'T LET YOU KNOW WHAT IT SKIPPED. Yo can think you backed up everything, and not find out until it's too late.

What's new

Minor bugfixes