PicHaven: Photo Backup to PC

Hartwin Hoyer

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About this app

Your photos belong on your PC. Not in someone else's cloud.

PicHaven gets photos and videos from your Android phone onto your Windows PC without any cloud: automatically, in full original quality, over your home Wi-Fi. Connect once by scanning a QR code, and after that everything happens by itself. Whenever your phone is on your home Wi-Fi and the PC is on, new photos arrive within minutes.

• Android 10+ and a Windows PC (10/11) on the same Wi-Fi
• One PC for the whole family, each phone gets its own folder
• One purchase covers all devices with your Google account
• PicHaven makes a copy. It does not replace a second backup.

As simple as it gets
• One scan and you're done: no folder picking, no settings
• One glance at the app is enough: a tick means "everything backed up"
• Photos land on the PC sorted by device, year and month

Originals, not second-class copies
• Every file arrives byte-for-byte identical, with no compression and no renaming
• Every transfer is verified with a checksum
• Interrupted transfers resume seamlessly

WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, screenshots: back it all up to your PC
Your camera is always included, whether it's the built-in camera app or Open Camera. On top of that, switch on more sources with one tap:
• WhatsApp images and videos
• Telegram images and videos
• Signal (saved media)
• Screenshots
• Other picture folders, e.g. imports from a digital camera or edited pictures from photo apps
Each source gets its own folder on the PC, and picture folders keep their names. Even WhatsApp photos without a capture date are filed under the right month, so years of chat pictures don't all end up in this month's folder.

Private by design
• Home Wi-Fi only: your photos never leave your house
• No account, no cloud, no internet required
• Encrypted (TLS 1.3) directly from phone to PC
• PicHaven never deletes anything, neither on the phone nor on the PC
• The “media location” permission only keeps a photo's own GPS data in the copy; the app never asks where you are

Pay once instead of renting. Your first backup is free, however large, plus the next 250 files. After that a single payment unlocks unlimited backups: no subscription, no monthly fees, no hidden costs.

Easy wireless photo transfer, done automatically. Instead of copying your camera roll to the computer by USB cable or paying monthly for cloud photo storage, PicHaven syncs new pictures and videos from your Android phone to your Windows PC or laptop over Wi-Fi on its own. An easy, local and private photo backup that also works offline.

Your storage, your choice. You pick the destination folder on the PC: your Pictures library, an external hard drive or a network drive (NAS). Videos arrive in full resolution, photos with all their EXIF data. PicHaven works on Android phones from Samsung, Google Pixel, Xiaomi and other makers.

Requirements: Android 10 or newer and the free PicHaven app on a Windows PC (Windows 10/11) on the same Wi-Fi. Download: https://pichaven.app. PicHaven isn't available for Mac yet; if you want it, tell us at [e-mail].

What’s new

After the free first backup, 250 more files are now free, then unlock once. A newly added source like WhatsApp still brings its older pictures for free, even if you have used part of your allowance. Small improvements.