SMS Backup & Restore

SyncTech Pty Ltd

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About this app

SMS Backup & Restore is an app that backs up (creates a copy of) SMS & MMS messages and call logs currently available on the phone. It can also restore messages and call logs from already existing backups.

Note: This app requires existing backups to be able to restore call logs and messages. It cannot recover anything without existing backups.

To view the contents of the backups, visit https://www.synctech.com.au/view-backup/

For questions or issues please visit our FAQ at: https://synctech.com.au/sms-faqs/


APP FEATURES:
- Backup SMS (text) messages, MMS and call logs in XML format.
- Local device backup with options to automatically upload to Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.
- Choose a recurring scheduled time to automatically backup.
- Option to select which conversations to backup or restore.
- View and drill into your local and cloud backups.
- Search backups.
- Restore/transfer backup to another phone. Backup format is independent of the Android version so the messages and logs can be easily transferred from one phone to another, irrespective of the version.
- Fast Transfer between 2 phones over WiFi direct
- Free up space on your phone. Delete all SMS messages or call logs on the Phone.
- Email a backup file.
- The XML backup can be viewed on a computer via the online viewer at https://SyncTech.com.au/view-backup/

Notes:
- Tested on Android 5.0 and higher
- App only restores backups made by this app
- Backup is created locally on the phone by default, but has options to upload to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Email. At no time are the files sent to the developer.
- Please ensure there is a copy of the backup outside the phone before performing a factory reset on the phone.

This App needs access to the following:
* Your messages: Backup and Restore messages. Receive SMS permission needed to properly handle messages received while the app is the default messaging app.
* Your Calls and Contact information: Backup and Restore Call Logs.
* Storage: To create the Backup file on the SD card.
* Network view and communication: Allows the app to connect to wifi for backup
* Your social information: To display and store the contact names in the Backup file.
* Run at start-up: Start scheduled Backups.
* Prevent Phone from Sleeping: To prevent the phone from going to sleep/suspended state while a Backup or Restore operation is in progress.
* Test access to Protected Storage: To create the Backup file on the SD card.
* Account Information: To authenticate with Google Drive and Gmail for cloud uploads.
* Location: Only requested and used during WiFi direct transfer due to a security requirement on Android.

Ratings and reviews

4/13/26 The app hasn't worked for 10 days. I emailed support and was ignored. I will try it again someday when I switch phones but not as a daily backup. I use the free version. Works good when it works which is about 1/2 of the time. Uses a lot of battery and storage. I backup to Google Drive and auto delete after 2 days. I quit trying to cancel backups that seem to get stuck. Sometimes you can and sometimes you can't and it's very time consuming.

This app seems hopeful at first. And I couldn't help but have trust issues when granting it certain permissions during initial set up. Anyhow, once I finally started my initial backup....it never finished. If you have a TON of backing up to do, it always seems to time out due to an error or a similar "memory" issue that my phone was having to begin with. Plus, I kept getting a "close app or wait" type of message as I followed the steps to begin with (even though the app never stopped.)

It seems OK, but in my experience mm it does NOT do SCHEDULED backups. I have it set to unrestricted battery use, but that seems not to help. I tried sending logs and requesting help using the built-in message in the menu, but I am not getting any responses. When I press "Send" for sending the logs, a message flashes on the screen, but it is too fast for me to see what the message is. Would you please provide another way to send you the logs in case the built-in method is not working?

What’s new

- Option to set as default SMS app on Android 17 for all backup types as well as during transfer
- Better duplicate check handling of MMS messages with multiple media split into multiple messages
- Bug fixes related to logs