SMS Backup+

Jan Berkel

In-app purchases

About this app

Automatically backup your SMS, MMS and call history with a separate label in Gmail and Google Calendar.

Later you can restore the saved data (except MMS) back to the phone, especially useful when switching to a new device.

IMAP access needs to be manually enabled in Gmail, see the website and FAQ for more information. You can of course use your own IMAP server for backups, giving you full control over your data.

SMS Backup+ is a free open-source project which has been in active development since the early days of Android, completely ad and tracking-free, supported through voluntary donations.

Many thanks to the numerous people who have donated, contributed feedback, code or translations – detailed credits can be found in the app or on the website.

Ratings and reviews

This was brilliant: it added texts to Googlemail as separate label. Google changed policies now the app cant work. Error message was "enable IMAP...". Today, app says it's updated, but the error is "app tried to access sensitive info so we stopped it". Cant figure out how to allow access, so still can't use it. I'm guessing Google don't like someone offering a function that works, that they don't offer (as far as I can tell) and didn't think of. Can't find an app that does the same so far

This WAS a really good app for backing up sms & mms. But since the beginning of the month (August) it doesn't work. All I get is an error message saying to enable Imaps which, when I check, already has a tick to show it is enabled. I think, as the last update was well over a year ago, and google has changed it's policies recently, this app is due a new update. Otherwise, I shall have to remove this app and use a different one - one that IS maintained and updated!

a very useful app. been using it since the days of android 1.6. The automatic thing doesn't seem to work any more, but manual backups still work fine. I recently received an email from Google saying that they are blocking access to my gmail account for this app on 15th July 2019 unless it gets updated to comply with recent changes at Google... whatever that means. Hope this happens as this is far too useful a facility to lose... I've not found anything else that does quite what this does.

What's new

* More reliable auto backups
* Material UI with light/dark themes
* Runtime permissions on Android 6.0+