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Automatically backup SMS, MMS and call log entries using a separate label in Gmail / Google Calendar. It is also possible to restore SMS and call log entries back to the phone (MMS not supported yet).
Remember to enable IMAP in Gmail.
Please note that auto backup might not work reliably when SMS Backup+ is installed on the SD card. Future version will hopefully fix this, in the meantime please move it back to phone memory if possible.
For those of you worried about app permissions: there is a detailed explanation in the FAQ section of the website.
Also, please consult the FAQ on the website before sending me an email.
Remember to enable IMAP in Gmail.
Please note that auto backup might not work reliably when SMS Backup+ is installed on the SD card. Future version will hopefully fix this, in the meantime please move it back to phone memory if possible.
For those of you worried about app permissions: there is a detailed explanation in the FAQ section of the website.
Also, please consult the FAQ on the website before sending me an email.
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4.3
59,165 total
5 40,277
4 9,078
3 3,653
2 2,085
1 4,072
Shrichand Pareek
Very good app for SMS restore and backup
Very Nice
Jonny Moore
I love this program and have used it for years. The only issue I have is when it updates, if you don't catch that it has, It will stop backing up your messages till you open the app and allow it access to your gmail again. The last time this happened to me I was looking for an address I forgot to write down and realized that my messages hadn't been stored for over 6 months. Other than that the app performs exactly as states.
DL Lamar
Great alternative for backup of messages and more Does a great job of backing up SMS & call logs to your email and has the ability to restore. Very handy for those that love Google Messenger because it has no backup options of its own outside of your phone service. SMS Backup+ works. The only downfall and why I give it 4 stars is because it can't backup MMS yet. It's in the works so if it isn't a major concern for you, I recommend this app.
Bård Olsen
Don't "skip"!!! 1. install 2. open 3. connect google account 4.hit backup 5. DON'T SELECT SKIP!!!! SELECT BACKUP OR YOU NEED TO REINSTALL FOR FIRST TIME BACKUP!! That said...it brilliantly saves your sms/mms to a separate SMS folder in your google mail, and each message with attachement is saved as an e-mail style thread. So nicely done!....But i recommend starting it from a WIFI network since it can take a LOOOONG time for first synch!
A Google User
I feel compelled to review this awesome app. This is probably one of the greatest app I have, hands down. I love being able to delete texts off my phone for privacy, space, and speed. I didn't think it would restore everything with the actual time stamps and attachments either, but it does exactly that! Thank you so much for this application. Highly recommended! PS - This is my first Android store app review. And I'm glad this app got it.
User reviews
I love this program and have used it for years. The only issue I have is when it updates, if you don't catch that it has, It will stop backing up your messages till you open the app and allow it access to your gmail again. The last time this happened to me I was looking for an address I forgot to write down and realized that my messages hadn't been stored for over 6 months. Other than that the app performs exactly as states.
Great alternative for backup of messages and more Does a great job of backing up SMS & call logs to your email and has the ability to restore. Very handy for those that love Google Messenger because it has no backup options of its own outside of your phone service. SMS Backup+ works. The only downfall and why I give it 4 stars is because it can't backup MMS yet. It's in the works so if it isn't a major concern for you, I recommend this app.
Don't "skip"!!! 1. install 2. open 3. connect google account 4.hit backup 5. DON'T SELECT SKIP!!!! SELECT BACKUP OR YOU NEED TO REINSTALL FOR FIRST TIME BACKUP!! That said...it brilliantly saves your sms/mms to a separate SMS folder in your google mail, and each message with attachement is saved as an e-mail style thread. So nicely done!....But i recommend starting it from a WIFI network since it can take a LOOOONG time for first synch!
I feel compelled to review this awesome app. This is probably one of the greatest app I have, hands down. I love being able to delete texts off my phone for privacy, space, and speed. I didn't think it would restore everything with the actual time stamps and attachments either, but it does exactly that! Thank you so much for this application. Highly recommended! PS - This is my first Android store app review. And I'm glad this app got it.
Used this for years I started using this app when I started having problems with a previous employer as a way to cover my rear. It had proven to be even more useful for those sweet texts I get from my love among other things and keeps my phone memory higher and run smoother because I don't have a message thread full of texts I dont want to delete!
Best program ever! Does all its work in the background. Never bothers you and it's indispensable! But now I unfortunately hesitantly need to. Take away the five star rating. When restoring sms an option should be given to how many or which sms to restore. Most people have tens of thousands of sms saved. It's takes for ever to restore them all and most people won't need all. Keep up the good work!
Can't restore MMS messages! What good is it to have the option to backup mms if you can't restore them? It constantly says that feature isn't available yet. Will it ever be available!?! I've been seeing that message there for a long time with no sign that it'll actually ever be made available. So why even have that? I thought I had backed up everything but when I went to restore, some very important pictures were missing from my messages because the mms restore feature doesn't work!
I love this app. While I have never bothered to attempt to restore a backup, the automatic backup feature is awesome. Easy to review past SMS in my mailbox. If you are finding that the auto backup isn't automatic, please ensure that you have turned off battery optimization for this app. When my OS upgraded itself, the auto backup stopped working until I figured this out. There were several different services listed as SMS Backup+ under battery optimization - I simply disabled optimization for all.
OMG what a lifesaver! Samsung S3 to Note 4, nothing else worked. Not AT&T's transfer tool, not Samsung's Smart Switch, but this app worked flawlessly the first time without a hitch. Just install the app on both devices and hit "Backup"... you'll be prompted what to do from there. Very fast and efficient, backed up all my contacts, phone logs, and SMS messages. Just perfect, I cannot thank you enough for this fantastic tool.
This is b.s. that it won't auto back up. I have used this app for over 3 yrs. The best I have ever seen for backups. Through out my many phones I had no issue. I got the LG V20 and just like everyone else who has this phone, no auto backup. Me thinking it been working these past few months without worry is a lie. Lost countless messages and pictures. Currently looking for another app that will do auto backup. This app is not worth the memories lost.
Very useful its very useful app by backing up our msg and call logs. its interesting to see in our mail box and can we find any saved number for our reference later. but tool should have one more option when it backed up, removed from the mobile the original or it could be a optional paramater if user desires it can enable
Some minor issues I've been using this app for years. However, when trying to only backup a specific group, such as "starred in android" it will only back up my sent messages and not those of the sender. The only way to get both halves of the conversation is to back up form "everybody" then I have to go in to gmail and delete those I don't want. It IS the only app I have found that accurately backs up in Gmail in a format that is readable.
Great tool, huge bug Have been using this app frequently and noticed now that it crashes whenever it tries to backup. I think its because i have so many texts but ive used on phones that have over 9000 texts before and it worked fine?? Any help? My google drive has plenty of space and i dont have more than 6k texts...
Auto Backup No Longer Works This app used to work perfectly for automatically backing up my texts to email. However, it's been quite a while now that the app no longer works automatically according to the set schedule. It only works if I manually kick it off. I've tweaked settings and reinstalled it to no avail.
I used to love this app for its relative simplicity and flexibility, but as others have mentioned the automatic backup hasn't worked well for quite some time now. New entries in the call log never trigger an automatic backup nor does sending or receiving a text message. I've also noticed that MMS messages I send get backed up with my email address being in both the From and To fields, losing the actual recipient's name/number.
Good so far One issue I see is the way it formats messages for Gmail. If a person is in my contacts with an email address, the phone number they texted from is buried in an X-header. Makes it hard to look for texts by phone number since Gmail doesn't allow filtering by headers. Would be nice to have the number included in the subject line. Still, a good app!
Still great. Essential organizer Been using this app since my first Motorola Droid 1 & hardly any hiccups in over 5 years. Excellent way to organize and see my SMS messages and call logs within my gmail folders. BTW this is not the fastest way to backup there are faster apps but it's a fail safe app that takes up little space, memory and is reliable.
Needs better MMS backup Nice app overall, but when backing up MMS it doesn't properly handle group conversations. For example, I'm messaging person 1 and person 2 together, and when I view the backup in Gmail, replies from person 1 show up in one thread and replies from person 2 are in another. Proper archives of group MMS conversations would be really nice because those are the conversations I'm most likely to want to delete from my phone (it lags when opening a long group MMS thread).
Update: Dev seems to have abandoned this app a long time ago. Auto backups aren't reliable anymore, and they'll stop without you noticing it. Make sure to manually back up every few days just in case. Been using this app for years. After connecting your Gmail account, it syncs all SMS to a "SMS" folder in your Gmail account. Seamless, easy, and reliable.
Works as advertised! Updated 11/24/2015: Still the best product to backup your text message and call log. Update 12/29/2014: Still the best. I have also used this product to speed up phones of friends, as they have too many txt msgs taking up space. Backs up all my text messages and call log so I don't have to worry about keeping them on the phone. I have a job where I am dispatched via text message so having a history backed up is wonderful! I recommend this to everyone.
The call log on the LG G5 is not backing up correct. It only seams to backup what/when it wants. An option for a selected date range restore would be helpful. It would be cool only restore a day's worth of messages if using sim in multiple devices. When I switch phone I could just restore the messages I missed. Thanks for your continued development.
Great concept, but slow The way that this app backs up texts is quite a bit different than the other apps, requiring a special mailbox to be set up inside your Gmail for the text files to be backed up to, which is slower than just compiling everything into one spreadsheet that the app usually reads back from... But at the same time, it makes cloud integration easy and painless.
Gives peace of mind Great app, thank you very much! Auto-archives all your text msgs & call logs into your Gmail acct. Texts lumped together so need to search by person, words, or dates, unless want to browse thru long groups of conversations w each person. But does job perfectly - don't have to think about or worry you lost something if you delete a text, provided you set the auto backup for frequently enough. You can also open the app and manually back up msgs you wanna delete right away.
Used to work great Doesnt back up anymore. Whats going on? Used to work wonderfully....update.....ya know...all i want to do is save sum memories...its been almost 6 months since it last worked. I have emailed u with no response. Today i have to erase some txts because there are too many n my phone...for that thread anyway...is not working properly. Thanks alot. UPDATE....DELETING.
Would like to request Backup of voice text messages (audio recordings via sms). I have a family member who cannot type so we communicate via voice sms. I thought these were getting backed up too until I checked my gmail storage. This program has been backing up reliably and the archives have been useful.
Easy to use I like this app. I used it before & just recently reinstalled it. My only issue with it is that only incoming text messages are backed up & not outgoing ones. I'm not sure why. If there's a solution to this I'd love to know what it is. As of today 4/14/16 I'm changing my rating because I never received a response to any emails I sent to Jan asking for assistance. I'm not very tech savy & even though I read the FAQ's I still can't figure out why it isn't working.
App went from 5 stars to 1. It used to work great but more, don't bother. I have had this app for quite some time on four different phones. It Auto backs up for a short while and then quits. A fix has been promised for many months now, but nothing... Guess they're not trying very hard.
Lifesaver. This was recommended by Motorola and i have to agree. Transferred my SMS and call log perfectly back to my new phone. Auto back up feature is great too. My screen was broken so I couldn't use Migrate, but this puts everything on the cloud in your Google account and enabled me to restore everything. Only problem, Tried to donate but it wouldn't open.
This app is fantastic. I just wish it would backup group chats properly, instead of scattering the messages across different threads depending on the author (and MMS restore would be great too). If it did that, I couldn't imagine a better SMS/MMS backup app if Google made it themselves!
Had this for awhile Love this app!! Love love love. I have always loved this app but now for some reason it's stopped working won't backup at all... Having to uninstall this app after over a year it's just stopped working.. Uninstalled for a while recently reinstalled works great again thankfully hopefully it lasts
I love this app! when I got my first android phone over a decade ago,this was the only app that was able to backup sms and mms automatically. since then, it's only gotten better! I can save all my calls to a specific calendar, and it also keeps a beck up of all my contacts. it's just a brilliant app that does everything it says it does and more! I definitely recommend it!!
Have used app for years and have been very pleased. Love that I can delete messages from my phone but always have them saved in case needed. However, app quit backing up my sent text/sms messages months ago & I did not realize it. Hoping there is a fix to this.
Awesome app. Has saved my bacon through a few phone changes now. I Also love searching my SMS in Gmail. Restore operations could be a bit smoother / faster, or give me the option to ignore texts from 3 years ago, but that's super minor compared to the headaches it has saved!!
Awesome app, made transfer to new phone so easy Well I finally got a chance to test out this app's restore feature when I switched to a new phone recently. I don't know what people are complaining about... If you can't remember to back up, set a reminder for yourself in your to do list. I have a reminder to backup every few weeks and it works fine. Jeez people. The app was seemless as far as putting messages and call logs onto my new phone. It looks exactly like my old phone was. Thanks to the creator of this app!
Awesome implementation Besides rare instances when I can't restore, this app performs flawlessly. Been using it for years! And it allows people like me (basically a hoarder) to charge phones without fear of losing any texts. The auto backup to Gmail is the best!
please help.. After 4 years this has stopped working on my device. The last date it restored to my gmail is 07/07/2016. if I try and back up it pretends to restore but never links .I t has been a fab app until now and i need itto be again. 1* because of the issues I am having and the developer not contacting me back
Best sms backup app! I use this app whenever I get a bit antsy and need to flash a new ROM on a new phone. It perfectly backs up all my texts without any trouble. I've used this app for years now and I'm still a fan! Thanks to the dev for building such an useful and easy app!
I loved it for years until recently Why did it stop backing up my sent SMS's after August 12th? This is the second time this has happened in a year. Last time, I reinstalled the app and it started working again, but this time it's not. I had auto update turned on all this time. I've had this current phone since December 2015.
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August 20, 2015
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5,000,000 - 10,000,000
Current Version
1.5.10
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