A photo backup that lives in your house, not someone else’s cloud.
Photos Copy is a small Android app with one job: keep a copy of your phone photos on a drive you own.
Why Photos Copy exists
Phones fill up, get lost, and break. Cloud subscriptions lapse, prices go up, and accounts get closed. Through all of it, the photos are the part people actually care about — years of family life, sitting on one phone.
A lot of people already own the fix. A NAS or home server in a closet has more storage than any phone, and it just sits there. What was missing was a simple, careful way for the phone to keep that drive up to date — no accounts, no monthly fee, no handing your family photos to another company’s servers.
That’s the whole idea behind Photos Copy: your photos belong on your hardware.
Backup means copy
Photos Copy only ever copies. It never deletes a photo from your phone, and it never deletes anything from your drive as part of a backup. Nothing about the app mirrors deletions or “cleans up” after itself. If a backup is interrupted, it resumes where it left off; if a photo is already backed up, it’s recognized and skipped.
All Photos Copy does is copy. Nothing moves, nothing vanishes — and you’re free to tidy your backed-up photos in the Gallery whenever you like.
A second backup, by design
Photos Copy is built to be one copy of your photos among your backups — the copy that lives at home, under your control. Keep your other backups too. The at-home copy doesn’t depend on a subscription staying active or a company’s servers staying up, and that’s exactly what makes it a good second copy.
What Photos Copy is not
- Not a cloud service. There are no TwiceKept servers, and your photos never pass through any.
- Not a sync tool. It doesn’t mirror changes or deletions between your phone and your drive.
- Not a subscription. It’s a paid app: pay once, use it forever.
About TwiceKept
TwiceKept is an independent developer making small, single-purpose tools. Photos Copy is its first app. The name is the idea: your photos, kept twice — once on your phone, once on your drive at home.
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In short
Photos Copy is an Android app by TwiceKept that backs up your phone photos to a drive you own — a NAS, a home server, a WebDAV drive, or a USB drive. It is copy-only — all Photos Copy does is copy. Nothing moves, nothing vanishes, and you’re free to tidy your backed-up photos in the Gallery whenever you like. Photos travel directly from your phone to your drive; there are no TwiceKept servers, no account, and no subscription. It costs $2.99, paid once on Google Play.