BackiGo is a Dependable & Full Featured iCloud Backup Solution

If you rely on iCloud but don’t have a true backup of that data, BackiGo is one of the simplest ways to create one.

BackiGo is an iCloud backup app I can recommend for anyone looking for an alternative to Parachute. Parachute is a well-known iCloud backup utility that was recently acquired by a company with a solid reputation, but also a history of price increases and subscription transitions.

Who This Is For

BackiGo is particularly useful if you:

• Store large amounts of data in iCloud Drive or iCloud Photos
• Use Optimize Mac Storage, meaning your Mac does not hold full local copies
• Want an off-Apple backup copy of your iCloud data
• Need to back up iCloud data to a NAS, external drive, or another cloud provider

Why You Need an iCloud Backup

Sometimes Apple’s logic escapes me. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the opaque world of iCloud.

If you don’t have a method for keeping a versioned backup of your iCloud documents and photos, you should set one up sooner rather than later.

The simplest approach looks like this:

1. Use a Mac signed into iCloud.
2. Turn off “Optimize Mac Storage” for both iCloud Drive and Photos.
3. Allow all files to download locally.
4. Let Time Machine back up that Mac.

This works because Time Machine will keep historical versions of those files.

Unfortunately, that approach isn’t practical for everyone. If, like me, you pay for 2TB of iCloud storage but your Mac has a much smaller internal drive that can’t be upgraded, downloading everything locally simply isn’t feasible.

Experienced Mac users already understand the core issue: iCloud is a syncing service, not a backup.

If you overwrite a file, the new version replaces the old one everywhere. If you delete a file, it disappears everywhere. If a file becomes corrupted, that corruption syncs too.

Even with Time Machine running, you still won’t have copies of many files if Optimize Mac Storage is enabled, because those files never existed locally on your Mac.

The core idea is simple: get a second copy of your iCloud data somewhere Apple’s sync engine can’t touch it.

One more thing - you can find multiple stories of people permanently losing access to their iCloud accounts through ID theft, malware and Apple’s own policies.

BackiGo Features

This is where BackiGo comes in. The app lets you create a copy of your iCloud data and store it in a variety of locations:

• External drives (USB or Thunderbolt)
• Other cloud providers with versioned storage, such as Dropbox or Google Drive
• A NAS on your home network
• A shared folder on another computer (including Windows machines)
• An FTP server
• WebDAV support is planned

Some of the features I’ve found useful:

• Universal app that runs on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
• Flexible photo organization; mirror your Apple Photos structure or export into folders by device/year/month (for example AmerpieMBA/2026/04)
• Selective backups; back up documents but skip photos, or back up only specific albums
• Multiple cloud destinations, including Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, pCloud, and Backblaze
• Incremental and full backups
• Scheduled backups based on time, frequency, and backup type
• Local Photos library support for people who use Photos without iCloud
• Live Photo and shared album support
• Built-in photo viewer to visually confirm what’s included in a backup
• Detailed reports of backup and restore history, exportable as HTML or CSV

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BackiGo – Complete iCloud Photo backup and restore solution for iOS and Mac

Price

• Free trial (limited to 500 images)
• $14.99 lifetime purchase
• $6.99 annual subscription
• $0.99 monthly subscription

Available on the Mac App Store with Family Sharing enabled.