Open Android Backup Companion

about

description

<p>Back up your device without vendor lock-ins, using insecure software or root. Supports encryption and compression out of the box. Works cross-platform.</p> <p> <i>Open Android Backup Companion</i> is the Android companion app, giving the backup script access to data otherwise not available to ADB. <i>Open Android Backup</i> is a tiny shell script & Flutter app that makes securely backing up Android devices easy, without vendor lock-ins or using closed-source software that could put your data at risk. It's based on ADB but doesn't use the deprecated adb backup command. </p> <p> <br> <b>Data backed up:</b> </p> <ul> <li>Apps (app data not included due to system limitations)</li> <li>Internal storage (pictures, downloads, videos, Signal backups if enabled, etc)</li> <li>Contacts (exported in vCard format)</li> </ul> <p>SMS messages and call logs are also exported, albeit can't be restored.</p> <p> <br> <b>Features:</b> </p> <ul> <li>Automatically restores backed up data.</li> <li>Works on the 3 major operating systems, and supports any Android device.</li> <li>Backs up data not normally accessible through ADB using a native companion app.</li> <li>Tiny - the whole package is about 20 MB.</li> <li>Doesn't use proprietary formats: your data is safe even if this script ever gets lost. Simply open archives created by this script using 7-Zip.</li> <li>Backups are always encrypted along with their metadata.</li> <li>All data is compressed using 7-Zip with maximum compression settings.</li> </ul> <p>For installation instructions (Linux, Mac, Windows) and usage instructions, head over to the project. You can also use this app standalone.</p>

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-10-08T21:28:24.384533+00:00

last event

2026-04-11 15:23 UTC

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

source & build

repository

https://github.com/mrrfv/open-android-backup

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

1 release indexed; latest 1.2.3.

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

1.2.3 — app-arm64-v8a-release.apk

sha256

4fc028efa126fe3d9d82fd74ac36e8a559880f418d51910bb7eef11de1f7f889

size

16.3 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

2015

apk cert sha256

bf78b5fd1639014e5fb7ed7d243cb028ffed221198184119f87a5880a8ad0c29

download

app-arm64-v8a-release.apk

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