SalvaFoto

Keep every original on a drive you own.

SalvaFoto copies the photos and videos in Apple Photos — HEIC, RAW, Live Photos, edits and video — to an external SSD, flash drive or SD card, byte for byte, without re-encoding. On a Mac, a network share or a disk image works too. No cloud, no account, nothing uploaded.

What you get

Adds only what is new. Each file is fingerprinted, so nothing is copied twice.

Plain folders by year and month. Any computer can open them, without SalvaFoto.

Verifies the archive against checksums, not just file names. The full check uses SHA-256.

Restores into Photos without duplicating what is already there. By default a device brings back only what it put into the archive.

Free Up Space removes from the device only items whose archived copy is proven complete: checksum, size, and companion files (Live Photo video and the edited version). Files on the drive are left untouched. In Photos the items go to Recently Deleted and are erased after 30 days. Favourites can stay on the device.

One drive for iPhone and Mac. Each device keeps its own copy, and the Archive shows it first; the other device's copy is one tap away. If the drive already holds an archive from the other device, SalvaFoto matches the files and does not copy them again.

Progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while a copy runs.

Free for an archive of up to 500 photos and videos. The full version is a one-time purchase that removes the limit on iPhone, iPad and Mac with the same Apple ID. No subscription, no ads.

Optional: copy new items when the archive drive is connected. Adding only — nothing is deleted or overwritten.

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