BackitSnappy — Unlimited storage for your photos and videos, in original quality

The Problem

Cloud photo storage got expensive, and it's not really yours anyway

Every mainstream option asks you to trade money, privacy, or control — usually all three.

The price keeps climbing

Free tiers shrink, paid tiers grow, and the bill never stops once your library outgrows the free allowance — which it always does.

Storage caps force hard choices

Hit the limit and you're stuck deleting memories or paying more for a bigger tier you didn't ask for.

It's not really your data

Your photos live on someone else's servers, under someone else's terms — cancel the subscription and you can lose access entirely.

The Alternatives

Where the usual options fall short

None of the popular choices actually solve cost, privacy, and control at the same time.

Option	Monthly cost	Storage limit	Your data, your control	Setup effort
iCloud+ / Google One	$3–$20+	Fixed tiers, always eventually full	Vendor-controlled	Low
Dropbox / OneDrive	$10+	Fixed tiers	Vendor-controlled	Low
Self-hosted NAS	$0/mo, high upfront cost	As much as you buy	Fully yours	High — hardware, networking, offsite backup
Manual / USB drives	$0/mo	As much as you buy	Fully yours	High — no automation, single point of failure
BackitSnappy	$0, forever	2GB–4GB per file, effectively unlimited total	Your own Telegram account	Low — one-time setup, automatic after

The BackitSnappy Way

What if your backup lived in an account you already control?

Telegram already gives every account generous per-file limits and no real total storage cap. BackitSnappy just puts that to work.

Free, permanently

No tier to outgrow, no bill that creeps up. Telegram is the storage layer, and it costs nothing to use.

Yours alone

Every install is fully independent — your own Telegram session, your own local database, your own account. Nothing shared or centralized between users, ever.

Actually automatic

A watched Mac folder and scheduled Photos-library backup mean it happens without you thinking about it — and your Photos library gets cleared out afterward.

Open source

Every line is inspectable. Run it as-is, or fork it and make it yours.

per month, forever

2–4GB

per file (Telegram's own limit — free vs. Premium)

100%

yours — nothing centralized, nothing shared

How It Works

Two ways in. Zero manual uploads, either way.

Set either one up once, and backing up stops being something you have to remember to do. Both send the original file, untouched.

On your Mac

Point it at a folder. Never think about it again.

Set an auto-backup folder once, and anything added to it — or any of its subfolders — uploads on its own. No dragging files into the app.

Watches real file-system events, not a slow polling loop
Waits until a file is completely finished writing before uploading it
Works with anything that already saves there — screenshots, scanner output, exports from other apps

From your Photos library

Back up your library, then reclaim the space.

Turn on Automatic Photos Backup and BackitSnappy checks your macOS Photos library on a schedule, uploads anything new in full original quality, and clears it out of Photos so iCloud stops filling up.

Nothing is deleted until the upload is confirmed in Telegram first
Removed items go to Photos' own Recently Deleted — Apple's 30-day undo window
Off by default, with a single switch to stop it at any time

Photos

Original

Space freed

Deleted only after the upload is confirmed

Also Included

Everything a real backup tool needs

An album open in BackitSnappy, showing dozens of video thumbnails in a Photos-app-style grid

BackitSnappy's Albums tab, listing folders including Photos Backup, moto images, moto videos and iPhone Backup

Always the original file

No transcoding, no quality tiers, no stripped metadata. What you back up is what comes back — verified byte-for-byte. Up to 2GB per file, or 4GB with Telegram Premium.

Albums & sharing

Organize backups into albums, invite others by Telegram username, and browse each one as a fast, Photos-app-style grid.

Videos stream instantly

Click a video and it plays right away, pulled from Telegram as you watch. No waiting on a multi-gigabyte download, and nothing left behind on your disk.

Automatic dedup

The same file never gets uploaded twice — content is hashed and deduplicated, so re-drops and duplicate selections are free.

Security-first design

Credentials live in the macOS Keychain only, the local API binds to localhost and nothing else, and every request needs a pairing token that never touches the network.

Bigger than your hard drive

Your library isn't limited by local disk — only a capped cache lives on your Mac, and you set the ceiling. Everything else stays in Telegram until you open it.

A real native Mac app

Not a browser tab pretending to be an app — a proper macOS window that follows Apple's own design conventions.

One Honest Caveat

Your security is only as strong as your Telegram account's

We won't hide this in the fine print

BackitSnappy doesn't hold your data itself — it uploads to private channels on your own Telegram account, with no separate password or server in between. Anyone who can get into your Telegram account can see everything you've backed up. Turning on Telegram's own Two-Step Verification before relying on this is genuinely the most important step in the whole setup — it's covered first thing in the setup guide.

BackitSnappy's Settings screen, showing the auto-backup folder and the Automatic Photos Backup controls

Unlimited storage for your photos and videos. In original quality.