Frequently asked questions

Yes. The Android app is free, has no ads, no in-app purchases, and no subscription. You can also start with 30 GB completely free, forever by combining the permanent free tiers of Backblaze B2 (10 GB), Cloudflare R2 (10 GB), and iDrive e2 (10 GB, no credit card required) as three separate destinations. Above the free tier, 100 GB costs about $0.60/month on B2. How to set up free photo backup →

An Android app that watches your photo library and uploads new photos and videos to a cloud storage bucket you own. It speaks the S3 protocol, which is supported by Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Amazon S3, and a number of smaller providers.

Because storage providers compete on price, but photo apps usually do not — they bundle storage and viewer and charge a margin. Separating the two means you pay storage-provider prices for storage, and zero for the app.

Not as of May 2026. Android only.

Android 8.0 (API 26) or later.

No. There is no Breazzy server, no Breazzy account, no database. Your phone uploads directly to your bucket. We have no technical means to view, copy, or analyse your photos.

Your access key and secret are stored locally on the device in Android's encrypted shared preferences. They are used to sign requests with S3 SigV4 and never sent anywhere except to your storage provider's API.

Not in Breazzy as of May 2026. Transport is HTTPS. For at-rest encryption, enable server-side encryption on your bucket — B2 has SSE-B2, R2 enables it by default, S3 has SSE-S3. All three are free and transparent.

No. There are no analytics SDKs, no telemetry, no crash reporters that report to Breazzy. The only network traffic is to your storage provider's API and (if you allow it) the Google Play Store for updates.

Revoke the access key in your provider's dashboard. The credential is immediately unusable. Your photos in the bucket are unaffected. Issue a new key on your replacement device.

Yes, up to 30 GB. Breazzy supports multiple destinations simultaneously, so you can use each provider's permanent free tier independently: Backblaze B2 gives you 10 GB free forever, Cloudflare R2 gives 10 GB free forever, and iDrive e2 gives 10 GB free forever with no credit card required. Route different albums to each bucket and pay nothing. A library of 8,000–15,000 photos typically fits under 30 GB. See the free photo backup guide.

About $0.60 per month on Backblaze B2, $0.25 on iDrive e2 (cheapest option), $1.50 on Cloudflare R2, $2.30 on Amazon S3 Standard. Compare with Google One at $1.99/month for 100 GB. Full comparison. Verified May 2026.

Start free: iDrive e2 has no credit card required for its 10 GB free tier. For paid: Backblaze B2 for most people (cheapest at $0.60/100 GB), iDrive e2 if you want the absolute lowest price ($0.25/100 GB), Cloudflare R2 if you re-download a lot. Detailed comparison.

Yes, on a best-effort basis. Breazzy uses standard S3 SigV4 with no provider-specific extensions, so any S3-compatible endpoint should work. We officially test against B2, R2, and S3.

Yes. Configure more than one destination and route different albums to different buckets — for example, family photos to cheap B2 and a "favorites" album to R2 for sharing.

Switch. Spin up a bucket at a different provider, sync the old bucket to it with rclone copy, point Breazzy at the new bucket. No re-uploading from the phone needed.

Yes. After the initial sync, a background worker picks up new photos and uploads them. You can restrict this to Wi-Fi only and to times when the phone is charging.

Yes. Same way as photos, original quality, no re-encoding.

You choose. Breazzy lists every album on the device; tick the ones you want backed up.

Breazzy retries with exponential backoff. Persistent failures are logged in the in-app Log screen. The most common cause is a credential change on the provider side.

No. On first sync to an existing bucket, Breazzy checks which objects are already there (by name) and skips them. Only genuinely new photos are uploaded.

No. Breazzy is backup, not sync. Deletions on the phone are not propagated. If you want to remove a photo from the bucket, do it directly with your provider's tools.

Use Google Takeout to export your library, then upload it to your bucket with rclone on a desktop. Install Breazzy and configure the same bucket — it will skip existing files. Full migration guide.

Download from iCloud.com to a desktop, push to your bucket with rclone, install Breazzy.

Use the Amazon Photos download tool to grab an archive, upload to your bucket with rclone.

Most common cause: wrong endpoint or wrong region. Double-check Backblaze realm (e.g. s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com), R2 account ID, or S3 region. Second most common: typo in access key or secret.

Some Android skins aggressively kill background apps. In your phone's Settings → Battery → Breazzy, allow background activity and exempt it from battery optimization.

Carrier limit, not Breazzy. Test on Wi-Fi. If still slow, try a different storage provider region closer to you.