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About Essential Backup
Essential Backup was a productivity app developed by AlmDroid Apps. It was removed from Google Play Sep 10, 2026.
Install Statistics
Essential Backup had been installed 18 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
The app had no ratings.
App Information
Essential Backup was free. The app size was 7.44 MB. The last available version was 2.3.1. The last update was on October 29, 2025.
Technical Requirements
The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play since August 2023.
Description by AlmDroid Apps(from Google Play)
✅ Backup your Android phone! Backup your important data with Essential Backup.
Backup and restore Contacts, SMS, Call log, Calendar anns apps (only APKs) found on your Android phone. Create backups to your phone storage or your Cloud storage - Google Drive.
If you want to preserve your essential phone data, this is the right app for you.
Backup your data so that you could recover it later. Restore saved data from your Phone storage or Google Drive.
You can also use this app to transfer data between phones - backup data from one phone and restore your data to another phone.
🔹 Save backup to ✓ Phone storage / External storage ✓ Cloud storage / Google Drive
🔹 Manage backups in Essential Backup ✓ Manually create backups ✓ View backup contents ✓ Delete backups ✓ Share and email a backup file
Contacts are preserved in VCF file format. SMS, Call log and Calendar events are preserved in JSON file format.
Backup consists of those files that are inside a zip archive and you can easily read those files in your phone or computer! Default backup location will probably be the internal storage and not the external storage. This is because the phone reports the storage that way. You can change backup location to external storage in the app Settings.
Essential Backup does not require root to perform backup and restore operations.
🔹 Requested Permissions
Read/Edit your text messages (SMS or MMS) - To backup and restore your SMS messages
Add or modify calendar events/Read calendar events - To backup and restore your Calendar events
Read your contacts/Modify your contacts - To backup and restore your Contacts
Read/Write call log - To backup and restore your call log entries
Modify or delete / Read contents of your USB storage - To write backup to your Phone storage / USB storage
Notice: - Essential Backup cannot backup and restore application data or settings of apps. It can backup and restore APK files only.
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Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
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