SMS Backup

2.80

Jerry Zigo

3.90

3,486 reviews

1,000,000+
Downloads

Free

Backup and export your SMS and MMS to HTML easily and transfer your SMS!

Not recently updated — last update was on 2022-05-27. This app may no longer be actively maintained.

About SMS Backup

SMS Backup is a tools app developed by Jerry Zigo.

Download Statistics

SMS Backup has been downloaded 1 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1 thousand times.

User Ratings

SMS Backup is rated 3.90 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 3.5 thousand ratings.

App Information

SMS Backup is FREE to download. The APK download size is 5.21 MB. The latest version available is 2.80. The last update was on May 27, 2022.

Technical Requirements

SMS Backup requires Android 6.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2014.

Description

SMS Backup is a very simple app that makes a backup of your SMS and MMS messages (images and audio files), lets you share them and then restore/transfer to another phone (currently only SMS).

Important notice:
- This app doesn't restore deleted messages.
- If you're missing some messages or one side of conversation in your backup, it's probably because this app doesn't back up RCS messages (also known as Advanced Messaging) unless you use Google Messages as your default texting app. Turning Advanced Messaging off will allow the app to back up new messages only, not those already stored as RCS.

The app can export your conversations to two different formats:
1) nice-looking read-only HTML format with chat bubbles,
2) restorable JSON data file in case you plan to transfer your messages to another phone,
and saves them to your internal device storage.

You can easily send these files to your e-mail, Gmail, Google Drive or wherever you want. If you are switching to a new phone and you want to transfer your SMS messages, this app is exactly what you're looking for. It not only creates a data file which is required to restore messages, but also saves your text messages to HTML format. Therefore you can open and view your backed up messages almost anywhere, whether it is your computer or iPhone!

If you have any questions or any improvement ideas, please send an email to us at japps4all@gmail.com. Thanks!

Recent changes:
Fixed an issue where duplicate messages appeared in HTML backups

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More data about SMS Backup

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	1 million
Recent downloads	1 thousand
Rating	3.90 based on 3.5 thousand ratings
Ranking	Not ranked
Version	2.80
APK size	5.21 MB
Number of libraries	21
Designed for Android	6.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	Contains ads

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SMS Backup compared with similar apps

Common keywords of similar apps

Html Rcs Advanced Saves Send Messages Sms App Backup Transfer Restore Phone Export Mms Easily Files Back Messaging Google Format Data File

Keywords missing from this app

Call Logs Backups Windows Text Contacts Drive Features Message Device Import Contact Storage Conversations Fast Version Default View Secure Cloud Pro Pdf Simple Free Choose History Chats Important Easy Tap Print Convert Share

Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

SMS Backup has been downloaded 1 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 34 downloads per day.

Changelog of SMS Backup

May 27, 2022UpdateVersion 2.73
Dec 2, 2021UpdateVersion 2.69
Oct 13, 2021UpdateVersion 2.68
Oct 6, 2021Installs500,000+ installs
Oct 1, 2021UpdateVersion 2.67
Sep 3, 2021UpdateVersion 2.66
Aug 14, 2021UpdateVersion 2.65
Jan 24, 2021UpdateVersion 2.63
Dec 29, 2020UpdateVersion 2.62
Dec 28, 2020UpdateVersion 2.61
Dec 8, 2020UpdateVersion 2.58
Nov 18, 2020UpdateVersion 2.57
Oct 27, 2020UpdateVersion 2.55
Oct 8, 2020UpdateVersion 2.54
Oct 2, 2020UpdateVersion 2.52
Sep 6, 2020UpdateVersion 2.50
Sep 1, 2020UpdateVersion 2.49
Aug 18, 2020UpdateVersion 2.47
Aug 4, 2020UpdateVersion 2.45
Jul 20, 2020UpdateVersion 2.38
Jun 25, 2020UpdateVersion 2.33
Jun 17, 2020UpdateVersion 2.25
Jun 7, 2020UpdateVersion 2.20
Nov 25, 2019Installs100,000+ installs
Sep 13, 2019UpdateVersion 2.16
Apr 29, 2019Installs50,000+ installs
Dec 24, 2018UpdateVersion 2.14
Dec 20, 2018UpdateVersion 2.13
May 6, 2018UpdateVersion 2.08
Jan 25, 2018Installs10,000+ installs
Oct 30, 2017UpdateVersion 2.07
Oct 22, 2017UpdateVersion 2.06
Apr 4, 2017UpdateVersion 2.05
Sep 12, 2016Installs5,000+ installs
Aug 30, 2016UpdateVersion 2.02
Aug 23, 2016UpdateVersion 2.01
Nov 21, 2015Installs1,000+ installs
Jan 8, 2015Installs500+ installs
Oct 16, 2014Installs100+ installs
Sep 9, 2014Installs50+ installs
Aug 22, 2014UpdateVersion 1.02
Aug 12, 2014UpdateVersion 1.01
Jul 18, 2014New AppVersion 1.0 in TOOLS for Free

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Developer information for Jerry Zigo

Jerry Zigo

japps4all@gmail.com

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Comments on SMS Backup for Android

★★★★★ Ernest King · Jun 12, 2024

Great option to back up sms/mms messages. I was able to back up a conversation to HTML and PDF. Both worked really well and so great that it was free. No need to buy a subscription or premium access. So nice to see.

★★★★★ Rude Elf · Mar 8, 2024

Fantastic. Lets you save your old text messages to a bunch of essentially, plaintext files in a folder of your choosing on your SD card etc. Great when just wanting to rescue a few notable txts off an old phone. Delete the years of rubbish first, then just save what's important to a few HTML files, easy. If you ever need to go back and check old messages, any browser can read the HTML files (or you can even just dive into them with a text editor). Worked intuitively & flawlessly 1st time

★☆☆☆☆ Dan Green · Dec 12, 2023

Maybe it's me but it sucks! Downloaded to both phones, won't access its own backups nor allow me to pull from memory card which I also backed up to.

★☆☆☆☆ Yohay Eldor · Jul 13, 2024

The worse ever. Wow. Did nothing and added so much pointless work

★★☆☆☆ Anthony King · Jan 28, 2024

Unable to Transfer Texts. Backup on Android 6 OK but wouldn't go on to transfer to Google Drive. Ad appeared and app reset once returned to it. Using menu option to do that worked, but resulting JSON file wouldn't be picked up on destination device :o(

★☆☆☆☆ Percy · May 27, 2024

Warning do not use, or you will lose all your texts. I use this to back up my text and now that I'm trying to restore my text it's telling me it only restores backups that it creates. It did create these backups, so I have no idea why it won't restore.

Google Play Rankings for SMS Backup

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Technologies used by SMS Backup

SMS Backup is requesting 23 permissions and is using 24 libraries.

Permissions

Your personal information

read your contacts

Your messages

read your text messages (SMS or MMS), edit your text messages (SMS or MMS)

Network communication

view network connections, full network access, Google Play billing service, receive data from Internet

System tools

prevent phone from sleeping

Extra

android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS, android.permission.BILLING, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC, android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS, com.cmcc.ccs.READ_CCS_MESSAGE, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID, com.gsma.services.permission.RCS, com.samsung.rcs.im.READ_PERMISSION, com.sec.ims.android.rcs.READ_PERMISSION, com.sec.imsservice.READ_IMS_PERMISSION, com.sec.imsservice.WRITE_IMS_PERMISSION

Ad network libraries

AdMob

Social libraries

None found

Development tools

Android Jetpack core

Android Architecture Components

Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable Firebase Android Library Icon

Firebase

Android Jetpack Annotations Android Jetpack Widgets Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Widgets Android Jetpack AppCompat Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack AppCompat AndroidX Activity Android Library Icon

AndroidX Activity Android Activity Saved State Android Library Icon

Android Activity Saved State Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) Android Library Icon

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)

Android Transition Support Library Kotlin Android Library Icon

Kotlin

AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core utils Google gson Android Library Icon

Google gson Android WorkManager Android Library Icon

Android WorkManager Chromium Android Library Icon

Chromium

Material Dialogs MaterialProgressBar Android Library Icon

MaterialProgressBar JUnit Android Library Icon

JUnit

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