Google closed off library-wide API access in 2025, so most backup tools simply stopped working. Syncrix moves your photos out through the official Google Picker and through Google Takeout imports — into Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, S3, R2 or Backblaze B2.
No credit card. Free plan includes 2 GB of transfer every month.
Google Photos
Your own cloud
Set it up once — Syncrix keeps running on schedule, even when your computer is off.
The problems people bring us, and what we do about them.
“My Google storage is full and I can’t upload anything.”
Move the library to a cloud where storage is cheap (S3, R2 or B2 cost a few dollars per terabyte), then free up Google space knowing a second copy exists.
“Every backup tool I try says the Photos API was shut down.”
We use what Google still allows: the Photos Picker for selected albums and photos, plus Takeout import for a whole library. Both are supported paths, not workarounds that break next month.
“Google Takeout gave me 40 zip files and I gave up.”
Send Takeout straight to your Drive, then point Syncrix at it. We extract the archives, skip the JSON sidecar clutter, keep album folders, and write the photos to your destination cloud.
“One Google account holds everything I own — that scares me.”
A single locked or lost account should never cost you 15 years of photos. A scheduled copy in a different provider is the cheapest insurance there is.
Takeout import that keeps your albums
Point us at a Google Takeout export in your Drive. We unpack it, drop the .json/.html sidecar files, keep the album structure, and copy the media to your chosen cloud.
Picker flow for selected photos
Pick albums or individual photos through Google’s own Photos Picker, then transfer them anywhere. Nothing is accessed except what you explicitly select.
Nothing is stored on our servers
Files are streamed straight from the source cloud to the destination. Once a transfer finishes, no copy of your data remains with us — we keep only file names and sizes needed to resume the next run.
Tokens encrypted with AES-256-GCM
Your cloud access tokens are encrypted at rest, never logged, and you can disconnect any cloud (or delete your whole account and its data) yourself at any time.
Scheduled, incremental runs
After the first pass, later runs compare size and modified time and skip everything unchanged — so a nightly backup finishes in minutes instead of re-uploading your whole library.
Email and webhook alerts
If a backup fails we retry automatically, then tell you — by email, Discord or Telegram — instead of leaving you to discover it months later.
Review the list, then run it for real. Mirror mode never deletes anything you haven't seen first.
Handing a tool access to years of files deserves scrutiny. Here is exactly what happens.
No copies kept
Files stream from source to destination. Nothing remains with us after a transfer — only names, sizes and timestamps so the next run can skip unchanged files.
Tokens encrypted at rest
Cloud credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and never written to logs. Disconnect a cloud, or delete your account and its data, whenever you want.
Least access we can ask for
For Google Drive we use the drive.file scope — we can only touch what you pick or what we create. Your data is never used to train AI models.
Sign up free and connect Google Photos plus the cloud you want the copy in.
Choose albums through the Google Picker, or import a Google Takeout export from your Drive.
Pick the destination folder and a schedule — hourly, daily or weekly.
Watch the first run finish, then leave it alone. We email you if anything needs attention.
Yes. Library-wide read access is gone for every tool, ours included. What still works is the Google Photos Picker (you select what to transfer) and Google Takeout (a full export you send to Drive, which we then unpack and copy). Both are officially supported paths.
No. Photos stream from Google to your destination cloud through the transfer worker and nothing is retained afterwards. We store file names, sizes and timestamps so the next incremental run knows what to skip.
Yes — we copy the files as they are served by Google, without re-encoding. Takeout exports contain the original uploads.
It depends on your library size and the destination, but you don't have to babysit it: transfers run on our servers with automatic retries and resume where they left off, so a multi-hundred-gigabyte library is fine.
The free plan includes 2 GB of transfer per month, two connected clouds and one sync rule — enough to move an album and see the whole flow before paying anything.