Parachute is a seamless backup utility for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive. Keep your memories and documents safe by backing them up to your own storage (external hard drive, NAS, other clouds like Google Drive or Dropbox, etc).

This started from a simple frustration: I wanted a way to back up my iCloud Photos and Drive—on my own terms. iCloud is great, but it’s not a time machine, and for years I felt uneasy knowing that decades of memories lived only in the cloud, without an easy way to keep a local copy. Parachute is my answer to that. It’s a Mac app that runs quietly in the background and automatically mirrors your iCloud Photos and Drive to your own storage—whether that’s an external drive, a NAS, or a synced folder. It doesn’t crowd your disk, doesn’t require a subscription, and most importantly, it gives you ownership of your data.