sms-backup-plus VS photos-app

SMS Backup+ (https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus) uses an IMAP connection to back up messages to a folder in a mailbox, and can also restore to a new phone (restore SMS only, not MMS/RCS). Can also add phone calls to your Google Calendar as entries. Can use any IMAP account, but defaults to GMail. Requires setting an application password for GMail access. Advantage: View and search messages within your email account.

Alternatively there's SMS Backup+, which is more focused on exporting. It will copy your messages into individual email messages in Gmail (or any email account supporting IMAP).

For Android, you might look at https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/

SMS Backup+ (version 1.5.11): Backup SMS, MMS and call history to IMAP

Here is one sample repo link.

Next I would highly recommend backing up your SMS messages using an app from the Play store. "SMS Backup and Restore" works well as already mentioned here, there is also an app called "SMS Backup+" which backs up your SMS and Call log as emails in your Gmail account. This is nice so you can still search through old messages if you want and is slightly more accessible than SMS Backup and Restore's Online viewer for its XML backups. SMS Backup+ requires a little work around now to connect to Gmail due to Google's security changes over the last few years, and that workaround can be found here: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/972

ente - encrypted photo storage (version 0.7.92): ente is an end-to-end encrypted photo storage app

The format isn't natively supported on mobile, but we can transcode and render them. We have created an issue to track this: github.com/ente-io/photos-app/issues/1269

Hey, we've added an item to our roadmap to configure a lockscreen different from the system lockscreen: github.com/ente-io/photos-app/issues/1240

Hey, this is already on our radar: github.com/ente-io/photos-app/issues/1226

Hey, not sure how popular this feature will be, since all your metadata is end-to-end encrypted and only accessible to you, but have added this to our roadmap anyway: github.com/ente-io/photos-app/issues/1219

We don't automatically sync media movement from the device to ente, as users might have already organized their media on ente, possibly on a different device. However, we understand that this could be a valuable feature, perhaps as an album-level configuration. We've added this to our roadmap.

Hey, we recently added support to playback Motion Photos to our Flutter app.

We also wrote a guide to set it up. Our code is open source, so you can easily refer to the crowdin config and GitHub action config.

ente - encrypted photo storage (version 0.7.43): ente is an end-to-end encrypted photo storage app