Every original, backed up free to a channel only you can open.
Free and open source, for iPhone and Mac.
Lelvo LibraryPrivate channel, only you, 1,292 files
Photos on this iPhone and everything in your backup, together by day, month or year. Back up all of it with one tap, or select a few and back up just those.
The small mark on each photo tells you where it lives: green for backed up, a cloud for only in your backup.
Memories and trips, recent days, your albums, a map, and duplicates with the best shot marked. Search for places, months, text and things in your photos.
All of it is worked out on your iPhone or Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere to be analysed.
Big photos show a screen copy straight away, and videos play at once in 1080p and seek instantly, even on mobile data. One tap switches to the original. Nothing fills up your phone.
Sign in on a new phone and your library is there. Save to Photos puts back the original with its edit, the RAW of RAW + JPEG photos, Live Photos, favourites and the same albums.
A photo counts as backed up only after Telegram has confirmed every part, and only those are offered for removal from your phone. Delete something from your backup and it stays in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
Tap Continue with Telegram. There's no Lelvo account to make.
Your phone number, then the code Telegram sends to your other Telegram apps.
Pick what to include and when it may upload, then tap Back up now. That's it.
Lelvo has no servers and no accounts of its own. Your photos travel from your device to your Telegram account and nowhere else. No analytics, no ads, no tracking, and every line of code that proves it is public.
The short answers. Telegram's rules are Telegram's to set, so the answers link to Telegram's own pages.
In a Standard library, files are encrypted on the way and stored like any Telegram cloud chat, which isn't end-to-end encrypted (Telegram FAQ). In an End-to-end encrypted library, Lelvo encrypts every file and its details on your device first, so Telegram only ever holds files it can't open.
Telegram describes its cloud storage as unlimited, with files up to 2 GB each, or 4 GB with Telegram Premium (Terms of Service, FAQ). That's Telegram's offer, not a promise Lelvo can make, and Telegram can change it. Lelvo splits bigger files into parts on its own.
Yes. Telegram opens its API to third-party apps under the Telegram API Terms of Service. Lelvo follows them: it uses its own app key, says clearly that it uses the Telegram API, doesn't put "Telegram" in its name or use Telegram's logo, and doesn't change how Telegram works for anyone else.
Backing up your own photos to your own private channel is ordinary use. Bans come from breaking Telegram's Terms of Service, such as spam or scams. Lelvo only posts to your private channel, uploads at most two files at a time with a pause between them, and waits whenever Telegram asks it to slow down.
Install Lelvo, sign in with the same Telegram account and pick your library. Dates, places, albums and Live Photos come back, and photos already on the phone aren't uploaded again.
A deleted channel takes every file in it, and it can't be restored by Lelvo or anyone else. Photos still on your phone are safe: after a re-scan they show as not backed up, and Retry uploads them again. Please don't delete or edit messages in the library channel by hand.
Only when you ask, and iOS always asks you to confirm. Free up space offers only photos that Lelvo has just checked are complete in Telegram and unchanged since their backup.
Lelvo is free and open source under the GPL-3.0, and every feature stays free. Your storage is your own Telegram account's, so there's no plan to buy. Making Lelvo isn't free, though: the Apple developer membership costs $99 a year, plus test devices, the website and a lot of evenings. If Lelvo saves you a storage plan, a small contribution keeps it going.
Frozen accounts, login codes, encryption, storage and more: read the full FAQ. Still stuck? Ask in Discussions.
Every line of Lelvo is on GitHub under the GPL-3.0. Report a bug, suggest an idea, translate, or send a pull request. The contributing guide explains how ideas become features. Developers can download a test build today.