Essential Backup

Backup your important data

AlmDroid Apps · com.almdroid.essentialbackup

Not rated yet 10K+ downloads v2.2 7 MB Android 5.0+ PEGI 3 · Everyone

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At a glance

Latest version: v2.2 (17)
Updated: Apr 22, 2025 (1 year ago)
APK size: 7 MB
Requires: Android 5.0+ (API 21)
CPU support: Any (no native code)
Category: Productivity (app)
Permissions: 27 (10 sensitive)
Website: almdroid.com
Developer contact: [email protected]
Privacy: Developer's privacy policy

About this APK

Essential Backup is an app by AlmDroid Apps in the Productivity category. It has no native code, so it runs on any Android processor.

It asks for 27 permissions, 10 of them sensitive, including read contacts, read sms and read call log. The app can read the advertising ID that ad and analytics services use.

Description

From the listing uploaded by “appupdater”.

✅ Backup your Android phone! Backup your important data with Essential Backup. Backup and restore Contacts, SMS, Call log, Calendar anns apps (only APKs) found on your Android phone. Create backups to your phone storage or your Cloud storage - Google Drive. If you want to preserve your essential phone data, this is the right app for you. Backup your data so that you could recover it later. Restore saved data from your Phone storage or Google Drive. You can also use this app to transfer data between phones - backup data from one phone and restore your data to another phone. ● Features of Essential Backup: 🔹 Data backup ✓ Backup Contact ✓ Backup SMS ✓ Backup Call log ✓ Backup Calendar 🔹 Data restore ✓ Restore Contact ✓ Restore SMS ✓ Restore Call log ✓ Restore Calendar 🔹 App Manager ✓ Backup apps (only APKs, no apps data) ✓ Restore apps (only APKs, no apps data) ✓ Share apk file 🔹 Save backup to ✓ Phone storage / External storage ✓ Cloud storage / Google Drive 🔹 Manage backups in Essential Backup ✓ Manually create backups ✓ View backup contents ✓ Delete backups ✓ Share and email a backup file Contacts are preserved in VCF file format. SMS, Call log and Calendar events are preserved in JSON file format. Backup consists of those files that are inside a zip archive and you can easily read those files in your phone or computer! Default backup location will probably be the internal storage and not the external storage. This is because the phone reports the storage that way. You can change backup location to external storage in the app Settings. Essential Backup does not require root to perform backup and restore operations. 🔹 Requested Permissions Read/Edit your text messages (SMS or MMS) - To backup and restore your SMS messages Add or modify calendar events/Read calendar events - To backup and restore your Calendar events Read your contacts/Modify your contacts - To backup and restore your Contacts Read/Write call log - To backup and restore your call log entries Modify or delete / Read contents of your USB storage - To write backup to your Phone storage / USB storage Notice: - Essential Backup cannot backup and restore application data or settings of apps. It can backup and restore APK files only.

Security & authenticity

Security rating: Trusted

Signing certificate

Certificate with Google's generic name Google Play App Signing gives the keys it manages this name, but anyone can put it in a certificate, so this alone proves nothing.

Store checks and file details

Developer signature verified Apr 2, 2025
Signed byCN=Android, OU=Android, O=Google Inc., L=Mountain View, ST=California, C=US
Signing certificate (SHA-1)93:92:5F:9F:AF:C2:44:D3:F3:F6:30:67:AA:7E:CE:0D:95:1D:1F:FA
File MD5f94cf9baf7c31354decacf164606848d
Uploaded by “appupdater” Gold tier · 117,810 followers · uploading since 2020

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Permissions (27)

Essential Backup requests 27 permissions, 10 of them sensitive.

Read calendar Sensitive android.permission.READ_CALENDAR
Read call log Sensitive android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG
Read contacts Sensitive android.permission.READ_CONTACTS
Read sms Sensitive android.permission.READ_SMS
Receive sms Sensitive android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS
Request installing other apps Sensitive android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES
See all installed apps Sensitive android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES
Write calendar Sensitive android.permission.WRITE_CALENDAR
Write call log Sensitive android.permission.WRITE_CALL_LOG
Write contacts Sensitive android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS
Access adservices ad id android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID
Access adservices attribution android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION
Access adservices topics android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS
Advertising ID com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID
Change wifi state android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE
Control vibration android.permission.VIBRATE
Full network access android.permission.INTERNET
Google Play install referrer com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE
Internal broadcast protection (app-defined) com.almdroid.essentialbackup.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Prevent the device from sleeping android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
Request delete packages android.permission.REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES
Run at startup android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
Run foreground services android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
Show notifications android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS
View Wi-Fi connections android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
View network connections android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
Write sms android.permission.WRITE_SMS

Required hardware & features

Basic touch input android.hardware.faketouch
Portrait screen android.hardware.screen.portrait
Wi-Fi android.hardware.wifi