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Email backup for Mac

Keep a copy of every email. Under your control.

Back up Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, and any IMAP account to your Mac or storage you control. Horcrux 5 can maintain complete copies in more places.

Try free for 30 days Pay once or support annually
  • Private by design
  • Open email formats
  • Permanent after first payment
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Backup complete8,421 messages protected

One private archive for all your inboxes

  • Gmail
  • iCloud
  • Microsoft 365
  • Fastmail
  • Any IMAP account

Email sovereignty

Your inbox is a record of your life. It deserves more than a promise from the cloud.

Providers change, accounts get locked, and important messages are deleted by accident. Horcrux keeps an independent, usable copy on your own storage.

Why Horcrux exists

Set it once. Stay protected.

Backup without babysitting.

Horcrux runs quietly in the background and gives you a clear answer to the only question that matters: is my email safe?

01

Automatic, visible, verifiable.

Choose a schedule and Horcrux does the rest. See what is being saved, when the last backup completed, and whether your archive passed verification.

  • Multiple accounts and schedules
  • External drive and NAS support
  • Snapshot history with integrity checks
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02

Browse the past.

Open any snapshot, find the message you need, and inspect attachments without importing an entire archive.

03

Restore without lock-in.

Move messages back to an account, migrate between providers, or export standard files that remain useful without Horcrux.

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Included in Horcrux 5

One backup is smart. A few are a Horcrux.

Keep a complete local backup, then let Horcrux 5 maintain extra copies in other places. If a drive, server, or provider fails, another copy is already waiting.

Part of the permanent purchaseLocal, SFTP, and Amazon S3 locations are included in Horcrux 5.
Explore Backup Locations See pricing
Your inboxTom Riddle
Copy 1 · IncludedLocal backupOn storage you control
Copy 2 · Horcrux 5SFTP server
Copy 3 · Horcrux 5Amazon S3
More copiesComing next

Horcrux 5 keeps each additional copy in sync.

Local means local

Your email never passes through us.

Your local backup lives on your Mac, external drive, or NAS. Account credentials stay in Apple Keychain. Horcrux connects your mail provider directly to storage you choose.

Read our privacy promise
@Your inboxesGmail · iCloud · IMAP
⌂Your storageMac · External drive · NAS

No Horcrux cloud in the middle

The long view

Choose how you support it. Keep it for good.

Pay once or support Horcrux annually. Either first payment permanently unlocks Horcrux 5; annual renewals fund continued maintenance and private support.

01

Your backups outlive the app.

Messages are stored in the open .eml format with readable backup history, not a proprietary vault that only Horcrux can understand.

02

Useful, even after armageddon.

A fallback restore script keeps the archive useful even if the Horcrux app, or Horcrux itself, is no longer around to help.

03

Your choice funds maintenance.

One-time purchases and voluntary annual supporters both help keep Horcrux current without making continued app access depend on renewal.

“Horcrux is handy since you don’t actually have to think about it when it’s running.”

Lifehacker

Take back your inbox

Own your email backup.

Try every feature free, then pay once or support Horcrux annually. Keep version 5 permanently either way.

Download for Mac $49.99 full purchase · $29.99 upgrade · one-time or annual choices