Sovereign backup for iCloud

Your iCloud, backed up to storage you actually own.

micloud keeps a private, real-time copy of everything in your iCloud — photos, files, calendars, notes — on infrastructure you control. If Apple ever locks your account or has an outage, nothing you care about disappears.

You're on the list — we'll email you at launch.
Be first when micloud opens. No spam — just launch news.
The problem

iCloud is convenient. It's also entirely Apple's.

Your photos, files, and memories live on Apple's terms. One locked account, one policy change, one outage — and access to a lifetime of data can vanish overnight. iCloud syncs your devices; it isn't a backup you own. There's no second copy that's truly yours. micloud is that copy.

How it works

1× the storage. Real-time. Invisible.

micloud runs quietly on a Mac signed into your iCloud and mirrors it to your own storage — without keeping a heavy second copy on the Mac.

01 · SEE

A change appears

The moment a new photo, file, or edit lands in your iCloud, micloud notices it — within seconds, not on an hourly timer.

02 · STREAM

Grab just that item

It pulls down only the one thing that changed, streams it straight to your own storage, then clears the local copy.

03 · OWN

Safe in your hands

Your copy lives on hardware you control — one-way only. micloud reads from iCloud and never writes back to it.

A 200 GB iCloud library needs only a few GB on the Mac — so a small, cheap bridge can shadow a huge account, updated in real time.
What it protects

All of iCloud — each to an open home you can host yourself.

Not just photos. micloud mirrors the whole surface of your Apple account to open, self-hostable software.

Photos & videos
To your own Immich
Documents & Drive
To your own Nextcloud
Calendars & Contacts
CalDAV / CardDAV
Reminders & Notes
Kept in step as you edit
Bookmarks
Safari, mirrored
Mail
A server-side maildir copy
Passwords
To your own vault
Health
Your metrics, your store
Two ways to own your cloud

Do it yourself — or let us do it for you.

Same open-source app, same result: a private copy of your iCloud on storage you own. Choose how hands-on you want to be.

Free & open source

Do it yourself

Download the open-source micloud app, run it on an always-on Mac you own, and point it at your own storage. No account with us, no data through us — audit every line and own the whole chain, end to end.

  • An always-on Mac — a Mac mini, Studio, or a hosted Mac (e.g. MacStadium)
  • Your own Nextcloud + Immich — on an Umbrel, or any host you like (Hetzner, Vultr, AWS…)
  • About 30 minutes with the guided setup wizard
Notify me when the app ships →
Best if you're comfortable running your own storage.
Turnkey · concierge

We set it up for you

Prefer it simply handled? We do everything — stand up your always-on Mac, provision your private storage, run the setup, and keep it healthy. A real person guides you through it. You sign into iCloud once; we take care of the rest.

  • Expert, human-guided onboarding — we do the technical parts
  • Your private storage, provisioned and managed (or bring your own)
  • Ongoing support and monitoring, so it just keeps working
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Best if you'd rather someone just make it work.

One app, open source. The turnkey service is simply us running that same app for you — so you're never locked in. Start hands-off, and take the reins yourself whenever you like.

Why micloud

Built to be yours — light, live, and one-way.

1×
One copy of your data, not two. A thin rolling cache does the work — no doubling your storage.
~5s
Real-time, not hourly. Changes reach your copy within seconds of appearing on the Mac.
1-way
micloud only reads from iCloud. It can never alter or delete anything in your Apple account.
0
Your data never passes through us. It goes straight from your Mac to storage you own.
Open formats — Immich, Nextcloud, standard DAV. No lock-in, ever. Leave whenever you like.
Launching soon

Own your cloud. Join the waitlist.

We're opening micloud to a first group of people who want a real, private backup of their Apple life — whether you'll run it yourself or have us set it up for you.

You're on the list — we'll email you at launch.
No spam. One email when we open, and that's it.