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. A second copy that's always yours, working right alongside iCloud, so nothing you care about ever lives in just one place.
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.
One account can be a single point of failure.
Real, documented cases. None of this is a knock on iCloud - it's the plain risk of keeping your only copy in any single place.
Attackers reached one journalist's iCloud and remotely erased his MacBook, iPhone and iPad - deleting a year and a half of his young daughter's photos, the only copies he had.
Wired, 2012 →Any account, with any provider, can be locked or suspended - a flagged payment, a forgotten password, a simple mistake. A second copy you own keeps working right through it.
How account recovery works →Delete a photo and it's gone from every device. Ransomware encrypts your files and the bad copies sync up over the good ones. iCloud keeps deleted items ~30 days - then they're gone.
Why sync ≠ backup →micloud is the second copy the asks for - independent, off your live sync, and truly yours.
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.
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.
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.
Safe in your hands
Your copy lives on hardware you control - one-way only. micloud reads from iCloud and never writes back to it.
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.
You hold the keys.
Your data is yours. Not ours, not Apple's, not anyone's. That's the architecture, not a promise you have to take on faith.
Encrypted to your key
Your backup is encrypted in transit and at rest with a key only you hold, so the storage host can't read it and your backups are yours alone. Self-host and micloud never touches your data; managed, and it's your own isolated instance, encrypted to your key. Want zero-knowledge even while it's running? Turn on end-to-end mode.
One-way and sealed
micloud only ever reads from iCloud. It can't write back, change, or delete a single thing in your Apple account. Your copy flows one way, into storage that answers to you.
Trust nothing. Verify everything.
micloud is open source. Every line is public, so "private" isn't a marketing word here, it's code you can read for yourself. Don't take our word for it, take the source.
Think of the managed plan like a safety-deposit box: we look after the vault, but the box is yours - and no one else's things ever go in it.
You, and only you, sign into your iCloud - even on Concierge, you type your own Apple password (we never see it). We run and maintain the Mac to keep your backup healthy; your data stays encrypted with a key only you hold.
The whole point of micloud is that you don't have to trust anyone. Including us.
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.
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
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
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.
Built to be yours - light, live, and one-way.
I didn't set out to build a product.
I build sovereign, self-hosted infrastructure for a living. One day it hit me that the most irreplaceable things I own, years of photos and a lifetime of files, all sat in one account, and I'd never kept a copy of my own. One wrong tap or one lost login, and there'd be nothing else to fall back on.
So I built myself a second copy: a live mirror of my whole iCloud onto storage I own, that no lockout, deletion, or outage can reach.
What surprised me wasn't the tech. It was how much calmer I felt afterwards, knowing that whatever happened, my life had a second home on hardware that answered to me.
That's when it clicked. Almost everyone wants that same reassurance, and almost no one can build it for themselves. So I'm opening up the exact thing I run for me. Same code, same principle. Your life, your copy, your keys.
PPiersFounder, mineracksLock in founding pricing before launch.
Reserve today and your rate is locked in for launch - no payment now. The same open-source app powers every plan, so you're never locked in.
- The full micloud app
- Point it at your own Nextcloud + Immich
- Guided setup wizard
- Audit every line - nothing through us
- You run the Mac + storage
- Personally onboarded by Piers - a real human, no bots
- On your always-on Mac + your storage
- Ongoing monitoring - we fix it if it breaks
- Priority human support
- Take the reins yourself any time
- We run the always-on Mac for you
- Your own private Nextcloud + Immich
- Expert onboarding included
- Monitored + supported, always healthy
- Export + walk away whenever - it's yours
Founding rates are reserved when you join today - no payment now. Concierge & Hosted are real-world services, billed directly at launch (no App Store fees).
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.