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Restoid

Root-based Android app backup tool powered by restic.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Restoid is a backup mobile app, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: incremental backups and deduplication, data encryption, version history.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Android backup tool powered by restic” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “It's built for users who want robust, encrypted, and deduplicated backups.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Restic-Powered: Leverages the speed, security, and efficiency of restic for local, deduplicated, and encrypted backups.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Snapshot Management: Easily browse historical backup snapshots, view details of what was backed up, and forget old data to save space.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Restoid is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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