Essential Backup

Essential Backup is a must-have app for Android users who want to safeguard their essential phone data. With this app, you can easily backup and restore your Contacts, SMS, Call log, Calendar, and apps (only APKs) found on your Android phone. Whether you want to create backups to your phone storage or sync them to your Cloud storage like Google Drive, Essential Backup has got you covered.

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

Permissions Required:

Essential Backup requests the following permissions to ensure seamless backup and restore operations:

• 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 focuses on backing up and restoring APK files only. It does not include application data or settings of apps in the backup process.