SMS Backup & Restore Pro Downloads & RevenueSMS Backup & Restore Pro · Google Play
SMS Backup & Restore Pro is #9 in Tools Paid on Google Play in United States and charting in 10 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperSyncTech Pty Ltd
CategoryTools
Price7.49 USD
Released
Installs100k+
Rating★ 4.4 (2.3k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
SMS Backup & Restore Pro update history & changes
Last change · 22 events since 28 Oct 2010Full timeline ↓📈New best rank in the overall chart: #50📦Updated to version 10.30.007🌏Found on Huawei AppGallery📈Entered the top 10🌏Found on Samsung Galaxy Store📦Updated to version 10.30.005🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on Google Play
Full timeline · 22 events
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro new best rank in the overall chart: #50Top Paid · All Apps · US
- 📦SMS Backup & Restore Pro updated to version 10.30.007Fix for a permission error during Call logs restore for some users.
- 🌏SMS Backup & Restore Pro: found on Huawei AppGallery
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro entered the top 10Top Paid · Tools · US
- 🌏SMS Backup & Restore Pro: found on Samsung Galaxy Store
- 📦SMS Backup & Restore Pro updated to version 10.30.005• New tool: Delete duplicate messages, to clear extra copies on your phone
• Faster restores, especially if your phone already holds many messages
• Duplicate checks now spot the same message saved in different number formats
• Conversations show the right date and preview after a restore, MMS included
• Potential fix for blank screen faced by some users on startup
• Better diagnostics if a restore is interrupted due to an error
• Temporary copies now go to the cache, not your backup folder… more - 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Tools · TH · Top Paid · Tools · TR
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro charting in a new country in 2 chartsThailand · Turkey
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Tools · NL · Top Paid · Tools · VN
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro charting in a new country in 2 chartsNetherlands · Vietnam
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro entered the top 100Top Paid · Tools · MX
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro charting in a new countryMexico
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro new best rank in the overall chart: #53Top Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro new best rank in the overall chart: #62Top Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro new best rank in the overall chart: #64Top Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro new best rank in the overall chart: #71Top Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro new best rank in the overall chart: #72Top Paid · All Apps · US
- 📦SMS Backup & Restore Pro updated to version 10.29.002• New option to back up only the last X days of messages
• Redesigned Create Backup screen with collapsible Advanced options
• RCS group chats show their real name and stay as one conversation
• RCS business chats (banks, deliveries) show the sender name
• Restore RCS groups into the right chat
• Messages missing recipient details no longer disappear, drafts included
• Fixed an empty conversation list issue on Android 17
• Improved conversation selection… more - 📈SMS Backup & Restore Pro new best rank in the overall chart: #81Top Paid · All Apps · US
- 🆕SMS Backup & Restore Pro first spotted by AppInsiderUnited States
- 📦SMS Backup & Restore Pro version 10.28.001Updated to target Android 16 SDK as per Play Store requirements.
- 🆕SMS Backup & Restore Pro released on Google Play
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.4 ★
2.3k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#9
Tools PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
4
▲ +25% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
SMS Backup & Restore Pro on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestorePro
Publisher
SYNCTECH PTY LTD
Publisher country
Australia
Content rating
Everyone
SMS Backup & Restore Pro downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where SMS Backup & Restore Pro's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
On Android app stores
The same app (com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestorePro) on every Android store we track. Known Android installs: at least 103k (Google Play band + AppGallery count).
| Store | Installs | Rating | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Play | 100,000+ | ★ 4.4 (2.3k) | 10.30.007 | Open ↗ |
| Huawei AppGallery | 3k | – | 10.19.020 | Open ↗ |
| Samsung Galaxy Store | not published | ★ 0.0 (0) | 10.19.020 | Open ↗ |
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Business model: Ad-led
How SMS Backup & Restore Pro makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Ads · 1 ad networks
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | ToolsPaid | #9 |
| United States | All AppsPaid | #68 |
 India | ToolsPaid | #48 |
 Mexico | ToolsPaid | #48 |
 Indonesia | ToolsPaid | #46 |
 Saudi Arabia | ToolsPaid | #50 |
 Turkey | ToolsPaid | #46 |
 Netherlands | ToolsPaid | #48 |
 United Arab Emirates | ToolsPaid | #51 |
 Thailand | ToolsPaid | #46 |
 Vietnam | ToolsPaid | #46 |
Apps near SMS Backup & Restore Pro on the chart
Tools Paid, around #9.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
2.3k ratings
Measured
Ratings
2.3k
Measured
Written reviews
531
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
4
▲ +25% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2
Google Play
Lifetime rating
4.4★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
27/100
faster than 5% of Tools apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about SMS Backup & Restore Pro
From the 112 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users highly value the app's reliability for legal evidence and device migration, praising its simplicity and robust backup features. However, recent complaints highlight issues with scheduled backups failing due to OS updates or API errors, alongside slow restoration times on newer Android versions.
Mostly positive (79% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and its features and content. The main complaints are about not being useful, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Useful: “very useful and practical”
- Features & content: “Has a simple interface with all the necessary options”
- Ease of use: “Easy, quick and effective”
- Price & subscription: “I would gladly pay annually for this app”
Common complaints
- Useful: “When multiple backups are stuck in the queue, it recommends removing the data "clear data"”
- Price & subscription: “Missed the refund by a few minutes”
- Crashes & bugs: “keep getting Network error”
- Updates: “Update: 10/17/26, new update rendered it useless”
About SMS Backup & Restore Pro
SMS Backup & Restore Pro is an app that backs up (creates a copy of) SMS & MMS messages and call logs currently available on the phone. It can also restore messages and call logs from already existing backups. This is a Paid no-ads version of the ad-supported free app.
Note: This app requires existing backups to be able to restore call logs and messages. It cannot recover anything without existing backups.
To view the contents of the backups, visit https://www.synctech.com.au/view-backup/
For questions or issues please visit our FAQ at: https://synctech.com.au/sms-faqs/
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APP FEATURES:
Additional features not in the free app:
- Compress and encrypt backups.
- Use WebDAV as a backup location.
OTHER FEATURES:
- Backup SMS (text) messages, MMS and call logs in XML format.
- Local device backup with options to automatically upload to Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.
- Compress and encrypt backup files.
- Choose a recurring scheduled time to automatically backup.
- Option to select which conversations to backup or restore.
- View and drill into your local and cloud backups.
- Search backups.
- Restore/transfer backup to another phone. Backup format is independent of the Android version so the messages and logs can be easily transferred from one phone to another, irrespective of the version.
- Fast Transfer between 2 phones over WiFi direct
- Free up space on your phone. Delete all SMS messages or call logs on the Phone.
- Email a backup file.
- The XML backup can be viewed on a computer via the online viewer at https://SyncTech.com.au/view-backup/
Notes:
- Tested on Android 5.0 and higher
- App only restores backups made by this app
- Backup is created locally on the phone by default, but has options to upload to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Email. At no time are the files sent to the developer.
- Please ensure there is a copy of the backup outside the phone before performing a factory reset on the phone.
This App needs access to the following:
* Your messages: Backup and Restore messages. Receive SMS permission needed to properly handle messages received while the app is the default messaging app.
* Your Calls and Contact information: Backup and Restore Call Logs.
* Network view and communication: Allows the app to connect to wifi for backup
* Your social information: To display and store the contact names in the Backup file.
* Run at start-up: Start scheduled Backups.
* Prevent Phone from Sleeping: To prevent the phone from going to sleep/suspended state while a Backup or Restore operation is in progress.
* Account Information: To authenticate with Google Drive and Gmail for cloud uploads.
* Location: Only requested and used during WiFi direct transfer due to a security requirement on Android.
Note: This app requires existing backups to be able to restore call logs and messages. It cannot recover anything without existing backups.
To view the contents of the backups, visit https://www.synctech.com.au/view-backup/
For questions or issues please visit our FAQ at: https://synctech.com.au/sms-faqs/
---------------------------------------------------------
APP FEATURES:
Additional features not in the free app:
- Compress and encrypt backups.
- Use WebDAV as a backup location.
OTHER FEATURES:
- Backup SMS (text) messages, MMS and call logs in XML format.
- Local device backup with options to automatically upload to Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.
- Compress and encrypt backup files.
- Choose a recurring scheduled time to automatically backup.
- Option to select which conversations to backup or restore.
- View and drill into your local and cloud backups.
- Search backups.
- Restore/transfer backup to another phone. Backup format is independent of the Android version so the messages and logs can be easily transferred from one phone to another, irrespective of the version.
- Fast Transfer between 2 phones over WiFi direct
- Free up space on your phone. Delete all SMS messages or call logs on the Phone.
- Email a backup file.
- The XML backup can be viewed on a computer via the online viewer at https://SyncTech.com.au/view-backup/
Notes:
- Tested on Android 5.0 and higher
- App only restores backups made by this app
- Backup is created locally on the phone by default, but has options to upload to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Email. At no time are the files sent to the developer.
- Please ensure there is a copy of the backup outside the phone before performing a factory reset on the phone.
This App needs access to the following:
* Your messages: Backup and Restore messages. Receive SMS permission needed to properly handle messages received while the app is the default messaging app.
* Your Calls and Contact information: Backup and Restore Call Logs.
* Network view and communication: Allows the app to connect to wifi for backup
* Your social information: To display and store the contact names in the Backup file.
* Run at start-up: Start scheduled Backups.
* Prevent Phone from Sleeping: To prevent the phone from going to sleep/suspended state while a Backup or Restore operation is in progress.
* Account Information: To authenticate with Google Drive and Gmail for cloud uploads.
* Location: Only requested and used during WiFi direct transfer due to a security requirement on Android.
What's new in 10.30.007
Fix for a permission error during Call logs restore for some users.