For the memories you can't afford to lose
ColdStorage is a Mac app that encrypts your photos and files, then backs them up to the cloud. Starts at $9.99 a year for 500 GB.
Drag in what you want to keep
Open the app, drag in the photos or files you want to keep, and they upload. Pull in your whole camera roll or a single folder — whatever you drop in gets encrypted on your Mac and stored. There's no setup, and nothing to manage after.
Only you can open them
Your files are encrypted on your Mac before they leave it, with a key only you hold. We never get that key, so we can't open your files. Only you can.
Files are encrypted before they leave your machine.
We never get it, and there's no copy on our side.
What sits with us is data only you can open.
Start with 25 GB free, no card
When you need more room, pick a size. Getting files back has its own simple numbers — they're right below.
| Size | Per year | Per month | Choose a plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 GBfree · no card | Free | — | Get started |
| 500 GB | $9.99 | $0.83 | Choose |
| 1 TB | $18.99 | $1.58 | Choose |
| 2 TB | $36.99 | $3.08 | Choose |
| 5 TB | $90.99 | $7.58 | Choose |
| 10 TB | $180.99 | $15.08 | Choose |
Fair to ask
Those keep your files live and instantly openable, and you pay for that every month. ColdStorage is for files you want kept but rarely open, so it costs a lot less — and your files are encrypted with a key only you hold, so we can't read them.
No. They're encrypted on your Mac before they upload, with a key only you hold. We never get the key, so we can't open them.
Cheaper than keeping the same files live: 2 TB is $36.99 a year here, against roughly $100 to $120 on Google One, Dropbox or iCloud+. Not cheaper than running storage infrastructure yourself, which is genuinely less if you want to operate it — and if you've got a lot of terabytes sitting on one computer, an unlimited backup plan may come out lower. What this is built for is keeping files you rarely open, at a fair price, without you having to run anything.
Yes — 25 GB free, forever, no card.
Each month you can pull back 1 GB for free. Beyond that, you pay only what it costs us to move the data, and you always see the amount before you agree.
Anytime. You can export your whole archive and take it elsewhere — nothing's locked in.
Try it with 25 GB free
No card, and nothing to cancel if it's not for you.