How it works

1. Create an account here and log in. You need an email address and an account password.
2. Open Messages. On the phone, open Messages › Settings › PC connection › Connect a browser, and scan the code your browser shows (or type the code instead).
3. Your conversations appear in the browser. When you send, your phone sends the text from your own number.

Messages are end-to-end encrypted: the browser and the phone share a key during that pairing, and PuriCloud passes the encrypted messages between them without ever having the key.

1. On the phone, open PuriBackup › PuriCloud and set it up with your number and a PuriCloud password.
2. Choose a backup password. Each backup is encrypted with it on the phone before it is sent, so PuriCloud only ever holds a backup it cannot open. Write down the recovery code the phone shows.
3. Backups go up by themselves at night. Each one is kept on the phone too, and the backup password or the recovery code opens it. Restoring from PuriCloud onto a new phone comes later.

You don’t need an online account for backups. If you want to see or delete them on a computer, pair the phone with your account under My account › Backups.

1. Log in to My account and choose Google › Connect. Google asks whether PuriCloud may use your contacts and the calendars you pick.
2. On the phone, turn on PuriCloud sync in PuriBackup.
3. Your contacts and events stay the same on the phone and in Google. Disconnect at any time under My account › Google.

Synced contacts and calendar are encrypted when stored, but unlike messages and backups the server can read them, because it has to merge changes from both sides. Read more.