Eric Mann

Parachute Backup is a set-and-forget backup companion for iOS. It automatically syncs your memories—photos, videos, and documents—from iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive to your own storage (USB drive, network drive/NAS, Google Drive, and more), giving you peace of mind and full control. You can manually run backups, or setup scheduled backups to kickoff automatically. Parachute Backup for Mac has...

Meet Outpost — your instant drag-and-launch companion for macOS. Outpost brings your favorite contacts, apps, folders, and custom actions to the tip of your cursor. With a single hotkey, a stunning floating palette appears, ready to receive files, text, or links — no window switching, no digging through Finder. Whether you’re sharing a photo with a recent contact, dropping a document into a...

I built Offloader because macOS often left my iCloud Drive full of files that could be safely offloaded—but never were. I wanted something lightweight that would quietly reclaim space without touching anything important. Offloader monitors your iCloud Drive and uses safe macOS APIs to trigger offloads only when files are backed up and unused—based on delays you control. It’s private, native,...

New update coming out today! 1.1 of the app includes the below upgrades: Mirror Mode for iCloud Drive: continuously update your backup to be a mirror of your iCloud Drive. Optionally select other iCloud app data such as Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Text Edit and more! Improved retry/skip user options. Intro tooltip now includes summary of different backup modes.

This started from a simple frustration: I wanted a way to back up my iCloud Photos and Drive—on my own terms. iCloud is great, but it’s not a time machine, and for years I felt uneasy knowing that decades of memories lived only in the cloud, without an easy way to keep a local copy. Parachute is my answer to that. It’s a Mac app that runs quietly in the background and automatically mirrors your...