Features Cloud Backup FAQ
free & open by design

Bookmarks, backed up
automatically.

Maple Backup saves your bookmarks automatically. Backups are made at the frequency you choose — with an optional copy to your own cloud storage: Google Drive, Dropbox, Nutstore, or Koofr.

no account required · 15 languages · zero tracking
$ maple-backup --status
Last backup: today, 09:12 ✓
Bookmarks saved: 163
Cloud Backup: connected (Google Drive)
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features

Everything backup should be. Nothing it shouldn't.

No account. No dashboard to configure. Your bookmarks stay on your device unless you choose to back them up to your own cloud storage.

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Creates backups automatically

Runs on a schedule you choose — every 1 to 7 days — in the background. Nothing to remember, nothing to click.

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Saved safely on your device

Every backup is stored locally first. Browse the full history, view any past snapshot, or download it as a standalone file.

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Restore in one click

Pick any past backup and restore it into a new "Imported" folder — your current bookmarks are never touched or overwritten.

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Optional cloud backup

Connect Google Drive, Dropbox, Nutstore, or Koofr and every backup is also saved there — off by default, disconnect anytime.

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15 languages

The full interface is translated, not machine-patched — reviewed language by language.

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No tracking, ever

No analytics, no telemetry, no server of our own. Your bookmarks never leave your device unless you decide otherwise.

cloud backup

Your cloud storage, on your terms.

Cloud Backup is opt-in, and connects to Google Drive, Dropbox, Nutstore, or Koofr independently — each one only ever gets the minimum access it needs.

least-privilege access

Maple Backup only ever accesses the backup files it creates

Each provider uses its own narrowest available permission — Google's drive.file scope or Dropbox's dedicated App Folder access — so Maple Backup can never browse, read, or modify anything else already in your account.

  • Off by default — starts only after you click Connect for that provider
  • Writes only to a folder this extension itself creates
  • One-way mirror — never reads or restores back out of the cloud
  • Disconnect anytime; already-uploaded backups stay untouched
  • Connect one or more available providers — each is independent

Why only Google Drive and Dropbox from the Chrome Web Store?

This is a real limit of how Chrome itself works, not a choice we made. Google Drive is connected using Chrome's own built-in Google sign-in (chrome.identity.getAuthToken) — Chrome only allows this API to succeed for a copy of the extension installed through the official Chrome Web Store, no matter what the extension's own code does. Dropbox uses a more generic sign-in flow, but the "callback address" its server checks is tied to the extension ID. This site offers Dropbox through the Chrome Web Store build.

Because of this, Maple Backup only shows the Connect buttons for these two providers when it detects it's genuinely running as the Chrome Web Store copy — showing them anywhere else would just lead to a guaranteed failure.

For every other copy of the extension — one loaded directly from source rather than through the Chrome Web Store — Maple Backup instead offers Nutstore (坚果云) and Koofr. Both are WebDAV-based cloud storage services authenticated with a personal "app password" you generate yourself, rather than a Google-style sign-in — so neither one depends on the Chrome Web Store at all, and both work identically no matter how the extension was installed.

This matters because Google and Dropbox's own servers are themselves unreachable in some parts of the world — mainland China being the clearest example. An install that only ever offered those two would be useless there. Nutstore specifically is a mainland-China-based service, included for exactly that reason. We don't yet publish a direct download of the non-Store copy on this site — that's planned for later.

faq

Questions people actually ask

Yes. No account, no subscription, no paid tier. Maple Backup is free to install and use, with no strings attached.
No — Chrome Sync keeps your CURRENT bookmarks the same across devices. Maple Backup keeps a dated HISTORY of past versions, so you can go back to what your bookmarks looked like on any given day, even if Chrome Sync itself fails or gets reset.
Local backups are removed with the extension, same as any browser data. Anything already uploaded to a connected cloud provider stays exactly where it is — Maple Backup never deletes files from your cloud storage on its own.
No. Each provider is connected using its own narrowest available scope — scoped to only the files Maple Backup creates itself — so it has no ability to see any other file or folder already in your account.
Google Drive, Dropbox, Nutstore (坚果云), and Koofr. Connect any one, or several at once, from the Cloud Backup tab — each connection is independent, so disconnecting one never affects the others.