You can manually create or download a backup at any time to have full control over saving and restoring your data.
How to Create a Manual Backup
- Open Settings.
- Go to Backup.
- Tap „Create Backup“.
macOS:
- In the top application menu, select „Help“.
- Click „Download Backup“.
Windows, Linux, and Web Version:
- Click the three dots in the upper-left corner next to the app icon.
- Select „Help“.
- Click „Download Backup“.
How to Restore a Manual Backup
You can upload a previously created backup file to restore your tasks and projects.
Where to store backups
On Android, you can choose where the app stores backups. Open Settings → Backup → “Backup location” and select one of the following options:
- App folder — the default option. Backups are stored in the app’s folder. If you uninstall the app, all backups stored there will be deleted with it.
- Documents folder — the app creates a separate Documents/Singularity folder and stores backups there. These backups remain on the device even if you uninstall the app.
The selected location is used for both manually created backups and automatic daily backups.
When you select the “Documents folder,” the system may ask for permission to access files. Without this permission, backups can’t be saved, and the app will show the “Folder access denied” message.
On iPhone and iPad, the backup location can’t be changed — backups are always stored in the app folder.
- Open SingularityApp.
- Go to Settings → Backup.
- Tap „Restore backup“.
- Select the desired backup file from your device (the 10 most recent backups are stored).
- Confirm the data restore and wait for it to finish.
After the restore, the app pauses cloud sync. Sign in to your account again to resume synchronization.
Where backups are stored:
- Android, app folder: File Manager → Android → Data → com.sibirix.singularityapp → files.
- Android, Documents folder: File Manager → Documents → Singularity.
- iOS: Files → On My iPhone → SingularityApp.
Which Android location is used depends on the Backup location setting.
Desktop Version (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Close the application.
- Find the desired backup file on your device in the folder:
- Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\SingularityApp\nedb-backup\
- macOS: ~/Library/Containers/ru.sibirix.singularitydesktop/Data/Library/Application Support/SingularityApp/nedb-backup/
- Linux: ~/.config/SingularityApp/nedb-backup/
- Rename the selected backup file to backup.json.
- Move the file to the app’s root data folder:
- Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\SingularityApp\
- macOS: ~/Library/Containers/ru.sibirix.singularitydesktop/Data/Library/Application Support/SingularityApp/
- Restart the application — your data will be restored from the backup.
Web Version
- The web version doesn’t support restoring directly, but backups downloaded from the web can be restored in any desktop version of the app.
- Data is restored through cloud synchronization.
- If you experience sync issues, please contact support.
Open and Encrypted Backups
- Open backups contain complete readable data of tasks and projects and can be freely used for restoration.
- Encrypted backups are special files with obfuscated data (all characters replaced with question marks). These are used only by the support team for diagnostics and troubleshooting while preserving data confidentiality.
