Backup & Beyond
Since 2015 · Taiwan
Maktar builds the hardware your memories actually live on — small enough to forget in your bag, built to outlast the phone in your pocket. Plug in. Back up. Forget.
No cloud subscription. No monthly bill. No permission needed to keep what's already yours.
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Backup, answered
The simplest iCloud alternative is a hardware backup device: plug Qubii between your phone and its charger, and photos, videos and contacts copy to a microSD card automatically — no cloud account, no Wi-Fi, no subscription. One-time prices start at $54.99, and backups restore to any new phone.
| Device | Storage | Best for | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qubii Duo | Your microSD, up to 2TB | Automatic backup while charging | $54.99 |
| Qubii EX | Built-in memory, ready out of the box | Parents & gifts — no card to buy | $63.99 |
| Qubii Power | Your microSD, up to 2TB | 45W fast charging + backup in one | $89.99 |
| Piconizer 4 | Portable flash storage (MFi) | Freeing up iPhone space in one tap | $76.49 |
| Nukii | Encrypted USB drive (AES-256) | Sensitive files, tap-to-unlock | $49.99 |
Plug a Qubii between your phone and the charger you already own — that's the whole backup. Every time your phone charges, new photos, videos and contacts copy to a microSD card in your hand, with no cloud account, no Wi-Fi and no monthly subscription. Set it up once with the Qubii app and it runs on its own; the card holds up to 2TB, enough for years of photos. Because the backup is physical, restoring is just as simple: plug the cube into your new phone and bring everything across, even when you switch between iPhone and Android. There is no account to create and nothing to remember — the charging habit you already have does the work. Prices start at $54.99 one-time — less than a year of most cloud storage plans — and over 1.2 million devices already keep memories safe this way.
All three back up your phone automatically while it charges; the difference is how storage and power are packaged. Qubii Duo ($54.99) is the thumb-sized cube: slide in your own microSD card, up to 2TB, and it quietly copies photos, videos and contacts each time you plug in. Qubii Power ($89.99) builds the same backup into a 45W fast charger, so one wall plug tops up your battery and your memories at the same time — the pick for travel and nightstands. Qubii EX ($63.99) ships with memory built in, so it works straight out of the box with no card to buy — the easiest setup for parents and grandparents. Whichever you choose, everything stays local and private: your files never touch a cloud server, there is nothing to subscribe to, and your backup moves with you to every next phone.
A local backup removes the attack surface entirely: your photos live on a card in your hand, not on a server that can be breached, scraped for AI training, or repriced next quarter. Cloud accounts fail in familiar ways — leaked passwords, changed terms of service, subscriptions that lapse and take your library with them. Hardware doesn't have those failure modes: a Qubii backup works with no internet connection at all, and Nukii adds hardware AES-256 encryption with tap-to-unlock for the files you carry between machines. That's why Maktar's line is built around ownership — pay once, hold your data physically, and decide for yourself who ever sees it. For sensitive libraries, pair automatic Qubii backups with an encrypted Nukii copy: two locations, both offline, both answerable only to you — and neither one carries a renewal date, a login page, or someone else's terms of service.
