# Seedvault

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Seedvault and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Seedvault as the built-in backup app for GrapheneOS, with full device backups that restore without much hassle. Critics say it often misses app data and backups are inconsistent.

## Why people recommend it

- Full device backups with easy restore (2 comments): "Graphene can do full device backups via Seedvault and it's not that much more of a pain to restore" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556652)) "does a bang-up job of backing up both applications and data" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199457))
- Built into GrapheneOS, also on LineageOS (2 comments): "I use the integrated GrapheneOS Solution (seedvault!?) for storage and apps" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046520)) "Seedvault for my LiniageOS." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261135))

## What people warn about

- Misses app data for many apps (4 comments): "SeedVault won't backup app data if the app authors have opted out of it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46190995)) "reinstalling and reconfiguring everything that Seedvault missed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058689)) "SeedVault which is unable to backup most of my apps" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270964))
- Backups inconsistent and unreliable (3 comments): "consistently broken on both my GOS phones, never giving the same results with 2 backups" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591920)) "Seedvault doesn't work half of the time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261213)) "your backup will have holes in it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202204))
- Widely judged poor or insufficient (3 comments): "Seedvault is godawful and I'm saying it as a someone using GOS as a daily driver." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230427)) "Seedvault is still woefully insufficient" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564347)) "Seedvault is crap, not an option" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49664702))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Seedvault", https://hackerapproved.com/p/seedvault/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).