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Backup and restore

Dixel is local-first: your projects live on your device and nothing is uploaded unless you turn backup on.

Turning on Drive backup​

In Settings → Backup, switch backup on. Dixel asks only for permission to its own private Google Drive folder — not your whole Drive, and not your profile, email, or contacts. Once enabled, Dixel uploads a copy of each project after you edit it, in the background.

Options:

  • Wi-Fi only — restrict uploads to unmetered networks.
  • Back up now — queue every project immediately.

Each project is backed up as a single self-contained file, so the reference images embedded in it ride along.

Restoring​

In Settings → Backup → Restore, Dixel lists the projects in your Drive folder. Pick the ones to bring back. A restore never overwrites local work: if a project with the same name is already on the device, the restored copy comes in renamed. Damaged backups are skipped rather than imported.

Turning it off​

Turning backup off stops new uploads and leaves both your local projects and the existing Drive copies untouched. A separate option can delete the Drive copies if you want a clean slate; your local projects are never affected.

What is not backed up​

Undo history is in memory only and is never stored — not on device and not in a backup. Autosave keeps at most your last stroke, so a crash costs at most one stroke of work.

For the formal description of what Dixel processes, see the privacy policy.