ToolBerry stores your business on your phone. Not in our cloud. Yours.

That's the headline feature, and most people get why it's good - no account signup, no tracking, no monthly bill held over your head. But there are two reasonable questions that come right after: if everything's on my phone, what happens when I drop it in a pool? And what about my second device - or my crew's?

Fair questions. Connecting Dropbox is the answer to both. Same setup, two jobs at once: it backs up your data so a lost phone isn't a lost business, and it keeps your devices in sync so you don't have to think about which one has the latest version.

The model: bring your own storage

Most field service apps keep your data on their servers. You log in, you trust them with everything - your customer list, your schedule, your invoices - and you pay every month for the privilege. If they get hacked, your customers leak. If they raise prices, you have nowhere to go. If they shut down, good luck.

ToolBerry flips it. Your data lives on your device. When you want to back it up - or sync it across devices - you bring your own storage (currently Dropbox). We never see your business data. We can't. There's nowhere on our infrastructure for it to land.

This is what people mean when they say "local-first" or "BYOS" (bring your own storage). The phone is the source of truth. The cloud is optional, and when you use it, it's your cloud.

What you get when you connect Dropbox

Backup. A copy of your business is sitting safely outside your phone. Lose the device, drop it off a roof, factory-reset by accident - install ToolBerry on a new device, log into your Dropbox, and your business comes back.

Sync. Multiple devices stay in step. Plan jobs on your desktop in the morning, head out with the phone, mark a job done in the field - open the desktop later and it's already updated.

The exact same setup gives you both. Which one matters more depends on you. A solo operator with one phone is mostly using it as backup. Someone running ToolBerry on a phone and a desktop is mostly using it as sync. Either way, you're covered for both.

How sync actually works

Once connected, ToolBerry quietly keeps your devices in step:

• Every time you open the app, it pulls down the latest from Dropbox.
• Every time you close it, it pushes your changes up.
• Every 5 minutes while you're working, it does a quick check in the background.
• If two devices changed the same record, ToolBerry handles the conflict so you don't lose work.

There's no "sync now" button to hunt for. No spinning wheel. It just runs.