Your files, always recoverable.
The recovery tool lets you decrypt and export everything stored in Nimbus Drive, with or without the app. It ships in V1 because it’s not a nice-to-have. It’s the thing that makes “your files, truly yours” mean something.
Launching with V1
The recovery tool ships with the initial Android release. Both tiers (automated and fully manual) will be available here.
Two recovery paths
Automated recovery
The primary path for most situations: a phone died, the app was uninstalled, you got a new device. Sign into your Nimbus account here, authenticate with Telegram, and the tool downloads, decrypts, and reconstructs your files directly in the browser using the same pipeline built into the app.
- Works with your own BYO credentials (recommended) or a dedicated recovery pool
- Reuses the same verified decrypt, merge, and verify pipeline as the app
- Hosted here, on nimbusdrive.app (branded, polished, no third-party tools)
- Handles the overwhelming majority of real-world recovery scenarios
Manual recovery: zero API dependency
The true last resort: no Nimbus API, no Telegram API, no network calls of any kind. Built for the scenario where even automated recovery is unavailable.
How it works:
- 1Open Telegram Desktop on any computer
- 2Use Telegram's built-in Export Chat History feature on your NimbusStorage channel
- 3Export all files to a local folder (uses only Telegram's own software)
- 4Drag that folder into this page (when launched)
- 5The in-browser tool decrypts, merges, and verifies every file locally (zero server round-trips)
- No Telegram API credential required from anyone
- Runs entirely in your browser (pure WebCrypto, no server)
- Same AES-256-GCM decrypt, merge, SHA-256 verify pipeline; open specification