Don't delete it.
Put it on ice.
The photo libraries, old shoots and “sort later” folders you'll never throw away — moved to cold storage you own, for about $1 per terabyte a month. Still browsable. Still yours.
$49 one-time · free updates forever · macOS 14+
Cold storage that feels like a folder you still own — not a backup app, not a subscription, not someone else's cloud.
You can still see everything you froze.
Most archive tools swallow your files into a black box. IceBox keeps a preview of every file — photo thumbnails, video posters, document pages — and shows any folder's makeup at a glance, so an archive stays as browsable as the day you put it away. No slow Glacier retrieval, no guessing what's inside.
Video, audio, documents, design files, code, archives — each gets a real preview or a clear “what's inside” breakdown.
The local copy only moves to Trash after a SHA-256 match with the cloud confirms it's bit-exact.
A tiny bookmark stays in place, so you never forget what lived there.
Three steps. Then it's just buttons.
Connect your AWS account
A 10-minute, one-time setup makes a private bucket and a scoped key in your account. We wrote a walkthrough that assumes zero AWS experience.
Point IceBox at a folder
Pick a folder, see a live cost preview, hit Archive. It packages and resumably uploads to Glacier Deep Archive — surviving quits, sleeps and dropped Wi-Fi.
Reclaim your disk
One click verifies the upload is intact, then frees the local copy. Gigabytes back on your Mac, the memories still one click away.
Built for everything you can't bear to delete — and shouldn't have to pay rent to keep.
The last archive drive
you'll never buy.
That drawer of aging external drives — the ones you keep “just in case,” that you rebuy every few years, that might not spin up when you finally need them? Retire it.
Drives are for files you're working on. For everything you're just keeping, cold storage is cheaper, safer, and never runs out of room.
It's just cheaper. See for yourself.
No subscription to IceBox — pay $49 once. Storage is billed by AWS at cost, about a dollar a terabyte a month. Drag to your library size:
Photo libraries, old shoots, raw video, the “sort later” pile — the stuff you'd never delete but almost never reopen.
The honest trade-off: Glacier restores take 12–48 hours and egress runs ~$0.09/GB. Perfect for archives you'll almost never touch — not for files you need back this afternoon.
Coming soon.
IceBox is in late development for macOS 14+. Drop your email and I'll send one short note the day it ships — no list, no marketing, just the launch.
macOS 14+ · $49 one-time at launch · free updates forever