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Backup & Restore

Mekuru can save your settings and reading data to a single local backup file and restore it later — on the same device, a new phone, or a side-by-side install such as the parallel test build.

Backup and Restore screen

Creating a Backup

  1. Open Settings from the gear icon on the You tab.
  2. Open Backup & Restore.
  3. Tap Create Backup Now, then Export Backup to save the latest backup as a .mekuru file wherever you like.

An Auto-Backup Interval option can also create backups on a schedule instead of manually.

What a Backup Contains

  • App settings and reader defaults, including per-book reader settings such as the furigana mode
  • Dictionary order and enabled states
  • Bookmarks and highlights
  • Vocabulary lists and their stats
  • Collections, including each collection's book order
  • Reading-time history

A backup does not contain the actual EPUB, manga, or dictionary files — those stay where you imported them from.

Restoring

Use Import Backup File and pick a .mekuru file. Restoring overwrites your current settings. Books restore as entries that wait for their content: re-import the same EPUB or manga file and its bookmarks, highlights, progress, and settings reattach automatically.

Two merge rules to know:

  • Reading-time history is only restored onto a device that has no history of its own.
  • Vocabulary stats are merged rather than overwritten.