How to Download Everything From GoPro Cloud Before You Cancel
GoPro's subscription terms say cloud content is deleted after the subscription ends. Here is how to get everything out first: the web Media Library, the Quik app, third-party bulk tools, and how to check you really have it all.
If you are thinking about ending your GoPro subscription, download your cloud library first and check it before the subscription runs out. GoPro's own terms are blunt about what happens otherwise.
What GoPro's terms say happens when you cancel
From GoPro's US subscription terms (effective date April 17, 2026):
- A cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for. You keep the subscription benefits until then.
- "GoPro will delete Your content stored in the GoPro cloud following expiration or termination of Your Subscription." The terms tell you to make copies before that point.
The terms do not promise a grace period after expiry. Treat the last day of your billing period as the deadline, and start well before it, because a large library takes days to download.
The same terms set the storage limits, which tell you roughly how much you may have up there: unlimited storage for footage captured on a GoPro (Fusion excluded), plus 100 GB for footage from other cameras on Premium, or 500 GB on Premium+.
Before you download: check what is actually in the cloud
- Only uploaded footage is there. If auto upload was off for a camera or a trip, those clips never reached the cloud. They are wherever you left them: the SD card, your phone, or a drive.
- Check the Trash. On GoPro.com, open your Media Library and click Trash in the left sidebar. GoPro's help page explains how to restore items from there. Restore anything you want before you start downloading.
- Note the total. Write down how many photos and videos the library holds so you can compare at the end.
Option 1: the Media Library on GoPro.com
This is the main desktop route now. GoPro has discontinued its desktop Quik apps. Quik for Mac was removed from the App Store on December 31, and GoPro's support pages point desktop users to the web Media Library instead. The older Quik for Desktop (2016 to 2022) stopped being able to log in or upload to the cloud on August 21, 2026.
To get there: go to GoPro.com, log in, select Account, then Media Library.
- Use the Filter button to narrow the view, for example to videos only, if you want to work through the library in chunks.
- Select a batch of up to 25 files and use the download option. That is the most the Media Library lets you download at once, and several files arrive as a zip.
- Repeat until you have everything, keeping track of which dates you have done.
GoPro states that photos and videos are uploaded to the cloud in their original form. To check what you are getting, select a video, choose More, then Get Info. That shows the capture date, size, resolution and duration, which you can compare with the downloaded file.
Practical points:
- Work by date. Selecting one day or one trip at a time makes it easy to see where you stopped.
- Test each zip after it finishes. On a Mac,
unzip -tq file.zipin Terminal should report no errors. On Windows, 7-Zip's Test archive does the same. - If a zip will not open, try that batch again with fewer files in it.
Option 2: the Quik mobile app
GoPro's help page for Quik (Mobile) describes two ways to pull cloud media to a phone or tablet.
Download to app storage: open Quik, tap Media, tap All Media, choose Uploaded to cloud and tap Apply. Select files, or tap a date bubble to select a whole day, then tap More and Download to app storage.
Save to the phone's photo library: from the Quik tab, select files, tap the arrow, tap Save to phone, choose the quality and tap Continue.
Two limits to know about:
- GoPro says that when you download a video to a device, the available resolutions depend on what the device supports. An older phone may not give you the original 5.3K or 4K file. Check a few files with the Get Info view on GoPro.com and compare.
- You need free space on the phone for everything you download, and then you still have to move it all to a computer. For a large library this is the slowest route.
GoPro community members who use this route report that downloads stop when the screen turns off, so keep the phone on a charger with auto-lock disabled while it runs.
Option 3: bulk download tools
Because the web library makes you work in batches, people have built tools that download the whole library in one go. Two that come up most often:
- JDownloader 2, a free download manager, which GoPro community members report has a GoPro Cloud integration.
- gopro-plus, an open-source command-line tool on GitHub that pages through your library and downloads it.
Both are unofficial. They work by using your logged-in GoPro session, which for gopro-plus means copying an access token out of your browser. Anyone with that token can act as you on your GoPro account, so treat it like a password: do not paste it into anything you do not trust, and log out of GoPro.com when you are finished. Unofficial tools can also stop working whenever GoPro changes its website.
Check that you have everything
Before you let the subscription lapse:
- Count. Compare the number of files on your drive with the total you noted at the start. On a Mac,
find /path/to/GoPro -type f -iname '*.mp4' | wc -lcounts videos. - Open a sample. Play a few clips from different dates all the way through, including the longest ones.
- Compare sizes. For a handful of videos, check that the downloaded file size matches what Get Info shows on GoPro.com.
- Make a second copy. One drive is not a backup. Copy everything to a second drive, and verify that copy too.
After the download
Sort the downloads by capture date, not by the date they landed on your drive. If you shoot with more than one camera, keep each camera's footage in its own folder from the start. GoPro cameras and older DJI drones reuse short numbered file names, and mixing them in one folder is how files get overwritten.