How to Cancel GoPro Plus Without Losing Your Footage
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GoPro Plus (now sold as GoPro Premium) costs $59.99/year. It gives you unlimited cloud storage for your GoPro footage, camera replacement coverage and discounts on accessories, which is a reasonable deal for active GoPro users.
Leaving is harder. GoPro Plus auto-uploads your footage to GoPro Cloud, so over time hundreds of gigabytes can pile up there, and when you cancel you lose access to those files. GoPro has no bulk export tool and no API, and the web interface downloads at most 25 files at a time in zip bundles.
With 500 videos from two years of travel, surfing or family events, downloading 25 at a time isn't practical, and the zip downloads often fail on larger batches.
When your GoPro Plus subscription ends:
- You can no longer view or access your cloud footage.
- Your files stay on GoPro's servers for a limited time. GoPro doesn't publish the exact retention policy.
- No third-party tool has API access to help you.
- You lose camera replacement coverage and store discounts.
Nothing moves the footage for you. It stays in GoPro's cloud until GoPro deletes it, so anything you didn't download before cancelling may be gone.
Blober is the only desktop app that connects to GoPro Cloud. It was built because no other tool could reach GoPro's proprietary storage system.
Install Blober on your Mac, Windows or Linux computer. Add GoPro Cloud as a provider and sign in with your GoPro account. Blober captures your session and shows your entire cloud library in a file browser.
- A local hard drive or SSD is the simplest option. Select all your GoPro Cloud files, pick a local folder as the destination and transfer. The footage downloads to your computer at full quality.
- If your internal drive doesn't have enough space, point Blober at an external drive, an SD card or network-attached storage (Synology, QNAP and similar). See how to get GoPro Cloud footage onto a NAS.
- Backblaze B2 is the cheapest of the cloud alternatives if you want your footage in the cloud without paying $59.99/year. It stores data at $6.95/TB/month, about $83/year for 1 TB of GoPro footage, with no subscription lock-in, no download limits and full API access.
- If you already use Dropbox, Google Drive or AWS S3, Blober copies your GoPro footage there in one run, so you don't download it and upload it again yourself.
Select your files (or select all), choose the destination and click run. Blober transfers several files in parallel, resumes automatically after a failure and shows progress as it goes. A large library can run overnight.
Once your footage is stored somewhere else, cancel the subscription through the GoPro app or website.
| Storage Option | Cost (1 TB/year) | Download Limits | API Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoPro Plus | $59.99/year | 25 files at a time | None |
| Backblaze B2 | ~$83/year | Unlimited | S3-compatible |
| Wasabi | ~$96/year | Unlimited | S3-compatible |
| Local hard drive | One-time ~$40 (4TB HDD) | N/A | N/A |
| Google Drive (2TB) | $100/year | Unlimited | Yes |
Per TB, GoPro Plus is the cheapest cloud option in the table. It is also the only one with no bulk downloads and no API for third-party tools, and your footage becomes inaccessible the moment you cancel.
rclone and MultCloud are the usual suggestions, and neither works. GoPro Cloud is a proprietary system with no published API, so no mainstream transfer tool or cloud sync service supports it. rclone has no GoPro backend and never had one. MultCloud doesn't list GoPro Cloud as a provider, Flexify has no GoPro support, and neither do CloudHQ, Mover or Movebot.
The routes that do exist, a JDownloader plugin and community download scripts, are unofficial: they take your GoPro password or a token copied from your browser, and they only download to your computer. Blober connects to GoPro Cloud through the same authentication path as GoPro's own web app, and it is the only transfer app that supports GoPro Cloud natively.
Not everyone needs to cancel. If you shoot regularly and use GoPro's highlight tools, Plus is a solid deal. Even then, keep a backup somewhere else: copy your GoPro Cloud library to a local drive or Backblaze B2 with Blober, and run the workflow again when you want new footage added. If GoPro changes its terms, raises prices or has a service issue, your footage is still safe.
Is GoPro Plus the same as GoPro Premium? Yes. GoPro now sells GoPro Plus as GoPro Premium, at $59.99/year.
Where do I cancel GoPro Plus? In the GoPro app or on the GoPro website. Do it after your footage is stored somewhere else, because you lose access to the cloud library when the subscription ends.
How much does it cost to keep 1 TB of footage after cancelling? About $83/year on Backblaze B2 or about $96/year on Wasabi. A 4 TB hard drive is a one-time cost of about $40.
Can I back up GoPro Cloud and keep my subscription? Yes. Copy the library to a local drive or Backblaze B2 with Blober and keep using GoPro Plus as before.