HushBackup works silently in the background — encrypting your files on your Mac, then tucking copies away wherever you choose: an external drive, your favorite cloud, or both. When something goes missing, bring it back in two clicks.
Deleted the wrong folder? Saved over the good version? Open HushBackup, slide back to any point in time, and bring back exactly what you need — one file or your whole Mac's worth. No tickets. No waiting. No per-restore fees.
Every version of every file, browsable by date.
Find that one file across every snapshot you've ever taken.
Same folder, new Mac, or a clean install.
Restores never expire. Even if you stop paying, your backups open freely — always.
Documents, Desktop, your photo library — any folders you choose.
A drive on your desk, a cloud you trust, or both at once.
HushBackup hums along in the background, saving versions as your files change — and politely staying out of the way on battery or a personal hotspot.
Your files are encrypted on your Mac with a key only you hold. Your cloud provider stores scrambled blocks it can't read. And we can't peek either — HushBackup has no servers, no account, and sends no telemetry. Save your recovery key somewhere safe, and you're the only person on Earth who can open your backups.
Modern, audited encryption — full details in the security doc.
The engine is open-source Rust — the same core whether you drive it from the app or the CLI.
Content-addressed, encrypted, deduplicated snapshots. zstd compression. Incremental forever.
Verify-after-upload, resumable transfers, retention rules (daily / weekly / monthly), pre/post hooks.
Local folders, NAS, Backblaze B2, and any S3-compatible endpoint. Multi-destination replication.
A full CLI: everything the app does, scriptable.
The engine and CLI are free and open source, forever — you can back up and restore without ever paying us. The Mac app is what you buy: the quiet menu-bar experience, time-travel restore browsing, scheduling without cron, and updates that handle themselves.
Cloud storage is yours, bought directly from your provider — typically a few dollars a month. Or skip the cloud entirely and use a drive you already own.
Keep using it — we're not jealous. Time Machine protects your Mac; HushBackup protects your files everywhere: encrypted offsite copies, per-file time travel, restores on any Mac.
Backblaze rents you storage with backup attached. HushBackup is backup you own — your keys, your choice of storage, and your data never touches our servers, because we don't have any.
The closest cousin, and a good one. The difference is philosophy: our engine is open source for anyone to read, and the experience is built to be calmer. Try both — keep whichever you forget is running.
That's our species. If you love the terminal, use our free CLI and pay nothing. The app is for the days you'd rather not.
The app keeps restoring your files forever, and the free CLI keeps backing up. Paying covers app updates and the polished experience — never access to your own data.
Wherever you point them: a drive, your NAS, or your own cloud account (Backblaze B2, Amazon S3, and friends). We never store your files — we never even see them.
External drives, network shares and NAS, Backblaze B2, Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud Storage, Wasabi, MinIO — and any other S3-compatible storage. You can back up to several destinations at once.
Then nobody can open your backups — including us. That's the deal that keeps them private. Keep the recovery key in a password manager or a drawer you trust.
Time Machine is great at whole-Mac recovery onto local drives. HushBackup adds encrypted offsite copies, per-file version history, and restores on any Mac. Plenty of people run both.
Today, yes — the Mac app is where the love goes. The engine already runs on Linux, and Windows is on the roadmap.
No servers, no account, no telemetry, and keys that never leave your Mac. Don't take our word for it — the engine is open source. Read it.
Five minutes to set up, then it hums along on its own — encrypting your files and tucking copies away, exactly where you told it to.
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