MomentBackup

Backup you can step back through.

MomentBackup keeps an automatic, browsable history of your files and a recoverable image of your whole computer — saved to your own disk, NAS, Google Drive, or S3 cloud bucket. No accounts. No hosted storage. Your storage, your keys.

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Free for 21 days, no account required · Windows, macOS, and Linux

How it works

Three choices, then it's handled

01

Pick what to protect

Your home folder is one click — documents, photos, desktop, the things you'd actually miss.

02

Choose where it lives

An external drive, your NAS, or your own cloud bucket. Turn on encryption and save the recovery key it hands you.

03

Forget about it

Backups run themselves from then on, quietly, in the background. When you need something back, step through time and take it.

What that looks like, exactly

Go back in time

Yesterday's file, exactly as it was

Browse your backup like a folder and step between moments. Every version of every file is there — including the ones you deleted, edited badly, or saved over. Pick the moment, take the file.

Schedule & cleanup

Set it once. It minds itself.

Backups run on your cadence, then history thins out the way Time Machine's does — everything for a day, daily for a month, weekly forever. Recent mistakes stay recoverable at fine grain, and the drive never silently fills.

Full computer backup

A dead drive isn't a lost computer

On Windows and Linux, MomentBackup also keeps a full image of the machine — the system, your apps, your settings. Repeat captures store only what changed. When hardware fails, you restore the computer, not a list of installers.

Encryption

Locked with your keys, not our promises

End-to-end encryption with keys that are generated on your machine and stay there. Your passphrase or your printable recovery key opens the backups; nobody else can, including us. Scheduled runs unlock quietly through the OS keychain.

Also true

Shares a NAS with Time Machine — same share, separate spaces, no fights
Skips backups on battery or metered connections, if you ask it to
Verifies backups against what was written and repairs damage with parity data
Blocks ransomware from touching your snapshots at the destination
Lives in the menu bar or tray and backs up with the window closed
Finds any file, any version — by name, date, or kind
Pins snapshots you never want thinned away
Restores work without a license. Always.
Private by design

We can't see your data. That's the architecture.

MomentBackup is a paid app, not a storage service. There is no MomentBackup server in the path of your files — even license activation works offline, so a dead, network-less computer can still be restored.

No accounts

Nothing to sign up for. The app works for you, not for a backend.

No telemetry

The app doesn't phone home with usage data. This site runs no analytics.

No servers holding your data

Keys are generated on your machine and stay there. Backups go only where you point them.

Frequently asked

Where do my backups go?
Wherever you point them: an external drive, a NAS or network share, your Google Drive, or your own S3-compatible cloud bucket (AWS, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, and others). MomentBackup is software you run — we host nothing and hold none of your data.
How does MomentBackup use my Google account?
Only in two optional, separate ways, and only if you turn them on. If you choose Google Drive as a backup destination, MomentBackup creates and manages just its own backup folder using Google's drive.file permission — it can never see or touch the rest of your Drive. If you enable email notifications and connect Gmail, it uses the gmail.send permission only to send you backup-status emails from your own address; it never reads your mail. You can use either, both, or neither, and disconnect at any time. MomentBackup runs on your computer — your Google data is never sent to us.
Do I need a subscription for storage?
No. You bring your own storage, so there is no monthly storage bill from us. If you choose a cloud bucket, you pay your provider directly at their rates.
What if I forget my passphrase?
During setup you get a one-time printable recovery key. Either the passphrase or the key opens your backups. If you lose both, nobody can decrypt them — including us. That is the point.
Does it work alongside Time Machine?
Yes. MomentBackup uses the same kind of SMB shares Time Machine does and stores its backups in its own space next to your Mac's, so one NAS serves both. On a Mac it can also watch your Time Machine backups and read them.
What happens if I uninstall?
Nothing happens to your backups. They live on your storage in a documented layout, and reinstalling the app finds them again. Uninstalling never deletes a snapshot.
Which platforms are supported?
Windows, macOS, and Linux for file history. Whole-computer images are Windows and Linux; on a Mac, full-machine recovery stays with Apple's own tools while MomentBackup covers your files and watches Time Machine.

Try it on your machine

Full product, free for 21 days. Restores always work — trial or not.

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