Alternatives

Products that do what Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitHub-backup does

1. 1
   Gitea Mirror▲80

   Automated github to gitea repository mirroring & backup

   Sep 2025

2. 2
   Memo▲196

   Take smarter notes with GitHub Gists, anywhere.

   2020

3. 3TT
   Tool to backup GitHub repos to local mirrors; (also self hostable)▲6

   2025 · github.com

4. 4FP
   Free Private GitHub Repositories▲11

   2016 · github.com

5. 5PJ
   Pygit – Just enough git to push itself to GitHub▲208

   2017 · benhoyt.com

6. 6
   Gaac▲122

   Use your Github repo as a drag-and-drop CDN for Free

   2022

7. 7MU
   Most Used Repositories on GitHub▲9

   2019 · usedby.dev

8. 8FM
   Find maintained forks of your favorite GitHub repos▲87

   2017 · forked.yannick.io

9. 9
   Repobear▲231

   The easiest way to share & monetize private Github repos

   2024

10. 10
    Cloudback▲91

    GitHub repository backup service

    2021

11. 11GT
    Gitorials – Tutorials as Git Repos▲147

    2017 · gitorials.com

12. 12GR
    Github repo recommendation service▲39

    2012 · woolam.org

13. 13ET
    Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub▲146

    2015 · a-sf-mirror.github.io

14. 14FA
    Find alternatives to almost any popular GitHub repo▲120

    Several months ago, I built a "stealth" feature that I could use. It hasn't been advertised, and I've been the only user. As I find it useful for myself, I believe others (software developers) may like it too. So, this is the first public post about it, and if it gets any positive feedback, I may put some time into promoting it more. In essence, given that you've opened a GitHub repo (there are ~225k of the more popular ones indexed as of now), you can replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL, and you will find the top alternatives and related projects. For example, here are three…

    2022

15. 15TY
    Turn your GitHub Gist into a live dashboard▲159

    2018 · github.com

16. 16OB
    Octarchive – Back up all repos on a GitHub account locally▲6

    Hey HN! I just released Octarchive, a simple tool to back up all repos on a GitHub/Gitea account to a local folder written in Go. If you're worried about loosing your FLOSS work, but are can't keep up with manually mirroring all the repositories, this might be the tool you're looking for. I'd love to get your feedback :)

    2022 · github.com

17. 17GT
    GitItBack – Track GitHub contributions of any organisation you want▲21

    2017 · gititback.netguru.co

18. 18WU
    We use Github Gists to store user data▲34

    2012 · blog.elastic.io

19. 19GC
    Github competitor with free private repo▲61

    2012 · gitlab.io

20. 20FG
    Follow GitHub Organisations▲59

    2019 · github.com

21. 21AA
    Antiqua, a way to securely archive private, unused Github repositories▲13

    2012 · antiqua.io

22. 22GG
    GHFS – GitHub repos in your filesystem▲24

    2015 · github.com

23. 23RE
    RepoRemover – Easily archive and delete multiple GitHub repos▲9

    2019 · reporemover.xyz

24. 24GM
    github-mirror, syncs every repo in an org. locally for faster deploys▲9

    2013 · pypi.python.org

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