Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Time Machine Utilities
I wrote some shell scripts to automate "fixing" old Time Machine backups, particularly Time Machine backups from previous computers. I've personally experienced a lot of friction with this, and found out that some of the metadata stored in the Backups.backupdb and individual snapshot directories prevent successful use with Time Machine on other computers in some cases. Time Machine itself does not always handle this gracefully. These utilities should help users wrangle older backups to make them work with Time Machine on their current Mac.
Time Machine Utilities is a collection of shell scripts that automate the process of fixing old Time Machine backups, especially those from previous computers. It addresses compatibility issues where metadata in backup… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Time Machine Utilities launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN -- thanks for showing interest in this. Happy to collaborate on this project. I'm hoping to get it stable soon so my own family can start using it. I've been working on this for about 10+ years, nights and weekends. It's been really slow going since I only have my own personal data to test it with. I just don't love that my data is primarily stored on someone else's computer up in the cloud. I want my own local copy at least. And while I can download exports from my various accounts, I don't want them to just gather dust and rot on my hard drive. So, Timelinize helps keep that data…
2025 · timelinize.com · its alternatives →
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Download any website from archive.org ‘wayback machine’
2017 · websitedownloader.io · its alternatives →
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🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Time OS▲155Make anything in Notion trackable and time-bounded
2022 · theveller.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Version control for databases: save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line - infostreams/db
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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What You See Is What You Get
2022 · hamsterbase.com · its alternatives →
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Tidy▲98Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.
Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →
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Free WordPress backups that backs up ONLY the changes.
2016 · wptimecapsule.com · its alternatives →
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:floppy_disk: Painless automated backups to multiple storage providers with Docker and duplicacy. - christophetd/duplicacy-autobackup
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple command line backup solution using rsync. Contribute to PenguinSnail/Quick-Back development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've already posted yesterday, but I'd really love to get comments, any kind of questions, suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated as it's an Open Source project of mine (and was for others during my studies at the University of Konstanz 6 years ago). Since then I spent countless ours to bring forth the idea of a versioned storage system, especially well suited for analytical tasks for timd-varying data. Especially I'd love to discuss what documentation you need, which next steps are necessary (JSON, Cloud...), API additions or changes... I've updated the README quiet a bit, such…
2018 · its alternatives →
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Chronoid▲51Hi HN, I've been building Chronoid, a native macOS time tracker. It runs in the menu bar and automatically logs apps, windows, and file activity using macOS accessibility APIs. Everything is stored locally, no sync or cloud service. At first I tried using DuckDB as the storage engine. It looked promising for analytics, but after ~2 weeks I realized it was overkill for my needs—extra dependencies, trickier integration, and not much real benefit at the scale of a single-user app. I switched to SQLite, and it turned out to be the simpler, more reliable choice. The codebase got smaller and the…
Nov 2025 · chronoid.app · its alternatives →
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Hi, my name is Anguel and I am one of the developers of WhoDB (https://github.com/clidey/whodb) I am not a fan of the dbeaver, beekeeper, adminer, etc experience because they are bloated, ugly, and at best okay but not great. Hence why I started working on WhoDB. The approach: - browser-based (chrome/firefox) - no bloat - jupyter notebook-like experience (Scratchpad) - built-in AI co-pilot with ollama (local) or openai/anthropic We just shipped query history and replay (time travel?) to the Scratchpad. Would love for you to check it out and give some feedback…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Simple, powerfull and worry-free backups for your databases & servers.
2019 · snapshotly.com · its alternatives →
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MCP server that lets your AI assistant remember everything about your home. - impactjo/home-memory
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cheap and dirty solution to backup a specific folder on macOS to S3. I use this to backup my Calibre library.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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