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Dev tools · May 24, 2026

Tunnex

Encrypted Postgres & Mongo backups, from your desktop.

Tunnex launched on May 24, 2026 with 4 votes, #2,659 of 21,461 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

What it does

Tunnex is a desktop app for backing up and restoring self-hosted Postgres and MongoDB databases. One click, AES-256-GCM encryption, OS-keychain key storage, full audit log. Free and open source. No cloud. Your backups stay on your machine.

A desktop app for encrypted Postgres & Mongo dumps from docker-compose VPSes, installed DBs, or any URI. No agents. No cloud.

One desktop app for encrypted Postgres & Mongo dumps from docker-compose VPSes, installed DBs, or any connection URI. No agents. No cloud. No vendor lock-in. Free during beta · v0.1.21 · 105.0 MB · Windows · macOS · Linux Forgotten backups, half-finished restores, plaintext dumps piling up in ~/Downloads. The fragile script you wrote in 2023 is one tab away from a 4 AM incident. A raw pg_dump file on your laptop is your entire production dataset, unencrypted. Lose the laptop, lose the data. Tunnex encrypts every dump with a key only your OS knows. Multiple environments, multiple compose projects, multiple databases per project. Tunnex shows the whole inventory as one tree and makes any node…from tunnex.biz

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