Alternatives to Carbon Copy Cloner
A macOS backup app that makes scheduled copies, snapshots and bootable backups of your drives. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Carbon Copy Cloner
A macOS backup app that makes scheduled copies, snapshots and bootable backups of your drives.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Carbon Copy Cloner.
SuperDuper!
Mac utility that makes fully bootable copies of a startup disk on an external drive.
SuperDuper! also makes bootable Mac clones of the startup disk, native on Apple silicon, but offers fewer scheduling, filtering and snapshot options.
ChronoSync
A Mac app for synchronizing and backing up folders to drives, other Macs, NAS and cloud services.
ChronoSync adds sync to NAS, other Macs and cloud services and can create bootable backups, with ChronoAgent sold separately for Mac-to-Mac links.
Get Backup Pro
A Mac app for incremental backups, encrypted archives, bootable disk clones and folder syncing.
Get Backup Pro combines bootable clones, encrypted archives restorable without the app, hard-link incremental backups and folder sync on macOS, paid after a trial.
Apple Time Machine
Built-in macOS backup tool that takes hourly snapshots automatically.
Apple Time Machine is built into macOS for free with automatic hourly snapshots, but it does not make bootable clones or offer filter rules.
Arq
Encrypted backup software for Mac and Windows that stores backups in your own cloud account or disk.
Arq moves to encrypted, versioned backups to your own cloud storage or disk on Mac and Windows, rather than bootable drive copies.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Carbon Copy Cloner as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Acronis True Image
Personal backup application from Acronis that combines image-based backup with anti-malware protection.
Carbon Copy Cloner is a paid macOS-only app for scheduled copies, snapshots and bootable backups, offering more copy control but no Windows version or anti-malware.
HDClone
Disk cloning and migration tool that boots from its own medium.
Carbon Copy Cloner makes bootable copies and migrations for macOS instead of Windows, and is paid after a 30-day trial.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Backblaze Computer Backup
Unlimited automatic cloud backup for a single Mac or Windows PC at a flat monthly price.
Carbonite
Automatic, encrypted cloud backup service for personal computers with unlimited storage and file restoration.
Rescuezilla
A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.
Clonezilla
A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
Grsync
Graphical front end for rsync with saved sessions.
