Alternatives to SuperDuper!

Mac utility that makes fully bootable copies of a startup disk on an external drive. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • SuperDuper!

    Mac utility that makes fully bootable copies of a startup disk on an external drive.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as SuperDuper!.

  • Carbon Copy Cloner

    A macOS backup app that makes scheduled copies, snapshots and bootable backups of your drives.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    Carbon Copy Cloner is also a paid macOS app for bootable backups, adding scheduling on detected changes, filter rules with preview, snapshots, encryption and backup verification.

  • Get Backup Pro

    A Mac app for incremental backups, encrypted archives, bootable disk clones and folder syncing.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    Get Backup Pro combines bootable disk clones with incremental file backups, encrypted archives and folder sync in one paid macOS app.

  • ChronoSync

    A Mac app for synchronizing and backing up folders to drives, other Macs, NAS and cloud services.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    ChronoSync is a paid macOS app that can also create bootable backups and adds sync to NAS, other Macs and selected cloud services, with ChronoAgent sold separately.

  • Apple Time Machine

    Built-in macOS backup tool that takes hourly snapshots automatically.

    FreeProprietarymacOS

    Apple Time Machine is free and built into macOS, taking automatic hourly snapshots to an external drive or network share rather than making a bootable clone of the startup disk.

  • Rescuezilla

    A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Rescuezilla is free and open source under GPL-3.0, boots from a USB stick on any PC or Mac and images the whole drive instead of running from your desktop.

  • Clonezilla

    A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Clonezilla is a free, open-source bootable disk cloner with a text menu interface, imaging whole drives including the boot loader, but without scheduled or background operation.

Also worth comparing

These listings name SuperDuper! as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • HDClone

    Disk cloning and migration tool that boots from its own medium.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindows

    SuperDuper! makes fully bootable clones of a Mac startup disk, so it serves macOS instead of Windows, with a paid full license.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.