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Arq vs Duplicacy: catalog facts
Arq	Duplicacy
Paid Paid software with a 30-day free trial.	Freemium The command-line version is free for personal use and its source is published. The…
Windows, macOS	Windows, macOS, Linux
Back up to your own cloud storage or local disk End-to-end encryption	Several machines can back up to one bucket and share deduplicated data with no server between them Chunks are stored individually, so any storage with basic file operations works as a backend
No Linux version Cloud storage is billed separately by your provider	Licence is not open source; commercial use and the web interface are paid The free part is a command-line tool, so the friendly front end is the paid one
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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