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Duplicacy vs restic: catalog facts
Duplicacy	restic
Freemium The command-line version is free for personal use and its source is published. The…	Free Free and open source, with no paid edition.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
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	One static binary with no server, agent or database to install first Content-defined chunking means daily backups only transfer what changed
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	Command line only; any graphical interface or scheduling comes from third-party projects Still pre-1.0, so the project does not yet guarantee backward compatibility across major versions
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: BSD-2-Clause
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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