Encrypted backup for your Mac

Your Mac, backed up. Quietly, encrypted, off-site.

Vigilans lives in your menu bar and keeps an encrypted copy of your files in EU cloud storage. Set it up once in five minutes — then it just runs.

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macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · launching soon

The Vigilans menu bar popover showing Protected status, the last backup 20 seconds ago, the encrypted Scaleway destination, and a Back Up Now button

What Vigilans does

Encrypted before it leaves your Mac

Everything is encrypted on your machine before upload. Nobody but you can read your data — not even the storage provider.

Stored in the EU

Your backups live in Scaleway object storage in Paris, Amsterdam, or Warsaw. Your bucket, your keys, your data.

Set-and-forget scheduling

Hourly to daily, battery-aware, and running even when the menu bar app is closed. Catches up after sleep and waits out offline periods on its own.

Restore anything, anywhere

Browse snapshots like folders and restore single files or whole directories — with sensible conflict handling when files already exist.

Backups you can trust

Automatic integrity checks verify your backups are actually restorable. When something goes wrong, you get a plain-language reason — never a raw error dump.

No lock-in

Backups use the standard restic repository format. The open-source restic CLI can read your data forever, with or without Vigilans.

Everything at a glance

One click on the menu bar icon shows what matters: how much is protected, your recent backups, the result of the latest integrity check — and what the storage actually costs you per month, paid directly to Scaleway.

The expanded Vigilans popover showing 314 GB protected across 2.2 million files, an estimated €0.43 per month storage cost, a healthy integrity check, and a list of recent backups

Going back in time is a file browser

Every backup is a snapshot you can open like a folder. Pick a point in time in the sidebar, tick the files or folders you need, and restore them to their original place or anywhere else.

The Vigilans restore window with snapshots grouped by day in a sidebar and a file listing with checkboxes, three items selected for restore

How it works

1

Connect your bucket

Point Vigilans at your own Scaleway object storage bucket — the setup guide walks you through creating one in about two minutes. Your encryption password stays in your Mac’s Keychain and never leaves your machine.

Onboarding step: Connect your storage, with access and secret key fields and a confirmation that the bucket was found in Paris
2

Choose what to back up

By default Vigilans protects your entire home folder minus the noise — caches, trash, node_modules, VM images. Fine-tune the scope anytime from Preferences.

Onboarding step: What gets backed up, listing default exclusions like caches, trash, and node_modules
3

Protected

That’s it. Your first backup starts right away, and from then on Vigilans backs up on schedule, checks integrity, and shows its status in the menu bar. You only hear from it when something needs you.

Onboarding final step: a green checkmark with the message You’re protected — your first backup is starting now

Frequently asked questions

Changelog

v1.0.0majorComing soon
  • Encrypted backups to your own Scaleway bucket, powered by restic
  • Menu bar app with a five-minute guided setup
  • Restore window: browse snapshots, restore files or folders
  • Battery-aware scheduling with a background agent
  • Automatic backup integrity checks
  • English and German localization
  • Automatic app updates via Sparkle