CLUSTER DESKTOP-UTILITY-BACKUPS · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-11-05
Desktop environment backup and sync tools
This cluster consists of desktop utilities that manage, repair, back up, and sync applications or entire desktop environments across devices. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only two dated entries exist before the index start. Traction leaders among the members are reManager, DSH-Butler, and Save Desktop, each with zero stars, indicating no clear leader.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 4 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 3 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01reManager0★1 moliveopen sourceA desktop utility that manages packages, backups, and settings on reMarkable tablets.
- 02DSH-Butler0★24 days—hobbyDesktop utility that maintains another desktop application by handling installation, repair, plugin management, backups, rollback, and audit.
- 03Save Desktop0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that backs up, restores, and syncs an entire desktop environment, including themes, icons, fonts, wallpapers, extensions, and installed apps, across devices.
- 04Hard-Drive-Manager1★10 mostale—ai-builthobbyDesktop utility that inventories and manages storage devices and hard drives for everyday computer users.
- 05Mending Wall0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceA tool that fixes common issues when using multiple desktop environments, preserving themes and settings across them.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.