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Keelhaven for Mac

A restic-based backup tool that silently runs scheduled backups of chosen folders to local drives, NAS/SFTP, or S3, producing standard restic repositories.

By shenxianpeng. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Keelhaven at a glance

Version
0.9.2
Released
9 October 2026
Download size
27 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
GPL-3.0
Category
Utilities
Developer
shenxianpeng
GitHub stars
23

About Keelhaven

Privacy-first backups for your Mac, to storage you own.

Screenshots

Keelhaven screenshot 1Keelhaven screenshot 2Keelhaven screenshot 3

How to install Keelhaven on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Keelhaven and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.9.2 from shenxianpeng's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Keelhaven show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Keelhaven-0.9.2.dmg (27 MB).

What is new in Keelhaven 0.9.2

**Quickest install — no Gatekeeper prompt:**

```
brew install --cask shenxianpeng/tap/keelhaven
```

No Homebrew? `curl -fsSL https://keelhaven.app/install.sh | bash` does the same.

Or download the `.dmg` below and drag **Keelhaven** to Applications. This beta isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS asks you to allow it once on first launch — the [FAQ](https://keelhaven.app/#faq) has the three-click walkthrough.

## What's Changed
* Redesign the website and README around one shared story by @shenxianpeng in https://github.com/shenxianpeng/keelhaven/pull/80
* Give each website page a canonical URL and a descriptive title by @shenxianpeng in https://github.com/shenxianpeng/keelhaven/pull/81
* Record DMG downloads in Google Analytics by @shenxianpeng in https://github.com/shenxianpeng/keelhaven/pull/82
* Record install-command copies, and print a launch's numbers with make metrics by @shenxianpeng in https://github.com/shenxianpeng/keelhaven/pull/84
* Add a half-minute demo, rendered by script, and show it in the README by @shenxianpeng in https://github.com/shenxianpeng/keelhaven/pull/86
* Add guides, a page for restic users and a comparison, so the site answers a search by @shenxianpeng in https://github.com/shenxianpeng/keelhaven/pull/85
* Keep a retention pass to the snapshots Keelhaven made by @shenxianpeng in https://github.com/shenxianpeng/keelhaven/pull/87
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