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Perkeep

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Perkeep is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing future-proof data. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE.

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  • Windows
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  • Developed by

    US flagBrad Fitzpatrick
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  6,641 Stars
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  •  398 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 27, 2025 
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Perkeep was added to AlternativeTo by Du on Mar 9, 2018 and this page was last updated Apr 7, 2020. Perkeep is sometimes referred to as Camlistore.
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What is Perkeep?

Perkeep is your personal storage system for life.

Note that it's a "storage system", not just a "file system". It can store and be accessed like a traditional filesystem, but it specializes in representing higher-level objects which don't need to exist in purely one place in a tree. (e.g. a photo, a comment, a "like", a blog post) Or a tree of 5TB videos with Unix mode bits that you can access via a FUSE filesystem. Whatever.

It is:

  • a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content paranoid about privacy, with everything private by default entirely under your control
  • Open Source (Apache licensed)
  • Perkeep is about: ** content-addressable storage, at the lowest layer ("Like git for all content in your life") ** separate interoperable parts (storage, sync, sharing, modeling), with well-defined protocols and roles ** indexing and searching your content
  • ambitious, but ...
  • simple! (JSON text + hashes)
  • programming language-agnostic (parts and different implementations in Go, Python, Java, Perl, Bash, ... the language doesn't matter.) What matters is simple, well-defined, formats and HTTP interfaces.
  • neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both. Run it on your own machine (any OS, any architecture), your phone, EC2, App Engine, Heroku, whatever.
  • a "20% project" from a few Google employees (and non-Googlers), but not Google-centric nor endorsed by Google (other than them letting us open source our side project)

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