Rinne

Rinne is a local history and snapshot tool for early-stage projects.

It is not a replacement for Git, Perforce, or Unity Version Control. In team development, you usually use the tool the team has already chosen, or the one that has become the de facto standard.

Rinne is meant for an earlier stage: planning, prototyping, and rough solo iteration before a team’s development rules and workflows are fully established. At that stage, the priority is not adopting an established team workflow before the work is ready for it, but finding something real by making, breaking, comparing, and restoring work over and over again.

The tool you need there should be light, simple, and easy to use. It should handle not only text files, but also binary files, assets, documents, and other mixed project materials without requiring server setup, key management, or other team-oriented VCS configuration.

Backup software and traditional version control solve different problems. Backup software is shaped by security, retention, disaster recovery, and data protection requirements. Traditional VCS was built primarily for source code, repositories, and team workflows.

Rinne sits in a different space between those categories. It focuses on fast local snapshots for mixed project folders, before the work is organized enough for formal version control but beyond what simple manual backups can comfortably handle.

With chunk-level deduplication and compression, Rinne keeps storage efficient while letting you save, compare, export, and restore both text and binary files with very little friction.

In that sense, Rinne is a local history tool for rough, fast, repeated experimentation before formal team-managed development begins.