Workbench Alternatives

Workbench is described as 'Effective way to continuously and securely back up your “dotfiles” so they can be easily restored when you clean install macOS and sign back into your iCloud account' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are four alternatives to Workbench for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Rust apps. The best Workbench alternative is chezmoi, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Workbench are Dotter, yadm and filetailor.

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  1. chezmoi icon

    chezmoi

     9 likes

    Dotfiles manager through a version control system.

    13 chezmoi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Mac
     
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    Dotter

     1 like

    A dotfile manager and templater written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  4. yadm icon

    yadm

     4 likes

    When you live in a command line, configurations are a deeply personal thing. They are often crafted over years of experience, battles lost, lessons learned, advice followed, and ingenuity rewarded. When you are away from your own configurations, you are an orphaned refugee in...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Git
    status
     
  5. filetailor icon

    filetailor

     2 likes

    filetailor is a peer-based configuration management utility for plain-text files (and directories) such as dotfiles. Files are backed up to a specified folder using filetailor, transferred to another device using tools such as Nextcloud or Syncthing, and then restored on other...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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