2025 / best GUI for restic

[rogierl]

There are a couple of topics available that are about a cross-platform GUI for restic. Some are really outdated and therefore I thought it might be good to come up with a 2025 list of restic GUI’s. I’m still quite happy with “restic browser” (GitHub - emuell/restic-browser: A GUI to browse and restore restic backup repositories.), but I’m wondering if there are -better- alternatives?

Links

• Restic-Browser: A cross-platform GUI to browse restic repositories

[ZeB]

Npbackup is worth checking.

GitHub - netinvent/npbackup at v3.0.3

[rogierl]

Thanks; I’ll check it out soon!

[GuitarBilly]

+1 kudos to npbackup.

Another option is backrest:
Backrest is a web-accessible backup solution built on top of restic.
After the installation it can be approached via a webpage from anywhere and as such would classify as “cross-platform GUI” for me.

These are all I have used (I work on linux and windows).

[joistef]

Worth mentioning Relica as well — cross-platform GUI (Windows, macOS, Linux) with full CLI.

Main differentiator is multi-destination backup: define what to back up once, then attach local, cloud (50+ providers), and peer-to-peer destinations to a single schedule.

I just posted a longer announcement here: Relica 2.0 released

(Disclosure: I’m the developer.)

[alexweiss]

Let me throw in my very opinionated (I’m the author) choice of UI to access a restic repository: rustic snapshots -i

This is in fact a TUI (Text User Interface) which has the following properties (some can be pros or cons depending on your point of view):

• Features: View of snapshots, trees (including file preview), diffs, statistics information; restore on any level (snapshot/tree/file), allows removal and modification of snapshots. I don’t know any UI having more functionalities to operate directly on a restic repository.
• Can be started directly on the terminal including e.g. SSH-sessions; no browser or network connection needed/supported
• Single binary without dependencies (does not even depend on a restic binary)
• All code is a re-implementation of restic in Rust and completely independent from restic

See also

A restic client written in rust

Hi! I just wanted to advertise the new TUI (text user interface) to browse and restore from a repository which is in fact part of rustic 0.8.0 and can be started by running rustic snapshots -i. Some impressions: Snapshots view: [image] From this snapshots view, you can also do modifications on selected snapshots like forgetting them or modifying tags. Tree view: [image] From this tree view, you can start a restore to restore sub-trees or files. Note that this TUI is in an early develo…

[flinteger-code]

If you want to view your backup on iOS with a native UI, you can try Restique (author here). See also Restic iOS Client App. Feedback is appreciated.