Keelhaven
Keelhaven is a macOS menu-bar application that automates encrypted backups of chosen folders to storage the user controls, without a vendor account or subscription.
Backup tools often force a tradeoff between convenience and control: a managed cloud backup service is easy to set up but locks data behind a vendor's app and account, while a fully manual setup (raw restic or rsync scripts) is under the user's control but requires ongoing manual operation. Keelhaven targets the middle: a single menu-bar item on macOS 14 and later that runs scheduled (hourly, daily, or weekly) encrypted backups to a destination the user already owns, such as an external drive, a NAS, or S3-compatible storage including AWS, Backblaze B2, or Wasabi.
Data is encrypted on the Mac before it leaves the device, and backups are written in the standard restic format, so a snapshot remains restorable with the plain restic command-line tool even if Keelhaven itself is no longer installed. The project is described as free and open source with no subscription and no account requirement, and supports point-in-time recovery of a full snapshot from any backup date.
This is a general-purpose personal backup tool rather than AI-agent or LLM tooling, which sits outside this radar's usual scope; it was absorbed at the user's explicit request rather than through the normal applicability screen. There is no first-person production use yet, so it sits at Assess, and at the outer position within that ring given the scope mismatch with the rest of this radar.
