First WinRestoreKit version.
WinRestoreKit began as a fork of Appcopier by Builtbybel.
It has since been substantially rebuilt and now lives in its own repository. The version series
restarts at 0.0.1 rather than continuing Appcopier's 0.30.0 line, because this is a new
application rather than a new Appcopier release.
Download
WinRestoreKit.exe below is a self-contained single file. No .NET runtime install is needed.
SHA-256 fedee8ddcd9dfc53e81b5a184d8e3a2dc1d2d6f6c7d20392ec0a3d2f41b9e4f6
Size 72,042,306 bytes
Existing Appcopier backups keep working
The backup format did not change. The app\ directory, backup_manifest.json and every key in
it, manifest_version, module identifiers, snapshot and backup folder naming and .reg file
naming are all untouched, so an existing Appcopier backup collection is read as-is.
Place WinRestoreKit.exe beside your existing app\ directory, or copy that directory beside
the executable. Copy it rather than experimenting on your only backup.
The one visible difference: backup and restore logs written from now on carry a WinRestoreKit
header line instead of an Appcopier one. That header is only written and displayed, never
parsed, so older logs read exactly as before.
See MIGRATION.md for the
full migration record.
What is in this version
The product, the executable, the solution, the projects, the assemblies and the namespaces are
now WinRestoreKit. The update checker, the download link, the repository button and the star
count point at this repository. The About screen credits Nicolas Estrem as maintainer and
acknowledges Appcopier separately as the original project.
Also carried in this release, from work done before the rename: a rebuilt restore-safety model
with a modal confirmation dialog that defaults to Cancel and unchecked consent boxes, pre-restore
snapshots, a manifest-backed Home and History that say "details unavailable" rather than
inventing success, PerMonitorV2 DPI handling, and a dark mode that survives navigation. See
CHANGELOG.md for detail.
Attribution
The MIT licence is unchanged and the original 2023 Builtbybel copyright is retained, with the
2026 Nicolas Estrem copyright added alongside it. See
NOTICE.md.
Known limitations
Existing Appcopier binaries check Builtbybel-hosted update endpoints and will not automatically
discover WinRestoreKit. Migrating means downloading this release once by hand.