Clonio — GDPR-compliant database cloning for development teams

Development teams need real data to build and test effectively. But copying production to test environments means exposing customer emails, addresses, and payment details in places they should never be. That leads to GDPR violations, compliance nightmares, and hours of manual sanitization work every sprint.

Clonio solves this. It clones your production database to any test or staging environment — with configurable anonymization applied in-flight, automatic schema adaptation, and a cryptographically signed audit trail for every run. Self-hosted inside your infrastructure, behind your firewalls, fully under your control. Your data never leaves your network.

It is free forever for individuals, hobby projects, NGOs, and open source. For commercial use, Clonio runs on a fair use license — we trust you to support the project when it saves you time and money.

Every sponsorship, regardless of size, goes directly into ongoing development: new database drivers, better anonymization strategies, improved tooling, and keeping the lights on. If Clonio has made your workday a little less stressful, this is the most direct way to say thank you and keep it going.