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Tusk
The backup app that never forgets where your files went
Tusk is a Mac backup app for photographers and video editors with footage spread across many drives. Unlike cloning or sync tools, it tracks every file by checksum across all your destinations and can tell you what's on a drive sitting on your shelf. Plug in an SD card and it fans out to every drive and cloud at once. Free up your Mac once every backup holds a verified copy. Drive dies? One-click restore from the best copy. $49 lifetime at launch (later $79). 14-day free trial, no credit card.
I built it because keeping my own footage safe was incredibly tedious. After a year of shooting, I had six external drives and no idea where I could find any specific file. Worse, I could never be sure if a file was safely backed up or if it only existed in one place, meaning one corrupted drive could wipe out some irreproducible footage forever.
The existing tools are good at backup: cloning a drive, syncing a folder, and verifying the copy. But then they leave you alone. None of them answered the question "Where is this file?" once the drive was back on the shelf.
Tusk is built around that question. It backs up your project folders to external drives and the cloud, verifies every file (BLAKE3 checksums), and keeps a library of where every copy lives. It's local-first: your files, your storage, your control, with cloud as one destination rather than the whole plan. Open a project, and you see which files are safely backed up, which aren't, and which drive to grab. It watches your project folders, too, so new or updated files are automatically copied to your backup locations. Once everything is safely backed up, you can delete your local copies with one click to free up space on your Mac Tusk verifies every destination first and refuses if anything's missing.
Launch offer: First 100 licenses for $49 lifetime (later $79). You can try Tusk out for free for 14 days, no signup or credit card required.
Photographers and videographers have tested it over the past months and shaped much of what it is today. If you're a music producer, VFX artist, or anyone sitting on more data than you can keep in your head, I'd love to hear whether Tusk solves your problem.
I’d especially love feedback on:
Is the backup workflow intuitive?
Is there anything missing before you’d trust it with your data?
How do you currently organize archived projects?
About Tusk on Product Hunt
“The backup app that never forgets where your files went”
Tusk was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 24 upvotes and 14 comments, placing #29 on the daily leaderboard. Tusk is a Mac backup app for photographers and video editors with footage spread across many drives. Unlike cloning or sync tools, it tracks every file by checksum across all your destinations and can tell you what's on a drive sitting on your shelf. Plug in an SD card and it fans out to every drive and cloud at once. Free up your Mac once every backup holds a verified copy. Drive dies? One-click restore from the best copy. $49 lifetime at launch (later $79). 14-day free trial, no credit card.
On the analytics side, Tusk competes within Mac, Productivity and Photo & Video — topics that collectively have 762.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Tusk performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Tusk?
Tusk was hunted by Niklas Fischer. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Tusk including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Niklas Fischer
Hey PH! I'm Niklas, solo founder of Tusk.
I built it because keeping my own footage safe was incredibly tedious. After a year of shooting, I had six external drives and no idea where I could find any specific file. Worse, I could never be sure if a file was safely backed up or if it only existed in one place, meaning one corrupted drive could wipe out some irreproducible footage forever.
The existing tools are good at backup: cloning a drive, syncing a folder, and verifying the copy. But then they leave you alone. None of them answered the question "Where is this file?" once the drive was back on the shelf.
Tusk is built around that question. It backs up your project folders to external drives and the cloud, verifies every file (BLAKE3 checksums), and keeps a library of where every copy lives. It's local-first: your files, your storage, your control, with cloud as one destination rather than the whole plan. Open a project, and you see which files are safely backed up, which aren't, and which drive to grab. It watches your project folders, too, so new or updated files are automatically copied to your backup locations. Once everything is safely backed up, you can delete your local copies with one click to free up space on your Mac Tusk verifies every destination first and refuses if anything's missing.
Launch offer: First 100 licenses for $49 lifetime (later $79). You can try Tusk out for free for 14 days, no signup or credit card required.
Photographers and videographers have tested it over the past months and shaped much of what it is today. If you're a music producer, VFX artist, or anyone sitting on more data than you can keep in your head, I'd love to hear whether Tusk solves your problem.
I’d especially love feedback on:
Is the backup workflow intuitive?
Is there anything missing before you’d trust it with your data?
How do you currently organize archived projects?