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Free alternatives to IDrive Personal

Swap IDrive Personal for Kopia, restic or Duplicati and stop paying $143.88/yr.

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$143.88/yr IDrive Personal (5 TB) Verified on idrive.com, Oct 17, 2026

3 alternatives

Replaces it Active Open source · Apache-2.0 Linux Arch/AUR
kopia/kopia14.3k★last push Oct 16, 2026checked Oct 17, 2026

You supply the storage (a drive, NAS or cloud bucket) that IDrive includes, and there's no phone backup.

Install
$ yay -S kopia
$ flatpak install flathub io.kopia.KopiaUI
Replaces it Active Open source · BSD-2-Clause Linux Arch/AUR
restic/restic36.5k★last push Oct 17, 2026checked Oct 17, 2026

Command-line only, you supply the storage, and there's no phone backup.

Install
$ sudo pacman -S restic
Replaces it Active Open source · MIT Linux Arch/AUR
duplicati/duplicati15.1k★last push Oct 16, 2026checked Oct 17, 2026

You supply the cloud or NAS storage that IDrive includes, and there's no phone backup.

Install
$ yay -S duplicati-bin

At a glance

Free alternatives to IDrive Personal compared
AlternativeVerdictLicenseLinuxAURSelf-hostStars
Kopia Replaces it Apache-2.0 open source Yes Yes No 14.3k★
restic Replaces it BSD-2-Clause open source Yes Yes No 36.5k★
Duplicati Replaces it MIT open source Yes Yes No 15.1k★

IDrive Personal alternatives: questions

Is there a free alternative to IDrive Personal?
Yes. The 3 free alternatives are Kopia (open source, Apache-2.0), restic (open source, BSD-2-Clause) and Duplicati (open source, MIT).
How much does IDrive Personal cost?
IDrive Personal's IDrive Personal (5 TB) plan costs $11.99 a month, which is $143.88 a year (monthly; yearly and 2-year discounts apply to the first year only). Source: the official pricing page at idrive.com, checked Oct 17, 2026.
Which IDrive Personal alternatives run on Linux?
Kopia (AUR: kopia; Flathub: io.kopia.KopiaUI), restic (Arch extra: restic) and Duplicati (AUR: duplicati-bin).
Can you self-host a IDrive Personal alternative?
There's nothing to host: Kopia is a desktop app, restic is a command-line tool and Duplicati is a desktop app.
Are these IDrive Personal alternatives open source?
Yes. All 3 use OSI-approved open-source licenses: Kopia (Apache-2.0), restic (BSD-2-Clause) and Duplicati (MIT).

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