Press kit
Tusk
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Factsheet
App
Tusk
One-liner
A Mac app for video creators and photographers that backs up project files across drives and cloud, and always shows where every file lives, even when drives aren't plugged in.
Platform
macOS 12 (Monterey)+ · Apple Silicon at launch · Intel build in active pilot, expected at or shortly after release · signed & notarized DMG · not Mac App Store
Price
$49 for the first 100 licenses (live availability shown on the pricing page) · $79 afterward · one-time license · 14-day free trial (no card, no signup)
License
Lifetime key by email · up to 5 activations · one year of updates included
Destinations
External drives · S3-compatible · Google Drive · Dropbox
Developer
Niklas Fischer, solo indie · about
Press contact
Website
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Descriptions
Short
Tusk is a Mac app for video creators and photographers. It backs up your project files across drives and cloud, and always shows you where every file lives, even when drives aren't plugged in.
Medium
Your backup drive can be sitting in a drawer and Tusk still knows exactly what is on it. Built for photographers and video creators with footage spread across drives and cloud, Tusk automatically copies and verifies new project files. It can offload an SD card to several destinations at once without first filling the Mac, blocks unsafe local deletes, and restores from the best available copy in one click.
Long
Creative work rarely stays in one neat place. Footage spreads from SD cards to a Mac, external SSDs, archive drives, and cloud storage. Making another copy is only half the problem. Months later, you still need to know whether every file is safe and which drive actually holds it.
Tusk is a project-aware backup app for Mac that keeps that answer visible. It copies project files to multiple drives and cloud destinations, verifies every transfer with a BLAKE3 checksum, and remembers every location even while a drive is unplugged. On a shoot day, it can offload an SD card to several destinations at once without first filling the Mac. When local space runs low, Tusk checks the backup copies before allowing a local delete, then restores from the best available source when the files are needed again.
File location tracking across disconnected drives (BLAKE3)
SD card offload with fan-out verification
Project-aware backup (folder = project)
Safe local delete with preflight checks
One-click restore from the best available source
Story angles
Disconnected-drive tracking
Every creator has unlabeled drives in a drawer and no idea what's on them. Tusk tracks files by content across destinations, including drives that are currently unplugged.
Shoot-day fan-out
Offload an SD card to multiple destinations at once. The card is read once. A local copy on the Mac is not required.
Safe delete
Before deleting local copies, Tusk verifies backups on connected destinations and blocks the delete if anything is missing or unverified.
Indie Mac utility
Built by one person. Local SQLite catalogue. No Tusk accounts. Your file contents never touch our servers.
What Tusk is not
Not a bootable clone tool (use CCC or SuperDuper alongside)
Not whole-Mac continuous cloud backup (complementary to Backblaze / Time Machine)
Not a MAM/DAM or general disk cataloger for arbitrary legacy disks
Verifies transfer integrity, not historical versioning / snapshot history
macOS only · Apple Silicon at launch; Intel build is in active pilot
Founder
Niklas Fischer is a software engineer, programming educator, and the founder of Tusk. He built the app after years of shooting programming courses and YouTube projects onto whichever external drive had space, then losing track of which drive held which files. He is the founding engineer at cleverklagen, previously worked as a data scientist at DAZN and FC Barcelona, served as a lead instructor at coding bootcamps, and has published programming courses on Udemy and through Packt for O'Reilly.
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The backup app that never forgets where your files went
Per-file backup status across every destination
File tracking while backup drives are unplugged
SD-card offload to multiple destinations
Verified backups before local files are removed
Restore from the fastest available source
Product demo: see the homepage video at tuskbackup.com.
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