SuperDuper!
plain drive-to-drive copying, free for full erase backups
This version
Major versions are paid. Shirt Pocket states that "SuperDuper 4 is free for qualifying recent purchases" and that other SuperDuper 3 customers who bought after July 31, 2020 get "an upgrade discount of up to 30%, based on purchase date" - so an older licence means a discounted upgrade and a much older one means paying again. Local drives only: there is no cloud destination, and like every cloner on Apple silicon it cannot promise a bootable copy of the system volume. Scheduling, Smart Update and unattended copies are the paid features.
SuperDuper! has looked roughly the same since 2004 and that is the appeal. The main window builds one sentence — copy this drive to that drive, erasing the destination first — and you read it before you commit. There is very little else to misunderstand, which matters for the one piece of software you only use properly on your worst day.
The unusual part is that the free download is not a nagware trial. Unregistered, it makes complete erase-and-copy backups indefinitely, and that alone is a working backup strategy if you are willing to start it by hand. The $43.95 licence buys Smart Update, which copies only what changed and turns an hour into a few minutes, plus scheduling and unattended runs. One licence, per user, on all your personal Macs.
The boundary is the major version. Recent purchases got SuperDuper 4 free, SuperDuper 3 buyers from after July 2020 paid up to 30% less, and anyone older paid full price again. It copies to local drives only, and on Apple silicon nobody can promise the copy will boot.
If you plug in a drive once a month and are happy to click Copy Now yourself, download it and pay nothing. The licence is worth it the moment you want backups to happen while you are asleep.
What it looks like
What it does
- Free unregistered version makes full erase-then-copy backups
- Smart Update copies only what changed
- Unlimited scheduled and unattended copies once licensed
- States in plain language what it will do before it does it
- One licence covers all your personal Macs
Also bought outright in files
The facts
- Price
- $43.95
- Licence
- Own this version forever
- What you get
- One payment buys this major version outright. The next major version is a separate purchase, if you want it.
- Details
- $43.95, described on the page as "not a subscription", licensed per user and usable on all your personal Macs. The unregistered download is free for full erase-and-copy backups.
- Free trial
- Yes
- On Setapp
- No
- Minimum macOS
- not stated
- Developer
- Shirt Pocket
- Price checked
- 2026-09-22
Check it yourself - Price band
- $30 to $60