VERSIONE
Backup and version history for music projects.
VERSIONE is an experimental, offline-first backup tool for DAW sessions, recordings, samples, and related project files. It is intended for development and evaluation only — not for production use and not a substitute for a proven backup routine.
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0-only).
What it is
VERSIONE works like a specialized backup / version manager for creative projects:
- Local copies you control
- Data stays on your machine by default
- Checkpoints
- Point-in-time snapshots of a project tree
- Named versions
- Milestones you can restore later
- Safe restore
- Open a previous state as a copy — no silent overwrite
- Deduplicated storage
- Unchanged files are stored once
- Tagging and search
- Find projects by tags, names, and other metadata you entered
- Optional remote copy
- You choose where (if anywhere) a second copy goes
VERSIONE does not sell cloud storage, does not require an account, and does not run a VERSIONE online service for your files.
No AI
VERSIONE is a good old backup application with tagging and search. There is no AI of any kind:
- no AI workflow inference
- no recommendations engines
- no language models
- no automatic “what should I finish next” scoring
- no cloud AI features
Organization is manual and deterministic: you tag projects, set status, search and filter what you stored. That is all.
Offline and self-managed
Works fully offline for local backup, history, and restore.
You own the disks, folders, and credentials.
No mandatory cloud, subscription, or phone-home analytics.
If you want an offsite copy, you connect storage or Git remotes of your choice. VERSIONE only provides the organization layer (how projects are snapshotted, indexed, and restored). The hosting is yours.
Examples of optional destinations you may configure yourself:
- A second drive or NAS path
- An S3-compatible bucket (AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Backblaze B2 S3 API, …)
- A Git remote such as GitHub/GitLab for metadata history (not for dumping multi-gigabyte audio into normal Git)
VERSIONE never uploads to “VERSIONE Cloud.” There is none.
