What's new in Guard.
A plain log of what changed between versions. No marketing copy, just the actual changes.
1.0.0 - first public release
- Protect the specific folders you choose. Guard reads a folder and stores copies in its own archive; your original files are never moved or changed.
- Capture manual snapshots: point-in-time copies you can return to later. Snapshots are content-addressed and deduplicated, so each capture only stores what actually changed and repeat captures stay small.
- Restore a whole snapshot or pick individual files from a checkable tree. Guard restores into a separate folder by default, so your current files are never overwritten.
- Verify a snapshot to confirm its stored files are intact and match what was captured, with a per-snapshot health badge: Verified, Captured, Warning, or Failed.
- Clean up old snapshots with a retention policy you set. Guard previews every deletion, always keeps the most recent snapshot, and errs on the side of keeping data.
- Local and offline. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Guard does not connect to the internet automatically.
- One-time personal license with a free 30-day trial. Restoring, browsing, and verifying are never license-gated; they keep working after the trial.
- Light and dark themes.
- Built-in offline help: Quick Start, User Guide, FAQ and Troubleshooting.
- Manual Check for updates. It runs only when you ask and downloads a small static manifest. It sends no protected-folder, Archive, license, or usage data; as with any web request, the server receives ordinary connection information, including Guard and its version in the user-agent.
- About and third-party license notices built in.
- Localization framework in place (English now, more languages later).
- Windows desktop installer.