Save Desktop helps you back up, restore, and synchronize your entire desktop environment with ease. It saves and imports your themes, icons, fonts, wallpapers, extensions, desktop folder, Flatpak apps and their data, as well as other desktop settings — all in one archive. Choose what to include and keep your setup consistent across devices with automatic periodic saves and synchronization.
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4.15 Jul 2026
- Added support for Niri WM and LXQt DE
- Added a status window for showing the progress of Flatpak apps installation after configuration import (#521)
- Excluded the KDE Connect configuration from synchronization (#533)
- Updated the GNOME runtime and 7-Zip to the latest versions (#534)
4.022 Feb 2026
- New: Include custom folders in backups (#505)
- Redesigned Flatpak apps selection: shows app names (not IDs) and backs up selected apps together with their user data
- New: Sync selected configuration items across PCs to keep archives consistent
- Updated archive structure with full backward compatibility for older backups
- During import, only what is actually in the archive will be displayed in the item selection dialog
- Updated translations
3.918 Jan 2026
- Fixed a bug with applying the settings from dConf (#487)
- The dialog for selecting the configuration items is now located in the app's menu in the header bar, and their settings are now applied for saving, importing, and syncing mode.
- Added an option to exclude the file manager bookmarks (#480)
- Added an option to set removing the Flatpak apps that aren't available in the configuration archive (#482)
3.85 Nov 2025
- Improved synchronization logic and added new CLI argument --sync-now.
- Fixed detection of newer versions of Budgie (#462)
- Fixed saving configuration without creating an archive in CLI (#463)
- Added support for system installations of Flatpak apps (#459)
- Added notification at the start and the end of periodic saving
- Updated translations