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JKSV vs OpenSave

JKSV

github.com

OpenSave

savesync.qzz.io

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FigureJKSVOpenSave
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published21
Spec score · Game Save Managers8.0 (#9)7.8 (#14)
PurposeJKSV is a Nintendo Switch homebrew save manager for backing up and restoring game save data.OpenSave syncs game saves between a user's devices, including saves for emulators and games outside Steam Cloud.
Support and documentationThe maker’s README links to setup instructions for Google Drive and WebDAV, and the guide provides backup and restore steps.The site links to a getting-started guide, CLI documentation, Discord, GitHub issues, and bug reporting.

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JKSV

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OpenSave

OpenSave syncs game saves among a user's devices, including emulator saves and games outside Steam Cloud. It can identify games using an offline, community-maintained index of more than 20,000 titles, or track a folder or file selected by the user. Devices can find each other over the same Wi-Fi or pair over the internet with a room code, without an account or port forwarding. OpenSave keeps versioned snapshots and supports rollback and branches; when it finds conflicting saves, it asks the user how to resolve them. Optional snapshot backups can go to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV, or a NAS folder. On a LAN, devices communicate directly. Internet syncing uses an encrypted connection to a stateless relay, but the encryption ends there and the relay could read forwarded data. Users can self-host the relay and manage its daemon and CLI through a local REST/WebSocket API. It is free and MIT-licensed, with Windows, Linux, Steam Deck, and macOS options. On a stock Steam Deck, the Linux tarball will not start; the site recommends the Flatpak.

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