Recilic is live on the Mac App Store
Three days after we decided to ship, and two App Review rounds later — Recilic 0.1.0 is on the Mac App Store.
What 0.1.0 does
This first release is the foundation layer: local backup that takes proof seriously.
An encrypted vault, where you decide. On first launch you choose where the vault lives — a folder, an external drive. Every chunk is encrypted on your Mac (ChaCha20-Poly1305) before it is written anywhere.
4+2 erasure coding. Each chunk becomes six shards; any four rebuild everything. Two can be lost or corrupted — bit rot is detected and repaired, not silently restored.
Immutable history. Every backup is a sequence-numbered, key-bound generation. Yesterday's backup can't be rewritten — not by ransomware, not by a slipped finger.
Restore drills. The headline feature: Recilic periodically rebuilds your files end to end and verifies every one. "Backed up" means a rehearsed restore, not a finished transfer.
What's next
The mesh. Replicating shards across your other Macs and trusted friends' machines — across homes and offices — so no single place holds your fate. That's the mission; today's release is its ground floor.
Honestly: this is a fascinating space, and we don't know where it ends up. An encrypted backup mesh between people who trust each other is a lane nobody has seriously run in — no precedent to copy, every step an exploration. That's exactly what makes it fun.
Coming next: a dedicated GitHub where you can report issues and follow the product roadmap — your feedback steers where this goes.