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AOMEI Backupper Standard
Polished free backup suite — but boot-drive cloning is now a paid feature.
- Licence
- Freemium
- Price
- Free edition; Professional around $49.95 (lifetime licence, frequently discounted)
- Platform
- Windows 7 through Windows 11
- Current version
- Regular releases
- Developer
- AOMEI Technology
- Clones the Windows system disk for free
- No
- Clone to a smaller drive
- With effort
- Official site
- www.ubackup.com
The verdict
A well-built free backup program with a clone button that stops short of the one job most people came for. The Standard edition clones data disks and individual partitions; cloning the Windows system disk requires Professional. Excellent as free imaging software, mediocre value as free cloning software.
Who it is for
People who want free scheduled disk images with a clean interface, and who are willing to pay if they also need boot-drive migration.
Strengths
- Genuinely capable free tier for backup, sync and file-level restore
- Clear, modern interface — one of the easiest in this category
- Free edition creates bootable rescue media
- Intelligent (used-sectors-only) cloning and 4K alignment for SSDs
- Paid licence is perpetual rather than an annual subscription
Limitations
- System clone and disk clone of the OS drive are locked to the paid edition
- Persistent in-app prompts to upgrade
- AOMEI's own comparison articles are marketing, not neutral reviews
Worth knowing
If you only need to clone once, compare the cost of a Professional licence against spending twenty minutes with the free Rescuezilla or Hasleo instead.
The interface
assets/img/screenshots/ and swap the src above. See the README in
that folder.
Before you clone anything
The destination drive is erased completely. Confirm which physical disk is which — by
size, model number and serial, not just by drive letter — and keep a separate backup of
anything irreplaceable. Our pre-clone checklist
takes about fifteen minutes and prevents most disasters.