

The Personal version of the program is available in three flavors: the perpetual license Standard version ( available on Amazon), which costs $50.


If you know about backup, it’s easier to get up to speed. Tiny scroll bars require finer mousework than is necessary, and there’s a complete lack of tool tips (tiny windows with explanations in them). True Image 2019’s interface is attractive, in a modern, 2D kind of way. It’s much cleaner than it used to be, but it’s still not particularly intuitive or easy. If you’re a software minimalist, there are simpler solutions such as Window’s own File History, a sort of poor man’s Time Machine. We have to admit, they are very good at it. The company wants to control every aspect of every backup chore. True Image 2019 keeps seven background processes running. On the other hand, all that functionality requires a fair number of background processes and a heavy footprint on your system. If you really want the maximum backup protection for your system, there’s really nothing else that comes close to True Image in the consumer arena. There’s also a one-way (mirroring) function for syncing a folder to a destination, as well as client apps for your mobile devices to keep those backed up. True Image 2019 also offers just about every conceivable backup option: incremental, differential, super-flexible scheduling, pre/post operation commands, email notifications, just to name a few. It still creates sector-accurate images of your drives or partitions, but it also features an online storage component in Acronis Cloud offers archival and sync functionality has a hidden restore-from partition (such as those often found with laptops) called Secure Zone can clone disks and offers ransomware protection. True Image has long since morphed from a plain “imaging” program into more of a backup suite.
