Both back up a Windows PC and both watch for ransomware. Macrium Reflect X Home images a whole drive so a failed one can be replaced and put back exactly, for one yearly price per computer. Copy Shelter encrypts your files with a key only you hold and keeps copies wherever you choose, then reads each one back to check it.
A drive image that can start a PC again is a job for an imaging tool. Many people keep an image for getting a machine running again and a file backup with history for getting a file back. The two fail for different reasons, which is the point of having both.
Can you get a file back today, from the backup as it is now, on a PC that has never seen it? Try it with one file before you need it. Copy Shelter's answer is csctl and the published format.
For file backup, yes. If you want a whole drive image, active cloning or a rescue USB built for imaging, Macrium covers those and Copy Shelter does not.
Pro can back up the whole machine, file by file, but it does not create a sector-level disk image or clone a startup drive. For that, use an imaging tool alongside it.
Reflect X Home is $49.99 a year for one computer, with a free 30-day trial and 30 days to ask for a refund. A 4-pack covers four computers for the price of two.
You can pay monthly or yearly, pay once for this major version, or use Free for one backup location with no time limit, on every platform it runs on.
Macrium figures are from macrium.com, the Reflect Home product page, read on 19 September 2026. Prices change, so check them before deciding. Related: Copy Shelter and Acronis True Image, Copy Shelter and Windows File History.