Hey everyone, David here. I built n8n Export Wizard because I needed it. I had a database.sqlite from an old n8n instance I couldn't easily resurrect, and my workflows were in there somewhere, but the n8n CLI wants a running instance to talk to. The official recovery path was: rebuild the environment, point the CLI at it, then export. For a backup file that had been sitting in cloud storage for months, that was a lot of yak-shaving for a one-time recovery. So I built a Windows + macOS GUI app that reads the SQLite directly. Pick a database file, see every workflow and credential, click Export. Workflow JSON pastes straight into the n8n editor canvas, imports via "Import from File", or works with n8n import:workflow. Credentials export as the encrypted blob (same-instance restore) or, with the source encryption key, decrypted JSON that imports cleanly with n8n import:credentials on a target running a different key. It does the migration side too: connect to a running n8n via the Public API, push workflows directly into another instance, batch-import JSON files. But the "I have a SQLite and no running n8n" recovery use case is the part I really needed, and that's the part I'm proudest of. Free for personal and corporate use. Windows builds are code-signed via Microsoft's Azure Trusted Signing. macOS builds shipping shortly. Source code is commercially licensed if anyone needs that. What I'd love from you: - Bug reports, especially around credential decryption on different n8n versions - Edge cases I haven't thought of (folders, archived workflows, weird credential schemas) - "I wish it also did X" feedback before v1.x feature lock I'll be hanging out in the comments all day. Thanks for taking a look. → https://n8n-export-wizard.davids...

n8n Export & Migration Utility

Recover and migrate n8n flows. No CLI. No running n8n.

Recover and migrate n8n flows. No CLI. No running n8n.