Active@ KillDisk AlternativesOnly apps categorised as File Shredders

The best File Shredder alternative to Active@ KillDisk is Eraser, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Active@ KillDisk and many of them are File Shredders so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting File Shredder alternatives to Active@ KillDisk are Permadelete, Stellar File Eraser, Alternate File Shredder and iShredder.

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Active@ KillDisk alternatives page was last updated Sep 5, 2023
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  1. Eraser icon
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    Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

    48 Eraser alternatives

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    Eraser Features

    1.  Portable

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    Comments about Eraser as an Alternative to Active@ KillDisk
    Toz
    Negative Nov 4, 2022
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    Eraser can only erase free space on a disk, not the whole disk like Active@KillDisk.

    Guest
    Negative May 12, 2017
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    Active@Killdisk is bootable, Eraser is not.

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    • Some users think Eraser is a great Active@ KillDisk alternative, some don't.

    • Eraser is the most popular Windows alternative to Active@ KillDisk.

    • Eraser is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Active@ KillDisk.

    • Eraser is Free and Open SourceActive@ KillDisk is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Permadelete icon
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    Permadelete is a free and open source file shredder, it deletes your files beyond recovery. It's made to be beautiful and easy to use and yet powerful.

    46 Permadelete alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows

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    Comments about Permadelete as an Alternative to Active@ KillDisk
    Guest
    Negative Jun 5, 2022
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    This is a FILE deletion tool... Active@Killdisk is a DISK deletion tool. Its even in the name. This is not the same.

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    • Permadelete is Free and Open SourceActive@ KillDisk is Freemium and Proprietary
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    This software permanently wipes files from PCs, USBs, and other devices, erases web history and app traces to prevent misuse, and offers scheduled wiping.

    38 Stellar File Eraser alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows

    Stellar File Eraser VS Active@ KillDisk

     
    • Stellar File Eraser is the most popular commercial alternative to Active@ KillDisk.

    • Stellar File Eraser is Paid and ProprietaryActive@ KillDisk is Freemium and Proprietary
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    This program offers the possibility to finally delete files and/or folders (no recovery possible). The program also can overwrite the free space on a drive, which means, that already deleted files cannot be restored, too.

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    • Windows

    Alternate File Shredder VS Active@ KillDisk

     
    Comments about Alternate File Shredder as an Alternative to Active@ KillDisk
    Guest
    Negative Jun 5, 2022
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    This is a FILE deletion tool... Active@Killdisk is a DISK deletion tool. Its even in the name. This is not the same. Negative comment • less than a minute ago

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    • Alternate File Shredder is Free and Open SourceActive@ KillDisk is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. iShredder icon
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    iShredder™, is a secure data erasure technology and wipe the unused disk space securely so that deleted data cannot be recovered.

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    iShredder VS Active@ KillDisk

     
    • iShredder is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Active@ KillDisk.

    • iShredder is Paid and ProprietaryActive@ KillDisk is Freemium and Proprietary
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    With Context-Shredder you can destroy your sensitive files. Choose from simple destruction or shredding by Peter Gutmann. Users can create deletion tasks, overwrite available free space or destroy disk drives.

    37 Context-Shredder alternatives

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    • Windows

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    File Eraser Pro is the safe and reliable data erasure software which can completely erase your private and sensitive data with Safe and certified data erasure standards including HMG Infosec Standard 5, German FOFIS, DOD 5220.22-M, U.S.

    38 File Eraser Pro alternatives

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    • CN flagChina

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    • Windows

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  8. HDShredder icon
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    HDShredder by Miray Software deletes entire hard disks, partitions or other storage media securely and according to international standards if desired. Safely recycle your hard drive!.

    53 HDShredder alternatives

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    Lowvel overwrites data with zeroes, i.e. performs so called zero-filling of a storage device. It should be noted that after such zeroing, neither a data recovery software nor a data recovery service can recover data off the device.

    38 Lowvel alternatives

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    • RU flagRussia

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    • Windows

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  10. BCWipe icon
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    BCWipe data wiping software enables you to permanently delete files selectively so that they can never be recovered or undeleted. BCWipe embeds itself within Windows and can be activated from the Explorer FILE Menu OR from the context (right-click) menu OR from BCWipe Task...

    39 BCWipe alternatives

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    When you normally delete your files in Mac OS X, the operating system is only forgetting where those particular files are placed, while the data still physically remains on the drive. Beginning with Mac OS 10.

    36 Permanent Eraser alternatives

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    • Mac

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    1. Finder icon  Apple Finder Integration

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    wipe is a little command for securely erasing files from magnetic media. It compiles under various unix platforms, including Linux 2. * , (Open, Net, Free)BSD, aix 4.1, SunOS 5.5.1, Solaris 2.6. wipe is released under the GPL.

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