Free Disk Drill Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Disk Drill for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is PhotoRec, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Disk Drill and many of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to Disk Drill are Digler, Stellar Data Recovery for Mac, Autopsy Forensic Browser and DMDE.

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Disk Drill alternatives are mainly File Recovery Tools, but if you're looking for Photo Recovery Tools or Hard Disk Recovery Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Linux, Mac and Mac + Free. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Disk Drill.
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  1. PhotoRec icon
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    PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures.

    143 PhotoRec alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Most users think PhotoRec is a great Disk Drill alternative.

    • PhotoRec is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Disk Drill.

    • PhotoRec is the most popular Open Source alternative to Disk Drill.

    • PhotoRec is Free and Open SourceDisk Drill is Freemium and Proprietary
    • PhotoRec is LightweightDisk Drill is not according to our users
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    Recover lost data on Mac, from documents to videos, even if deleted from Trash. Supports APFS, NTFS drives for Macs including M1 & T2 chips, with ability to create recovery USB.

    136 Stellar Data Recovery for Mac alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer.

    101 Autopsy Forensic Browser alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. DMDE icon
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    DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery (DMDE) is a disk editor which can help you to understand NTFS. Its capable to view your hard disk sector wise, on MFT level, to disect mft attributes and to edit bytes on your hard disk.

    99 DMDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Recovers deleted, formatted, or unsaved files from internal and external storage on two operating systems, supports over 1000 file types, repairs unplayable videos and photos, restores data from unbootable devices, and offers backup image recovery.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    EaseUS MobiSaver is a user-friendly iPhone recovery software designed to scan iPhones directly or extract data from iTunes backup files. Its primary function is to recover various types of iPhone data including notes, text messages, call history, calendar entries, photos, and...

    30 EaseUS MobiSaver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    The Professional Data Recovery Wizard! Quickly and safely recovers the deleted images, videos, audios, emails, documents and more from hard drives, memory card, flash drive, Windows 11/ 10/8/7/XP, and Mac (including Recycle Bin).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  8. Remo Recover icon
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    Software to recover deleted or lost files from Windows,Macintosh & Android operating system. Retrieves & restores data from partitioned,corrupted,formatted, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    Raise Data Recovery is an easy-to-use powerful utility with an intuitive wizard-style interface for data recovery from simple storages with Windows, Linux and macOS file systems and from common RAID-based devices.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    R Data Recovery restores photos, documents, videos, audios, archive files, emails from PC/Laptop, Mac, hard drive, external hard drive, memory card, USB flash drive, digital storage medium after accidental deletion, formatting, virus attacks, etc.

    54 R Data Recovery Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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