Permadelete Alternatives

Apps similar to Permadelete include Eraser, which is free and open source. Other options are Ashampoo WinOptimizer, HiBit Uninstaller, DiskGenius and Coolmuster Data Erasure. You're spoiled for choice with File Shredders like Permadelete: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and self-hosting.

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    SDelete, short for Secure Delete, is a command-line based data destruction tool and can be run from the Command Prompt in Windows 7, Vista, or XP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. OW Shredder icon
     1 like

    OW Shredder is a powerful security tool, that allows you to completely erase sensitive data from your computer. Individual files, free disk space, and entire volumes get erased securely. In addition OW Shredder offers various tools to scan, analyze, and wipe; other traces that...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. The working with the computer and the browsing in the internet leave numerous digital traces on the disk. The normal functions of the operating system don’t delete these traces completely. In order to delete the data really, the abylon SHREDDER overwrites the files, internet...

    36 abylon SHREDDER alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Offigneum icon
     2 likes

    The world's most powerful file shredding software.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. PC Reviver icon
     3 likes

    PC Reviver is a multi-purpose utility that will diagnose errors on your PC, safely repair them, and provide other maintenance and optimization recommendations.

    169 PC Reviver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2015

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. 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.

    36 Context-Shredder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2016

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Because it's been deleted from your hard drive, doesn't mean it's gone forever. As long as the information was not overwritten, anyone can restore it at any time. It gets even more complicated, if a computer has been resold or given away.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2020

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    ErAce is software that will over write the hard drive 1-100 times. So it fullfills the strictest security standards i.e. DOD 5220.22-M. In that way it is impossible to recover data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2014

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  9. BCWipe icon
     5 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. File Shredder icon
     10 likes

    File Shredder is a FREE and powerful application to shred and permanently remove unwanted files from your computer.

    35 File Shredder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. WipeCert icon
     1 like

    Drive erasure for Windows, macOS and Linux that ends in a signed NIST 800-88 Clear or Purge certificate anyone can verify online.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • New

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12.  2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Platforms

    • Windows
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