Permadelete Alternatives

Permadelete is described as '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' and is a File Shredder in the security & privacy category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Permadelete for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best Permadelete alternative is Eraser, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Permadelete are DiskGenius, HiBit Uninstaller, Darik's Boot and Nuke and Alternate File Shredder.

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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.

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Permadelete alternatives page was last updated May 7, 2024
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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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    • FreeOpen Source

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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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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Windows

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

    37 File Shredder alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.50, released in 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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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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    1.  Low level

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  6. 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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    iOS devices that created by Apple have changed the world definitely. Although the storage of the iPhone, iPad or iPod become larger and larger, the storage of the device is always limited and too many junk files in the moile phone will lead to the slow operation or responce.

    212 MobiKin Cleaner for iOS alternatives

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    Zer0 is a user friendly file deletion tool with a high level of security. With Zer0, you'll be able to delete files and to prevent file recovery by a 3rd person.

    33 Zer0 alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • FR flagFrance
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    • Windows
    Discontinued

    KC Softwares has shut down all activities by end of October 2023.

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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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    • US flagUnited States

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    • Mac

    Permanent Eraser Features

    1. Finder icon  Apple Finder Integration

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    EraserDrop Portable is an easy-to-use secure data removal tool. It is a drop target (a floating icon on your desktop) that you can drop files onto to quickly erase them so they can not be recovered. EraserDrop does away with the standard .

    36 EraserDrop alternatives

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    • Free PersonalProprietary

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com

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    1.  Portable

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    HDD Wipe Tool is a freeware utility for low-level hard disk drive erasing.

    Supported interfaces: S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, USB, FIREWIRE. Big drives (LBA-48) are supported. Supported Manufacturers: Maxtor, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum, Wester.

    9 HDD Wipe Tool alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Windows

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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.

    28 wipe alternatives

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