Recuva Alternatives for Mac

Recuva is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is TestDisk, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Recuva and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Recuva are PhotoRec, R-Studio, Disk Drill and Autopsy Forensic Browser.

Recuva alternatives are mainly File Recovery Tools but may also be Hard Disk Recovery Tools or Photo Recovery Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Recuva.

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TestDisk
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Free • Open Source
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Haiku
141 alternatives to TestDisk
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a...
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TestDisk Features
1. NTFS Partition RecoveryTestDisk can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
2. Photo RecoveryTestDisk can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
Repair Partitions
Recover disk partitions
Support for FTP
Reporting
TestDisk vs Recuva opinions
Most users think TestDisk is a great alternative to Recuva.
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Professional tools, not simple, but powerfull
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The best one out there. It can edit/restore partitions, list and copy files and folders and it's very fast.
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4

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It's focused on recovery partition. In the case of you have to recover folders or files, is not really helpfull
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Not user friendly at all, I couldn't find a single line saying this was a file recovery software, only partitions
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It's focused in recovering partitions, not files. So it lists partitions with not much info about the files inside.
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PhotoRec
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Free • Open Source
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
145 alternatives to PhotoRec
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures.
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PhotoRec Features
1. DRM FreeNo Digital rights management (DRM), i.e. no copy protection.
2. Photo RecoveryPhotoRec can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
3. LightweightPhotoRec consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. Recover Corrupted FilesPhotoRec can recover and repair corrupted files that won't open or that open with an error.
5. NTFS Partition RecoveryPhotoRec can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
6. Ad-freePhotoRec doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Disk drive recovery
Text-based
Finds deleted files
PhotoRec vs Recuva opinions
Almost everyone thinks PhotoRec is a great alternative to Recuva.
R-Studio
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
136 alternatives to R-Studio
R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software. Empowered by the new unique data recovery technologies, it is the most comprehensive data recovery solution for recovery files from FAT12/16/32/exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 (created or updated by...
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R-Studio Features
RAID recovery
R-Studio vs Recuva opinions
Most users think R-Studio is a great alternative to Recuva.
Disk Drill
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Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
148 alternatives to Disk Drill
Disk Drill is a data recovery software that easily protects your files from accidental deletion with Recovery Vault and recovers lost data from disks. Disk Drill supports most of storage drives, file types and file systems.
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Disk Drill Features
1. Photo RecoveryDisk Drill can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
2. NTFS Partition RecoveryDisk Drill can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
Disk Drill vs Recuva opinions
Some users think Disk Drill is a great alternative to Recuva, some don't.
Autopsy Forensic Browser
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Free • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
78 alternatives to Autopsy Forensic Browser
Autopsy is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit and other digital forensics tools. It is used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer.

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EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Android
iPhone
127 alternatives to EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
Advanced data recovery software to do format recovery, unformat and recover deleted files emptied from Recycle Bin or lost data due to partition loss or damage, software crash, virus infection, unexpected shutdown or any other unknown reasons under Windows operating system.
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EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Features
1. Photo RecoveryEaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
DiskWarrior
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Mac
125 alternatives to DiskWarrior
DiskWarrior is the safest, most technologically advanced, most powerful utility to eliminate directory damage and recover your files, folders and documents. DiskWarrior is so advanced it can even recover your data from a failing hard drive.
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DiskWarrior Features
Repair Partitions
DMDE
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Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
97 alternatives to DMDE
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.
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DMDE Features
1. NTFS Partition RecoveryDMDE can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
Filesystem
Partition Recovery
Cisdem Data Recovery
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Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
122 alternatives to Cisdem Data Recovery
Using advanced scanning technology, Cisdem Data Recovery can help you recover data under different data loss situations with ease, such as sudden power off, document deletion, hard drive formatting, macOS update, system crash, virus attack, human error, etc.
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Cisdem Data Recovery Features
1. Recover Corrupted FilesCisdem Data Recovery can recover and repair corrupted files that won't open or that open with an error.
2. Photo RecoveryCisdem Data Recovery can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
3. NTFS Partition RecoveryCisdem Data Recovery can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
PhoneRescue
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
142 alternatives to PhoneRescue
An ultimate data recovery program designed for retrieving up to 31 types of iOS & Android data with world's top success rate and 100% securely.
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PhoneRescue Features
1. Photo RecoveryPhoneRescue can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
2. Recover Corrupted FilesPhoneRescue can recover and repair corrupted files that won't open or that open with an error.
Free API
iOS Data Recovery
Multiple languages