Wise Data Recovery Alternatives and Similar Software

Recuva

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted from your iPod, or by bugs, crashes and viruses!

• Bundleware Be careful during installation, the installer will promote you to install CCleaner. See also https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/75155568d64e958d8003f9fbb36839fc9a53bfab3b51a8a1106a78e5be98b2e9/detection

Freemium Windows PortableApps.com

Glary Utilities

Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. It provides in 23 languages registry and disk cleaning, startup delay, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance. It is designed for both novice and professionals.

• Bundleware Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/

Freemium Windows Android

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.

Freemium Mac Windows

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 Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Win7), HFS/HFS+ (Macintosh), Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux) partitions.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

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. It will do an amazing job when the data loss disaster strikes, especially when you want to recover data from formatted drive. Data Recovery Wizard supports hardware RAID and hard drive, USB drive, SD card, memory card, etc.

Commercial Windows

DiskDigger

DiskDigger is a program that undeletes and recovers lost files from your hard drive, memory cards, USB flash drives — you name it! Whether you accidentally deleted some documents or photos from your computer, reformatted your camera's memory card, or want to see what files are lurking on an old USB drive, DiskDigger is here for you.

Freemium Windows

MiniTool Power Data Recovery

MiniTool Power Data Recovery is all in one data recovery software for both home and business users. It can recover deleted data from Windows Recycle Bin, restore lost data even the partition is formatted or deleted, restore data from corrupted hard drive, virus infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure. It support IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB hard disk, memory card, USB flash drive, CD/DVD, Blue-Ray Disk, iPod.

Freemium Mac Windows

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. Yet all that power is hidden behind one button.

Commercial Mac

Kickass Undelete

Kickass Undelete is a free, fully featured, file recovery tool for Windows. Accidentally deleted a file? Never fear; the data is probably still on your drive and may be recoverable. Kickass Undelete finds all of the deleted files on your hard drive, flash drive or SD card and allows you to recover them.

Free Open Source Windows

Lazesoft Recovery Suite

Lazesoft Recovery Suite is a very easy to use ALL-IN-ONE boot disk that repair your crashed Windows, recover data from deleted, formatted, damaged partition, clone or backup disk, reset your forgotten Windows password. Recover your data or repair your system when Windows can't start normally. Create bootable rescue CD or USB disk Boot up any computer Recover data and passwords Repair Windows system Clone or Restore the hard drive Home Edition is free for home user.

Free Personal Windows

ApowerRecover

ApowerRecover can easily get your files back. Whether it is due to accidental deleting, formatting, virus infection and improper actions, you can use ApowerRecover to recover files. It can safely recover deleted files on the Windows PC or Mac, whether they are in the computer hard drive, external hard disk, memory cards, digital cameras, camcorders, or flash drives.

Commercial Mac Windows

Data Rescue

Data Rescue is the best digital data recovery software on the market for recovering files from a problem hard drive or that have been previously deleted. Data Rescue works when other tools fail and is completely safe to use since it does not attempt any risky repairs to the drive its scanning. Data Rescue is the safest, most powerful software for data recovery, used by many data recovery services, law enforcement, all major branches of the U.S. Military and major intelligence agencies.

Commercial Mac Windows

Raise Data Recovery

Raise Data Recovery is designed to help you efficiently restore your lost, formatted or accidentally deleted files from various data storage media: a hard drive of your PC or laptop, external hard drive, thumb drive, memory card of your smartphone, tablet or digital camera, RAID system and many others. While employing extremely powerful mechanisms, similar to those used in professional series, the software is simple enough for anyone to use without spending ages to come to grips with it.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

Wondershare Data Recovery

Wondershare Data Recovery is a powerful yet easy-to-use Windows data recovery software that can recover your deleted, formatted, lost and inaccessible data from PC, USB drive, external hard drive, mobile phone, digital camera, iPod, MP3/ MP4 player, and other storage media. This cost-effective and non destructive data recovery tool with unique recovery options let you perform data recovery thoroughly. Highlights • Smart Recovery- Retrieve your deleted and lost data just by one- click.

Commercial Mac Windows

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery 4.x is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Some Features are: 1) Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged 2)Recovers files with the original time and date stamp 3)Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives 4)Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. Competition products cannot recover such files.

• Discontinued This software was developed almost 2 decades ago by Alexander Grau. It was then known as DriveRescue. Although still available from Convar, it is now obsolete IMO. It is basically the same and unchanged since release. It does not even request elevation (required to access disks under Windows XP and up) and crashes even on smaller hard disks. Software is also not compatible with any recent Windows versions. See http://pcinspector.de/FileRecovery/faq.htm?po=3

Free Windows

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery (also called Stellar Phoenix File Recovery and Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery for Mac) is a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) hard disk data recovery software to recover deleted or formatted data from hard disk and various other storage media devices like USB, Flash drive, removable media etc.

Commercial Windows

321Soft Data Recovery for Mac

321Soft Data Recovery for Mac is the complete solution for businesses and home users to recover files that are deleted, formatted, lost or damaged, as well as retrieve files from corrupted volumes – even from initialized disks with ease. It can recover unlimited types of data from your Mac, as well as from local/external hard drives, memory devices, CD/DVD, USB flash, digital media, tablet devices and mobile phones that work as a removable storage.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

Scrounge NTFS

Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.8.6, released in June 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

FreeRecover

FreeRecover is a free file recovery program for NTFS drives. It allows you to search though and preview deleted files to find lost data. It also estimates the integrity of the deleted files, as well as retrieves their original file paths. Features Recovers deleted files from NTFS drives Generates previews of deleted files Provides estimates of the integrity of found files Instant searching of deleted files Batch recovery to a directory

Free Open Source Windows

Coolmuster Data Recovery

For many people, data losing could be a disaster in the daily life, especially when they're not used to backup files regularly. Now, things can be become more easier once you owned Coolmuster Data Recovery software.

Commercial Mac Windows

Zero Assumption Recovery

Sometimes disaster strikes. Data can be lost due to many different reasons. Accidental reformatting, power spikes, virus attacks and hardware malfunction are some of the scenarios where you will find yourself looking for a data recovery solution. Zero Assumption Recovery provides a suite of highly effective and thorough data recovery software for Microsoft® Windows™ operating systems.

Freemium Windows

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery (also called Stellar Phoenix File Recovery and Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery for Windows) is the advanced and updated Mac file recovery software that support recovery of formatted files & drives from OS X El Capitan 10.11, Yosemite 10.10, Mavericks 10.9, Mountain Lion 10.8, Lion 10.7 and Snow Leopard 10.6.

Commercial Mac

TOKIWA DataRecovery

DataRecovery is freeware and made by TOKIWA to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin. But DataRecovery doesn't assure that all files deleted can be recovered successfully. It mostly depends on your system/configuration and we can't support each of all those varieties.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated since August 2013. Last version, v2.4.7, released in November 2012, can be still downloaded for free, with the sourcecode too, from the official website.

Free Open Source Windows

SeriousBit UndeleteMyFiles Pro

UndeleteMyFiles is a quick and easy way to find and recover deleted media and digital devices.It employs a simplified two-step process that enables you recover any files that used to reside on your system. Features: File Rescue Wizard - a quick and easy way to find and recover deleted files. Media Recover - Recover media files in a couple of easy steps. Deleted File Search - Specialized filters that allow you to find specific deleted information.

Free Personal Windows

Recovery Explorer

Recovery Explorer RAID is a data recovery utility that is primarily meant to handle data loss from various RAID storages, but can be used for regular recovery operations as well. The software can access and recover lost data from the file systems of Microsoft Windows (FAT/FAT32/ExFAT/ NTFS), macOS (APFS, HFS+), Linux (Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, UFS/UFS2, XFS, Reiser, JFS), as well as Btrfs file system.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux