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Best Photo Recovery tools

So you just learned that photo recovery software may be able to recover your deleted or lost pictures? Whether you accidentally deleted these photos from camera memory card, or they became inaccessible because the card or hard drive had corrupted. Worse yet, you don’t have a backup.

Not all digital photo recovery software is created equal. In our experience, some are good at recovering deleted pictures, some are good at rescuing more images from a crashed storage media. Some took less time to scan the drive, while others can take you hours to finish a scan.

To help you recover your valuable photos, we have listed some of the best photo recovery tools for PC.





Recuva: Recuva is a free data recovery tool developed by Piriform, later acquired by Avast back in 2017. The small utility got its word of mouth as it’s super simple to use thanks to the step-by-step guide as shown on the main interface. Plus, it’s free! Note though, the new maker added a new pricing structure which tries to persuade you to pay but frankly the value of the Pro versions are limited and we don’t recommend you purchase them unless you really need premium support. Currently, Recuva is for Windows only. Those claim Recuva for Mac is false and misleading.


Stellar Photo Recovery: With Stellar Photo Recovery, you can easily recoup image files that have been lost from deletion or a reformatted hard drive.It recovered 100 percent of all raster files and 80 percent of vector files in our tests and even did a decent job recouping production images and digital camera raw files. What’s more, the image recovery software has a clean and modern interface with clearly labeled buttons. The software is powerful and does all of the heavy lifting, so it’s easy enough for both advanced and novice users to interact with.


PhotoRec: Don’t be fooled by its name, PhotoRec not only retrieves photos and media files, but it also can recover numerous file formats including ZIP, Office, PDF, HTML and many more (full tech specific is here). It’s free to download and use on Windows, macOS, and Linux. However, the learning curve for handling the program might hold many people away as it’s a command line tool (above is its main interface). So, the photo recovery program is best for computer people who are comfortable running on DOS environment. However, if you are willing to spend a bit of time following this official tutorial, chances are you will learn how to use it and maybe recover your lost pictures.


Advanced Disk Recovery: Advanced Disk Recovery is an easy to use tool with a simple interface. It not only helps you to recover lost or deleted photos but you can also recover other data whether it is a doc. or video. It can help you recover the images, no matter whether they were on the system’s hard drive, external hard drive or USB stick. You can scan the system in two ways: Quick Scan and Deep Scan. Deep Scan will scan the entire hard disk to find the photos wherein Quick Scan scans the disk fast. If you have opted for Deep Scan, it will take time to scan as it scours the whole drive. If you have to shut down your system, you can suspend the search and save it. Whenever you resume the search, the software will start scanning from very point, where you left off.


Remo Photo Recovery: One of the best photo recovery software for Windows, it is an amazing tool to recover JPGs and other raster images. You can also recover a high rate of vector images, camera raw images and production images. The software recovers image, audio, and video from XD cards, CF cards, SD cards, hard drives and more. This image recovery tool is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X. The intelligent and sturdy mechanism of the tool scans and recovers photos, audios, and videos from the selected folder quickly. It seamlessly retrieves deleted photos from FAT16, ExFAT, NTFS5, NTFS partitions. It can recover audio formats AMR, MP3, MP4, video formats MP4, MPEG, AVI, MOV, image file formats JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF etc.


Conclusion


All in all, this is our list of best deleted photo recovery software for PC and other versions. Choose as per your requirement which one is best for you.

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