Recovery Explorer is data-recovery software for beginners and experienced users on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It can restore deleted files and recover data after formatting, malware, or other logical problems. Sources include internal and external drives, USB devices, memory cards, disk images, and virtual disks. Scanning offers quick checks and deeper searches by known file content, with results that can be paused and saved. File preview, search, sorting, filtering, drive S.M.A.R.T. status, and disk imaging are included. Standard targets ordinary recovery from simple storage, while RAID handles complex RAID devices. Professional adds technologies such as Windows Storage Spaces, Apple Software RAID, Linux LVM, Synology Hybrid RAID, and ZFS RAID-Z, plus supported encrypted volumes when the key is known and virtual disks from VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, QEMU, and XEN. The maker says operation is read-only and local. One-time personal licenses start at €39.95; the Professional trial only copies files smaller than 768 KB.
Who it is for
Recovery Explorer suits people recovering deleted or logically damaged data from varied storage. Standard fits simple devices, while RAID and Professional target complex, encrypted, corrupted, or unusual storage.
What is good
- Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows
- Recovers from drives, cards, USB devices, and images
- Offers quick and deep scan modes
- Includes preview, filtering, and disk imaging
- Professional handles encrypted and virtual storage
What to know first
- No free plan
- Professional trial limits copied files to under 768 KB
- A license covers one product version and operating system
- Encrypted-volume recovery requires the known key
Verdict
Recovery Explorer covers common file recovery through advanced RAID, encryption, and virtual-disk cases, depending on edition. It uses one-time licenses starting at €39.95, with separate licenses needed for another operating system.
Recovery Explorer plans and pricing
All plansCompared on photo recovery software
- Free plan
- No
- Supported platforms
- multi-platform
- Recovery sources
- Internal and external hard drives; USB disks and flash drives; memory cards; digital cameras; RAID sets; NAS; disk images; virtual disks
- Scan modes
- both
- Raw photo recovery
- Yes
- Disk image support
- Yes
- Photo preview
- Yes
