ApowerREC vs PhotoRec
ApowerREC
apowersoft.com
PhotoRec
cgsecurity.orgSide by side
| Figure | ApowerREC | PhotoRec |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $3.33/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 11 | 1 |
| Spec score · Data recovery software | 8.0 (#46) | 8.7 (#11) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Capture platforms | windows,macos,ios | The maker lists Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X, and says PhotoRec can be compiled on almost every Unix system. |
| Support | The user manual directs users to the support center's chat or ticket submission for troubleshooting and feedback. | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. |
Plans
ApowerREC
- Personal Monthly$39.90 a month
- Personal Annual$69.90 a year
- Personal Lifetime$129.90 a month
- Business Annual$119.90 a year
- Business Lifetime$259.90 a month
- ApowerREC Personal Monthly$19.95 a month
- ApowerREC Personal Annual$39.95 a year
- ApowerREC Personal Lifetime$69.95, paid once
- ApowerREC Business Annual$79.95 a year
- ApowerREC Business Lifetime$159.90, paid once
In their own words
ApowerREC
ApowerREC has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
PhotoRec
PhotoRec is a free file recovery program for retrieving lost videos, documents, archives, and pictures from storage media and disk images. It searches the underlying data instead of relying on the file system, which can help after file-system damage or reformatting. It recognizes more than 480 file extensions across about 300 file families, and listed file systems include FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, and HFS+.
Supported sources include hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards, USB drives, raw disk images, and EnCase E01 images. PhotoRec runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, DOS, several BSD systems, Solaris, and other Unix systems. It accesses the recovery drive or card in read-only mode; recovered files should go to a different partition. The portable download runs after extracting its archive, without an installer. QPhotoRec provides a graphical interface, while PhotoRec can also run from scripts or batch files with command-line options. The maker says it usually cannot recover original filenames and does not work well with ReiserFS.