DiskDigger vs FonePaw SD Card Recovery
DiskDigger
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| Figure | DiskDigger | FonePaw SD Card Recovery |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $19.99/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 3 |
| Spec score · SD Card Recovery Software | 8.5 (#10) | 7.6 (#32) |
| Spec score · SD card recovery software | 8.1 (#23) | 7.3 (#39) |
| File systems | The maker lists FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, ReFS, ext4, and HFS+ among supported file systems. | The product FAQ lists exFAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ReFS, HFS+, Encrypted HFS, HFSX, APFS, BTRFS, XFS, BFS, and EXT4 as supported memory-card file systems. |
| Headquarters | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States | Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Purpose | DiskDigger recovers deleted files from computer-readable media such as hard drives, USB drives, memory cards, CDs, DVDs, and floppy disks. | The software is designed to recover files lost from memory cards after deletion, formatting, corruption, damage, transfer interruption, improper removal, power outage, malware, or RAW file-system errors. |
Plans
DiskDigger
- Personal license$19.99 a month
- DiskDigger personal license$14.99, paid once
FonePaw SD Card Recovery
- One-Month LicensePrice not published
- One-Year LicensePrice not published
- Single-User LicensePrice not published
In their own words
DiskDigger
DiskDigger recovers deleted files from computer-readable media, including hard drives, USB drives, memory cards, optical discs and floppy disks. It combines filesystem-based recovery with free-space scanning, and supports file systems including FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, ReFS, ext4 and HFS+. Recoverable items can be viewed in lists or thumbnails; previews are available for images, documents, some audio files and ZIP archives. Advanced scanning covers E01/EWF, VMDK, VHD/VHDX, VDI, QCOW2 and raw binary disk images.
The product is available for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android. Windows users can scan and preview without paying, but must purchase a personal license to save recovered files; commercial use requires a commercial license. Linux use is free, while Linux and macOS builds are described as experimental beta versions. Android's free version recovers photos and videos, with video recovery requiring root; other file types and FTP uploads are available in Pro, and non-photo recovery requires root. DiskDigger says it sends no analytics or telemetry. Recovery may fail if deleted contents have been overwritten or files are fragmented.
FonePaw SD Card Recovery
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