DoYourData Recovery vs PhotoRec
DoYourData Recovery
doyourdata.com
PhotoRec
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| Figure | DoYourData Recovery | PhotoRec |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5.75/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 18 | 1 |
| Spec score · SD card recovery software | 9.3 (#1) | 8.6 (#8) |
| Spec score · Data recovery software | 8.8 (#8) | 8.7 (#11) |
| Spec score · SD Card Recovery Software | 9.0 (#4) | 8.2 (#16) |
| File systems | Listed file systems include NTFS/NTFS+, exFAT, FAT12/16/32, ReFS, EXT2/3/4, HFS/HFS+ and APFS. | The page lists FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, and HFS+ among file systems from which PhotoRec can recover files. |
| Founded | DoYourData says it was established in 2013. | 1998 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Memory card recovery | Yes | Yes |
| Operating systems | Windows,macOS | Windows; Linux; macOS; DOS; FreeBSD; NetBSD; OpenBSD; Solaris; other Unix systems |
| Privacy | The privacy policy says personal information is used to complete purchases and deliver software and that the company will not sell, distribute, or rent purchase information to third parties. | CGSecurity says TestDisk and PhotoRec do not connect to the Internet or send information about the user, computer, or data. |
| Recovery sources | hard drives,external drives,USB drives,memory cards,formatted partitions | hard disks; CD-ROMs; memory cards; USB memory drives; DD raw images; EnCase E01 images |
| Support | The support page says email questions are answered as soon as possible within 24 hours. | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. |
Plans
DoYourData Recovery
- 1 Month License$49 a month
- 1 Year License$69 a year
- Lifetime License$89, paid once
- Technician Lifetime License$499, paid once
- Do Your Data Recovery FreeFree
- 1 Month License$49 a month
- Mac Pro 1 Month License$49 a month
- Windows Pro 1 Month License$49 a month
- iPhone Recovery Mac Lifetime License$59, paid once
- iPhone Recovery Windows Lifetime License$59, paid once
In their own words
DoYourData Recovery
DoYourData Recovery scans storage devices for files lost through deletion, formatting, partition loss, drive crashes, logical errors, or RAW drives. It supports hard drives, external drives, USB drives, memory cards, formatted partitions, PCs, HDDs, SSDs, cameras, RAID, and servers. Listed file systems include NTFS/NTFS+, exFAT, FAT12/16/32, ReFS, and EXT2/3/4. The software can recover documents, images, videos, audio, emails, archives, and other file types, and provides file preview. The free version can scan and preview recoverable files and save up to 1GB; the listed free plan is for Windows. Paid options include $49 a month, $69 a year, or $89, paid once, each as a one-time payment with no auto-renewal and covering two PCs. The Technician Lifetime License is $499 as a one-time purchase for 100+ PCs and business usage. The vendor says recovery is read-only and will not overwrite original lost data. Separate products are listed for Mac and iPhone; iPhone recovery is available for Windows and Mac.
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.