Hetman Photo Recovery vs PhotoRec
Hetman Photo Recovery
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PhotoRec
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| Figure | Hetman Photo Recovery | PhotoRec |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 9 | 1 |
| Spec score · Photo Recovery Software | 8.8 (#5) | 8.3 (#12) |
| Spec score · Photo recovery software | 8.7 (#6) | 8.6 (#8) |
| Spec score · SD Card Recovery Software | 8.7 (#8) | 8.2 (#16) |
| Spec score · SD card recovery software | 8.6 (#10) | 8.6 (#8) |
| File systems | It supports FAT, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS, APFS, HFS+, Ext2/3/4, XFS, Btrfs, ReiserFS, ZFS, and UFS across Windows, Linux, and macOS. | The page lists FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, and HFS+ among file systems from which PhotoRec can recover files. |
| Founded | 2008 | 1998 |
| Support | Hetman advertises 24/7 support by email, live chat, and phone, while its support page says replies are targeted within one business day. | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. |
| Supported formats | It supports common image formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, and PSD, along with camera RAW formats. | It searches for known file headers and recognizes more than 480 file extensions across about 300 file families. |
Plans
Hetman Photo Recovery
- HomePriced on request
- OfficePriced on request
- BusinessPriced on request
- Home Edition$47.95, paid once
- Office Edition$137.95, paid once
- Commercial Edition$237.95, paid once
- Business versionPrice not published
- Home versionPrice not published
- Office versionPrice not published
In their own words
Hetman Photo Recovery
Hetman Photo Recovery 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.