Magic Photo Recovery vs PhotoRec
Magic Photo Recovery
magicuneraser.com
PhotoRec
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| Figure | Magic 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 | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Photo Recovery Software | 7.7 (#27) | 8.3 (#12) |
| Spec score · Photo recovery software | 7.4 (#31) | 8.6 (#8) |
| Spec score · Data recovery software | 7.2 (#104) | 8.7 (#11) |
| Privacy | The maker’s privacy policy says it collects personal information for orders and support, while payment data is collected and processed by third-party processors and is not available to East Imperial Soft. | CGSecurity says TestDisk and PhotoRec do not connect to the Internet or send information about the user, computer, or data. |
| Support | The maker offers technical and sales support by email and says it can help with product use, recovery, purchases, licensing, and orders. | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. |
Plans
Magic Photo Recovery
- Commercial EditionPrice not published
- Home EditionPrice not published
- Office EditionPrice not published
In their own words
Magic Photo Recovery
Magic 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.