MailXaminer vs Stellar Repair for Outlook

MailXaminer is Windows email forensics software for documenting, examining, analyzing, and reporting on email evidence. It works with material from cloud platforms, offline mail clients, disk images, Skype databases, and third-party mobile forensic tools. Supported services include Gmail, Office 365, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, iCloud, GSuite, and IMAP-based services. Search options include general, fuzzy, proximity, wildcard, and regular-expression searches; OCR can find image content and attachment keywords. Analysis covers links, entities, timelines, images, word clouds, email headers, and skin tones. The software describes examination of encrypted, deleted, or corrupted email data, and recovery from PST, OST, and EDB files; NSF repair is excluded. Case tools support activity logs and collaboration among investigators. Evidence exports cover more than 20 formats, with investigation reports in PDF and CSV. It runs on Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2016. Pricing starts at $199/mo. There is no free plan, but a free trial is offered.

Stellar Repair for Outlook is desktop software for repairing corrupted Outlook PST files and recovering mailbox data. It can recover emails, attachments, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes and journals, including deleted items, which it marks in red. Users can preview recoverable items and filter emails before saving. The maker says it handles PST files of any size, including encrypted or password-protected files, and works in read-only mode so the original PST is not modified. Recovered data can be saved as PST, EML, MSG, RTF, HTML or PDF. A licensed Microsoft Outlook installation is required to complete desktop repair and save to a new PST. The desktop trial can scan and preview items but cannot save recovered data; desktop use requires 64-bit Windows 11, 10, 8.1 or 8 and at least 8 GB of memory. A browser-based service is also available without local installation. The free online plan covers one PST up to 500 MB with a download available within 24 hours; Premium costs $29.99, paid once per file for one PST over 500 MB and up to 5 GB, with a 48-hour download window.