PhotoRec vs Yodot Photo Recovery
PhotoRec
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| Figure | PhotoRec | Yodot Photo Recovery |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Photo recovery software | 8.6 (#8) | 7.3 (#36) |
| Spec score · Photo Recovery Software | 8.3 (#12) | 7.2 (#39) |
| File systems | The page lists FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, and HFS+ among file systems from which PhotoRec can recover files. | The product lists FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, extFAT, and ReFS as supported file systems. |
| Storage media | Supported media include hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards, USB drives, raw disk images, and EnCase E01 images. | The product lists hard drives, memory cards, USB flash drives, and external hard drives among supported sources. |
| Support | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. | Yodot lists live chat, phone support, and support tickets, and describes ticket support as available 24x7. |
Plans
Yodot Photo Recovery
- Yodot Photo Recovery$49.95, paid once
- Yodot Recovery Software$69.95, paid once
In their own words
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.
Yodot Photo Recovery
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