Even smartphone cameras shoot RAW photos now as well. It feels like an app that’s now out of date. But these days large capacity SD cards are common so duplicating them before recovery isn’t practical. However, longtime users have reported it does work. Once you’ve made a duplicate image of the card, you can recover your photos from that image.ĮXIF failed to recover any of the photos we deleted in our test. All to try and recover 10MB worth of JPEG photos. Which meant having to use an external hard drive as the target.
Our 128GB MacBook Pro didn’t have enough free space to accept a 64GB SD card image. You need to create a copy of the entire disk image that you want to restore. However, the freeware is a little tricky to use. Which is to say that the application itself is completely free, but if you find it useful then you’re welcome to show the developer some appreciation by throwing a few dollars their way.Īs the name suggests, this is an application that’s specifically written to recover photos from a camera memory card. It’s a usable tool for those with time on their hands, but no money.Įxif Untrasher is macOS only and a donationware. The simple deletion recovery isn’t as instantaneous as Recuva, but the deep scan function was quite reliable. However, after choosing the Deep scan option and being very patient, the app recovered everything. The standard fast scan could not find our photos following either a deletion or format. The paid Pro version offers additional value in the form of automatic updates, virtual hard drive support, and access to help from the developers.Īt first the news didn’t look good. The free version of Recuva doesn’t skimp on the file recovery features. Recuva boasts that it can recover data from disks that are damaged and has an advanced “deep scan” mode that can piece together files or at least partial files that other tools can’t.
Recuva is a well-known data recovery software app. In the end however, what matters most is whether you can get our photos back! Recuva (Free and Pro) With free software that’s ad-supported, you also wouldn’t like intrusive ads. So it’s vital you test the recovery apps for these two tasks as well.Īpart from this, there are also a few other features we like to see in a photo recovery app: Most people who need photo recovery either accidentally delete their photos or format the card before backing up the snaps.