Alternatives to Wondershare Recoverit
Commercial data recovery app for restoring deleted or lost files on Windows and Mac. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Wondershare Recoverit
Commercial data recovery app for restoring deleted or lost files on Windows and Mac.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Wondershare Recoverit.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
A consumer data recovery program for restoring deleted or lost files from drives and memory cards.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard also covers Windows and Mac with a freemium model, handling deletion, formatting and partition loss on drives, USB sticks and memory cards.
Disk Drill
A data recovery app for macOS and Windows that scans drives and devices for lost files.
Disk Drill runs on Windows and macOS, recovers from phones, RAID arrays and lost partitions, and requires the paid PRO version for full recovery.
Stellar Data Recovery
Commercial software for recovering deleted, lost or formatted files from computers and storage media.
Stellar Data Recovery has Windows and Mac editions with a free preview of recoverable files before paying, though its many overlapping editions make choosing one confusing.
Recuva
A Windows tool for recovering deleted files from hard drives, memory cards and USB sticks.
Recuva is Windows only with no Mac version, recovering from memory cards and formatted drives with a deep scan mode, and keeps some features in a paid Pro edition.
TestDisk & PhotoRec
Recovers lost partitions, makes non-booting disks bootable again, and undeletes files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext filesystems.
TestDisk & PhotoRec is free and open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, recovering lost partitions and carving files, but uses a text menu instead of a guided app.
DMDE
A disk editor and data recovery tool that reconstructs lost files and directory structures.
DMDE runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and rebuilds directory trees after formatting, with a disk editor that assumes technical knowledge and a 4000 files per directory free limit.
DiskGenius
Combined partition manager, data recovery tool and backup utility for Windows.
DiskGenius is Windows only and adds partition editing and backup to file recovery, with recovery beyond small files needing a paid licence.
Windows File Recovery
Microsoft's free command-line tool for recovering deleted or lost files on Windows.
Windows File Recovery is free from Microsoft but command line only, needs Windows 10 2004 or later and has no Mac version.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Wondershare Recoverit as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
IsoBuster
A Windows data recovery program for optical discs, hard drives, USB sticks, memory cards and disk images.
Wondershare Recoverit is a guided Windows and Mac app recovering from drives, SD cards and USB drives, with full use depending on a paid plan.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
GNU ddrescue
A command-line data recovery tool that copies raw blocks from failing disks while working around read errors.
The Sleuth Kit
Command-line tools and a C library for analysing disk images and recovering files in forensic work.
SpinRite
A bootable maintenance and data recovery utility for hard drives and other mass-storage devices, from GRC.
OSFMount
A free Windows utility that mounts disk image files as drives and creates RAM disks.
