Top 5 Mac Data Recovery Software in 2013

Accidents happen all the time and permanently deleting files on your computer can be detrimental. Many people who have lost their files are interested in data recovery for Mac.

This article is going to cover the best Mac data recovery tools out there. Good Mac data recovery tools should easily be able to recover any file from a Mac computer, as well as cameras, phones, and other external hard drives. The best data recovery tool should be able to recover NTFS, FAT16, FAT32, HFS+, and HFSX hard disk formats with ease.

uMacsoft

uMacsoft Data Recovery is one of the most powerful and professional recovery tools available on Mac. It supports all of the formats mentioned above as well as any type of file. You can even recover lost emails with uMacsoft! What’s most impressing about uMacsoft is that it can also recover Windows compatible files from an external hard drive.

uMacsoft deeply scans your hard drive to recover files that have even been reformatted! uMacsoft can also recover photos from cameras and any data from external hard drives and phones.

Over 10,000 people use uMacsoft for their Mac recovery needs. 10,000 people can’t be wrong, because this is truly one of the best Mac data recovery tool. For the features it offers and the price it costs (20% off with $84.95) uMacsoft smokes all other Mac data recovery competition.

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

Stellar Phoenix offers the basic Mac data recovery tools. This program can recover from external hard drives, and even optical media drives. Stellar Phoenix also offers the ability to create data backups by creating .img files of hard drives, volumes, or selected region.

Stellar Phoenix currently costs $99.95

TechTool Pro 6

Although TechTool Pro 6 doesn’t bring anything new to recovering deleted data, they do offer very good customer support. All questions submitted to support are answered in a detailed fashion within 24 hours, and they answer phone calls immediately.

TechTool is also able to test the CPU and RAM usage, as well as testing RAM for errors. TechTools costs $91.98

R-Studio 2.0

R-Studio would be good for mac photo recovery, and some other basic recovery tasks, but it isn’t the best mac recovery tool out there. R-Studio’s user interface is a bit intimidating for power users and can also become quite confusing.

R-Studio is compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux. What most likely happened when this program was created was that the design was sacrificed for operating system portability. In any case if you need the best data recovery tool for Mac, R-Studio would not be a good choice. It costs $79.99 and doesn’t offer as much as it should offer.

Data Rescue 3

Data Rescue 3 is a professional data recovery tool. Its user interface is one of the cleanest and simplest UI we’ve tested. Data Rescue is easy to use to recover file from Macs, external hardware, and external hard drives.

Data Rescue 3 can also be used from a secondary device. That way you can use another hard disk to recover your main hard disk’s files. Data Rescue costs $99.00