What is The Best Photo Recovery Software in 2018

Photo recovery is a very important and popular request among smart device users. Manufacturers are making lenses and cameras with higher and higher resolution for DSLR camera, mobile phone, tablet, PC, camcorder, sports recorder, and more other digital devices, maily because people love photography and related activities. After shooting, photographers, or amateurs with handy capture device like cell phone, make wonderful works taken with professional or free editing program, and store them on memory card, USB flash stick, local disk, or external hard drive.

Can you image how disappointed you will be when lose precious images without any backup? Photo recovery software producers may know, and they make excellent tools to help common users retrieve their pictures, videos or even audio files conveniently. Here are a list of best photo recovery software for Windows and Mac in 2018.

#1. Jihosoft Photo Recovery

Jihosoft Photo Recovery contains all the advantages that you would expect for a perfect photo recovery tool. Simply speaking, it can recover deleted or lost images, videos and audio files from desktop/laptop local disk, SD memory card, USB flash drive, external hard drive, etc. In case some of your files are hidden instead of deletion due to wrong setting, virus attack or system crash, this recovery app can also find them as existing data. Jihosoft Photo Recovery is your first choice to get back lost photos, videos and audio files.

Main feature:
* Support over 40 kinds of image, over 25 types of video and various audio formats.
* Support NTFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT, etc.
* User-friendly and intuitive interface and operation.
* Recover photos from disk drive, USB flash stick, camera memory card and external storage card.
* Preview file information, including name, size, validity, status, etc.
* Play videos, view images and listen to audio files before recovery.
Supported formats: Universal: JPG, GIF, PNG. Special: AI, PSD. RAW: CR2, SR2, NEF, CRW, DNG, ARW, RAF, etc.

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Download and install Jihosoft Photo Recovery and Jihosoft Photo Recovery for Mac.

Note: Jihosoft Photo Recovery is not a freeware, but users can scan and preview files for free, and it won't let you down. Just have a try now!

#2. Recuva

Recuva is one of the most famous recovery tools, mostly because it is free. Actually, it also pushes premier version. Anyway, Recuva is an excellent recovery program from every aspect. If you failed to find the photos you need with Jihosoft Photo Recovery, you may try Recuva.

Features:
*Effective file recovery*Clear interface*Useful search options

*No Mac version

#3. PhotoRec

PhotoRec is an open source multi-platform application, thus it is free. This program is a companion program to TestDisk, an application for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again.

PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.

However, as a freeware, PhotoRec is quite difficult to use for most people, and doesn't support Mac. 

Note: PhotoRec step by step tutorial.

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