CleverFiles

Headquarters: United States Brand: Disk Drill

CleverFiles develops Disk Drill, one of the more widely recognized consumer recovery apps — built around an approachable interface rather than the technician-oriented tools elsewhere in this directory.

Disk Drill

Consumer

Deleted-file recovery for Mac and Windows with a guided, non-technical workflow: scan, preview, recover. A free tier recovers a limited amount of data, which is enough to confirm whether a scan actually finds your files before paying for the full version.

It's a reasonable first attempt for a straightforward accidental-deletion case on a single drive. For physically failing drives, RAID, or anything covered under this site's "professional help recommended" cases, it isn't the right tool.

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