Recovery Explorer
Recovery Explorer sits between Raise Data Recovery and UFS Explorer in SysDev Laboratories' lineup — built on the same underlying engine as UFS Explorer but simplified, without the professional/forensic feature set.
Prices verified August 2026 directly from the vendor's own site, in USD. Software pricing changes without notice — treat the figures below as a starting point and confirm the current price on the official site before buying.
Standard
ConsumerWizard-guided recovery for deleted files, formatted drives, and lost partitions on a single disk — no RAID.
- PlatformsWindows, macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Linux
- RAID supportNone — single-disk only
- LicensePerpetual
RAID
ProsumerAdds a RAID-focused toolkit: standard RAID patterns, mdadm, LVM, LDM, Windows Storage Spaces, Btrfs-RAID, and Synology SHR — a narrower feature set than UFS Explorer's RAID Recovery but at a lower price.
- Addsmdadm, LVM, LDM, Storage Spaces, Btrfs-RAID, Synology SHR
- LicensePerpetual
Professional
ProfessionalThe top of the Recovery Explorer line: Drobo BeyondRAID, ZFS RAID-Z, and encrypted-storage decryption support — still short of UFS Explorer Professional's forensic feature set (no hex editor, no E01/AFF4 formats).
- AddsDrobo BeyondRAID, ZFS RAID-Z, encrypted-storage decryption
- LicensePerpetual
SysDev Laboratories publishes its own side-by-side comparisons between the two brands. In short: Recovery Explorer covers the same core scenarios at a lower price, while UFS Explorer adds the forensic and enterprise-scale features (hex editor, SAN automation, scripting) that a working lab needs and a home user usually doesn't.