Data recovery for Mac
Reco reads your SD card, USB drive or Mac disk one square at a time, shows you honestly what’s still there, and brings it back. It never writes a single byte to the drive it’s reading.
How it works
Deleted files usually aren’t gone. The drive just forgot where they were. Reco reads it end to end, finds what’s still there and puts it back together, while you watch.
Plug in the card or drive the files were on. Reco picks it up by itself, and explains what it will read before it starts. Disk images work too.
Reco reads every square in order and rebuilds files from raw data as it passes them. Pause, stop, or come back tomorrow.
Browse by type or by the drive’s original folders, see how intact each file is, and pick the ones you want.
Reco copies them into a folder you choose on a different drive, with their names and dates wherever the drive still has them.
Why Reco
Recovery apps love a big number and a spinning wheel. Reco shows you the drive itself, tells you what each file is really worth, and treats a failing disk gently.
Every square is a real, round amount of the drive, and colour follows bytes, not file counts. Time left is measured from how fast your drive is really reading, and says “Estimating” until it knows. The lens shows the square being read right now, so you can see it move even on a huge disk.
each square = 2 GB · each slice ≈ 31 MB
Scanning is free. Before you buy, you see every file Reco found and how intact it is.
Cameras tuck a small preview inside every photo. Reco shows that first, so a card full of pictures appears in moments, then fills in the full image when you look closer.
Where the drive still remembers them, Reco keeps original names and folders, so you can browse the card the way your camera laid it out. Files rebuilt from raw data are named by date.
If a drive is struggling, every extra read is a risk. Reco can copy it once, whole, into a disk image on another drive and scan the copy instead. It tells you about the drive’s health, and warns you when parts of it can’t be read.
Big drives take hours. Quit, unplug, or restart your Mac: Reco saves the scan and continues from where it stopped, with everything it had already found.
Privacy and safety
Reco opens the drive read-only. When you recover, it refuses to save onto the same physical drive, so it can’t overwrite the very files you’re trying to save.
No account, no uploads, no analytics. Scanning, previews and recovery all happen on your Mac. A saved scan is a small list of what was found, kept in your own Library folder.
Checking for app updates, and activating your license when you buy one. Neither sends anything about your drives or files. Read the privacy policy.
Stop using the drive. Don’t take new photos on the card, don’t copy files onto it, and don’t install anything on it, Reco included. New data can land exactly where your deleted files are waiting. Then scan it with Reco, and save what you recover to a different drive.
Often, but no app can promise it. If the space a file used has since been overwritten, or a Mac’s built-in SSD has already cleared it (TRIM), the data is gone. That’s exactly why scanning is free: you see what Reco can find, and how intact each file is, before you pay anything.
SD and microSD cards, USB sticks, external hard drives and SSDs, your Mac’s own disk, and disk images (.dmg, .img, .iso). It understands APFS, Mac OS Extended (HFS+), exFAT, FAT32 and NTFS, and can rebuild common photo, video, document and audio files from raw data even when the file system is damaged or reformatted.
Any Mac with macOS 26 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. To read a whole drive, macOS will ask for your password or for Full Disk Access; Reco explains which, and why, before it asks.
Scanning and seeing what’s there is free. Opening previews and recovering files needs a license: a one-time purchase, no subscription. Reco is in early testing right now; early testers get a license at an early-bird price.
Reco only reads. It never writes to, repairs or formats the drive you scan. For drives that are failing, it can make one careful copy first and work from that. See the data-recovery disclaimer for the honest fine print.
Stop using the drive, download Reco, and let it look. Scanning costs nothing and changes nothing.
