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STELLAR DATA RECOVERY PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC

Select Device and File Type, Scan, Preview & Restore - It’s that simple!

Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac, (formerly known as 'Stellar Phoenix') helps resolve your data loss crisis through a time-effective and accurate process. Its powerful data recovery algorithm securely restores files from a wide range of data loss scenarios.

Powerful Comprehensive Solution

Recovers Data in All Data Loss Scenarios

Recovers Mac Files Across All Data Loss Scenarios

Recovers Mac Files Across All Data Loss Scenarios

The efficiency data recovery tool helps recover files lost due to accidental deletion, drive formatting, and permanent deletion using the 'Command + Option + Delete' key combination.

Regain Data from Formatted APFS/HFS+/NTFS/ExFAT Volume

Regain Data from Formatted APFS/HFS+/NTFS/ExFAT Volume

The tool supports deep scanning of formatted APFS, HFS+, NTFS & ExFAT volumes to restore files through a signature-based search. It scans for scattered file fragments and reconstructs them.

Stress-Free Recovery from a Crashed / Non-booting Mac

Stress-Free Recovery from a Crashed / Non-booting Mac

MacBook Pro/Air, iMac, Mac mini and other Mac devices may crash or face a 'spinning beach ball of death', (or worse) 'grey screen of death' problems. The software helps recover files in such scenarios through recovery mode, without the need of any external boot device.

Recover Files without Additional Security Settings

Recover Files without Additional Security Settings

With improved security measures, the DIY software easily recovers data from native Mac drives without the need for disabling SIP (Security Integrity Protection). It even allows data recovery without the addition of KEXT. Only full disk access is required.
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Photography Enthusiast
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"Recovered every single photo shot from Nikon camera!"

Roger Miller
Weyburn, Canada
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Music Enthusiast
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"You can imagine the happiness when you get back your past 10 years of data."

Claudio
Rome, Italy
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"If anyone ever wondering a last-ditch resort to try and recover their data, I would recommend Stellar"

Jack Albert
Milwaukee, USA

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Most Comprehensive Mac File Recovery Tool

Most Comprehensive Mac File Recovery Tool

This Mac data recovery tool is fully compatible with Macs powered by Apple Silicon M1, M2, M3, M4, and M5 chips, as well as older Intel-based Macs equipped with the T2 Security Chip. It supports every major macOS version from macOS High Sierra (10.13) through the latest macOS Tahoe, ensuring reliable data recovery across both legacy and modern Mac systems.

Do More with Personalized Themes

Do More with Personalized Themes

The software helps to personalize your data recovery scan. Select from the available three different UI themes – Dark, Light and Vibrant and improve your scanning experience.

Pause & Resume Scan at your Convenience

Pause & Resume Scan at your Convenience

The new 'Pause and Resume' scanning feature lets you pause a scan and resume at a more convenient time. The users can preview and restore files while a scan is already in progress without any hassle.

Customize your Scan

Customize your Scan

The software offers customizable file recovery by allowing users to select specific File Types or Storage Drives for efficient scanning. The 'On-the-Fly' creation of File tree and File Recovery improves file preview and reduces the scan time for particular files.

Disk Imaging for Safe & Faster Recovery

Disk Imaging for Safe & Faster Recovery

The secure DIY tool features disk imaging capabilities to create exact copies or images of a hard drive containing 'bad' sectors. These disk images are scanned by the software to facilitate a swift and secure data recovery without risking further damage or failure of the original source drive. 

Drive Health Monitoring and Cloning

Drive Health Monitoring and Cloning

Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac comes with a dynamic drive monitoring utility that tracks temperature, performance, health and S.M.A.R.T. attributes of all the connected drives. This has several modules for reporting 'bad' sectors, cloning a drive or creating a backup for data recovery.

Manage Your Mac Storage

Manage Your Mac Storage

This software includes "Duplicate Finder" and "Large Files Finder" that help you efficiently manage your storage. You can select the location to search for large or duplicate files, whether it's a specific folder or the entire disk containing all volumes. Once the files are listed, you can choose and remove the unwanted ones, freeing up storage space and keeping your Mac free of unwanted files.

Optimize your Mac

Optimize your Mac

The "Speedup Mac" feature in the software allows you to optimize your Mac for better performance. It helps you select and remove junk files, including trashes and leftover files, as well as log, cache, and other unnecessary files. By freeing up RAM and flushing DNS caches, this feature ensures your Mac runs smoothly and efficiently.

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Step 1 : Select Type of Data
Select Type of Data

Select the file types you want to recover, then click “Next.”

Step 2 : Select Location
Select Location

Select the storage drive where the data got lost.

Step 3 : Scan & Recover
Scan & Recover

Scan & Preview and Recover files from Mac storage disk.

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Macworld star
Macworld

Best for Complicated Recoveries

Stellar Data Recovery for Mac is a good program that is able to dig deep to help reConstruct and recover deleted data.

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Techradar

Stellar Data Recovery is one of the best data recovery tools we’ve used, with highly customizable searches, a huge file-type library, and deep scan abilities.

Stellar Data Recovery is available on both Windows and Mac operating systems. As one of the top hard drive data recovery tools available, it includes powerful features to improve the user experience.

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Wccftech

This is one of the easiest ways to recover lost SD card files on a Mac system.

If you are looking to recover deleted or lost files from your SD card on a Mac, then try to act quickly and avoid using the SD card to prevent overwriting any lost data.

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It’s fast, it’s easy, it’s clean.

I’d say you should go for Stellar’s Mac Data Recovery Software if you’re missing the data that matters to you.

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addictivetips

Stellar Recovery is legitimate and capable of recovering 100% of your lost data.

Stellar Data Recovery for Mac emerges as a beacon of trustworthiness and efficiency in this realm. This tool offers numerous advanced features to effortlessly retrieve your precious data.

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DATA SHEET

Technical Specifications

About Product
About Product
Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac
Version: 12.7.0.0
License: Single System
Edition: Professional, Premium, & Technician
Language Supported: English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, 日本語
Release Date: May, 2026
System Requirement
Memory: 4 GB minimum (8 GB recommended)
Hard Disk: 250 MB for installation files
Operating System:
 macOS Tahoe 26, Sequoia 15, Sonoma 14, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina 10.15, 10.14 & 10.13
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How to recover lost or deleted files using Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac?

Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac digs deep into the sectors of your storage drive and recovers any data lying there waiting to be overwritten by new data. The powerful algorithms allow it to recover data even in the worst-case scenario.

How is having an image file beneficial to the recovery process?

Creating an image file for a drive, volume, or a specific section of your storage device eliminates the risks of any further damage to the stored data. Instead of trying recovery procedures on the actual drive, you can use the image and get back your data

How to Save & Load Scan Result in Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac?

Save and Load Scan Result grants the much-needed flexibility in recovery to the user without repeating the whole procedure from scratch. Once you have scanned the affected device with Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac, you can save the results and use them to continue recovery at your convenience.

FIND YOUR ANSWERS

FAQ

To recover data lost due to macOS Tahoe 26 upgrade, follow the below steps:

  1. Download & install Stellar Data Recovery Professional software.
  2. Launch the software and allow Stellar Data Recovery extension. Learn More
  3. Once extension is allowed, select Macintosh HD, toggle on Deep Scan, then click Scan.
  4. After the scan is over, navigate to Classic, File or Deleted List.
  5. Double-click any file from the right pane to preview.
  6. Select all the required files, then click Recover.
  7. Click Browse to select an external storage drive as save destination. Click Save.
  8. Wait till the recovery is over. Go to the external drive to check the recovered files.

Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac trial version allows free drive scanning and file preview. To recover your lost data, you need to activate the software.

Yes. The software can recover data from a storage drive that is formatted or erased many times in succession. But, a few points must be taken into consideration:

  1. The storage drive shouldn’t be erased securely with Disk Utility since doing this overwrites the data permanently.
  2. Continuous usage of the storage drive after formatting results in overwriting. Hence, stop using the drive after formatting.

To recover data, Download & Install Stellar Data Recovery software on the Mac. Launch it. Then, select the formatted drive, scan, and recover the lost data. Save the recovered data on another storage drive or medium. Restore the recovered files to your Mac.

To recover files deleted from Trash, follow the given process:

  1. Select: After launching Stellar Data Recovery Professional software, select the type of files, then click Next. Further, select the storage drive location wherein files got deleted.
  2. Scan: Toggle on Deep Scan switch, then click Scan. After the scan, click Deleted List tab to find all 'Trash / Mac Recycle Bin' deleted files or emptied Trash data.
  3. Recover: Preview the files, select the required items, and then click Recover. Click Browse to specify a distinct save location then click Save.

Now, Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac has an option to recover data from a crashed/non-booting mac. When the Mac (or in other words, its hard drive) crashes, the operating system fails to load, and the computer does not boot up. For such incidents, Stellar Data Recovery has an option to recover data without using any external bootable devices. To know more, Read here!

Yes. Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, if you’re unsatisfied with the software.

Yes. the software is compatible with a 64-bit CPU. Also, it works flawlessly on macOS Tahoe, sequoia, Sonoma 14, Ventura 13, Monterey 12, Big Sur 11 and macOS Catalina 10.15.

Yes. You can recover unlimited file types by using Stellar Data Recovery software for Mac. By default, the utility supports a comprehensive list of standard file types for data recovery. Further, you can also add any custom or new file type beyond its exhaustive list of supported formats.

Read KB: How to Recover Any File Extension Deleted from Mac.

The scanning time would depend on several factors, namely, size and condition of the Mac storage drive, processing speed of your system, type of scan (Deep Scan/Quick Scan), and filters you’ve selected via the software interface.

For instance, if you’ve selected Deep Scan, the software will check every single block on the drive to completely rebuild the lost information, which will take more time compared to Quick Scan.

For efficient data recovery, it’s recommended to apply filters to select the type of data (Photo, Video, Audio, etc.) and file format (such as JPEG, BMP, etc.), if known, to reduce the overall scanning time.

To upgrade the already activated version of Professional or Premium edition, do the following:

  1. Launch the data recovery software. Click Settings and select Upgrade to Higher Edition
  2. On the Upgrade to Higher Edition message box, click Get Upgrade Key.
  3. Purchase the key by paying the difference amount. Check your registered email for the key.
  4. On the Upgrade to Higher Edition message box, enter the upgrade key & click Upgrade.

The software will upgrade to the higher edition with all its features unlocked.

Yes. Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac can recover lost data from encrypted drives. Enter the decryption password, once you’ve selected the drive from software interface. Once the drive is decrypted, you can scan and recover the data by using this data recovery utility for Mac.

But, in case you’ve lost the decryption password, no data recovery software can recover the data.

Read KB : How to Recover Files Deleted from Encrypted Mac Hard Drive.

Yes, as long as the deleted data hasn’t been overwritten. Even files removed from Trash are often recoverable. Stellar's Mac Data Recovery reads raw disk sectors to locate file signatures, which allows recovery even when macOS no longer shows the file.

Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac recovers documents, emails, photos, videos, audio files, archives, and application files. In short, if macOS stored it, Stellar can scan and recover it.

Yes, but with a condition. For encrypted APFS or FileVault volumes, you’ll need the correct password or recovery key. Without authentication, macOS itself won’t allow data access.

Yes. Stellar Professional Mac Data Recovery Software offers feature to recover data from a MacBook that won't boot.

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Yes. Stellar's Mac Data Recovery Software can recover data after quick formatting or volume reinitialization, provided the data hasn’t been overwritten.

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