Stellar Photo Recovery 
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Deleted Photo Recovery Software
Recover Deleted Photos, Videos & Audio Files
- Recovers Unlimited File Formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, RAW, etc.
- Restores Motion Formats including MP4, MOV, WMV, MKV, etc.
- Recovers Audio File Formats including MP3, WAV, RPS, OGG, etc.
- Recovers from HDD, SSD, 4K Hard Drives, USB Drives, SD Cards, etc.
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Stellar Photo Recovery software recovers photos, videos & audio files lost due to deletion, corruption, formatting, virus, inaccessible drives, etc.
- Supports 4k, 6k, 8k, UHD and/or 360-degree files
- Supports latest CFast, CompactFlash, microSDHC/XC cards
- Recovers from latest DSLR, Mirrorless & Video cameras
- Simple and user-friendly interface
Recover All Photo, Video & Audio File Types
Stellar Photo Recovery software can recover all known and unknown file types of photos, videos & audio.
- Recover deleted photos - JPEG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, Adobe EPS etc.
- Recover camera RAW image files - CR2, ERF, RAF, K25, NEF, ORF, SR2, etc.
- Recover video clips & movies - MOV, MXF, AVI, ASF, WMV, MP4, 3GP, etc.
Deleted Photo Recovery from any Storage Media
Stellar Photo Recovery previously known as Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery recovers deleted photos, videos, and audio files from all types of storage media.
- Supports popular camera brands — Nikon®, Canon®, Sony®, Kodak®, Olympus® Samsung®, Pentax®, Minolta®, Sigma®, Fuji®, Olympus®, Epson®, Mamiya®, Panasonic® & all latest camera models.
- Supports Mirrorless, Action & Drone cameras — GoPro®, Garmin®, Phantom®
- Supports all 4K, 8K, 360 and VR Cameras- Insta360, Red Weapon DSMC2 Brain, Rylo 360, etc.
More Awesome Features
Memory Card Recovery
Undelete your seemingly lost photos and media files from damaged / corrupted / inaccessible memory card, SD Card (Mini, Micro, SDHC and SDXC), memory stick, compact flash, CF card, CFast, smartmedia, multimediacard, XQD memory card, eXtreme (xD)-picture card, Eye-Fi WiFi SD card, P2 card & all other flash cards. The software supports all SD card models of Samsung, SanDisk, ,Transcend, Lexar, Toshiba, Patriot, Kingston, Polaroid, Panasonic, Duracell, Verbatim etc Read more on SD card recovery.
Retrieves Deleted Photos
Stellar Photo Recovery tool recovers photos lost from all types of storage media. The supported photo file formats are Canon (CR2 /CR3/CRW), EPSON (ERF), Fujifilm (RAF), Kodak (K25 /KDC /DCR), Konica Minolta (MRW), Mamiya (MOS), Mamiya (MEF), Nikon (NEF, NRW), Olympus (ORF), Panasonic (Raw), Pentax (PEF), Sony (SR2, ARW, SRF), Sigma (X3F), DNG, DJVU, PGM, Adobe EPS (Mac), Adobe EPS (Windows), TGA, JPEG, TIFF (Motorola and Intel), BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, INDD, PSP, PCT, JP2 and many more.
Retrieves Deleted Videos & Audio Files
The supported video file formats by Stellar Photo Recovery are MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPEG, Matroska Video File (MKV), AVCHD Video File (MTS), Divx Encoded Movie File (DIVX), MOI Video File, Video Object File (VOB), OGG,OGM, 3G2, ASX, MTS, AJP, F4V, VID, TOD, HDMOV, MOV, MQV, M4B, M4V, WMV, MXF movies and SVI. Supported Audio file formats are RPS, MP3, AU, WAV, MIDI, OGG, AIFF, RM, WMA, RA, M4P, M4A, ACD, AMR, AT3, CAFF, DSS, IFF, M4R, NRA, and SND files. Watch video .
Recovers Photos & Videos from Encrypted Drives
Stellar Photo Recovery retrieve your lost videos, photos and audio files from BitLocker encrypted drives, volumes, or partitions. Select the encrypted storage drive in the software, click ‘Scan’ and enter the BitLocker password. The software begins the scan and recovery process from the encrypted HDD, SSD, flash drive, or SD card etc.
Save Scan Information and Resume Recovery
The image recovery software lets you save the directory tree structure generated after a drive/volume scan to a desired location on the disk. The information is saved as a file that can be used to regenerate the tree structure of the found files/folders or to resume recovery at a later stage. You can choose to save the result of the complete procedure or stop the scan at any time and save the information up to that point. Read more
Add your Own File Type for Recovery
If you’re unable to see the file format of the items you wish to recover in the supported file types feature of the software, you can either edit any of the existing file types or add new file headers manually or automatically. This feature makes this product the best photo recovery software available in the market. It gives the application extended flexibility and increases its utility. Read more
Create Image of Selected Media
With time and continuous usage, internal and external drives/storage media develop bad sectors. This kind of damage often makes data stored on the device inaccessible. With Stellar photo recovery software, you can create a sector-by-sector image of the entire or a selected range of media so that the data stored on the remaining good sectors can be saved. This image can then be used to recover data by using the software.
Comprehensive Scanning with Deep Scan Option
The product searches for lost files on the basis of file signature. In case, after the quick scan process is completed and your desired file is not included in the list of files detected, you can opt for Deep Scan to perform a comprehensive scan of the selected drive or location. Improved scanning engine ensure your files and folders are found out quickly thus enabling the digital photo recovery software to restore all data accurately.
Preview Scan Results in Different Ways
Preview the found multimedia files in three different ways - File Type, Tree View, and Deleted List. Sorted and easy-to-view scan results help in quickly identifying the relevant photos, videos, and audio files for recovery. File Type groups according to photos, videos and audio. Tree View allows you to navigate to the media file location. You can view and recover only the deleted files from the Deleted List.
Supports Unicode File Recovery
The picture recovery software from Stellar stands out from other free deleted photo recovery software in many aspects. In addition to recovery from different types of media and of different file formats, the new version of the software also supports recovery of Unicode files.
Popular among Photographers, Designers, Videographers and Illustrators
The software has emerged as the most loved tool among Photographers and Videographers, as it supports recovery of RAW files from any make/model of digital cameras. It is also popular among users of Adobe®, Lightroom®, Photoshop® and other photo editing tools as it supports recovery of graphics, logos, drawings and illustrations, during post processing photo or video loss.
Premium Edition with Recovery & Repair Functionalities
The software also comes with a Premium edition , where one can not only recover deleted photo, video or music files, but also repair corrupt photos and videos. One can also repair corrupt, blurry, distorted or damaged photo and videos files. The Premium edition of the software is of great utility for professional photographers, hobbyists, videographers and video agencies who are engaged in activities like video shooting, filming, editing, etc. and for whom creativity & imagination are precious.
Get SMART information of your storage drive
Stellar Photo Recovery provides SMART information of your storage drive, volume or partition. SMART data reveals your hard disk’s health and temperature indicating HDD wearing signs of drive if any. This helps you to take a timely backup of the drive and prevent future data loss.
Works Smoothly with Media >6TB Storage
Most of the free photo recovery tools available in the market fail to work properly on devices that have large storage capacities. However, the deleted photo recovery software from Stellar helps you to recover recently or permanently deleted photos from media with size as huge as 6TB and more.
Photo Recovery from 4K Hard Drives
Stellar Photo Recovery restores deleted or lost photos, videos, and audio files from 4K hard disks that store data in a 4096 bytes sector. The software can quickly scan 4K sector storage drives configured to FAT32, ExFAT, HFS+, NTFS, or APFS, file system.
Preview Media Files Before Recovery
The software provides a preview of lost and deleted photos, videos, and audio of all file formats, including JPEG, RAW, TIFF, PNG, MP4, MOV, FLV, MKV, MP3, OGG, and other file types while scanning the storage media. It displays a full-screen preview of the recoverable videos.
Making Your Choice Easy
Standard
Recover your memories which are stored in Photo or Video Formats
- Recovers Photo, Video & Music Files
- Supports All Storage Media
- Supports All Major Cameras
Professional
One Tool having two different capabilities of Photo Recovery & Repair
- Recovers Photo, Video & Music Files
- Supports All Storage Media
- Supports All Major Cameras
- Repairs Corrupt Photos
- Extracts Thumbnails of Severely Corrupt Photos
Premium
Advance Tool to Recover Photo along with Repair features for Video & Photo
- Recovers Photo, Video & Music Files
- Supports All Storage Media
- Supports All Major Cameras
- Repairs Corrupt Photo
- Extracts Thumbnail
- Repairs Corrupt Videos
- Repairs Multiple Videos in one go
- Supports Multiple Formats
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Awards & Reviews
Most tested. Most awarded. For over 25 years, we’ve been recognized as experts
ePHOTOzine
Stellar Photo Recovery Software is something we don't want to have to use but when we need to, it's brilliant - Highly Recommended.
Fstoppers
Ultimately, I'm very pleased that I have been able to recover the images and files I needed, and I highly recommend Stella Recovery.
Digital Photography School
Stellar Photo Recovery is a fantastic option for photographers and videographers looking to recover files. It’s simple to use, its performance is impeccable, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Digital Camera World
Rescue deleted images or video from any memory card or hard drive - it's no problem with Stellar Photo Recovery.
Peta Pixel
Stellar Photo Recovery is free to download, easy to install, and is a great option for people who truly went all-in on their photography, who have RAW images to process, or even took a lot of high-quality videos that they treasure.
Technical Specifications
About Product
Version
11.1.0.0
Release Date
April, 2021
License
Single User
Edition
Standard, Professional, Premium, & Technician
Language Supported
English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean
System Requirements
Processor
Intel compatible (x86, x64)
Operating System
Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7
Memory
4 GB minimum (8 GB recommended)
Hard Disk
250 MB for installation files
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FAQ
The software can recover all kinds of multimedia files including raster, vector, RAW camera files, videos, and audio files. You can also add new file type, if you do not see your required format in the supported file formats.
Supported media file types:
Photo Formats: Nikon (.NEF, .NRW), Kodak (.KDC, .DCS, DRF, .D25), Olympus (.ORF), Panasonic (.RAW, .RW2), Sony (.ARW, .SRF, .SR2), Fuji (.RAF), Sigma (.X3F), Pentax (.PEF), Minolta (.MRW), and Canon (.CRW), etc.
Audio File Format: RPS, MP3, AU, WAV, MIDI, OGG, AIFF, RM, WMA, RA, M4P, M4A, ACD, AMR, AT3, CAFF, DSS, IFF, M4R, NRA, and SND, etc.
Video File Format: MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPEG, MKV, AVCHD (MTS), DIVX, MOI, VOB, OGM, 3G2, ASX, MTS, AJP, F4V, VID, TOD, HDMOV, MOV, MQV, M4B, M4V, WMV, MXF movies and SVI, etc.
Yes. You can recover deleted photos from any make/model of digital cameras like Nikon, Sony, Canon, Samsung, etc., by using Stellar Photo Recovery.
You just follow the below given steps: Step 1: Launch Stellar Photo Recovery on your computer. Connect your digital camera to the computer through a USB cable or connect the memory card to the computer with the help of a card reader. Step 2: From software’s interface, select the removable media or drive. Click Scan. Step 3: After scanning completes, all the recoverable files appear on the screen. Preview them and click Recover. Step 4: Browse and select the location to save the recovered files. Start Saving Learn More
Yes. You can run Stellar Photo Recovery Software to recover all your photos and videos from a corrupted or damaged SD card. Learn More
Follow the below steps to recover photos, videos, and music files from storage media (hard drive, camera card, pen drive etc.) using the software:
- Connect the card or drive to the computer.
- Download and launch Stellar Photo Recovery on your computer
- Select the removable media or drive from where you want to recover. Click Scan.
- List of found photos, videos, and music files appears. Preview and click Recover.
- Browse location to save the recovered files. Click Start Saving.
Yes. You can recover data (photos, videos & audio files) from formatted memory card by using the photo recovery software.
Follow the below steps to recover media files from formatted memory card:- Connect your memory card to the computer
- Launch Stellar Photo Recovery
- Select the memory card from where you want to recover. Click Scan
- List of found photos, videos, and audio files appears. Preview and click Recover.
- Browse location to save the recovered files. Click Start Saving.
Yes. You can recover specific files after successful scanning of the drive/media. From the list of found files that appear after scanning, select your specific file types and click Recover to save the files.
To recover photos from a drive having bad sector, first create the image of drive using 'Create Image' feature of the software. Then scan that image to recover your lost photos.
To recover pictures from the image file perform the below steps:
- Click on Resume Recovery icon on the home screen.
- Click Load Image. A Recovery from Image window opens. All image files with .img extension are listed.
- Select the image file for which you want to resume the recovery process and click Add.
- Click Scan.
- Click Recover.
- Browse location to save the recovered files. Click Start Saving.
No. Choose a different drive to save the recovered photos. If you choose the same drive, it will lead to overwriting, which in turn will result in permanent loss of photos.
To recover photos from saved scan information follow the below steps:
- On the home screen, click Advanced Settings icon at the top. Click Resume Recovery icon. A Resume Recovery window opens. All saved scan information files with .DAT extension are listed.
- Select the scan information file for which you want to resume the recovery process and click Add.
- Click Resume Recovery to start the recovery process.
- Click Recover.
- Browse location to save the recovered files. Click Start Saving.
You can create an image of the entire or the selected range of the hard drive or card and save it to recover photos, videos and audio files at a later stage. Follow the below steps to Create Image of the drive:
- Click on Resume Recovery icon at the top in the main interface.
- Select Create Image option.
- Select the drive for which you want to create image.
- Here, you can select the Range to Create Image.
- Specify a location for saving the image file.
- Click Start Imaging. The image file with .img extension is saved at your specified location.
Stellar Photo Recovery supports any make/model of DSLR like Nikon, Sony, Canon, Samsung, Kodak, Fujifilm, Pentax, Panasonic, Mamiya, Olympus, Epson, Sigma, etc.
Yes, Stellar Photo Recovery software fully supports dual-screen setups for an effortless recovery.
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