# Recoverit review (2026): is the free plan enough? > File recovery software for Windows and Mac from Wondershare Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Recoverit is a data recovery program from Wondershare for Windows and Mac. It scans hard drives, SD cards, USB drives and other media for deleted, formatted or lost files, previews them, and restores them. A free edition caps recovery at 100 MB; paid plans lift the cap. - **Category:** Desktop Utilities - **Made by:** Wondershare - **Website:** https://recoverit.wondershare.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you're staying free, as the Windows free edition stops at 100 MB. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Recoverit has a free plan, and paid plans start at $45.99 per month (Windows, 2 PCs). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Recoverit Free has the Essential features but caps total recoverable data at 100 MB on Windows. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Scan and recover up to 100 MB in total on Windows. | | Monthly Plan | $45.99 per month for 2 Windows PCs, auto-renews | Unlimited file recovery with full preview. The store shows $65.99 crossed out and gives no end date. | | Annual Plan | $46.99 per year for 2 Windows PCs, auto-renews | Same features as Monthly on a year-long term. The store shows $86.99 crossed out and gives no end date. | | Perpetual Plan | $82.99 one-time, for 2 Windows PCs | Use the purchased major version permanently; no upgrades to future major versions. $122.99 is shown crossed out. | Read from https://recoverit.wondershare.com/buy/store.html on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Recoverit before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **30% off for students** (Education): The Recoverit page advertises 30% off an educational plan; the store has an Education tab for it. Source: https://recoverit.wondershare.com/buy/store.html ## Key features - **Recovery from many media:** The site covers hard drives, SD and memory cards, USB drives, NAS, RAID, Linux and the Windows Recycle Bin. - **Preview before restoring:** Paid plans list full file preview and unlimited file recovery. - **Partition and RAW disk recovery:** Feature pages cover lost partitions, formatted drives, RAW disks and factory-reset recovery. - **Bootable recovery media:** A WinPE bootable disk or USB lets you recover data when Windows will not start; a Mac bootable media is also named. - **Repair of corrupted files:** Paid plans list repair for corrupted videos, photos and documents, marked as an exclusive feature. - **AI-powered custom recovery:** Plans list an AI-powered custom recovery option alongside the standard scan. ## Good for - Home users recovering deleted photos or documents with a guided interface - A one-off recovery using the monthly plan - People who also need video or photo repair ## Worth knowing - The Free edition on Windows stops at 100 MB of recovered files. - Monthly and annual plans renew automatically; the page says you are emailed 7 days before renewal. - Prices shown are for Windows with 2 PCs per license; the Mac plans are on a separate store page that was not read. - The store states a 7-day money-back guarantee, and the monthly price shown is close to the annual one. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Recoverit recovers files from many kinds of drives on Windows and Mac, with preview and bootable media. Free recovery stops at 100 MB on Windows, and the monthly plan costs almost as much as the annual one. - **Value for money: C.** $46.99 a year for 2 PCs is about $3.92 a month, in the middle of the category. Monthly is $45.99 and the perpetual plan is $82.99. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free edition with caps you will hit: Windows stops at 100 MB of recovered data. - **Features: B.** Recovery from many media, preview, partition and RAW disk recovery, bootable media, file repair and AI custom recovery. No gap shown in the job. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. Scan, preview and restore, nothing to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Windows and Mac desktops only; the Mac plans are on a separate store page. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Wondershare's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among desktop utilities - Recoverit's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 35 of the 186 other desktop utilities we grade, and level with 33. - It stands best on features (B, above 113 of 186) and worst on value for money (C, above 5). - Its paid plans start at $45.99 a month, against a middle price of $2.99 for the category: 35 of the 36 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/utilities ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Recoverit does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 118 of the 186 other desktop utilities grade higher. It costs $551.88 a year. - You could not: A file manager working directly on your disk. - You could not: A real app for macOS and Windows. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** File management, AI features ## Alternatives - [Disk Drill](https://toolgpa.com/tools/disk-drill): Data recovery app for Mac and Windows with free disk tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/disk-drill-vs-recoverit) - [Stellar Data Recovery](https://toolgpa.com/tools/stellar-data-recovery): Data recovery for deleted files and drives on Windows and Mac. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/recoverit-vs-stellar-data-recovery) - [R-Studio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/r-studio): Data recovery software for Windows, Mac and Linux with RAID support. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/r-studio-vs-recoverit) - [TestDisk and PhotoRec](https://toolgpa.com/tools/testdisk-and-photorec): Free open-source tools for lost partitions and deleted files. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/recoverit-vs-testdisk-and-photorec) - [DiskGenius](https://toolgpa.com/tools/diskgenius): Windows partition manager, data recovery and disk cloning tool. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/diskgenius-vs-recoverit) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://recoverit.wondershare.com/ - https://recoverit.wondershare.com/buy/store.html - https://recoverit.wondershare.com/buy/business.html Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/recoverit Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).