Data recovery and drive tools for Mac and Windows.

AMWT Desktop starts with Data Recovery. Plug a card or USB drive into your Mac or PC and it searches it for deleted photos, videos and other files. It only reads the card, and you see each file it finds before you recover anything.

macOS 13 or later · Windows 10 and 11 (early access) · Scanning and previews are free

The Windows version isn't code-signed yet. If Windows says "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.

AMWT Desktop showing 2,306 photos and videos found on a camera card, with a full-size preview of a recovered photo.

Scanning and recovery happen on your computer. We never see your photos or their names.

Desktop app

What's in the desktop app

AMWT Desktop can reach whole cards and drives, which a website can't. Data Recovery is in it today. The next version adds the tools below.

  • Drive HealthReads a card or drive end to end and maps slow and unreadable parts, so you know when to copy it off.Next version
  • Disk ClonerCopies a whole drive to an image file or straight onto another drive, then checks the copy.Next version
  • Fake Card TesterFills a card's free space and reads it back, to catch fake capacity and failing cards.Next version
  • Secure EraseWipes a card or drive so nothing on it can be recovered, for when you sell or give it away.Next version
  • Photo EnhancerSharpens, fixes and upscales photos on your computer for free. Restore and HD upscaling with AI use credits.Next version
  • Repair FilesFixes photos, PDFs and Office documents that won't open, and saves the fix as a new copy.Next version
  • Find DuplicatesFinds exact copies of files across your folders and moves the extra ones to the Trash.Next version
  • Disk Space MapShows what takes up space as a map you can click into, with the largest files first.Next version
  • Task ManagerLive charts for processor, memory, disk and network, every running program, and a way to end a stuck one.Next version
  • Online tools, built in174 of the AMWT image, PDF, video, document and developer tools, working without the internet.Next version
  • Read-only scanningData Recovery opens the card read-only. Only Secure Erase ever writes to a drive, and only after you type ERASE.
  • On your computerScanning, previews and recovery all run on your Mac or PC. Nothing on the card is uploaded.
  • Previews firstYou see each file and whether it opens before you recover anything.

How it works

How a recovery goes

  1. Choosing an SD card from the list of drives in AMWT Desktop.1

    Choose the card

    Plug it into your Mac or PC and pick it from the list.

  2. A scan in progress, with photos, videos and documents counted as they are found.2

    Scan and preview

    Files appear while the scan runs. Open any photo full size.

  3. The recovery finished, with 2,306 files back in their original folders.3

    Recover to your computer

    Pick the files you want. They go to a folder on your computer, never back to the card.

Online tools

The online tools

The browser tools for images, PDFs, video and text will be back at this address. The next version of AMWT Desktop has 174 of them built in, so they work on your computer without the internet.