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Get Cinder Recovery — free

Available for macOS and Windows. Scan and preview everything that's recoverable before you pay a cent.

macOS

macOS 10.13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · 505 KB .zip

  • ▸Free to scan and preview every recoverable file
  • ▸Original filenames & folders preserved
  • ▸Deep raw-sector recovery on external drives
  • ▸Free fake-capacity Drive Test built in
Download for Mac (.zip)

First launch shows a macOS caution screen — here's the one-time fix.

Windows

Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit · 223 KB .zip

  • ▸Same recovery engine as the Mac version
  • ▸FAT32, NTFS & exFAT-aware recovery
  • ▸Original filenames & folders preserved
  • ▸Free fake-capacity Drive Test built in
Download for Windows (.zip)

First launch shows a Windows SmartScreen notice — click More info → Run anyway (once).

Free means free. Scanning a drive and previewing every recoverable file — with its real filename — costs nothing and needs no account. You only pay when you're ready to save files back to disk. See pricing.

Which download do I need?

Grab the version that matches the computer you'll run Cinder on — not the drive you're recovering. Both versions read Mac and Windows drives (HFS+, APFS, NTFS, exFAT, FAT32), so a Windows PC can recover a Mac-formatted drive and vice-versa.

After you download

macOS: unzip, drag the app where you like, and open it. On first launch macOS may say the app is "damaged" — it isn't; that's the unsigned-app warning.

Windows: unzip and run Cinder Recovery Pro.exe. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app — click More info, then Run anyway. For deep recovery of already-deleted files, right-click the app and choose Run as administrator.

Before you open it

The one-time first-launch fix

If macOS says "Cinder Recovery & Test Pro is damaged and can't be opened" —

  1. Don't move it to the Trash — this message is misleading, the app isn't actually damaged.
  2. Right-click (or Control-click) the app icon → choose Open.
  3. Click Open again in the dialog that appears.

You only need to do this once — it opens normally every time after.

Why this happens: the app isn't yet notarized through a paid Apple Developer account. That's a distribution step we're planning, not a sign of a problem with the app itself.