Cisdem Data Recovery

About

Cisdem Data Recovery for Mac is a data recovery utility designed to retrieve documents, photos, videos, audio files, emails, and more. According to the site, it can recover data from a range of sources, including HDDs, SSDs, Fusion Drives, SD cards, USB drives, cameras, and iCloud, and it supports common file systems such as APFS, HFS+, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS. It is positioned for situations involving recently or permanently deleted files, formatted drives, damaged or corrupted disks, and macOS errors.

The software also includes repair capabilities, stated to fix damaged videos, photos, and Word, Excel, and PDF files. Additional features listed on the site include recovering files directly from iCloud, restoring data from an unbootable Mac in Recovery Mode, creating drive backups, and creating a bootable macOS installer. Usability features mentioned include file previews before recovery, filtering and search, a choice of Columns or Icon views, saving and resuming scans, and saving recovered files to local storage or cloud services such as Dropbox and OneDrive.

The website describes the product as supporting recent Mac models (M1 through M4 and T2) and macOS 26, and it presents several use cases, such as recovering unsaved Word documents, restoring photos from formatted SD cards, and recovering deleted GoPro videos.