Get deleted files back from a USB drive on Android.

Yes, as long as nothing has overwritten them yet. Plug the drive into your Android phone with a USB-C or USB-OTG adapter and scan it. The app carries its own filesystem engines and its own USB stack, so it can read drives Android itself refuses to open. No computer and no root are involved at any point.

Yes. USB sticks, pen drives, portable SSDs, external hard drives and memory cards in a USB card reader all scan the same way. A card in your phone’s own SD slot does not - that needs the reader.

Often yes. Do not format it. Plug it in and run a scan. The app reads the drive itself, so it does not need Android to mount it. A drive that looks empty or shows 0 bytes can still have files on it.

No, and no app without root can. This app recovers from drives you plug in over USB. Your phone’s internal storage is not reachable that way, and neither is a card sitting in the phone’s built-in SD slot. Put that card into a USB card reader and plug the reader in, and it works like any other drive. Please check this before buying - it is by far the most common mismatch.

It cannot. The drive stays read-only. Recovered files are saved to your phone, never back onto the USB drive they came from.

Scanning is free. Previewing every recoverable file at full size is free. Saving the first three files a scan finds is free. Saving the rest is a single one-time purchase inside the app - no subscription, no account, no ads. You see your files, and get some of them back, before spending anything.

The quick scan reads the filesystem’s own records, so files come back with their real names, folders and dates - but it needs those records to still exist. The deep scan ignores the filesystem entirely and rebuilds files from their raw contents, which is what works after a format or on a corrupted drive, though files then come back as carved-00001.jpg rather than by name. Run the quick scan first; the deep scan is the fallback.

Quick scan covers NTFS, exFAT and FAT32 from Windows, and APFS and HFS+ from a Mac. Deep scan works on any drive at all, including one with no readable filesystem left. Encrypted volumes count too, once unlocked: BitLocker To Go with its password or 48-digit recovery key, FileVault with its password or personal recovery key.

Photos (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, HEIC), camera RAW (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, PEF, RAF), video (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WEBM, MTS, MPEG), audio (MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG), and documents and archives (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, DOC, XLS, PPT, ZIP).

Usually not. A quick format writes a fresh empty filesystem over the old one but leaves the file contents where they were, which is what the deep scan reads. The app also looks for records the previous filesystem left behind, so files from a reformatted drive can sometimes come back with their names rather than as numbered carvings. Stop using the drive and scan it as soon as you can.

No. Once something else has used that space, the old file is gone. The sooner you stop writing to a drive after losing files, the more of it comes back.

From a quick scan, yes - names, folders, sizes and dates all come from the filesystem’s own records. From a deep scan, usually not: files come back numbered, because there is no record left to read a name from.

Every recoverable photo and video is shown as a full-size preview, free, and each file is labelled intact, partly overwritten, or likely overwritten. Then the first three files save for free. If your files are not really there, you find out before spending anything.

A phone or tablet running Android 8.0 or newer with USB OTG (USB host mode) support, and a way to connect it: a USB-C drive plugs straight in, a USB-A drive needs a USB-OTG adapter. Larger bus-powered external hard disks often need a powered hub, since phones supply limited current. For SD, microSD or CompactFlash cards, use a USB card reader.

Yes. A scan keeps running while you use other apps, and tells you in the notification shade if it stops - phone full, battery low, or the drive unplugged. You can also pause it, unplug the drive, charge the phone, and resume from the same place when you plug that drive back in.

No. There are no ads, no analytics, no crash-reporting SDKs and no account system, and nothing about your files, their names or your drives ever leaves the device. The app’s only network use is Google Play Billing for the optional one-time purchase, plus Google’s optional "rate this app" prompt - both handled by the Play Store app on your phone.

Nowhere. The password or recovery key you type is held in memory on your device for that session only, and used to unlock the volume so it can be scanned. It is never transmitted and never written to disk by the app.

No. This app only ever reads. Browsing and writing to a working drive is what NTFS Reader (Windows formats) and APFS Reader (Mac formats) are for - separate apps that can create, rename, move and copy files on the drive itself. This one is only for files the drive has already lost.

Android 8.0 (API 26) and newer, on phones and tablets. The app targets Android 16 (API 36).