The chances of recovering all or some of your data depends on many things such is the type of SD card, the file type, how the data was deleted, whether additional data has been saved on top of lost files among many other things. If your files or images are badly corrupted or the SD card damaged, it’s usually impossible to restore data from SD cards. We have not featured these types of vendors here as they are taking open source software released under the GNU license and then repackaging it as their own. There are some unscrupulous developers out there that claim to offer paid Mac SD recovery software but in actual fact just wrap their own interface around free open source recovery software.However, there are a few open source tools which can recovery data from SD cards – see more in the section on the best free SD recovery software for Macs. The most they will allow for free is recovery of a few files. SD card data recovery is a complex process and although most SD recovery software have free trials although the trials usually only let you see or preview which files can be recovered if any.
