A beginner-friendly, graphical wrapper around Microsoft’s own Windows File Recovery (WinFR) engine—free, fast and surprisingly effective at bringing lost data back to life.
About WinFR Interface Edition
Windows File Recovery (WinFR) is Microsoft’s official command-line data-recovery utility. It works well, but every scan or restore job means typing PowerShell commands—hardly user-friendly.
WinFR Interface Edition, released by AOMEI Technology, wraps those same Microsoft binaries in a clean, click-through GUI. The result is a no-cost Windows 10/11 recovery tool that’s both powerful and approachable.
AOMEI is a domestic developer with 10+ years of experience in partition management, backup and data-rescue software. Their front-end keeps WinFR’s high success rate while removing the command-line barrier.
Key features
- One-click GUI—no code required
- Recovers photos, Office docs, archives (JPEG, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, MP3, ZIP, etc.)
- Broad compatibility: Windows 10/11, NTFS/FAT/exFAT/ReFS, HDD, SSD, USB drives, SD cards
Three-step recovery
- Choose the partition that held the deleted files and pick a save location
- Select a scan mode (quick or deep)
- Hit “Start Recovery” and wait for the file list to appear
Why we recommend it
Everyone deletes something important sooner or later. Until now you either paid for pro-grade recovery software or swallowed the loss. WinFR Interface Edition scans internal disks, external HDDs and thumb drives with success rates that rival paid suites—while staying completely free. Keep a copy installed just in case.
Note: the wrapper runs only on Windows 10/11; macOS and older Windows builds are not supported.
Price & licence
WinFR Interface Edition is freeware—no ads, no limits, no nags. A rare example of a genuinely free, home-grown utility that simply gets the job done.