Where did you lose it?
Finds photos & videos still in Android's Recently deleted and puts them back in one tap. Fixes files that won't open. Reads memory cards with a USB card reader (beta). Files erased from phone memory after every trash is emptied can't come back — and the app says so.
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Choose where you lost it. The app looks in the right place and tells you what it finds.
Deleted photos & videos — gallery, camera, WhatsApp. Android 11 and newer keep them in Recently deleted for 30 days; the app lists them with real thumbnails and restores them where they were.
Read with a USB card reader. Deleted photos and videos, and cards formatted in a camera. Cards are only read, never written to.
Black, won't play, or stops at 0:00. Recordings that stopped suddenly and photos that were cut short get a plain-words verdict and a fix when one is possible.
Every item says where it came from and how whole it is.
Your own thumbnails first. A price only after you've seen them.
The gallery, a chat app, after a factory reset — or that you're not sure.
Two taps on Android's own screen. The app reads only the folders you allow, on the device.
With the days left before Android erases them.
Trashed items go back where they were, at full quality.
Said here rather than after you install it.
If your gallery keeps its own trash (Samsung Gallery, Google Photos, Xiaomi and others), Media Rescue tells you where it is.
Everything happens on your phone.
Just one file, or everything.
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The order is deliberate: you see your own thumbnails first, and the price is printed on the button before you decide.
The ones worth answering before you install anything.
Often, yes. On Android 11 and newer, a photo or video deleted from the gallery goes into Android's Recently deleted trash for 30 days. Media Rescue lists what is still there and puts it back in the album it came from, at full quality, in one tap. Files erased from phone memory after every trash was emptied cannot come back: phone memory is encrypted and cleared.
If your gallery keeps its own trash — Samsung Gallery, Google Photos, Xiaomi and others — Media Rescue tells you where it is and how to restore from it. Restoring from that Trash happens in your gallery app.
Those versions have no system-wide Recently deleted, so the app cannot search the phone by itself there. It shows you where your gallery keeps deleted items instead, and the memory card and fix-a-file doors work as normal.
For a memory card or USB drive, yes: a USB card reader that plugs into the phone, about $5. The card slot inside a phone cannot be read this way, so take the card out first. Card recovery is in beta while it is being proven on real readers. Don't format the card or take new photos on it in the meantime — every new photo can overwrite a deleted one.
No. Looking, restoring, reading a card and fixing a file all happen on your phone. There is no server, no account and no sign-in. Memory cards are only read, never written to. See the privacy policy.
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Media Rescue fixes that too, through its "A file that won't open" door. If the file is not deleted and you only need it fixed, Video Repair is the focused tool for exactly that job.
