{"id":7163,"date":"2016-09-14T02:23:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/help\/?page_id=7163"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:03:48","slug":"disk-drill-media-recovery-vs-non-app-store-version","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/help\/disk-drill-app-store-vs-site.html","title":{"rendered":"Disk Drill Media Recovery vs Its Non-App-Store Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/disk-drill-media-recovery\/id431224317?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"external\">Disk Drill Media Recovery<\/a>\u00a0available on the Mac App Store is 3.1, with version 4 being in review as of May 2021. This article explains\u00a0how exactly the App-Store edition of our <a href=\"\/mac-data-recovery.html\">data recovery<\/a> solution is different from\u00a0<a href=\"\/pro.html\">Disk Drill Basic and PRO available directly from our store<\/a>. So, stay tuned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-relative post-download\">\r\n<i class=\"box-60x36 icons icon-winmac-xs  \"><\/i>\r\nDownload Disk Drill data recovery app\r\n<a class=\"btn btn-primary btn-xs-block pull-right\" href=\"\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/dl.html\">Download now<\/a>\r\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\r\n<\/div><p>\n<p>No secret <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/210605\/why-the-mac-app-store-doesn%E2%80%99t-have-the-applications-you-want\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"external\">Apple doesn&#8217;t make the life of a system utility developer easy on the MAS<\/a>. Still we managed to make Disk Drill Media Recovery the <a href=\"\/help\/new-disk-drill-media-recovery\/\">only working data recovery app<\/a>\u00a0available to the App Store users, and it&#8217;s the only one constantly updated there. We have to admit it&#8217;s not easy to overcome\u00a0numerous technical system-level restrictions imposed by Apple&#8217;s MAS guidelines. However, our developers are still (successfully) doing their best to make our technology <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/disk-drill-media-recovery\/id431224317?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"external\">available<\/a> on the most popular\u00a0software store for Macs.<\/p>\n<p>To put it simply, we are in this market for over 10 years now, and with all due\u00a0confidence we\u00a0do recommend\u00a0<a href=\"\/pro.html\">Disk Drill PRO<\/a> over\u00a0Disk Drill Media Recovery. And here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In comparison to the non-App-Store edition of\u00a0<a href=\"\/downloads.html\">Disk Drill<\/a>, Disk Drill Media Recovery is sandboxed and thus\u00a0<em>cannot\u00a0not implement<\/em>\u00a0any\u00a0features that require advanced\u00a0access level to storage and mobile devices, as well as many macOS services.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the\u00a0features <em>missing<\/em>\u00a0from Disk Drill Media Recovery\u00a0are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/iphone-data-recovery.html\">iOS<\/a> and <a href=\"\/android-data-recovery.html\">Android data\u00a0recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Creating <a href=\"\/boot-mac-from-usb.html\">bootable recovery drives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Much better\u00a0detection and reading stability\u00a0of damaged\u00a0storage devices<\/li>\n<li>Data protection: <a href=\"\/help\/recovery-vault-faqs\/\">Recovery Vault<\/a> and <a href=\"\/help\/guaranteed-recovery-faqs\/\">Guaranteed Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/help\/monitor-smart-status-disk-health\/\">S.M.A.R.T. disk health monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Clean Up, Duplicate Finder, Data Shredder, free space eraser, and many more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And it is hardly possible they&#8217;ll ever be added to the App Store edition of the app.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-relative post-download\">\r\n<i class=\"box-60x36 icons icon-winmac-xs  \"><\/i>\r\nDownload Disk Drill data recovery app\r\n<a class=\"btn btn-primary btn-xs-block pull-right\" href=\"\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/dl.html\">Download now<\/a>\r\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\r\n<\/div><p>\n<p>We still have hopes that Apple won&#8217;t leave all our users on the App Store without updates and we will be able\u00a0to deliver new versions of\u00a0Disk Drill Media Recovery\u00a0in the future. For now, it&#8217;s clear that\u00a0system apps on Mac App Store will lag in features in comparison to their non-App-Store siblings, while everyone downloading the app <a href=\"\/pro.html\">directly from cleverfiles.com<\/a> will\u00a0get all the\u00a0perks right out-of-the-box.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this helps to clarify the difference in editions and our position on this discrepancy. Thanks for reading. <em>The choice is always yours.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version\u00a0of\u00a0Disk Drill Media Recovery\u00a0available on the Mac App Store is 3.1, with version 4 being in review as of May 2021. 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