Get your footage back.

Footage Back reads your card or drive without writing to it, shows what can be saved, and brings it back as new files on another drive. Scanning, previews and copying whole files back cost nothing.

Download for Mac

Version 0.2.2 · 10 MB · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon (M1 or newer)

First: stop using the drive

Do not record on it again

Everything written to the drive can overwrite footage that is still there. Take the card out of the camera and do not format it.

Open Footage Back before you connect it

Footage Back opens a drive you connect read-only, so that macOS writes nothing to it either.

Have a second drive ready

What you bring back is written as new files to another drive, never to the one you recover from.

Install

1

Open the disk image

Drag Footage Back to Applications and open it from there, not from the disk image. It is signed by its developer and checked by Apple.

2

Allow the system helper

To read a drive directly, Footage Back installs a helper that macOS asks you to allow, and asks for Full Disk Access. The first screen shows each step. Do this before you connect the drive.

3

Connect the drive and search

Whole files are copied back free. Recordings that have to be rebuilt show their price before you pay. You remove the helper and everything it stored under Settings, Remove Footage Back.

What you need

  • A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 or later.
  • A second drive with enough free space for what you bring back.

For Blackmagic RAW

The free Blackmagic RAW software from Blackmagic Design, version 6.0 or 5.1. To rebuild a damaged recording, one intact clip from the same camera with the same settings: Footage Back looks for one on your drive and asks for one when there is none.

Your footage stays with you

Nothing of your footage, your previews or your file names is sent to us. Read the privacy statement.

This version

Version
0.2.2, build 122
Released
19 October 2026
Size
10 MB
Languages
Follows your Mac: English, Nederlands, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português, Русский, 日本語, 简体中文, العربية, Bahasa Indonesia
SHA-256
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Footage Back looks for a newer version once a day and asks before it installs one. Buying is covered by the terms of use and the refund policy.