Scan PCs, old drives, USBs and backups for wallet files, seed phrases, private keys and browser-wallet traces. Choose a scan type, review confidence and coverage, and follow the evidence. Home and Technician also recover eligible deleted NTFS data.
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Scan for wallet files, keys and seeds
If you still have the drive, search it for wallet files or try to recover deleted ones. If you already have an encrypted backup, go straight to password recovery.
The complete feature guideYou don’t need to remember the filename. Search old PCs, USB drives and backups for wallet files, private keys and recovery phrases.
How wallet search works
Choose a quick search of known locations, or read file contents with Deep Scan.
Save a check and compare what appears in the next scan.
A deleted file may still be on the disk. Search an eligible NTFS drive for wallet data that hasn’t been overwritten, and save what can be recovered.
How deleted-wallet recovery works
Recover to another physical disk so the output doesn’t overwrite the data you’re trying to save.
Review saved files, coverage warnings and the recovery manifest. An encrypted wallet stays encrypted.
Try a password you remember, or search variations based on your own hints. Recovery runs on your PC, using a copy of a supported encrypted wallet.
See password-recovery options
Review the search and its limits before starting. CPU search, with optional GPU support for eligible jobs.
Supported Bitcoin Core, Ethereum, Electrum and MetaMask formats. Not every variant can be opened.
Inspect a backup, check for exposed secrets, or save your results for later.
Identify a backup, read warnings and compare copies.
Look for recovery phrases, private keys and supported credentials.
Reopen a saved check and review what changed.
Find sign-up and transaction clues in local email exports.
You don’t need to remember the filename. Search old PCs, USB drives and backups for wallet files, private keys and recovery phrases.
No internet required. All analysis runs locally on your machine; nothing leaves your disk. Ideal for forensic and privacy-first workflows.
A search of your current browser profile is different from a search of an old external disk. Choose Quick, Deep, Old drive/folder or Browser wallets to match the source. Technician also lets you scan supported disk-image files.
Read supported NTFS drives and save eligible deleted files, seed phrases or keys to another physical disk. Home and Technician; recovery and funds are not guaranteed.
Filter or search the list, open the details and read the suggested next step. Home and Technician show full paths, open the source location and export JSON or HTML reports. Copy Safe Summary gives you a way to share a finding without copying the detected secret itself.
Trial proves value with hidden-path leads. Pro unlocks exact recovery paths, unlimited scans, reports, and Open Location actions.
Quick checks known wallet locations. Deep searches file contents. Old drives and Browser wallets focus the search; Technician adds forensic-image candidate scans.
Select This PC, a drive or a folder. Use Advanced for a custom path and Settings for exclusions and an SSD, NVMe or HDD performance profile.
Click Scan and follow progress. Review completion and coverage warnings; a stopped or limited scan does not prove that no wallet exists.
Filter findings by confidence, inspect recovery leads and choose the next step. Paid editions reveal full paths and export JSON/HTML reports; Copy Safe Summary redacts secrets.
One-time license for local discovery and repeatable checks. Choose personal use or commercial customer recovery work. Read supported NTFS drives and save eligible deleted files, seed phrases or keys to another physical disk. Home and Technician; recovery and funds are not guaranteed.
Wallet artifacts, validated recovery material and public traces; supported exchange-account clues; and labelled credentials, password-export CSVs and private-key containers in Privacy check. Unsupported areas are not a clean-device certificate.
Checks are read-only and local. Saved history keeps paths and metadata locally, not raw secret values. Trial telemetry sends app-use metadata; optional public Bitcoin lookups send the selected address only after consent.
Trial has three uses shared between scans and backup checks, with recovery paths hidden. Home adds unlimited checks, full paths, reports, saved comparisons, backup comparisons and repeat checks. Technician includes Home plus customer cases, notes, a ten-source queue, image candidates and encrypted reports.
Checksum and structure validators, context checks, noise suppression, and deduplication reduce false positives.
Yes. Attach or mount the drive and choose its path, or enter a custom folder.
Balanced (default), NVMe High for very fast SSDs, or HDD Safe for slower disks.
Pro can save JSON and HTML recovery reports. Safe Summary copies a redacted support summary without paths, seeds, keys, or full tokens.
Noisy system artifacts, large or binary files, and known irrelevant caches are skipped or given lower priority.
Pro uses a signed license file verified locally by the app. Production builds reject unsigned licenses.
Email hello@crypto-trace.app. See the Help Center for guides.
An identical hash does not prove a backup is healthy or restorable. Recognizing a database header does not validate the wallet records inside it. You have the wallet file, but the password is missing or uncertain. Recover access works from a preserved copy. Try a password you remember, or define a limited search from your own hints, such as words and variations you may have used. The work runs locally. Supported formats include Bitcoin Core legacy/descriptor wallets, Ethereum v3 PBKDF2/scrypt, standard Electrum encrypted JSON/BIE1 and complete direct MetaMask vaults. Eligible jobs can use a trusted Hashcat GPU backend; CPU fallback and independent CPU verification check the outcome. Protected sessions let you resume eligible work. Home/Technician required. Not every format variant is supported. A large search can take a long time and may find nothing. Use only wallets you are authorized to open.
No. Daily/weekly checks run only while CryptoTrace is open. Missed checks run after reopening when the app is idle. No Windows service or startup task is installed.
Not necessarily. Read the coverage details: encrypted or nested archives, images, PDF/OCR and unsupported formats are not inspected. Correct a working copy yourself and check again; CryptoTrace does not delete files or revoke credentials.
Home and Technician include deleted-wallet recovery. Choose Deleted wallets, select the physical drive and save to another physical disk. Trial requires activation before recovery starts. Supports 512-byte logical sectors, including 512e; 4Kn is unsupported. Overwritten, erased or incomplete data may be unrecoverable. Encryption is preserved; recovered files can contain secrets. Recovery, wallet access and funds are not guaranteed. Trial cannot run or preview deleted-data recovery. Activate a paid Home or Technician license to start it.
Quick checks known wallet locations. Deep searches file contents. Old drives and Browser wallets focus the search; Technician adds forensic-image candidate scans. Select This PC, a drive or a folder. Use Advanced for a custom path and Settings for exclusions and an SSD, NVMe or HDD performance profile.
You have the wallet file, but the password is missing or uncertain. Recover access works from a preserved copy. Try a password you remember, or define a limited search from your own hints, such as words and variations you may have used. The work runs locally. Supported formats include Bitcoin Core legacy/descriptor wallets, Ethereum v3 PBKDF2/scrypt, standard Electrum encrypted JSON/BIE1 and complete direct MetaMask vaults. Eligible jobs can use a trusted Hashcat GPU backend; CPU fallback and independent CPU verification check the outcome. Protected sessions let you resume eligible work. Home/Technician required. Not every format variant is supported. A large search can take a long time and may find nothing. Use only wallets you are authorized to open.
A search of your current browser profile is different from a search of an old external disk. Choose Quick, Deep, Old drive/folder or Browser wallets to match the source. Technician also lets you scan supported disk-image files. Advanced lets you choose a source. Settings holds exclusions, reading limits and disk profiles. Excluded paths and resolved link targets stay outside the scan. Coverage details explain where a limit, unreadable file or skipped location left a gap. Optional fast reuse trusts file size and modification time. A change that preserves both may be missed. Reuse is a speed choice, not a fresh read.
Scan for wallet files and recovery material. Review findings, recover eligible deleted data and check backups before sharing.
