NTFSTool Pro features

Full read and write for Windows drives, plus the disk tools you'd otherwise need three apps for. No kernel extension, no lowered security.

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Read and write, automatically

Plug in an NTFS drive and it mounts with full read and write. Copy, edit, rename and delete in Finder as usual.
Only the drive you just plugged in gets mounted, and a drive you ejected yourself stays ejected.
After sleep, drives that were mounted before come back on their own.
Each mount is checked with a real write test, so you know it's writable before you start copying.

Fix and prepare drives

One-click First Aid for drives Windows left in a dirty or hibernated state, with a warning before hibernation data is cleared.
Erase a drive as NTFS, right on your Mac.
Rename NTFS drives. The new name is read back and checked.
Per-drive settings: open read-only, or don't mount automatically.

Know your disks

S.M.A.R.T. health status, so you hear about a failing disk before you lose files.
Built-in speed test: sequential, 4K random and small-file performance, with and without cache.
Shows how each drive is connected (USB 2.0, 3.x, USB4) and tells you when the cable or port is the bottleneck.
Run the speed test on any drive or folder, not just NTFS.

Stays out of your way

Lives in the menu bar: see usage, make a drive writable, eject one or all.
Starts quietly at login, with no Dock icon unless you want one.
Notifications when a drive mounts, fails, or was unplugged without ejecting.
Enter your admin password once. It isn't asked for again after a restart.

Built for today's Macs

No kernel extension, no Recovery Mode, no lowered security settings.
If a mount fails, NTFSTool retries and repairs automatically before it bothers you.
Universal app for Intel and Apple silicon. macOS 12 or later; the classic version covers macOS 10.15–11.
Speaks 20 languages, with a report button in the app and email replies within 48 hours.

How it stacks up

Paragon, Tuxera and iBoysoft compared on setup, security, tools, price and trust.

	NTFSTool Pro	Paragon NTFS	Tuxera NTFS
1Setup and Mac security
Install	Drag to Applications No restart	Install, then restart your Mac	Install, approve the kernel extension, restart
Recovery Mode needed	Never needed	Yes, on Apple silicon Macs	Yes, on Apple silicon Macs
2Speed and reliability
Two drivers	Driver 1 and Driver 2 Detects what your Mac supports and falls back automatically, so drives keep working	One kernel driver	One kernel driver
Speed you can verify	Measured October 2026 on a real USB drive Driver 1: read ~90 MB/s, write ~88 MB/s Driver 2: read ~290 MB/s, write ~118 MB/s Full speed test results →	Claims up to 6× faster, based on a 2016 test	Claims speed similar to HFS+, no figures
3Disk tools
Pro speed test	Random read/write, cache on and off, small files and more	—	—
Slow USB 2.0 warning	Spots a slow USB 2.0 port, cable or enclosure	—	—
S.M.A.R.T. disk health	Health status for your disks	—	—
4Price and risk
Price	US$24.99 once The lowest one-time price here	About US$29.95 per Mac	About US$28.95
Macs per license	Every Mac in your household	One Mac	One person
Refund	45-day money-back guarantee 50% longer than the next best Full refund if read/write doesn't work	30 days	15 days
5Trust
Your Mac's security	Never lowered No kernel extension; Apple Pay keeps working	Must be lowered to Reduced Security on Apple silicon, and Apple Pay stops working	Must be lowered to Reduced Security on Apple silicon, and Apple Pay stops working
Support reply time	A real person replies by email within 48 hours	—	—

Data as of October 2026. Competitor details come from each company's official website; the Apple Pay note comes from Tuxera's own documentation. NTFSTool figures are our own measurements. Tell us if something is out of date.

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