BitRecover PST Viewer

BitRecover PST Viewer is an application available for Windows and Mac users, which facilitates a comfortable interface for opening PST files to read emails. This format is supported by Microsoft Exchange, Windows Messaging, and Microsoft Outlook.

If you do not have an email client installed that's capable of opening PST files, you can resort to this program instead. It's lightweight and very easy to use since it comes packed with just the necessary and sufficient features for viewing PST files.

According to the developer, BitRecover PST Viewer offers support for PST files made with all Microsoft Outlook editions, from 97 to 2016. Contrary to what it says on the official website, the email tool isn't portable. Besides the fact that you have to run the installer to set it up, .NET Framework must be installed to avoid any errors during runtime.

As far as the interface is concerned, BitRecover PST Viewer adopts a simple window with a neatly organized structure, where you can open an Outlook file using the popup file browser window. All folders with all messages available in that file should be shown, such as the inbox, deleted and infected items, junk email, sent messages, spam, outbox, and sent items. Moreover, protected PST files can be opened if you know the right passwords.

Aside from the message preview, you can check out attachments, email address of the sender and receiver, CC address (if any), subject as well as whether the messages are marked as read or unread. The message formatting should be preserved. The names of the folders also display the number of total containing emails. However, you should know that there are no export options provided by this application. It can be used for viewing purposes only.

Taking everything into account, BitRecover PST Viewer is a small-sized program for opening Microsoft Outlook files to read PST messages. It had minimal impact on the computer's performance in our tests and worked smoothly on Windows 10.