Why £499?
Because it’s priced against the alternative, not against an app. One licence covers your whole organisation, up to 25 devices, with no renewal — so compare it with someone spending a fortnight extracting forms by hand, or with having to explain an uploaded HR file to your data-protection lead. And you don’t have to take our word for it: download it free, run it on your own records, and pay only if it works. If it doesn’t do what this page says for your files, tell us within 14 days and you get a full refund.
What if I have thousands of files?
That’s the normal case, and it’s what the tool is built for. Point it at a folder, and it works through everything it finds, then gives you an estate-inventory report: how many templates, how many records, how much data, and which files didn’t parse and why. Nothing is skipped quietly — every file appears in the report with its outcome.
What if it can’t read my forms?
You’ll know before you pay — that is exactly what the free download is for. Open your own .xsn / .xml and see what comes back, on your own machine, with nothing uploaded. And if you have already bought: if it doesn’t do what this page says for your files, tell us within 14 days and you get a full refund.
Will it change my original .xsn or .xml file?
No. It opens your file read-only — to read it, never to write to it. Your original is left exactly as it was, and every recovery report records source_modified: false for each file so you can check for yourself. Exports are saved as separate files.
Do I need InfoPath or a Microsoft 365 subscription to use it?
No. XSN Rescue reads the files directly on your own machine. You don’t need InfoPath installed, and you don’t need any Microsoft 365 licence or subscription.
Does it upload my files anywhere?
No. Recovery runs entirely on your own computer, with no upload and no account — the recovery engine contains no networking code. No records, no file contents and no telemetry leave your machine. The app’s own network use is licence and version information: checking your licence key (at activation, and again at each app launch to re-confirm it), and reading a small version list on our own website before an export, so a withdrawn build can tell you to update — that check fails open if our site is unreachable. The licence check sends your licence key and a device identifier (a one-way hash, not your name and not your file names); the version check only fetches a file and sends nothing about you, your files or your machine beyond the ordinary web request itself. Neither sends your files or their contents. Choosing Buy simply opens our checkout in your own browser.
What if the machine is offline, or on a restricted network?
Activating your licence needs an internet connection once — the licence server has to register the activation, so there is no offline or air-gapped activation route. After that the app re-confirms the key each time it launches, and if it can’t reach the licence server it carries on working for up to 21 days from the last successful check, so a firewall, an outage or a spell off the network doesn’t stop you. The version check before an export fails open: if our website is unreachable, the export goes ahead. Recovery itself never needs a network at all.
Which versions of InfoPath does it work on?
It reads filled-in forms and templates from the InfoPath 2010 / 2013 era — the versions most organisations still hold. Because it parses the open XML and CAB structure directly rather than relying on a specific InfoPath build, it also opens templates and data from other versions. Every run writes a recovery report telling you exactly what it found.
What exactly can it recover?
From an .xsn template: the solution name/version, the field catalogue (name, type, dotted path) from the XSD, and the XSL views. From a form-data .xml: every filled-in leaf value, including repeating and nested sections. Attachments inside a form are decoded from base64 back into real files (a Word or Excel document comes out as a valid .docx/.xlsx). It exports all of that to CSV, JSON and HTML, plus one self-contained archival PDF per recovered record, an estate-inventory report over every form in that folder, and a recovery report.
What can’t it recover?
Form code-behind (managed code/script), external data connections and user-role logic are not executed or recovered — only the data and static layout. Digital signatures are surfaced as fields but not cryptographically verified. The archival PDF uses a standard Latin font, so out-of-set characters are marked [U+XXXX] and counted (the JSON export preserves the exact text as read from the file). The recovery report states this per file.
Does it crack passwords or bypass protection?
No — and it doesn’t need to. InfoPath forms aren’t encrypted. The tool reads files you already own and have the right to access; it performs no password cracking and no DRM circumvention.
Is there a Windows version?
Yes. XSN Rescue runs on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) and on macOS 10.15 or later (one universal download for Intel and Apple silicon). One purchase covers both — after you buy, both installers are in your account, so you can put it on a Mac and a PC without buying twice. The Windows installer is code-signed under High Caliber Trading Ltd.
Is this a Microsoft product?
No. It’s independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Microsoft Corporation. “Microsoft” and “InfoPath” are trademarks of their owner, used here only to describe the file formats this tool reads.