Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers

What Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers does

MacUncle Software is a privately held software vendor and sub-brand of RecoveryTools Inc., specializing in email conversion, migration, backup, and secure data management utilities for macOS users. Founded around 2015, the company offers a suite of 100+ products addressing the full lifecycle of email data management: the Email Backup Wizard supports downloading and migrating from 40+ webmail servers; the Data Wipe product provides certified macOS data sanitization for hard drives, disks, and SSDs; and specialized converters handle MBOX, MSG, EML, OLM, OST, PST, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail formats. The underlying technology emphasizes direct migration without intermediate format conversion, preserving folder structures, attachments, and metadata across formats and cloud platforms including Gmail, Office 365, Google Workspace, and IMAP servers. The suite can be purchased individually or as a nine-product MacUncle Suite bundle.

The business model is direct-to-consumer one-time license sales distributed exclusively through the company website via the 2Checkout payment gateway, with electronic delivery of license keys within 15 minutes of purchase. Pricing is tiered: Standard editions ($29-$99) cover individual users on 1-2 machines, Pro editions ($49-$499) enable 10-machine commercial use, and volume discounts of 5-10% are available for enterprise, government, and educational buyers via purchase orders. The customer base is reported at 40,000+ across 110+ countries, segmented primarily by persona (Mac OS users) with secondary business-unit segments for IT professionals and institutional buyers. Marketing relies on a 100+ article blog, SEO for long-tail migration queries, multilingual website support across 12+ languages, and social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube. The company is operationally lean (11-50 employees per firmographic input), privately held, and headquartered in Grandville, Michigan, with the parent entity legally registered in Delhi, India.

Name

Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers

Legal name

MacUncle Software

Website

https://uscsase.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

MacUncle Software is a privately held macOS software vendor and sub-brand of RecoveryTools Inc. that provides email conversion, migration, backup, and secure data-wipe utilities to individual Mac users, IT professionals, and institutional buyers across 110+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software License Sales: Primary revenue from selling software licenses for email backup, conversion, migration, and data management tools. Products are sold as one-time purchases with one-year license including free upgrades and support. Perpetual license options available for certain products.
2. Tiered Product Pricing: Multiple product tiers including Standard, Pro, and Suite editions with different pricing for each product. License tiers provide different machine counts, feature access, and support levels (Basic vs Priority).
3. Enterprise/Government Licensing: Volume licensing and purchase order options for business clients, government organizations, and educational institutions with 5-10% discount on software license editions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) is a non-profit organization that offers speaker events and workshops for leadership development. It serves Asian scientists, engineers, and affiliated professionals and students, primarily operating out of Los Angeles, USA, and uses its website at uscsase.org as its primary outreach channel.

Product overview

MacUncle is a sub-brand of RecoveryTools Inc. offering a suite of email conversion, backup, and migration tools for Mac OS users. The core products include the Email Backup Wizard for backing up 40+ webmail services and the Data Wipe tool for secure data erasure. The product portfolio includes specialized converters for various email formats: MBOX, MSG, EML, OLM, OST, PST, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail. Individual products can be purchased separately or as a bundled MacUncle Suite containing nine applications. The products are sold in Standard (2-machine), Pro (10-machine, commercial use), and Suite editions with pricing from $29 to $499.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MacUncle: Email conversion, migration, and viewer tools for Mac OS users including backup solutions from 40+ webmail servers.

Products and services

• Speaker Events Live speaker-led events organized for the Asian-heritage STEM professional community, delivered to Asian scientists, engineers, and affiliated students for leadership and career development.
• Leadership Development Workshops Facilitated workshop programming focused on building leadership capabilities for Asian-heritage scientists, engineers, and student members of the society.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% Accuracy - resulting accurate output with complete data preservation
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• RecoveryTools Incparent companyOthersMacUncle is explicitly described as a 'Sub-Brand of RecoveryTools Inc.' The parent company RecoveryTools Inc owns and operates the MacUncle brand, which focuses on email conversion, email migration, and email viewer tools specifically for Mac OS users.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Permanent Eraser: This open-source macOS data-wipe tool represents a free alternative to MacUncle's Data Wipe product for cost-sensitive Mac users, putting price pressure on the entry $29 Standard tier.

Direct peers

• Aryson Technologies: Aryson offers an overlapping portfolio of email migration, backup, and recovery tools with the same format coverage and direct-to-cloud migration positioning as MacUncle.
• BitRecover: BitRecover sells a very similar suite of standalone converters and migration tools (MBOX, PST, OST, OLM, MSG, EML, Thunderbird) targeting both Mac and Windows users with comparable perpetual-license pricing.
• PCVARE Solutions: PCVARE offers a comparable set of email migration, recovery, and converter utilities with overlapping format coverage and SMB-targeted perpetual licensing, directly competing for the same Mac and Windows email-data use cases.
• Migrator Tools (RecoveryTools): RecoveryTools' non-Mac branded site (sister to MacUncle's parent) sells the Windows-equivalent versions of the same migration/conversion tooling, making it the closest like-for-like reference point on product breadth and pricing.
• SysTools: SysTools is one of the largest direct competitors in email migration, conversion, and OST/PST recovery utilities, offering near-parallel Mac and Windows products for the same webmail servers and email file formats MacUncle targets.
• Softaken Software: Softaken markets parallel utility products for email backup, conversion, and migration (PST/OST/MBOX/EML) targeting the same individual and IT professional buyer segments as MacUncle.
• Shoviv Software: Shoviv provides email migration, OST/PST repair, and SharePoint/Exchange utilities, competing head-to-head with MacUncle in SMB and enterprise mailbox conversion flows.

Broad incumbents

• Stellar Data Recovery: Stellar is a much larger, broadly established data-recovery and email-repair vendor whose Stellar Converter and Data Eraser products overlap MacUncle's PST/OLM conversion and data-wipe capabilities while extending across many adjacent data utilities.
• MacPaw (CleanMyMac / Encrypto): MacPaw's CleanMyMac X suite and Encrypto file-privacy tool compete with MacUncle's Data Wipe and broader Mac utility stack at the consumer level, representing a stronger-branded, broader Mac-utility incumbent.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/macuncle
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/macuncle
• Pinterestpinterest.com/macunclesoftware

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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