What is the best mac drive reader for windows 10/11

If I only needed to read files, I’d use a command-line tool like hdimount instead of a GUI mac drive reader, because it can mount HFS and APFS on Windows in read-only mode through Dokany. That makes it a pretty safe way to deal with a Mac-formatted disk when you do not want to risk writing anything back to it.

Basic command:

hdimount \\.\PhysicalDrive3 M:\

I’d install Dokany first, then install hdimount, open Terminal or Command Prompt as Administrator, and run that command. Replace \\.\PhysicalDrive3 with your actual external drive number and M:\ with the letter you want to mount it to.

If the drive turns out to be older HFS+, HFSExplorer can read that too, but it does not support APFS, so for a simple command-line mac drive reader approach, I’d still pick hdimount first.