Best IPED Digital Forensic Tool Alternatives & Competitors in 2026

Cyacomb

Digital forensics tools for detecting CSAM on devices and online platforms.

Magnet Forensics

Digital forensics platform for evidence acquisition, analysis, and DFIR.

Cellebrite Digital Forensics Platform

Digital forensics platform for mobile & endpoint evidence extraction and analysis.

DigiStor WiebeTech

Hardware write-blockers and forensic tools for secure evidence acquisition.

APFS FUSE Driver for Linux

A read-only FUSE driver that enables Linux systems to mount and access Apple File System (APFS) volumes, including encrypted and fusion drives.

libqcow

A library for read-only access to QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image files, supporting multiple versions and compression formats for digital forensics analysis.

AutoMacTC

Automated Mac Forensic Triage Collector

DMG2IMG

DMG2IMG converts Apple compressed DMG archives to standard HFS+ image files supporting zlib, bzip2, and LZFSE compression formats.

Acquire

A tool to quickly gather forensic artifacts from disk images or a live system into a lightweight container, aiding in digital forensic triage.

imagemounter

A command-line utility and Python package for mounting and unmounting various disk image formats with support for different volume systems and filesystems.

NTFS-Linker

Tool for parsing NTFS journal files, $Logfile, and $MFT.

WindowsSCOPE Cyber Forensics

GUI-based memory forensic capture tool for cyber forensics and cyber crime investigation.

AhnLab A-FIRST 디지털 포렌식 서비스

Digital forensics service for incident analysis and APT response

ExtraHop Packet Forensics

Continuous full packet capture and forensics for network investigations

Menlo Security Browsing Forensics

Browser session recording & forensics for incident investigation & analysis

Cyber Triage Enterprise

DFIR platform for endpoint triage & investigation with EDR telemetry import

Actifile Digital Forensics

Automated digital forensics tool for real-time data activity monitoring and IR.

Packet Capture (cStor®)

Lossless packet capture & analysis appliance at 10–200 Gbps line rate.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery

Distributed GPU-accelerated password recovery for 300+ file/encryption formats.

Elcomsoft Mobile Forensic Bundle

Mobile forensic bundle for physical, logical & OTA acquisition of iOS/Android/cloud.

ElcomSoft Advanced PDF Password Recovery

Recovers/removes passwords and restrictions from encrypted PDF files.

ElcomSoft Adv. Lotus Password Recovery

Instantly recovers passwords from IBM/Lotus SmartSuite documents.

ElcomSoft Advanced Office Password Recovery

Password recovery tool for MS Office, WordPerfect, Lotus & other office docs.

ElcomSoft Advanced EFS Data Recovery

Decrypts EFS-protected files on NTFS volumes across Windows versions.

ElcomSoft Adv. Archive Password Recovery

Password recovery tool for encrypted ZIP, 7Zip, and RAR archives.

IntaForensics Cell Site Analysis

Accredited forensic cell site geolocation analysis for criminal investigations.

IntaForensics e-Discovery Services

Professional e-discovery service for ESI identification, collection & review.

IntaForensics Digital Forensics Service

Professional digital forensics service for legal & criminal investigations.

iVerify Bugalyzer

AI-powered Android bug report analyzer that translates logs into readable insights.

MailXaminer Email Content Analysis

Email forensic tool for analyzing email headers, body, and attachments.

MailXaminer

Windows-based email forensics tool for evidence recovery and analysis.

MailXaminer MIME Header Analyzer

Email forensics tool for analyzing MIME header fields across 20+ formats.

MailXaminer Spam Email Analyzer

Forensic email analysis tool for detecting spam, phishing, and email threats.

MailXaminer Email Decryption

Decrypts S/MIME & OpenPGP emails from PST/OST/EDB for forensic analysis.

MailXaminer Computer Forensic Tool

Email-focused digital forensics tool for evidence acquisition, analysis & reporting.

NFIR Digital Forensic Investigation

Professional digital forensics service covering breaches, fraud, and OSINT.

Endace Full Packet Capture

Full packet capture platform for network forensics and incident response.

Cyber Triage Automated Investigation Platform

Automated DFIR platform for rapid incident investigation and endpoint triage

StegSolve

StegSolve is a steganography analysis tool with image analysis features.

WindowsSCOPE

A comprehensive incident response tool for Windows computers, providing advanced memory forensics and access to locked systems.

StegoVeritas

A versatile steganography tool with various installation options and detailed usage instructions.

zed-0xff zsteg

Detects steganography-hidden data in PNG and BMP image files

USBPcapOdinDumper

A reverse engineering tool that extracts and organizes Samsung ODIN3 protocol messages from USB packet captures into human-readable files.

Andriller CE (Community Edition)

A software utility with forensic tools for smartphones, offering powerful data extraction and decoding capabilities.

Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT)

A forensic toolkit for analyzing Android and iOS devices to detect potential spyware infections and security compromises using indicators of compromise.

Steghide

Steghide is a steganography program for hiding data in image and audio files.

Granef

A network forensics toolkit that transforms network traffic data into graph-based representations for interactive analysis and visualization through a web interface.

iLEAPP

A forensic analysis tool that extracts and parses logs, notifications, and system information from iOS/iPadOS devices and backups.