Best PSRecon Alternatives & Competitors in 2026

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.

libsmdev

A library and set of tools for accessing and analyzing storage media devices and partitions for forensic analysis and investigation.

dfvfs

A digital forensics tool that provides read-only access to file-system objects from various storage media types and file formats.

The Sleuth Kit & Autopsy

Autopsy is a GUI-based digital forensics platform for analyzing hard drives and smart phones, with a plug-in architecture for custom modules.

artifactcollector

A software that collects forensic artifacts on systems for forensic investigations.

Forensic Registry EDitor (FRED)

A cross-platform registry hive editor for forensic analysis with advanced features like hex viewer and reporting engine.

AccessData FTK Imager

A digital forensic tool for creating forensic images of computer hard drives and analyzing digital evidence.

libewf

A library to access the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF) for digital forensics and incident response.

Belkasoft Evidence Center

Comprehensive digital forensics and incident response platform for law enforcement, corporate, and academic institutions.

Magnet ACQUIRE

Magnet ACQUIRE offers robust data extraction capabilities for digital forensics investigations, supporting a wide range of devices.

Kuiper Digital Investigation Platform

A digital investigation platform for parsing, searching, and visualizing evidences with advanced analytics capabilities.

Digital Forensics Artifacts Repository

A community-sourced repository of digital forensic artifacts in YAML format.

Digital Forensics Artifact Knowledge Base

Documentation project for Digital Forensics Artifact Repository

PowerForensics

PowerForensics is a PowerShell digital forensics framework for hard drive forensic analysis.

SmartDeblur 1.27

A tool for restoring defocused and blurred images with various deconvolution techniques and fast processing capabilities.

rastrea2r

A cybersecurity tool for collecting and analyzing forensic artifacts on live systems.

timeliner

Timeliner is a digital forensics tool that rewrites mactime with an advanced expression engine for complex timeline filtering using BPF syntax.

SPECTR3

Remote Acquisition Tool

Digital Forensics Framework (DFF)

Open Source computer forensics platform with modular design for easy automation and scripting.

nightHawk Response

Custom built application for asynchronous forensic data presentation on an Elasticsearch backend, with upcoming features like Docker-based installation and new UI rewrite in React.

Docker Forensics Toolkit

Toolkit for post-mortem analysis of Docker runtime environments using forensic HDD copies.

Dissect

Dissect is a digital forensics & incident response framework that simplifies the analysis of forensic artefacts from various disk and file formats.

Timesketch

A collaborative forensic timeline analysis tool for organizing and analyzing data with rich annotations and comments.

Turbinia

Turbinia is an open-source framework for automating the running of common forensic processing tools to help with processing evidence in the Cloud.

Plaso

A Python-based engine for automatic creation of timelines in digital forensic analysis

Skadi

A free, open source collection of tools for forensic artifact and image analysis.

Beagle

Incident response and digital forensics tool for transforming data sources and logs into graphs.

evtkit

A tool for fixing acquired .evt Windows Event Log files in digital forensics.

Unhide

A forensic tool to find hidden processes and TCP/UDP ports by rootkits or other hidden techniques.

WinDbg

Powerful debugging tool with extensive features and extensions for memory dump analysis and crash dump analysis.

Belkasoft

Belkasoft offers cybersecurity solutions, training, and tools for businesses, law enforcement, and academia.

Timeline Explorer v0.4.0.0

A powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing system activity timelines.

WindowsSCOPE Cyber Forensics

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

ExtraHop Packet Forensics

Continuous full packet capture and forensics for network investigations

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.

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 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.

Cyacomb

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

WindowsSCOPE

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

Cyber Triage Cyber Triage Collector

Standalone DFIR data collector for Windows systems with adaptive collection

Volatility 3

A digital artifact extraction framework for extracting data from volatile memory (RAM) samples, providing visibility into the runtime state of a system.