BORIS vs Dartfish
BORIS
boris.unito.it
Dartfish
dartfish.comSide by side
| Figure | BORIS | Dartfish |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | €7/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Video Annotation Software | 8.4 (#9) | 8.4 (#11) |
| Analysis | Features include Cohen’s Kappa inter-rater reliability, transition matrices, flow diagrams, time-budget analysis, and graphical representation of coded data. | Its tools support live tagging and post-event tagging to identify key moments and analyze performance. |
| Headquarters | Torino, Italy | Fribourg, Switzerland |
| Support | The site provides a user guide, video tutorials and workshops, an FAQ, a user forum, and channels for bug reports and feature requests. | Dartfish directs existing users with technical issues to its customer support team and offers a separate sales contact. |
Plans
Dartfish
- myDartfish Mobile€7 a month
- myDartfish 360€20 a month
- myDartfish Live S€80 a month
- myDartfish Pro S€180 a month
In their own words
BORIS
BORIS is free and open-source software for coding video and audio and recording live observations. Media tools include frame-by-frame navigation, playback speeds from 0.1× to 100×, and synchronized playback of up to eight files. Users can define unlimited behaviors, subjects, modifiers, and independent variables, with behaviors recorded as state or point events. Analysis options include Cohen’s Kappa inter-rater reliability, transition matrices, flow diagrams, time-budget analysis, and graphical views of coded data. Coded events can be exported in formats including TSV, CSV, HTML, ODS, XLSX, SQL, Pandas and R dataframes, SDIS, Praat TextGrid, and JWatcher formats. BORIS also imports JWatcher Global Definition Files and Noldus The Observer XT templates. Live event logging is available in the desktop program and Android app. The Android app is version 0.13 and marked beta for testing only. Data is stored in JSON; download files are GPG-signed, with a public key available for integrity checks. The project warns that backward compatibility of project files is not guaranteed and recommends regular backups.