CAINE vs Guymager
CAINE
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| Figure | CAINE | Guymager |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Digital Forensics Software | 8.8 (#3) | 7.5 (#18) |
| Interface | CAINE integrates existing software tools as modules and provides a graphical interface. | The user interface is available in different languages. |
| Purpose | CAINE is an Italian GNU/Linux live distribution created as a digital forensics project. | Guymager is a forensic imager for acquiring media. |
| Support | The site provides a contact form for questions or problems and links to a user forum. | The author accepts problem reports by email and asks users to attach the Guymager log file. |
Plans
In their own words
CAINE
CAINE is a free Italian GNU/Linux live distribution for digital forensics. It combines existing forensic programs as modules behind a graphical interface and is intended to support investigators through four investigation phases. The current listed download is CAINE 14.0 “LIGHTSTREAM,” dated 24/Mar/2025. That release sets block devices to read-only by default, while UnBlock can change the setting. rbfstab supports read-only mounting, and Mounter provides graphical mounting and unmounting. Included analysis utilities include Autopsy, FTK Imager, PhotoRec, TestDisk, hashcat, and memory-analysis scripts, alongside Windows incident-response tools such as Nirsoft utilities, WinAudit, FTK Imager, and USB Write Protector. CAINE supports disk imaging, memory and mobile forensics, and sources including raw/dd images, EnCase files, databases, internet histories, and Windows registries. Reports can be exported as raw/dd, EnCase, or text. The ISO is approximately 4000 MB, and third-party software keeps its own licenses.
Guymager
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