CAINE vs MOBILedit Forensic
CAINE
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| Figure | CAINE | MOBILedit Forensic |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 4 |
| Spec score · Digital Forensics Software | 8.8 (#3) | 7.9 (#13) |
| Purpose | CAINE is an Italian GNU/Linux live distribution created as a digital forensics project. | MOBILedit Forensic extracts data from phones, smartwatches, and cloud services for forensic analysis. |
Plans
MOBILedit Forensic
- Single Phone Edition€99, paid once
- Standard Edition€2,100, paid once
- PRO EditionPriced on request
- ULTRA EditionPriced on request
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.
MOBILedit Forensic
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