Products comparison

On this page you can find comparison tables for Belkasoft history analysis and extraction product families.

Instant Messenger-related products

Supported messengers

The following table compares our products by the supported messenger.

Messenger / Product	Belkasoft Forensic Studio	Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer	Old history extractors	Belkasoft Skype Analyzer	Belkasoft ICQ Analyzer	Belkasoft QQ Analyzer
ICQ 98-2003a	+	+	ICQ extractor		+
ICQ 2003b	+	+	ICQ extractor		+
ICQ 4, ICQ 5	+	+	ICQ extractor		+
ICQ 6, 6.5	+	+			+
MSN and Live Messenger	+	+	MSN Extractor
Skype ver. 2, 3, 4	+	+		+
Yahoo! Messenger	+	+	Yahoo Extractor
MySpace IM	+	+
&RQ	+	+	&RQ Extractor
Miranda	+	+	ICQ Extractor
SIM	+	+
QIP	+	+
Google Hello	+	+
Trillian	+	+
QQ	+	+				+
AIM	+ (search only)	+ (search only)

Features

The following table compares our products by features supported. "Belkasoft Analyzers" stand for any of Belkasoft ICQ Analyzer, Belkasoft QQ Analyzer, Belkasoft Skype Analyzer.

Feature / Product	Belkasoft Forensic Studio	Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer Corporate	Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer Personal	Belkasoft Analyzers	Old extractors
Ability to extract messages not stored on the computer	This is impossible*
Export messages into text, HTML, XML	+	+	+	+	+
Review messages before export	+	+	+	+
Constrain dates and contacts to export history for	+	+	+	+	+
Search in extracted history	+	+	+	+
Search in extracted history using regular expressions	+	+	+	+
Bookmarks	+	+	+	+
Extraction of deleted ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Skype, etc. messages	This is impossible*
Search computer for messenger profiles	+	+	+	+
Search profiles on Encase drives	+	+	+	+
Simple wizard user interface					+
New powerful user interface	+	+	+	+
No need to know profile password	+	+	+	+	+
Work with multiple histories at a time (including search)	+	+	+	+
Filter contacts by various criteria	+	+	+	+
Shows installed profiles	+	+	+	+	+

*Under some circumstances this is possible using complicated forensic techniques like carving or live memory analysis. We do not support this.

Support and price

This table compares the products from support, price and restrictions point of view.

Support feature / Product	Belkasoft Forensic Studio Corporate	Belkasoft Forensic Studio Personal	Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer Corporate	Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer Personal	Belkasoft Analyzers	Old extractors
Price	$249.95	$149.95	$199.95	$99.95	$49.95	$14.95 - $24.95
1 year support and updates subscription	$99.95	$59.95	$79.95	$39.95	Free	Free
New versions expected?	+	+	+	+	+	No
Allowed for personal use	+	+	+	+	+	+
Allowed for company/organization use	+	No	+	No	+	+

Mail-related products

Supported mailbox types

Feature / Product	Belkasoft Forensic Studio	Belkasoft Mail Analyzer	Belkasoft Outlook Analyzer Pro	Belkasoft Outlook Analyzer	Belkasoft Outlook Express Analyzer
Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007	+	+	+	+
Microsoft Outlook Express	+	+	+		+
RITLabs The Bat!	Beta	Beta

Support and price

Feature / Product	Belkasoft Forensic Studio Corporate	Belkasoft Forensic Studio Personal	Belkasoft Mail Analyzer	Belkasoft Outlook Analyzer Pro	Belkasoft Outlook Analyzer	Belkasoft Outlook Express Analyzer
Price	$249.95	$149.95	$79.95	$69.95	$49.95	$49.95
1 year support and updates subscription	$99.95	$59.95	Free	Free	Free	Free
New versions expected?	+	+	+	No	No	No
Allowed for personal use	+	+	+	+	+	+
Allowed for company/organization use	+	No	+	+	+	+

Browser-related products

Supported browsers

Feature / Product	Belkasoft Forensic Studio	Belkasoft Browser Analyzer	Belkasoft IE History Extractor
Internet Explorer	+	+	+ (need to be logged under history owner)
Internet Explorer 8	+	+
Mozilla Firefox	+	+
Google Chrome	+	+
Opera	+	+
Cookies extraction	+	+

Support and price

Feature / Product	Belkasoft Forensic Studio Corporate	Belkasoft Forensic Studio Personal	Belkasoft Browser Analyzer	Belkasoft IE History Extractor
Price	$249.95	$149.95	$49.95	$19.95
1 year support and updates subscription	$99.95	$59.95	Free	Free
New versions expected?	+	+	+	No
Allowed for personal use	+	+	+	+
Allowed for company/organization use	+	No	+	+