--- title: Autopsy Reviews meta\_title: 'Autopsy Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 20 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Autopsy works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 20 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: System Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/system-security --- # Autopsy Reviews & Product Details Autopsy is an easy to use, GUI-based program that allows you to efficiently analyze hard drives and smart phones. It has a plug-in architecture that allows you to find add-on modules or develop custom modules in Java or Python. * * * Seller [The Sleuth Kit](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-sleuth-kit) Discussions [Autopsy Community](https://www.g2.com/products/autopsy/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Magnet Forensics](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Magnet Forensics") Magnet Forensics 4.8/5(102) ](https://www.g2.com/products/magnet-forensics-magnet-forensics/reviews) [ ![FTK Forensic Toolkit](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "FTK Forensic Toolkit") FTK Forensic Toolkit 4.4/5(37) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ftk-forensic-toolkit/reviews) [ ![OpenText Forensic (EnCase)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "OpenText Forensic (EnCase)") OpenText Forensic (EnCase) 4.3/5(13) ](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-forensic-encase/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/autopsy/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 20 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/19/2022 "Easy to Use" 4/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? I used different digital forensics tools early in my career, but when I came across Autopsy, I found it very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? I don't find any points for which I would say I dislike Autopsy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? Usually, digital forensic tools are hard to work with. However, Autopsy has a user-friendly interface with a variety of modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/2/2022 "Best tool for forensic investigation" 5/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? An autopsy is one of the most commonly used and powerful forensic analyzing tools it has so many cool features to run forensic analysis and gather the evidence and report the evidence, mostly autopsy support for windows-based image analysis, and sometimes it can be sued for Linux analysis as well, but it more supports for windows-based forensic image analysis. by using this tool, it is straightforward to identify suspicious evidence and easy to make forensic reports using this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? When using autopsy, i feel so slow when using in a laptop it uses higher ram and processing power and when creating a case and loading the image file on the case it feels slow, so if this can optimize it would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Autopsy: This is one of the best tool for forensic investigations. I suggest this tool for all beginners and experts to use in your investigations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? This tool is the most effective one for analyzing the forensic image files and analyzing the data. This makes so easy to process, and it has reporting features of differentiating the files so that it would be easy for investigation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Accounting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Accounting") CA Verified User in Accounting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/18/2022 "Autopsy report" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? It's most useful feature of performing forensics and investigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? So far it's good and nothing is there to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? Best part about it is the investigation that we can do with that tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Networking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Networking") UC Verified User in Computer Networking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/19/2022 "Good data forensic software" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? We can easily sort clean data for forensic investigation purpose, we can find any hidden message and audio clips from the pictures and other data. Any data form analysis can be done in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? It is not easy to use as proper training is required, also it is not used in all the forensic investigation of the cases. Depend upon project to project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Autopsy: If you want to perform forensic computer investigation then must use this for the cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used this software to find a hidden message from the data, and it was stored in the picture in the form of audio clip, also we can decrypt the password easily in this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bhavin J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bhavin J.") BJ Bhavin J. Research Assistant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/9/2022 "Autopsy: a great digital forensics tool." 4/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? easily extract web cookies and search histories for different browsers such as firefox, and chrome and also allows recovery of deleted files which very helpful. Userfriendly interface and easy installation steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? File recovery could be better. It is not able to recover files if the harddrive is over written with new data. In comparison to other data recovery tools, this feature is missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? Learning digital forensics and especially I perform data recovery on my hard-drive. Also I use to it to extract web history from my computer's browsing data. Great Tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Services") UI Verified User in Information Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/16/2022 "Digital forensics master tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? It is very helpful in digital forensics, as we can easily find the evidences in it to solve digital crime cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? The only drawback i feel is that it has limited features for audio tracing.when i worked on a case i was unable to find tools to trace audio clips in this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Autopsy: If you want to grow your career in the field of digital forensics and you must learn this software as it will be very helpful in solving cases and make you work easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? I worked in my college on a project where there is a secret image message shared between the accused, with the help of this software i could easily find the evidences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Gambling & Casinos](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Gambling & Casinos") UG Verified User in Gambling & Casinos Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/8/2021 "A free solution to perform digital forensic activities" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? Despite it is free, it has a lot of features that allows a security analyst, to perform forensic activities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? Using the free edition, we have no access to the support, but good information and tutorial are accessible online Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Autopsy: If the budget is limited, I suggest considering this software to perform forensic activities, moreover it is now available for more operating systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? We use the solution when a malicious activity is detected over a machine (infected), we insert the evidence into autopsy and analyze the activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Diana R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Diana R.") DR Diana R. Associate Digital Forensic Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/23/2021 "Best opensource tool for digital forensics" 5/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? Nice gui Excellent processing options with carvers, hash analysis, evidence processing etc Recovers deleted files file signature analysis carving files with photorec carvers Report Generation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? Better Gui. or elese autopsy is best open source tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Autopsy: Go for it. Excellent open source digital forensic tool with almost all capabilities needed for basic investigation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? Analysis of digital evidence using it carving deleted file file signature analysis Deleted file recovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/28/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Phillip C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Phillip C.") PC Phillip C. Senior Cyber Security Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/18/2021 "Autopsy, the open source digital forensics application." 5/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? It has all the core features you get in commercial forensic tools. It's a fast and efficient digital investigation application. It supports custom modules, many have been developed by the user community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? It is a great platform, however, it only runs on Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? I am not in law enforcement like most users. I actually use it as a post mortem tool when/if there is a breach or suspected incident with our systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/22/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Legal Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Legal Services") UL Verified User in Legal Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/25/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Such a Dark Name for a VERY BRIGHT software application!" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Autopsy? I like how easy Autopsy is for a first time user. I"m currently learning Linux and Unix in my classroom so we use Autopsy and its been very easy for me to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Autopsy? It can also be complicated to learn at the same time. There is a lot of complex details within the program and some of the words are so scientific that it's hard to decipher the understanding if you have never used the program before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Autopsy: I think this is a great forensic program if you are looking to recover data on an old pc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Autopsy solving and how is that benefiting you? I"m solving criminal cases and things related to a crime. I am dealing with ways to find hidden data or old data, files, pictures and such that might be hard to find. Sometimes this stuff is important because the victim can no longer speak for himself amd all we have left is just their computer. A computer can tell us everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Autopsy? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Autopsy ](https://www.g2.com/products/autopsy/discussions/new) ![Diana R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Diana R.") 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