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Cellebrite Reader
Cellebrite Reader is a free, portable viewer for UFDR files, the report format produced by Physical Analyzer and Inseyets. It lets people outside the lab review the evidence without a licence.
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Profile
- Manufacturer
- Cellebrite
- Category
- Mobile forensics
- Product type
- Software
- Platforms
- Not stated by the manufacturer
- Licensing
- Free
- Product status
- Current
- Educational level
- Beginner
- Last verified
- 2 November 2026
Cellebrite's page uses the name Cellebrite Reader and lists it under the Inseyets suite. The older name UFED Reader does not appear on the page.
What Cellebrite Reader is
A laboratory does the extraction and decoding, but the people who need to read the result are usually investigators, prosecutors and defence counsel who have no forensic software. Cellebrite Reader solves that. The examiner exports a UFDR file and the recipient opens it in Reader, where the chats, calls, photos, locations and timeline appear much as they did in Physical Analyzer. Cellebrite lists Reader as one of the core Inseyets products and distributes it free through its Community Portal.
Reader is review software, not analysis software. A user can search, filter by artefact type and date, flag items with tags and bookmarks and produce a smaller focused report from what was flagged. It does not re-parse the data or recover anything new. For a learner this is a useful first encounter with how a mobile extraction looks once decoded, and for a lab it is the practical way to hand over evidence while keeping the original extraction under control.
Primary applications
Where it is used
- Reviewing a decoded phone extraction without a Physical Analyzer licence
- Searching and filtering messages, call logs and media in a UFDR file
- Tagging items of interest and producing a focused report for the case file
- Sharing evidence with prosecutors and defence under the rules of disclosure
- Classroom familiarisation with decoded mobile evidence
Who uses it
- Investigating officers
- Prosecutors and defence lawyers reviewing disclosed material
- Analysts who support examiners
- Students and new trainees
Capabilities and limits
Major capabilities
- Opens UFDR report files produced by Physical Analyzer and Inseyets.PA
- Search and filtering across artefact types such as messages and call logs
- Timeline view of device activity
- Bookmarks and tags for items of interest
- Generation of focused reports from tagged items
- Free download from the Cellebrite Community Portal
Technical limitations
- Reads only what the examiner exported; nothing outside the UFDR can be seen
- No decoding, carving or recovery; it is a viewer
- The UFDR must be handled as evidence and protected with the same care as the extraction
- Operating system support is not stated on the product page checked
Learning with DFRTI
Independent professional education covering the principles and workflows of Cellebrite Reader. DFRTI is not a vendor training centre and its courses are not vendor certifications.
Before you learn it
- What a mobile extraction contains and how it reaches a report
- Handling rules for digital evidence shared outside the laboratory
Disciplines
Related tools
- Cellebrite Physical AnalyzerPhysical Analyzer is the decoding and analysis side of Cellebrite's mobile workflow. PA 7 is being discontinued and the database-backed PA Ultra has become Inseyets.PA 10.x.Cellebrite
- Cellebrite InseyetsInseyets is Cellebrite's current flagship for mobile evidence. It puts the extraction side (Inseyets.UFED) and the decoding side (Inseyets.PA) under one name and one licence.Cellebrite
- MSAB XAMNXAMN is where an XRY extraction becomes readable evidence. MSAB sells XAMN Pro for analysis and gives away XAMN Viewer so that others in the case team can open the same files.MSAB
- Magnet AxiomAxiom is Magnet Forensics' main examination platform. It takes images and extractions from computers, phones, cloud accounts and vehicles into a single case and presents the artefacts side by side.Magnet Forensics
Courses that cover this tool
LegalFoundation & Legal CoursesForensic Report WritingWrite clear forensic reports that answer the questions asked and survive cross-examination.
LegalFoundation & Legal CoursesLegal & Court ProceduresIndian law on electronic evidence: BSA Section 63, BNSS search and seizure and the IT Act.
LegalFoundation & Legal CoursesBasics of Cyber ForensicsStart here. Evidence handling, imaging, hashing, chain of custody and your first analysis.Official source
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