MOBILedit Forensic

Compelson is a Czech company that has worked on phone data since the 1990s. Its forensic product was known for years as MOBILedit Forensic Express. Today the maker's site calls it MOBILedit Forensic and redirects the old Forensic Express address to the new page. The tool extracts data from phones, smartwatches and cloud services, analyses app databases, recovers deleted records where the database still holds them and writes reports in PDF, Excel or HTML. It can also import data exported by other tools and export its own findings for use in them, which makes it a common second tool in a lab.

The online store lists four editions. Single Phone and Standard cover logical extraction and app analysis. PRO adds deeper processing for messaging apps, smartwatch support, malware detection with YARA rules, face matching and import of data from other vendors' tools, with Camera Ballistics as an option. ULTRA adds physical acquisition and the security bypass capabilities. Compelson marks it as a dual-use item, which is the maker's own signal that export control and lawful use apply. A Cloud Forensic module is sold separately or with PRO. A full licence is time-unlimited, activated on one computer, with twelve months of updates that can be extended by buying an update package.