# SocialEvidenceTools

> Thirteen social media evidence tools compared on platforms, hashing, timestamps and published prices, for lawyers, investigators and litigants.

Social media evidence software saves posts, videos, comments and profile details in a form you can later show has not changed. This page compares 13 options used by lawyers, litigation support teams, police, private investigators, HR investigators and people representing themselves in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We checked each vendor's own pages on November 1, 2026 for four things: which platforms it captures, how it proves integrity (hashes, timestamps, signatures), what it publishes about price, and who it is built for. Where a vendor does not publish a detail, we say so instead of guessing. Nothing here is legal advice. Whether a capture is admitted depends on the court, the jurisdiction and how the evidence was collected.

Last updated: 2026-11-01

## Main pages
- [Best social media evidence collection tools in 2026](https://socialevidencetools.pro/): Thirteen social media evidence tools compared on platforms, hashing, timestamps and published prices, for lawyers, investigators and litigants.
- [Page Vault alternatives for capturing social media evidence](https://socialevidencetools.pro/page-vault-alternatives/): Seven Page Vault alternatives compared on platforms, hashing, reports and published prices, from free OSINT tools to WebPreserver and TikTok specialists.
- [TikTok evidence capture tools: how to save TikTok videos for court](https://socialevidencetools.pro/tiktok-evidence-capture-tools/): How to save TikTok videos, captions and comments for court, and which capture tools list TikTok, with hashing, transcripts and prices compared.
- [Instagram evidence capture tools: posts, Reels and Stories](https://socialevidencetools.pro/instagram-evidence-capture-tools/): Instagram evidence capture tools compared for posts, Reels, Stories and comments, plus how to preserve Instagram Stories as evidence before they expire.
- [Social media evidence tools for family lawyers and self-represented parents](https://socialevidencetools.pro/social-media-evidence-tools-family-lawyers/): Which social media evidence tools suit custody, divorce and protection order matters, for family lawyers and self-represented parents, with costs and limits.
- [Social media evidence tools for investigators: OSINT vs forensic capture](https://socialevidencetools.pro/social-media-evidence-tools-investigators/): OSINT tools, forensic capture and device forensics compared for private investigators, HR investigators and police, with the tools that fit each job.
- [How much does social media evidence capture cost?](https://socialevidencetools.pro/social-media-evidence-capture-pricing/): What social media evidence capture costs in 2026: published prices for Social Media Evidence, Hunchly, Page Vault and Forensic OSINT, plus free methods.

## The 13 tools compared
- [Social Media Evidence](https://socialmediaevidence.com/) (Specialist pick: TikTok & Instagram): Social Media Evidence is a cloud forensic capture service from the US and Australia that archives every post, Story and comment on a public TikTok or Instagram account for lawyers, investigators and self-represented litigants.
- [Page Vault](https://page-vault.com/): Page Vault is a forensic capture tool from the US that saves web pages, social media profiles and video with metadata and SHA-256 hashes, through its own browser software or a staffed On Demand service, for law firms and legal teams.
- [WebPreserver](https://www.pagefreezer.com/webpreserver/): WebPreserver is a browser extension from Canada, made by Pagefreezer, that captures social media pages, whole timelines, video and live streams with hashes, digital signatures and timestamps for investigators and legal teams.
- [Pagefreezer Social Discovery](https://pagefreezer.com/pagefreezer-social-discovery): Pagefreezer Social Discovery is a Windows desktop application from Canada that collects, searches and exports social media, website and webmail content for eDiscovery and digital forensics examiners.
- [Hunchly](https://www.hunch.ly/): Hunchly is an OSINT capture tool from Maltego, a German company, that automatically logs, hashes and timestamps every web page an investigator views and builds the captures into case reports.
- [Forensic OSINT](https://www.forensicosint.com/): Forensic OSINT is a Chrome extension from Canada, made by the company behind Forensic Notes, that captures pages as seen, expands comments, downloads video and produces digitally signed PDF evidence reports for investigators.
- [Paliscope Build](https://www.paliscope.com/product/build/): Paliscope Build is an on-premises investigation platform from Sweden that captures web pages, video and images, logs hashes and timestamps automatically, and produces audit-trailed reports for police and investigative teams.
- [Maltego Evidence](https://www.maltego.com/evidence/): Maltego Evidence is a desktop collection tool from Germany that gathers posts in bulk from social networks and stores them locally for analysis and court reports, for law enforcement and government teams.
- [Hanzo Chronicle](https://www.hanzo.co/chronicle): Hanzo Chronicle is a compliance archiving service from the US and UK that records dynamic websites and social content in WARC format on immutable storage for regulated enterprises.
- [Smarsh](https://www.smarsh.com/social-media-compliance): Smarsh is a compliance archiving platform from the US that automatically captures an organization's own social media activity for supervision and record-keeping in regulated industries.
- [CivicPlus Social Media Archiving](https://www.civicplus.com/social-media-archiving/): CivicPlus Social Media Archiving is a compliance archiving service from the US that captures a public agency's own social media accounts in near real time so records can be searched and produced for public records requests.
- [Magnet Axiom](https://www.magnetforensics.com/products/magnet-axiom/): Magnet Axiom is a mobile and computer forensics suite from Canada that recovers, analyzes and reports on data from phones, computers, cloud and vehicle sources for digital forensic examiners.
- [Cellebrite Inseyets](https://cellebrite.com/en/pa-cloud/): Cellebrite Inseyets is a mobile forensics suite from Israel that extracts and decodes phone data and analyzes cloud warrant returns for public safety, enterprise and defense teams.

## Sources
- [Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 901: Authenticating or Identifying Evidence (Cornell LII)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_901)
- [Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 902: Evidence That Is Self-Authenticating (Cornell LII)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_902)
- [NIST Computer Security Resource Center glossary: hash value](https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/hash_value)
- [The Sedona Conference Primer on Social Media, Second Edition (2019)](https://www.thesedonaconference.org/publication/Primer_on_Social_Media)
- [Crown Prosecution Service: Communications Offences](https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/communications-offences)
- [Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) s 146: Evidence produced by processes, machines and other devices (AustLII)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ea199580/s146.html)

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