Choose Reduct if your workflow is built around transcript editing, highlight reels, and real-time team collaboration on spoken content. It supports 90+ transcription languages and is purpose-built for UX research teams.
Choose FrameQuery if you need to search beyond words — finding specific scenes, faces, or objects in your footage. It runs locally, works offline, supports 50+ pro formats, and starts at a lower price point.
| Feature | FrameQuery | Reduct |
|---|---|---|
| Search type | Multimodal (visual + transcript + face + object) | Transcript-based (NLP / fuzzy matching) |
| Deployment | Local-first desktop app | Cloud-only web app |
| Offline capable | ||
| Transcription languages | 50+ | 90+ |
| Visual / scene search | ||
| Face recognition | ||
| Object detection | ||
| Real-time collaboration | ||
| Highlight reels | ||
| Format support | 50+ formats incl. RAW | Common web formats |
| Pricing | From $9/mo (usage-based) | $15–50/editor/month |
| Data privacy | Proxies deleted after processing; index is local | Uploaded to Reduct cloud |
Reduct.video is an excellent tool built specifically for transcript-driven workflows. Its document-style transcript editor lets teams highlight, tag, and clip recordings as naturally as editing a text document.
FrameQuery takes a fundamentally different approach: instead of limiting search to transcripts, it indexes the visual content of every frame alongside audio and metadata.
Reduct focuses on cloud-based transcript search with collaboration features, while FrameQuery is a local-first desktop app that searches visual content, faces, objects, and transcripts together. If you need to search what you see on screen—not just what was said—FrameQuery is the better fit.
For pure UX research workflows, Reduct has purpose-built features like highlight reels, real-time transcript collaboration, and team annotation tools. FrameQuery is a stronger choice when you also need to search for on-screen actions, UI states, or facial expressions in your research recordings.
FrameQuery includes full transcript search, but it does not offer Reduct’s collaborative editing or highlight-reel features. If transcript search is your only need and you work in a team, Reduct may be the better tool. If you also need visual search or prefer keeping files local, FrameQuery is worth evaluating.
FrameQuery starts at $9/month with usage-based pricing. Reduct starts at $15/editor/month and scales to $50/editor/month for advanced features. For solo users and small teams, FrameQuery is typically more cost-effective.