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 prices by usage from $19/month.
| Feature | FrameQuery | Reduct |
|---|---|---|
| Search type | Multimodal (visual + transcript + face + object) | Transcript-based (NLP / fuzzy matching) |
| Deployment | Hybrid 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 $19/mo (usage-based) | $12 to $50/editor/month |
| Data privacy | Frames & audio extracted locally, discarded after analysis; index is local | Uploaded to Reduct cloud |
Reduct.video is built for transcript-driven workflows. Its document-style transcript editor lets teams highlight, tag, and clip recordings the way they would edit a text document.
FrameQuery 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 hybrid desktop app that searches visual content, faces, objects, and transcripts together. Frames and audio are extracted on your device and sent for analysis, then discarded once analysis completes; search and recognition run locally. If you need to search what appears on screen, 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 $19/month with usage-based pricing. Reduct starts at around $12/editor/month for the Personal plan and scales to $50/editor/month for the Professional plan. For small teams on per-editor plans, FrameQuery's usage-based pricing usually costs less.