Instead of BORIS
BORIS alternatives
BORIS is free, open-source software for coding video and audio and recording live observations. It handles playback from 0.1× to 100×, frame-by-frame navigation, and synchronized playback of up to eight media files. You can define unlimited behaviors, subjects, modifiers, and independent variables, then analyze results with Cohen’s Kappa, transition matrices, flow diagrams, time budgets, and graphical views. Desktop and self-hosted options cover Linux, macOS, and Windows, while an Android app supports live observations. Exports include common spreadsheets, dataframes, SQL, and specialist behavioral formats.
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LongoMatch
Free plan AndroidiPhoneMac+2Sports teams planning training and analyzing matches — LongoMatch adds sports match coding, team management, training plans, and cloud sharing, while BORIS centers on observations.
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Onform
Free plan AndroidiPhoneWeb+1Coaches giving video feedback across many sports — Onform adds sports coaching capture, voice-overs, comparisons, cloud backup, and high-frame-rate recording beyond BORIS’s coding workflow.
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Frame.io
Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+4Creative teams managing media feedback and workflows — Frame.io focuses on creative asset collaboration, camera uploads, integrations, APIs, and security controls rather than BORIS’s event analysis.
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FrameQuery
Free plan APIMacWeb+1Editors searching large footage libraries locally — FrameQuery indexes dialogue, objects, faces, voices, and transcripts for offline search, unlike BORIS’s manually coded observations.
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Label Studio
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3Machine-learning teams labeling varied data types — Label Studio supports configurable labeling for text, images, audio, video, time series, and multimodal data with ML integrations.
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Datavyu
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+1Behavioral researchers coding synchronized data streams — Datavyu links video and audio with physiology, motion, and eye tracking in a coding spreadsheet, plus Ruby scripting.
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dfine.io Review
Free plan MacWebMedia teams needing browser review and livestreaming — dfine.io Review combines frame-accurate approvals, conferencing, livestreaming, version audits, and editing plugins beyond BORIS’s observation tools.
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CVAT
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 9
Roboflow
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+4 - 10
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Supervisely
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 13
Kinovea
Free plan Windows - 14
ATHLYZER
Free trial AndroidiPhoneMac+2 - 15
Sports Motion Pro
Free plan Web - 16
V7 Darwin
Free plan APIWeb - 17
Workflaws
Free plan APIWeb - 18
Dartfish
Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+1 - 19
Kollaborate
Free trial APIExtensioniPhone+5 - 20
ATLAS.ti
Free trial MacWebWindows - 21
Frankie
Free trial AndroidiPhoneWeb - 22
MAXQDA
Free trial ExtensionMacWeb+1 - 23
Nacsport
Free trial AndroidiPhoneMac+2 - 24
Dataloop
Paid APILinuxMac+2
An alternative may fit better if BORIS’s observation-focused workflow is not what you need. Its Android release is beta for testing only, there is no free trial, and backward compatibility of project files is not guaranteed. Consider whether you need sports coaching, team planning, cloud collaboration, searchable footage, machine-learning labeling, or multi-stream behavioral research. Also compare local versus cloud processing, sharing and review controls, supported media, integrations, and the cost of moving from BORIS’s free plan.