Top 3 JusticeText Alternatives in 2025
January 2025
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4 min read
JusticeText helps attorneys transcribe and review the overwhelming sea of video evidence from body-cam footage, jail calls and interrogation videos to easily extract video clips in trial preparation. This capability is particularly useful for public defenders who often juggle overwhelming caseloads and limited resources.
While their mission to save up to 50% of review time for our overworked public defenders is admirable, they lack some of the most important features for trial prep.
If you’re looking for a JusticeText alternative, here’s 3 legal transcription tools for public defenders. Some are more cost-effective and others offer more advanced features like video redaction or live Zoom meeting transcription that JusticeText lacks, so you can choose the one that fits your specific needs.
P.S. All tools on the list offer some free trial, so you can test them out before committing to a subscription.
1. Reduct.Video
Reduct offers everything JusticeText does and more. Like JusticeText, you can transcribe, review, search, highlight and summarize any volume of audio and video footage you get as part of discovery. Reduct is SOC 2 Type II-certified and HIPAA-compliant, so all your evidence stays secure in the platform.
Reduct offers some more advanced features that go beyond JusticeText:
1. Industry-leading accuracy:
Reduct boasts an impressive accuracy rate of over 94% for its machine-generated transcripts. If you find any mistakes, you can easily correct them yourself or you can send a transcript for professional human review and receive a corrected transcript the next day.
2. Multi-cam synchronization and timeline view:
Unlike JusticeText, Reduct offers transcript-based video synchronization, where you can review footage from different angles simultaneously, providing a more complete perspective on incidents. The synchronized playback function aligns all video sources, ensuring you can see every angle of an event.
3. Video clipping:
Both Reduct and JusticeText makes it easier to clip out evidence from large volume of discovery. However, Reduct has a more advanced and intuitive video clipping capability that is as easy as working with text in a Google doc. You can combine multiple clips, add text annotations, and create compelling video evidence to present in court.
4. Video redaction:
In addition to JusticeText’s audio redaction feature, Reduct uses a secure and irreversible method for video redaction, a must-have for public defenders that need to mask faces or sensitive information like credit cards, emails and number plates to make their video exhibits court-admissible.
💵 Pricing:
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Seat-based: $75 per month per editor paid anually
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Case-based: $500 per case (includes 50 hours transcription)
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Utilization based: $0.25 per min of AI transcription
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Option to upgrade to professional human transcription @ $1.25 per min
You don't get charged for long periods of silence detected in your footage, so if there’s footage of a police officer just driving around in the discovery you uploaded, you won’t be billed for that.
2. Rev
Rev provides many standard features for trial preparation but their primary strength lies in legal transcription, supported by a global network of over 72,000 human transcriptionists. You can expedite your orders for delivery up to five times faster and can request additional services like timestamps and verbatim transcripts for an extra fee.
Rev makes all footage accessible by providing closed and open captioning services that comply with ADA regulations, particularly important for legal proceedings that require accessibility for all participants.
They also have a decent mobile app that lets you record and transcribe interrogations directly from your mobile device.
Rev is an excellent alternative to JusticeText, especially if you need quick access to transcripts of footage but do not require advanced features like redaction in your workflow. Its efficient transcription services ensure timely delivery, allowing you to focus on your case preparation without unnecessary delays.
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AI transcription: $0.25 /minute
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Human transcription: $1.99 /minute
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Enterprise plan: Customizable
3. Axon Evidence
While JusticeText is mostly designed with public defenders in mind, Axon Evidence might be the right tool for you if you work on the prosecution side. It is a digital evidence management system that provides a secure, centralized, cloud-based solution for storing, managing, investigating, and sharing digital footage.
A standout feature of Axon Evidence is its auto-upload capability; when you use an Axon device like the Axon Body 4 to capture footage, it uploads the content directly to the portal. You can still manually upload footage if you use other third-party sources.
Axon’s Redaction Assistant is another nice-to-have, time-saving feature that automatically detects common objects in body-worn footage like screens, faces and license plates. After they are detected, you can decide which ones to move forward with redacting.
If you can afford to invest in Axon’s suite of products and solutions, Axon Evidence is a great place to manage your digital footage.
💵 Pricing
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Find your best fit
While JusticeText offers valuable features for handling video evidence, alternatives like Reduct, Rev, and Axon Evidence provide enhanced functionalities that cater specifically to the needs of public defenders, attorneys, and prosecutors.
Reduct stands out with its industry-leading accuracy, making it ideal for trial preparation. Rev excels in rapid transcription services backed by a vast network of human transcribers. Meanwhile, Axon Evidence’s all-encompassing ecosystem helps you streamline your process from capture to courtroom.
If you feel like Reduct can help you with legal transcription and video management processes, contact our sales team for a free demo.
