Looking for a Reduct.video alternative?
Reduct is a genuinely good "Ctrl+F for video" — upload your recordings, get transcripts, and search, highlight and cut them with your team in the browser. But it's a cloud workspace billed per editor, with a pooled transcription allowance, and it searches what people said. If you need to search a library you already own — on your own disk, including the parts nobody narrated — here's the comparison.
| MediaFind | Reduct.video | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24.99/mo (or $107.88/yr) for the app | $12/editor/mo Personal · $40 Professional · Enterprise from $75/editor/mo |
| Transcription volume | Unbounded — runs on your hardware | Pooled hours/year per editor; per-minute overages |
| Built for | Searching an archive you own | Collaborative transcript search & rough-cutting |
| Runs on-device | Yes — nothing uploaded | No — browser app, media uploaded |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Platforms | macOS · Windows · Linux (CPU-only OK) | Any browser |
| Search by dialogue | Yes | Yes — fuzzy search across the workspace |
| Search across everything | Your whole disk of media | Uploaded projects (cross-project search on Professional+) |
| Faces / people | Yes | — |
| On-screen text (OCR) | Yes | — |
| Logos / brands | Yes | — |
| Actions / scenes | Yes | — |
| Songs / audio events | Yes | — |
| Real-time team collaboration | Single-user desktop app | Yes — shared highlights, comments, @-mentions |
| PII redaction | — | Yes (Professional and Enterprise) |
| Human transcription option | — | Yes — paid add-on, ~24h turnaround |
| Export to editor | FCPXML · EDL · Resolve handoff | FCPXML + SRT; native Premiere extension |
| Compliance paperwork | Nothing leaves the machine | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR/CCPA agreements, SSO (Enterprise) |
| Provable privacy | Yes — built-in audit | Cloud-processed |
Reduct details (pricing tiers, pooled transcription hours, browser delivery, redaction, human transcription, NLE exports, SOC 2/SSO) from its public pricing, product and help-centre pages as of September 2026; vendors change terms — check Reduct's site before buying. Reduct prices are per editor and shown at monthly rates; annual billing is discounted. "—" means not advertised as a feature, not that it's impossible.
Which one is for you
Pick Reduct if the work is a team working through interviews together — researchers tagging clips, a public-defence team combing bodycam and deposition audio, producers pulling selects from the same project. Shared highlighting, comments, redaction, human transcription and enterprise compliance are things a local app on your laptop simply doesn't provide.
Pick MediaFind if you have a library rather than a project — years of interviews, b-roll, screen recordings, past edits sitting on a drive — and you want one on-device place to find the exact moment, without uploading terabytes or metering transcription hours. Then send the result to Final Cut, Premiere or Resolve.
Not everything you need to find was spoken
Reduct's search is excellent at what it does, and its fuzzy matching finds a phrase even when the wording drifts — but it is search over transcribed speech. A lot of what you go looking for was never said out loud: the shot where a particular person appears, the frame where a URL or error message is on screen, the clip with a brand visible behind the subject, the scene where a song is playing. MediaFind indexes those as separate searchable channels alongside dialogue and speakers, so "find every clip where this face appears and this logo is on screen" is a single query.
No seats, no upload, no hour meter
Reduct's model is per editor per month with a pooled annual transcription allowance and per-minute overages past it — sensible for a team with a budget and a known volume, expensive and awkward for one person with a decade of footage. MediaFind is one subscription ($24.99/mo or $107.88/yr), runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, and does its transcription, indexing and search on your own machine. There is no upload step, so a 4TB archive costs nothing to search beyond the time it takes to index — and no account, with a built-in privacy audit so the on-device claim is something you can check rather than take on faith.
Search your whole library on-device.
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