timesketch vs mac_apt

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timesketch		mac_apt
	Project
2	Mentions	2
2,485	Stars	714
1.2%	Growth	-
8.7	Activity	7.6
3 days ago	Latest Commit	19 days ago
Python	Language	Python
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

timesketch

Posts with mentions or reviews of timesketch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.

Custom DFIR
5 projects | /r/computerforensics | 9 Feb 2023

Want to put those processed plaso files in an elasticsearch instance check out Timesketch - https://github.com/google/timesketch.
Any Timeline self hosted types of software?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 26 Oct 2021

mac_apt

Posts with mentions or reviews of mac_apt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-19.

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2024
Mac OS
1 project | /r/computerforensics | 3 Apr 2021

If you are capable of running cli applications macApt is pretty sophisticated and feature rich analysis tool for MacOS. If it doesn’t have the exact feature you need you could extend it to identify activities of this ‘foreign’ software. Full disclosure I contributed to this project by developing the Docker container, and published the work, unpaid.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing timesketch and mac_apt you can also consider the following projects:

plaso - Super timeline all the things

usbrip - Tracking history of USB events on GNU/Linux

WELA - WELA (Windows Event Log Analyzer): The Swiss Army knife for Windows Event Logs! ゑ羅（ウェラ）

RecuperaBit - A tool for forensic file system reconstruction.

TimelineJS - TimelineJS: A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript.

docker-explorer - A tool to help forensicate offline docker acquisitions

hindsight - Web browser forensics for Google Chrome/Chromium

beagle - Beagle is an incident response and digital forensics tool which transforms security logs and data into graphs.

MalConfScan - Volatility plugin for extracts configuration data of known malware

turbinia - Automation and Scaling of Digital Forensics Tools

velociraptor - Digging Deeper....

varc - Volatile Artifact Collector collects a snapshot of volatile data from a system. It tells you what is happening on a system, and is of particular use when investigating a security incident.