Question 1

Is BSmeter a FotoForensics alternative?

Accepted Answer

Not really, and we'd rather say so plainly. If you have a still image and want to know whether it was edited, FotoForensics is the right tool and BSmeter is no substitute — we don't do ELA, JPEG quality estimation or metadata analysis at all. BSmeter is only an 'alternative' in the sense that it covers the case FotoForensics explicitly doesn't: video and audio, where the question is whether the claims are true.

Question 2

Can FotoForensics analyse a video or a YouTube link?

Accepted Answer

No. FotoForensics accepts still images (JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF) and its documentation states it has no algorithms for evaluating animated sequences. If you screenshot a video frame you can analyse that frame — but heavy platform re-compression tends to muddy ELA results on social-media screenshots, and it still tells you nothing about what was said.

Question 3

If a video's footage is real, does BSmeter still find anything?

Accepted Answer

Often, yes — and this is the gap between the two tools. Authentic, untouched footage of someone confidently stating something false is the most common form of misinformation, and no pixel forensics tool will flag it because nothing was tampered with. BSmeter checks the claims themselves against live sources, and separately flags logical fallacies and deepfake/AI-generated media signals in the video.