10 Best Reverse Image Search Tools (Tested)

Google’s reverse image search now runs through Google Lens. Click the camera icon on Google Images, right-click any image in Chrome and choose Search with Google Lens, or point the Google app at something in front of you. Results are split into tabs: All, Exact matches, Visual matches, and AI Mode for follow-up questions about the picture.

Lens is more than a source finder. It identifies products with shopping links, plants, animals, and landmarks, and it can copy or translate text inside a photo. You can also drag the selection box to search just one part of an image.

In my test, it was the clear winner. Both edited versions led back to the Wikimedia Commons original, and the crop turned up hundreds of pages using the photo.

Lenso.ai is an AI-powered reverse image search engine that sorts results into categories: Duplicates, Related, Similar, Places, and People. That grouping makes it quick to see whether you’re looking at copies of your image or simply pictures that look alike, and filters let you narrow things down further.

You can set alerts to be notified when new matches appear, and Research Mode digs deeper for more results. Face search is available in many countries but not everywhere. When I searched from the UK, Lenso showed a notice that people and facial search isn’t available in my region.

In my test, Lenso grouped copies of both edited photos under Duplicates, but every result was watermarked and its source link said “Unlock Sources”, so you’ll need the paid plan to see where the images actually live.

Geekflare’s free tool saves you from uploading the same picture to every search engine. Drop in a PNG, JPG, WebP, or GIF up to 10 MB, and it gives you one-click links to run that image in Google Lens, Bing, Yandex, and Lenso.ai.

As my test showed, each engine finds different things. Google might find the original while Yandex finds more resized copies and Lenso groups the duplicates. Running all four from one place takes seconds, and there’s no account to create.

TinEye is one of the oldest dedicated reverse image search engine, with an index of more than 86 billion images. It focuses on finding copies of the same picture, including resized and lightly edited ones, rather than images that merely look similar.

Its best feature for research is sorting. You can sort matches by oldest, newest, or most changed, and TinEye shows when it first indexed an image, which helps you work out where a photo started. Browser extensions let you search any image with a right-click, and businesses can use the TinEye API.

In my test, TinEye found 2,492 copies of the crop, dated the photo to February 2008, and listed a Wikipedia copy near the top. The mirrored version cut that to 140 copies on wallpaper sites, with no original on the first page. Its top two results for the crop were also sponsored stock listings.

Bing Visual Search works much like Google Lens. Upload an image, paste a link, or take a photo, and Bing shows an overview, visual matches, pages with the image, and any text it can read. It’s handy for shopping, identifying landmarks and animals, and copying text from pictures.

In my test, Bing was the weakest at finding sources. For both the crop and the edited photo, its Pages with this image tab said it was unable to find any pages, even though Google found hundreds. It did show one copy in its visual matches, so it recognized the photo but couldn’t trace it.

Yandex’s reverse image search is long known for strong matching, especially for faces and images from Russian and Eastern European websites. Its Smart Camera view lets you drag a frame around part of the image, and results show the picture in other sizes, similar images, and the sites where it appears. It can also recognize text in an image.

In my test, Yandex found the crop in 17 other sizes and the edited photo in 10, including the original 1024 × 768 version. But neither search surfaced the Wikimedia original, and the site list was mostly YouTube channel art and social posts. It also labeled the edited lion as “Лев Африканский”, Leo Africanus, a 16th-century geographer, apparently because “African lion” and his name are the same words in Russian.

Copyseeker finds where an image appears and ranks the pages by website authority, which pushes original sources and big publishers above random reposts. The same upload can also check whether an image is AI-generated, flag explicit content, and pull out any text in it.

No account is needed, and each tool also has a REST API for developers who want to build image checks into their own apps.

In my test, Copyseeker found 69 matches for the crop and put a Wikipedia page linking to the Wikimedia original in the top three. The mirrored photo returned 17 reposts on Pinterest, Reddit, and news sites, but not the original.

Pixsy is built for photographers and artists rather than one-off searches. You import your portfolio from your computer or services such as Flickr, Instagram, and Google Drive, and Pixsy keeps scanning the web for uses of your images, grouping matches by country, site, and tag, and alerting you to new ones.

When you find an unauthorized use, you can send a takedown notice or submit a case. Pixsy’s team and partner law firms then chase compensation on your behalf, and it can also help you register your work with the US Copyright Office.

Berify combines its own index of more than 800 million images with results from Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu, then filters and groups them so you see exact and modified copies in one list. It says it can detect cropped, filtered, and color-adjusted versions that single engines miss.

Once you import your photos or videos, Berify keeps checking for them and emails you when new matches appear. It also offers video search and a developer API.

Most of the tools above match whole images. PimEyes matches faces, so it can find other photos of the same person even when the picture is completely different. It’s mainly meant for checking your own online footprint: you can set alerts for new appearances, opt out of results, and get help with takedown requests.

Because face search can be misused, use it on yourself or with permission. For more options, see our guide to the best face recognition search engines.