Reverse video search.Pay per search,not per month.
Find where any video came from. No subscription. No credit packs that expire. Just $0.90 when you actually search.
- You pay for what you use. Unit price shown before you search.
- Real coverage. Every keyframe searched, not one screenshot.
- Private by design. Your video is processed, then deleted.
unlock all 7 sources, dates and full URLs for $0.90 — no account needed
Why we don't do subscriptions.
Every other tool charges you $24.95 a month hoping you forget to cancel. You probably need two searches. We charge you for those two searches.
Balance never expires. No renewal emails. No account required for your first search.
- Retrace
- $1.80
- Competitor (1 month)
- $24.95
- Competitor (1 year,
never cancelled) - $299.40
One search is usually all you need.
Verify a viral clip
Check whether that "breaking" video is old footage recycled.
Spot a catfish
Find out if that dating profile video belongs to someone else.
Find the full version
Track the cropped 12-second repost back to the complete upload.
Protect your content
See who reposted your video and where, with dates.
Your video is deleted one hour after the analysis.
We don't store it, we don't share it, and you don't need an account to search. What you upload is often sensitive — we treat it that way.
What reverse video search actually does.
A reverse video search answers one question: has this footage been online before, and where first? You give it the clip instead of a description, and it returns the copies that already exist — the original upload, the reposts that trimmed or re-cropped it, and the longer version the clip was cut from.
The mechanism is frame matching. A video is a sequence of still images, so we sample the distinctive frames across the whole runtime and search each one visually rather than by filename, hash or caption. That is why a match survives a re-encode, a watermark, a crop to vertical or a change of title: the pixels that matter are still there.
What you do with the answer depends on why you asked. A journalist wants the earliest upload date to know whether a "breaking" clip is recycled. A creator wants the list of accounts that reposted their work. Someone being courted by a profile that will not video call wants to know whether the clips they were sent belong to a stranger with 400k followers. Same search, three different reasons — and in all three, one search is usually the whole job. That is the entire argument against paying monthly for it.
per search. That's the whole pricing page.
Top up your wallet with $1.90 minimum. Each search deducts its unit price. Your balance never expires. Ever.
- Scan — main keyframes
- $0.90
- Trace — per frame
min $1.50 · max $9.90 - $0.03 / frame
- First search
- free preview
- No results found
- 50% refunded
Questions people actually ask
What if the search finds nothing?
Half the price goes back to your wallet, automatically. A dead end still costs us compute, but it shouldn't cost you full price.
Do I need an account?
Not for the free preview. Only when you top up your wallet, so we can hold your balance.
Which platforms does it cover?
TikTok, YouTube (including Shorts), Instagram Reels, X, Telegram channels and the open web.
How long does a search take?
Scan usually under 30 seconds. Trace, one to three minutes depending on length — and it bills $0.03 / frame, never less than $1.50 or more than $9.90.
What is reverse video search?
It is the video equivalent of a reverse image search: instead of describing a clip in words you hand over the clip itself, and you get back every place that same footage already exists online, with the date each copy was published.
Can you reverse search a video on Google?
Not directly. Google Lens takes images, so the usual workaround is to screenshot one frame and search that single still in one index. Retrace searches the keyframes of the whole clip across the platforms and the open web instead.
Does it work on a video I only have as a file?
Yes, and that is the more reliable path. A link tells us where you found the clip; the file itself carries the frames we match on. Screen recordings work too.