Find the person behind the photo, safely.
Practical guides to face search, profile checks, photo privacy and image sources. Written to help you reach a conclusion you can defend.
Check a person or profile
Verify a dating match, seller or new contact before you trust them.
How to find someone by photo, safely and accurately
How to find someone by photo when you have a good reason: check a dating match, reconnect with a friend or verify a seller. Steps, tools, limits and red lines.
Read guide Online safetyHow to assess a suspicious dating profile
A practical dating-profile checklist that separates image clues, inconsistent claims and requests that put you at risk.
Read guide Online safetyCatfish warning signs: what deserves attention
Recognise concerning requests and contradictory stories without treating a photograph as a scam verdict.
Read guideFace search engines and results
How face search works, how tools compare and how to read a match.
Google Lens face search: what image results can tell you
Can Google search by face? What Google Lens returns for a portrait, why it is not a people finder, and when a dedicated face search engine answers better.
Read guide AlternativesPimEyes alternatives: face and image search tools compared by use
Looking for a PimEyes alternative? Compare FaceCheck.ID, Lenso, Google Lens, Bing, TinEye and Facehunch by what they search, how they charge and their limits.
Read guide Understanding resultsFace search accuracy: how to read a similarity score
Learn why similarity scores are not identity probabilities, and how to handle lookalikes, mismatches and empty results.
Read guideProtect your photos
Find where your face appears, request removals and lock down your image.
How to write a focused photo-removal request
A short photo removal request template you can adapt: the page URL, the image, the reason and the outcome you want, plus a checklist to run before you send it.
Read guide PrivacyAudit your own digital footprint with a source log
Review your own public profiles, image reuse and exposed contact details, then prioritise changes you can verify.
Read guide PrivacyHow to remove your image from a website or search result
Removing an image at its source and removing a search listing are separate requests. Start by recording the exact URLs.
Read guideTrace an image to its source
Find the original, check captions and verify where a photo came from.
How to assess a potentially AI-generated image
Check provenance, publication context and corroborating evidence. Visual oddities or an AI-detector score alone cannot settle authenticity.
Read guide Source verificationHow to find a higher-resolution source of a photo
Search for a legitimate source that offers a larger version. Increasing the pixel dimensions of a small file does not recover the detail in an original photograph.
Read guide Source verificationHow to check whether a photo caption matches the image
A real photograph can be paired with an inaccurate caption. Facehunch both the picture and the claim before deciding that a visual match verifies the story.
Read guideFix a search that isn’t working
Screenshots, crops, odd formats and searches that return nothing.
Reverse image search not working? Diagnose the cause
Upload rejected, search stuck, no results or unrelated matches? Work out which of four common failures you have and how to fix each, with a quick checklist.
Read guide Image preparationHow to reverse image search a screenshot
Search a clean crop of the photograph, then compare it with the full screenshot.
Read guide Image preparationHow to search a cropped photo without losing the useful clues
A cropped image can still lead to a source, but excessive cropping removes context.
Read guideFind where a face appears online.
Upload a photo, get every matching page with its link and a similarity score. $9 per search, no subscription.