Reverse Image Search Anywhere by Anton Kopylov

Found a picture and wondering where it came from? Right-click it in Firefox, and Reverse Image Search Anywhere runs a reverse image search on four services at once, each opening in its own tab.

How it works

• Right-click a picture and pick one service, or All engines to compare every result side by side.
• In the toolbar popup, turn off the services you never use and decide whether the All engines tabs open in the background.
• Copied something to the clipboard? Open the popup and press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac) for an instant reverse photo lookup.
• Want only a slice of the screen? Capture region lets you outline a graph, a still from a video or a fragment of a post and run a picture lookup on just that.

Four engines, four kinds of results

Every reverse image search engine keeps its own index and notices different things, so together they turn up more than any single image finder:

• Google Lens: look-alike pictures, products, landmarks and any text in the shot.
• Yandex reverse image search: where faces and people get the deepest results.
• Bing Visual: wide coverage, and it reads text in photos well.
• TinEye reverse image search: identical copies and the first site that posted it.

Photos that ordinary tools can't open

Some social networks lay a transparent sheet over every photo, and others never give the picture a public address. A right-click there lands on the sheet, and typical reverse image search tools return nothing. The add-on looks beneath that layer and forwards the actual image, so Instagram and Pinterest are as easy for a photo search as any other site. When a site refuses outside links to its files, All engines (upload) hands the file over directly.

Face search

To search by face, pick Search this face and drag a frame around the person: the tighter the crop, the closer the match. Services that do best with people open first, and the one that only matches identical files sits this out. Use it to check who is really behind a profile, not to stalk or harass anyone; a brief reminder about responsible use shows up the first time.

What people check with it

1. Dating: reverse image search catfish checks show whether a new match's photos were lifted from someone else.
2. A viral shot: find image source pages and learn when it first surfaced before you share it.
3. Your own work: spot where your pictures or drawings are reused without credit.
4. Something you'd like to buy: find other shops that carry it.
5. A meme, a graph or a faded family snapshot: uncover the story behind it.

Your pictures and your data

• On most pages the add-on hands only the picture's web address to the service you picked, and our servers never see it.
• Pasted pictures, captures, the upload option, face crops and photos from sites that hide them go through private storage instead, and only once you click. Links stop working after 15 minutes; files are removed roughly a day after they arrive.
• Nothing you upload is sold, shared or used to train models.
• You need no account, and no profile is built. Firefox asks during installation whether to share anonymous usage counts, and you can change your answer in the Add-ons Manager whenever you like.
• The source code is open under the MIT license, and the full privacy policy covers the rest.

Questions

Which engine finds the most?

It varies with the picture: one service is the best way to find similar images and products, another shines on faces, a third on identical copies. All engines puts them next to each other.

Is Google reverse image search included?

Yes: alongside three other services, the menu sends your picture to Google Lens.

Can I search by image with a screenshot?

Sure. Paste the screenshot into the popup, or outline any part of the tab with Capture region, for a reverse image lookup on exactly that.

Is there a reverse image search for people?

Yes, as far as the services have indexed them. Search this face sends a crop to the ones that handle faces best.

Which Firefox do I need?

Firefox 140 or newer on Windows, macOS or Linux. The right-click menu is a desktop feature.

Which languages does the menu speak?

German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese, besides English.

Reverse Image Search Anywhere is an independent add-on and is not affiliated with TinEye, Yandex, Microsoft or Google.

Add this reverse image search tool to Firefox, and the next puzzling picture is one right-click away.