TinEye is a reverse image search engine.
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.
TinEye
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.
TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and we also accept contributions of complete online image collections. To date, TinEye has indexed 1,662,978,150 images from the web to help you find what you're looking for. For more information, please see our FAQ, and for some real TinEye search examples, check out our Cool Searches page.
Company Profile
TinEye is brought to you by the good folks at Idée Inc., an advanced image recognition and visual search software company. Besides TinEye - the world's first reverse image search engine - Idée develops several other image recognition based products and services used by the world's leading imaging firms:
- PixID - editorial image monitoring for the news and entertainment photo industry. Clients include Associated Press, Agence France Press, Splash News
- Piximilar - visual similarity search for large image collections. Clients include Adobe Systems and Masterfile.
- PixMatch - automated image matching and deduplication service. Clients include eBay, Getty Images, Digg, iStockphoto, M6, SmileTrain, Photoshelter.
- TinEye API - commercial TinEye searching using image identification. Clients include eBay, iStockphoto, Spreadshirt, ClusterShot
Idée is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
TinEye Contributors
Our goal with TinEye is to connect images and information and to make sure that images can be attributed to their creator. If you are managing a large image collection, get in touch to have your image collection added to TinEye. This makes it easier for the original image authors to be found, and for image seekers to get the information they're looking for. Contributors can submit a range of content from stock and editorial photographs to product images to illustrations and more. Learn more about our submission process.