Reverse Video Search
Reverse Video Search is a web-based video provenance workspace for tracing the original source of a video clip and finding reposts. It accepts a video upload, a public URL, or keyword search, and supports formats such as MP4, MOV, AVI, GIF, with stated limits of 50MB and 20 minutes per upload. The service is designed for journalists, rights teams, brands, and researchers who need to investigate where a clip came from and how it spread. The tool extracts and compares visual fingerprints from keyframes that can survive compression, crops, and repost edits. It also offers premium deep-search options such as transcript matching, audio matching against accessible candidate videos, OCR and watermark detection from keyframes, timeline comparison, and an evidence report with an editable DMCA draft. These signals are combined to produce ranked candidate matches with source links, dates, captions, and confidence details. Reverse Video Search positions its results as leads for human verification rather than a black-box verdict. Users can compare source pages, dates, captions, edits, and accounts, then save an evidence report before acting. The site states that one search is available without an account, sign-up includes five bonus credits, and each search costs five credits, with more credits available for purchase. Monitoring is listed as not yet available. Target scenarios include finding the earliest known upload, checking whether viral footage is presented out of context, documenting unauthorized reposts, and monitoring brand or campaign assets. The homepage notes that the tool cannot see every private account, deleted post, regional restriction, or unindexed page, so origin and ownership should be confirmed independently.
- Category
- AI Video Search
- Pricing
- Unknown
Problem solved
Video clips are frequently renamed, cropped, mirrored, translated, compressed, or reposted without credit, and ordinary keyword search often sees only the new title, caption, or description. Reverse Video Search addresses this by searching underlying media signals such as keyframes, audio, transcripts, watermarks, and upload timelines to help users find earlier sources and understand how a video moved across platforms.
Use cases
- Find the earliest known upload of a viral video clip
- Identify unauthorized reposts of creator tutorials, films, livestreams, or social clips
- Check whether viral footage is presented out of context or with a misleading date, location, or caption
- Monitor brand campaign assets, logos, and influencer deliverables for modified ads or fake endorsements
- Build a provenance record with source URLs, dates, thumbnails, edits, and notes for research or legal review
- Prepare an evidence report and editable DMCA draft before contacting a rights team
- Compare keyframes, audio, transcripts, OCR text, and watermarks across candidate source pages
Audience
- Content Creators
- Researchers
- Business Users
- Enterprise
Pros
- Uses multiple media signals, including visual fingerprints, audio fingerprints, transcripts, OCR, and watermarks, rather than relying on keywords alone
- Provides an evidence-chain workflow with timeline comparison, source links, notes, and a print-ready evidence report with an editable DMCA draft
- Supports video upload, public URL search, and keyword search in one interface
- Designed for human verification and transparent review rather than a black-box verdict
- Offers a free trial search and credit-based access, with premium deep-search options available
Cons
- Pricing is not fully documented in the available homepage metadata, and users must buy credits after the initial free search
- Monitoring is listed as not available yet
- Cannot see every private account, deleted post, regional restriction, or unindexed page
- Upload and deep-search limits apply, including 50MB, 20 minutes, and 120-second transcript matching
- Exact indexing coverage, model details, retention policies, and technical specifications are not fully described in the provided source
Official website: https://reversevideosearch.co/
Canonical LambdaBase page: https://www.lambdabase.com/tools/reverse-video-search