Reverse Video Search
Find the original source of a video via keyframes, audio, spoken content, watermarks, and upload history; search by video file, URL, or keyword.
About Reverse Video Search
Reverse Video Search is a reverse video search tool. When a video is renamed, cropped, mirrored, translated, compressed, or republished without attribution, ordinary search often only surfaces the new title and description. This tool analyzes the video's actual media content, connecting keyframes, audio, spoken content, watermarks, and upload history to uncover matches that keyword search misses. It offers three search methods—by video file, URL, and keyword—and can send email notifications when results are ready. It is priced via subscription plans, billed monthly or yearly, plus a one-time credit option; different plans include different monthly allowances of credits and searches, and unused credits do not expire.
Best for
Best use cases
Finding the earliest known upload of a video clip
Checking whether a popular video has been taken out of context or shared apart from its original setting
Understanding how original footage travels across platforms
Copyright and content verification teams investigating the source of a video
Features
Three search methods
Upload a video file (MP4, MOV, AVI, WEBM, and GIF supported), or search by URL or keyword.
Matching based on media content
Analyzes keyframes, audio, spoken content, watermarks, and upload history to find matches that keyword search misses.
Deep search options
Optionally enable transcription matching (transcribing up to 120 seconds of audio cues with Whisper), audio fingerprinting (comparing audio against up to 3 accessible candidate videos), and OCR/watermark detection (reading text and visible account names from up to 8 keyframes).
Email notifications
Receive an email when the search completes, no match is found, or it cannot be completed; open the results from your inbox.
Pros
- Matches by media content rather than title descriptions, so it can find related sources of videos that have been renamed, cropped, mirrored, or reposted
- Supports three search methods: uploading a file, URL, and keyword
- Unused credits do not expire
- Optional deep search options including transcription matching, audio fingerprinting, and OCR/watermark detection
- Email notifications both when the search completes and when it fails
Cons
- File uploads support MP4, MOV, AVI, WEBM, and GIF formats, with a maximum size of 50MB and a maximum length of 20 minutes per file
- Automatic monitoring is not yet available, so automated checks cannot be performed
- Audio fingerprinting in the deep search options can only be compared against up to 3 accessible candidate videos
Pricing Plans
Starter
- 20 credits per month
- 4 searches included
- Unused credits do not expire
- Email support
Pro
- 90 credits per month
- 18 searches included
- Unused credits do not expire
- Email support
Enterprise
- 500 credits per month
- 100 searches included
- Unused credits do not expire
- Email support
* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Reverse Video Search's official website.