Check your own footprint
See where photos of you have ended up: scraped profiles, stock sites, pages you never posted to.
Sherlock AI Face Search
Find where a face appears online.
Upload or snap a photo and Sherlock checks it against its index, then links you to every source — ranked by how close each match is.
Upload a photo of a face
Analysed in your browser and never uploaded. One clear, front-facing face works best.
- Analysed in your browser
- Photo never uploaded
- Delete your data anytime
512
faceprint dimensions
4
pipeline stages
≈2s
per search
0
photos uploaded
A face can spread anywhere online — Sherlock helps you find where it turns up.
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What you get back
Evidence, not answers
Every match is a slip of evidence: the thumbnail, the domain that hosts it, a similarity score you can weigh, and the date it was first seen. Source links open the page directly. No names, no profiles — leads you confirm yourself.
Sample outputExample
forum.example-city.orgStrong match
0.82first seen 2023-04-11
profiles.example-dating.comPossible match
0.57first seen 2024-09-02
Illustration only. Real results depend on what is publicly posted.
The pipeline
Four steps, about two seconds
- 01
Detect
We find the face in your photo and locate five landmarks: both eyes, the nose tip, and the corners of the mouth.
- 02
Align
The face is rotated and scaled to a standard 112-pixel frame, so a tilted photo matches a straight-on one.
- 03
Embed
A neural network converts the face into 512 numbers — a faceprint. The same person produces nearly the same numbers under different lighting and angles.
- 04
Search
Your faceprint is compared against the index and ranked by similarity. You get images and their source pages.
What people use it for
Verify a dating match
Upload a screenshot from a profile. If the same face appears under other names, that is worth knowing before you meet.
Find impersonators
Catch accounts using your photos to run scams under someone else's name.
The boundary
A face is not an identity file
Sherlock returns images and the pages that host them. It does not attach a name to a face or assemble a profile. That line is the difference between a tool you can defend using and a doxxing service — and it is not up for revision.
A search never returns
- Full names
- Home addresses
- Phone numbers
- Employers
- Criminal records
Redacted by design, not by policy toggle.
A match is a lead, not an identity
Face search returns similarity, not proof. Siblings, twins, and unrelated people with similar bone structure all return high scores. A strong match tells you two images probably show the same person. Confirming who that person is remains your job.
How we compare
Private by design
Most face-search tools upload your photo to their servers and build a profile. Sherlock runs in your browser and returns leads, not dossiers.
CapabilitysherlockOthers
Photo analysed in your browser
Photo never uploaded to a server
Every match scored and rankedsome
Direct link to each sourcesome
No names, profiles, or identity files
Free opt-out and removalvaries
FAQ
Common questions
Searches run on credits. A pack of 15 is $4.99 and never expires; monthly plans start at $14.99. Every search returns full source links.
Yes. Sherlock runs in any modern mobile browser and installs to your home screen. A Play Store version is coming.
In most places, searching publicly posted images is legal for personal use. Illinois and Texas have biometric laws we currently block for. Using results to stalk or harass anyone is prohibited and will get the account terminated.
No. Analysis happens in your browser and only the faceprint is sent, then discarded.
No. Searches are not disclosed to anyone.
Most likely the face is not in the index. Coverage depends on what is publicly posted, and someone with a small online presence may return nothing at all. Blurry photos, extreme angles, and small faces also reduce matches.
Modern face models exceed 99% on clean, well-lit photos in NIST benchmarks. Real-world results are lower. Treat every match as a lead.
Submit a request at /remove. No account needed.
Where your photo goes
Nowhere. Face detection and faceprint generation run inside your browser using models your device downloads once. The only thing that reaches our servers is a list of 512 numbers. We cannot reconstruct your photo from it, and we do not keep it after the search returns.