Visual search · iOS
One photo.
Every trace.
Drop in a photo and Sherlock Ai picks up its trail — the public pages and sources where that face already lives. Matches surface in seconds, each one linked back to where it came from.
Your photo is uploaded only for the duration of one search, then deleted. No account, no profile, no data sold.
How it works
Billions of images,
one sweep
Sherlock Ai runs your photo against a search index of publicly available images and web pages. It does not identify people, guess names, or build a profile — it reports where a similar face already appears in public.
Pick a photo
Choose an image from your library or take one. You frame the face inside the reticle so the engine gets a clean crop.
We sweep the public web
The cropped photo goes to our search provider, runs against billions of indexed public images, and is deleted the moment the search finishes.
Open every source
Each match arrives with a confidence score and the link it came from, so you can open the page and judge it yourself.
Reading the results
A score, not a verdict
Every match carries a similarity score. A high score means the faces look alike to the engine — it is never proof of identity, and you should always open the source before drawing a conclusion.
Privacy by design
Nothing kept
that isn't needed
No accounts
There is no sign-up, no email, no password. The app works from a random identifier generated on your device.
Photos are deleted
Your photo exists only for the duration of one search. It is deleted from the search provider right after the results come back, and we never store it.
History stays local
Past searches and their results live only on your device. Delete them individually, or wipe everything from Account.
Before you search
Use it responsibly — and within the law
Sherlock Ai is built for checking where your own photos appear, verifying that someone you are talking to is who they claim to be, and finding the source of an image you were sent.
It is not built for tracking, stalking, harassing, or unmasking people who have not consented, and using it that way violates our Terms of Use. Some regions place additional legal limits on processing facial images — you are responsible for the searches you run.