DevTools Advanced VS ReverseImage.app

ReverseImage.app's answer:

Most reverse image search extensions work by handing the image's URL to a search engine. That breaks on exactly the sites where you most want it: Instagram and Pinterest serve images behind URLs the engines can't fetch, and , blob: and data: images have no shareable URL at all. This extension detects those cases and uploads the image instead, so the right-click works everywhere rather than most places. It also searches Google Lens, Yandex, Bing Visual and TinEye from the same menu — no engine picking, no reopening the menu four times — and adds clipboard paste and region capture for images that aren't on a page at all.

ReverseImage.app's answer:

Because the privacy claims are checkable. A plain search never touches our servers — the extension talks directly to the search engine. When a search does need an upload, the resulting link expires after 15 minutes, and once it does nobody can reach the file; the file itself is deleted automatically about a day later. The whole extension is open source under MIT, so you can read the code rather than take our word for it — lib/config.ts lists every server address the extension knows about. Most alternatives in this category are closed source and ask you to trust a privacy policy.

ReverseImage.app's answer:

People who need to check where an image came from and hit a wall doing it: OSINT and fact-checking researchers, journalists verifying user-submitted photos, photographers and illustrators looking for unlicensed reuse of their work, and anyone vetting a dating or marketplace profile with a face search. The common thread is that they're already trying to reverse image search and the ordinary right-click has failed them — usually on a social platform.

ReverseImage.app's answer:

It started with a broken right-click. Google removed the built-in "Search image with Google Lens" behaviour people relied on, and the extensions that replaced it all failed the same way on Instagram — the one place where checking an image actually matters. Fixing that meant handling the upload path, which meant running a server, which meant deciding what happens to the images people send. That decision is the reason the project is open source: privacy promises about a server you can't see are worth very little, so we published the code that runs it. It's now in Chrome and Firefox in seven languages, with a free web version at reverseimage.app for people who don't want to install anything.

ReverseImage.app's answer:

The extension is TypeScript built with WXT, targeting Manifest V3 across Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera from one codebase, with Vitest for tests. The backend and marketing site are Rails 8 with SQLite, Propshaft and Tailwind, deployed with Kamal; localization uses route_translator so each of the seven languages gets real translated URLs rather than query parameters.