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The Reversee app is a free iPhone tool that sends any photo to Google, Bing or Yandex reverse image search. Its iOS extension lets you search a picture without leaving Photos, Safari or Chrome, and it can collect every image on a web page at once. Google is free; Bing and Yandex need the $1.99 Multiple Search Engines purchase.

That extension is the reason Reversee still matters in 2026. Plenty of iPhone apps run a reverse image search, but most of them make you open the app, find the photo and start again every time. Reversee works the other way round: you are already looking at a photo in Safari or in your camera roll, you tap Share, and the search starts from there. This guide covers the full setup, the free and paid engines, a worked example on a real photo, and an honest comparison with Photo Sherlock, the other iPhone app that does the same job.

What Is the Reversee App?

Reversee is a bridge between your pictures and reverse image search engines. That is the developer’s own description on the App Store, and it is the most accurate one: the app does not run its own search index. It takes a photo from your iPhone or iPad and hands it to Google Images, Bing or Yandex, then shows you the results in its built-in browser.

The app is made by Eduardo Rocha, it is 6.4 MB, and it runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 10.0 or later, according to its App Store listing. The same listing says it also runs on Macs with Apple silicon and on Apple Vision Pro. There is no official Android version from this developer, so similarly named Android apps are not the same app, and they should not be treated as if they were.

Reversee’s privacy label is one of its strongest points. According to the App Store listing, the developer does not collect any data from the app. That does not mean your photo stays on your phone: the photo is still sent to Google, Bing or Yandex, because that is how a reverse image search works. It does mean Reversee itself does not build a profile on you, which is more than many free apps can say.

The listing is also honest about what the app cannot promise. It says the search is made by third-party engines, and even if they are the best in the business, none of them covers 100% of searches. Keep that sentence in mind throughout this guide: a photo can only be found if a search engine has crawled it first. According to the listing, most Facebook and Instagram pictures are not crawled, while Pinterest, X (Twitter) and LinkedIn pictures appear more often, but there is never a guarantee that a picture will be found.

How Do I Install Reversee and Set Up the iOS Extension?

Install the app first, then switch on the extension. The extension is what makes Reversee different from a plain search app, and it takes about a minute to set up.

1. Open the App Store on your iPhone or iPad and search for Reversee. The listing is called “Reversee: Reverse Image Search”, it is free, and the seller is Eduardo Rocha. Tap Get, then open the app.
2. When the app asks for photo access, choose the level you are comfortable with. Full access lets you search any photo in your library; limited access only shows the photos you pick. Reversee cannot search a photo it cannot see.
3. Open the Photos app and tap any photo. Tap the Share button, scroll to the row of apps, and tap More. Find Reversee in the list and switch it on. From now on, Reversee appears in the Share sheet.
4. Do the same in Safari: open any web page, tap Share, then More, and switch Reversee on there too. The extension works in Chrome and in any other app that can share an image or a web address.
5. Open Reversee once and look at the main screen. You will see your camera roll, a paste option and the search engine selector, with Google Images set as the default.

One thing to know before you start: the free version puts a 5-second delay on the App Extension, according to the App Store listing. You tap Share, Reversee opens, and you wait five seconds before the search can run. The PRO upgrade removes that delay. It is a small annoyance, but it is there every single time you search from another app, so it is worth knowing about before you decide whether to pay.

There is also an age rating to note. The App Store lists Reversee as 16+, because it gives unrestricted web access through its built-in browser. That is a fair warning for a shared family device.

How Do I Search by Image Inside the Reversee App?

Searching from inside the app is the straightforward route, and it is the best one when the photo is already in your camera roll. The steps below use the free version, so everything here works without paying.

1. Open Reversee. Your photos appear in a grid. The app’s smart navigation lets you search a picture in the middle of your camera roll and then come back to search for a picture nearby, without scrolling through your photos all over again.
2. Tap the photo you want to search. You can also paste an image from your clipboard, which is handy when you copied a picture from a message or a web page.
3. Crop and rotate the picture in the built-in editor. Crop tightly around the subject and cut out text, borders and background clutter. A clean crop is the single biggest improvement you can make to any reverse image search, because the engine matches what is inside the frame.
4. Choose your search engine. Google Images is the default and the only free engine. Bing and Yandex are PRO features, covered in the pricing section below.
5. Tap search. Reversee sends the photo to the engine and opens the results in its built-in browser. From there you can open the results page in Safari or Chrome, add it to your Reading List, copy it or send it by email.
6. Read the results the way a detective would. Look first for exact matches, meaning pages that show the identical picture, then for visually similar images, then for pages that describe the object in the photo. If the first engine finds nothing, try another engine before you conclude the photo is not online.

Two smaller features are worth using. First, Reversee lets you set the size of the image sent to the search engine, and the listing says this may yield different results, so if a search comes back empty, try sending a larger version of the same photo. Second, the app can save pictures from the web, so if a result page shows a higher-resolution version of your photo, you can save that copy for your own records.

Camera access is a PRO feature, which surprises some people. In the free version you cannot point the camera at an object and search on the spot; you search photos that already exist. If live camera search is what you need, the Lens AI app and Google reverse image search both offer it, and our guides to each explain how.

Worked Example: Searching a Trainer Photo from Safari

A guide is only useful if it shows the tool working on a real photo, so here is a complete walkthrough using a photo of an Air Jordan 1 High in the Chicago colourway, the same kind of product photo that fills resale listings. The steps follow exactly what the app and its listing describe, and the results are described as the kinds of matches each engine returns, because the exact results vary with what the engines have crawled.

1. Start in Safari on an iPhone, on a page showing the trainer photo. Long-press is not needed here: tap the Share button at the bottom of the screen.
2. Tap Reversee in the Share sheet. In the free version, a 5-second delay runs first, then the app opens. This is the extension’s batch trick: Reversee collects all the images on the page you are visiting, so if the page shows the trainer from four angles, you see all four thumbnails and pick the clearest one.
3. Pick the photo that shows the whole shoe from the side. The listing says the extension collects every image on the page, including logos and banner graphics, so ignore the small thumbnails and choose the large product shot.
4. Crop the photo in the editor. Cut out the page background and the seller’s watermark if there is one, and keep the whole shoe in the frame. Leave a little space around the sole and the laces, because cropping too tightly can cut off the details the engine uses to tell one colourway from another.
5. Search with Google Images first. It is free, and it is usually the best engine for product photos. The results page typically shows the identical photo on other sites first, then visually similar trainers, then shopping results and articles about the model. That first group, the identical matches, is where you find out whether the same photo is being reused elsewhere.
6. Now search the same cropped photo with Bing and Yandex, which need the paid upgrade. Bing often returns different shopping listings from Google, and Yandex is often stronger on photos that Google has not indexed, including images from forums and marketplaces in other languages. The point of running a second engine is not to get more of the same results; it is to catch the matches the first engine missed.
7. Compare the three result sets. If the same photo appears on several unrelated listings under different seller names, treat the listing with suspicion and check the seller before you pay. If it appears only on the brand’s own site and a few reputable shops, the photo is probably genuine. If no engine finds anything at all, that does not prove the photo is original: the listing’s own warning applies, and a photo that has never been crawled cannot be found by any reverse image search.

The whole walkthrough takes about two minutes once the extension is set up, and most of that is waiting for result pages to load. The habit that matters is the order: crop first, search Google, then check a second engine. Skipping the crop is the most common reason a search returns pages of unrelated trainers instead of the exact shoe.

Which Engines Are Free and Which Need PRO?

Reversee’s pricing is simple, but the two in-app purchases are easy to confuse, so here they are exactly as the App Store listing shows them.

Read the table as two separate decisions. If you only want more engines, the $1.99 Multiple Search Engines purchase is the cheaper route, and it is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. If you also want the camera, auto crop, no adverts and no 5-second delay, PRO at $3.99 covers everything, including the two extra engines. Both prices are shown in US dollars on the App Store listing, and the price you actually pay can vary by country.

For most people, the free version is enough to test whether Reversee fits their habits. Google is the strongest single engine for product and landmark photos, and the extension works in the free version. Pay only if you find yourself running the same photo through a second engine often, or if the 5-second delay starts to irritate you.

How Do I Batch-Search All the Images on a Web Page?

Batch searching is Reversee’s best feature, and it is the one the competing guide we set out to beat barely mentions. The idea is simple: instead of saving each image and searching it one by one, you search a whole page in one pass.

1. Open the web page in Safari. A resale listing, a news article or a social media profile page all work the same way.
2. Tap Share, then tap Reversee. The extension gathers every image on the page and shows them as thumbnails.
3. Tap the first image you want to check. Crop it if needed, pick an engine and read the results.
4. Go back to the thumbnail list and tap the next image. Because the extension already collected the page’s images, you do not have to reload the page or scroll through it again for each search.
5. For photos already on your phone, the same idea works inside the app: search one picture, then use the smart navigation to move to a nearby photo in your camera roll without scrolling back to the top.

This is genuinely useful in three situations. The first is checking a seller’s photos before you buy: a listing with six photos can be checked in six quick searches, and a stolen photo usually shows up on at least one of them. The second is checking a profile picture, where the same face may appear on several sites. The third is research, where you want to know where a viral image first appeared and which sites have reused it.

There is one limit to keep in mind. Reversee searches one image at a time, even in batch mode; the batch part is collecting the images, not running the searches together. You still tap each image and read its results separately. That is slower than a tool that searches a whole page automatically, but it also means you actually look at each result instead of skimming a combined report.

Reversee vs Photo Sherlock: Which iPhone App Should You Pick?

Photo Sherlock is the other iPhone app that does this job, and it is the subject of our companion guide. Both apps are free, both send your photo to Google, Yandex and Bing, and both let you crop before you search. The differences are in the details, and the table below compares them on the facts from their own App Store listings, checked on 8 November 2026.

Pick Photo Sherlock if you want all three engines without paying, and you are happy to open the app and search from inside it. Its one-time $1.99 Pro upgrade is also cheaper than Reversee’s $3.99 PRO, and its 4.7-star rating from 3,800 ratings is higher than Reversee’s 4.4 stars from 13,000 ratings, according to their App Store listings.

Pick Reversee if you search from inside Photos or Safari all day, because its iOS extension lets you start a search without opening the app at all, and it can collect every image on a web page in one tap. Reversee’s listing also states that the developer does not collect any data from the app, which is a real privacy advantage over Photo Sherlock, and worth weighing if you search sensitive photos.

There is one honest warning about Reversee. Its App Store listing shows the last update as version 5.3.9 on 3 October 2023, which is more than three years ago, and the only change listed was “Fixes Google Search”. An app that old can break without warning when Google changes its search pages, and that is exactly what the 2023 update was fixing. Photo Sherlock, by contrast, is on version 1.84 and was updated more recently. If you rely on reverse image search every day, that difference in maintenance matters, and it is the main reason to keep a second method ready, such as how to reverse image search with Google Lens, which Google itself maintains.

If you want a second opinion on a photo, the wider field of iPhone apps is covered in our other guides. CamFind is the original visual search app, and it identifies objects rather than finding where a photo appeared, so it answers a different question from Reversee. The right tool depends on the question you are asking: use Reversee to find where a photo came from, and use an identification app when you want to know what is in the photo.

FAQs

Is the Reversee app free?

Yes. Reversee is free to download on iPhone and iPad, and Google Images search costs nothing. Bing and Yandex cost extra, either as a $1.99 Multiple Search Engines purchase or inside the $3.99 PRO upgrade. PRO also removes adverts and the 5-second extension delay, and adds camera access and auto crop.

Does Reversee work on Android?

No. Reversee is made for iPhone, iPad, Macs with Apple silicon and Apple Vision Pro, according to its App Store listing. There is no official Android version from the same developer, Eduardo Rocha. Similarly named Android apps are made by other developers, so check the developer name before installing anything.

Can Reversee find someone’s social media profile from a photo?

Sometimes, but never reliably. The listing says you can search for a social network profile, yet it also warns that most Facebook and Instagram pictures are not crawled. Pinterest, X and LinkedIn pictures appear more often. Never treat a visual match as proof of identity, and never use it to contact, harass or expose someone.

Is Reversee still updated?

Not recently. The App Store listing shows the last update as version 5.3.9 on 3 October 2023, which fixed Google Search. The app still works, and the developer’s support address is listed, but the gap of more than three years is a real risk. Keep Google Lens as a backup so a future breakage does not leave you stuck.