Reversee is a utility app for iOS that routes image queries through multiple search engines to identify sources and high-resolution versions.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Utilities
Sentiment
4.4
13k reviews
Nemesis
Search By Image !!
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users turn to this tool to bypass the limitations of single-engine searches when verifying the origin of photos or identifying potential catfishing.
For Users looking to identify image sources, find high-resolution versions, or verify the origin of photos.
What does it look like?
Key features
Routes image queries through Google, Bing, and Yandex search engines.
Integrates reverse search directly into system-wide share sheets for Photos and Safari.
Provides tools to crop, rotate, and adjust image size before submission.
How much does it cost?
The one-time purchase model is a key differentiator, as users cite the lack of recurring subscriptions as a primary reason for initial investment.
Velocity
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Reversee has been inactive for over 34 months, with no updates or feature releases recorded since late 2023. The development momentum is non-existent, as the app has not received any maintenance or performance patches in over 1,000 days. Given the lack of activity, the app is classified as a zombie project.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews frustrated. Users appreciate multiple simultaneous search engine integration provides a comprehensive tool for identifying original image sources and pro version offers a one-time purchase model without recurring subscription fees for advanced search features, but report frequent search failures and blank screens post-update prevent users from performing basic reverse image lookups.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Multiple simultaneous search engine integration provides a comprehensive tool for identifying original image sources
- Pro version offers a one-time purchase model without recurring subscription fees for advanced search features
- Frequent search failures and blank screens post-update prevent users from performing basic reverse image lookups
102 of 238 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Reversee: Reverse Image Search
How's the Utilities market?
Reversee operates in the crowded photo-utility space, where its 4.4-star rating across 12,760 reviews is currently threatened by a 1,030-day update drought [1, 3]. The lack of recent maintenance has caused a shift in sentiment, as the app's search bridge fails to keep pace with external engine changes.
The rivals identified
By Hyeoseong Hwang
This app is a direct functional competitor that occupies the same core utility niche of bridging user images to external search engines. It commands a significantly larger user base, making it the primary benchmark for market share in the reverse image search category.
- Includes a built-in image editor for cropping or adjusting photos before initiating a search
- Features direct share integration, allowing users to trigger searches from other apps more efficiently
Photo Scanner Pro: Scan AlbumsContender
Photo Sherlock search by imageContender
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Photo Search - Lens for finderContenderUnlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
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Key takeaways for Reversee: Reverse Image Search
Where is it heading?
The reverse image search market is consolidating around tools that offer reliable, multi-engine results. Reversee's current maintenance-only posture leaves it exposed to rivals with higher update cadences, and the resulting functional regressions will likely accelerate churn into Q1.
- The 1,030-day update gap leads to search failures, which erodes user trust and drives negative sentiment in the latest review sample [1, 3].
- Forced reliance on Google Lens functionality reduces the app's utility, causing power users to seek alternatives with independent search capabilities.
The SWOT
- One-time purchase model avoids subscription fatigue
- iOS Extension reduces search friction
- Restore Yandex and TinEye engine support
Next best moves
Restore Yandex and TinEye API integration because current reliance on Google Lens is the top-cited complaint → improve search accuracy
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's maintenance-mode status is its biggest threat…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Advanced image pre-processing (available in Photo Sherlock but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's competitive standing has declined as the 1,030-day maintenance gap has rendered its core multi-engine search bridge unreliable, leading to user frustration over forced Google Lens redirects.
Bottom line
The app's value proposition rests on independent multi-engine search, but the 1,030-day maintenance gap has rendered this bridge unreliable. Pivoting to restore Yandex and TinEye integration would address the primary churn driver and differentiate the app from Google-only rivals.
Unlock 2 critical frictions, 2 market threats, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
Access the full report for freeFAQ
Is Reversee still reliable for reverse image searches in 2026?
How does Reversee compare to Search By Image !!?
Does Reversee have any hidden subscription costs?
What are some free alternatives to Reversee?
Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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