Search By Image is a reverse-search utility for identifying image origins and visually similar content on iOS and Android.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
It removes the friction of manually navigating search engines to verify the source of unknown photographs or artwork.
For Mobile users who need to verify image authenticity, find original sources, or identify visually similar content.
What does it look like?
Key features
Queries multiple search engines simultaneously to identify image origins or visually similar content.
Provides tools to rotate, flip, and crop images before initiating a search.
Allows users to open images directly from other applications without saving to local storage.
How much does it cost?
The freemium model relies on ad-inventory for the majority of users with a one-time purchase gate to remove ads.
Velocity
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The app shows no signs of active development, with the last release occurring over 55 months ago. While a single Android update appeared in March 2026, the lack of consistent release history across platforms indicates a lack of sustained development momentum. The app is currently classified as a zombie due to the extreme inactivity and lack of recent feature updates.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans mixed. Users appreciate high-resolution image retrieval capabilities provide significant utility for professional and creative research tasks, but report inaccurate search results and failure to identify famous subjects frustrate users during standard queries.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- High-resolution image retrieval capabilities provide significant utility for professional and creative research tasks
- Inaccurate search results and failure to identify famous subjects frustrate users during standard queries
56 of 56 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Search By Image !!
How's the Photo & Video market?
Search By Image maintains a presence in the Tools category across multiple international markets, though its 3.05 rating on iOS trails the 4.13 rating on Android. The lack of updates since 2020 on iOS signals a deprioritized platform strategy that cedes the high-ARPU market to more active rivals.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Eduardo Rocha
Reversee is a direct functional competitor that dominates the reverse image search utility space on iOS, directly challenging this app's core value proposition.
- Offers a native iOS extension for seamless searching directly from other apps or browsers
- Includes a built-in image editor to crop or rotate photos before initiating the search
- Supports multi-engine search results, providing broader data coverage than this app's basic implementation
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Key takeaways for Search By Image !!
Where is it heading?
The reverse-search market is consolidating around tools that offer system-level integration and AI-enhanced accuracy. Search By Image is currently exposed due to its stagnant development cadence, which will likely accelerate user migration to active rivals before the next major market shift.
- The five-year update silence on iOS signals a maintenance-only posture, which cedes the high-value user base to active, feature-rich competitors.
- Inaccurate search results for common subjects erode user trust, which compounds the churn pressure already visible in the low iOS rating.
The SWOT
- Multi-engine query logic provides broader data coverage than single-source alternatives
- Adding video-based image searching would address the top-requested feature theme
Next best moves
Ship iOS system-level extension because manual uploads are the #1 friction point → increase retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's simplicity is its primary retention lever…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Native iOS extension (available in Reversee but absent here) +1
Since the last report: The competitive outlook has declined due to the formalization of the five-year iOS development silence as a primary churn driver. The app's strategic position has shifted from a general utility to a legacy tool struggling against rivals with native system-level extensions.
Bottom line
Search By Image relies on legacy multi-engine utility, but the five-year development silence on iOS leaves it exposed to rivals with native extensions. Prioritizing system-level integration would address the friction driving users toward more modern alternatives.
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Sources
- [1] Play Store listing, source
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