A sorted stack of free sites where each hit leads to the next — handle → email → photo → place — plus the rare tricks nobody lists, all click-and-go.
A name · email · username · photo · phone → free point-and-click sites do the digging. No install, no signup, no skills.
Start with one box
Max Intel — paste anything (name, email, username, phone, or a photo) and it fans across 960+ sources at once. No account, no keys. · Menu view: OSINT Framework
A USERNAME → every account they own
Sherlock · WhatsMyName · Fingerprint (700+ platforms, streams live)
AN EMAIL → who’s behind it
Epieos (the famous one) · Skopio (22+ sources, free daily lookup)
IS IT LEAKED? · email · password · phone in a breach
Have I Been Pwned (the classic — paste an email, see every breach) · InfoBreach (breach dumps + stealer logs)
A PHOTO → who is it
Yandex (best for faces + places) · TinEye · PimEyes (face search — scary-good)
A WEBSITE → owner + history
ViewDNS (whois, server-neighbours, history) · Wayback Machine (deleted / older versions)
The rare tricks — nobody lists these
A PHOTO → WHERE on Earth · no GPS in the photo needed
ShadowFinder (drops a pin from a shadow’s length — Bellingcat’s method, in your browser) · PhotoRadar (AI reads the visual clues) · Weather-locate (a weather-widget screenshot → when & where) · Signal & Shadow (sun-angle calculator)
A VIDEO → trace it back to the source
Frame Grab (no engine searches video directly — this pulls one sharp frame in your browser, nothing uploads) → then reverse-search that frame with Yandex or TinEye above
A PHOTO or VIDEO → is it even real
Lens (free browser extension — flags AI-made images as you scroll, checks the hidden watermark first) · Specula (upload one photo, get a verdict with the reasoning shown — free, first load can take a moment to wake up)
AN AUDIO CLIP → name the song / same voice or not
Vocuno (upload a clip, matches the acoustic fingerprint — works on voice memos too) · Voice Match Checker (upload two clips, get a same-person-or-not verdict)
WATCH THE WORLD LIVE
FlightRadar24 (any plane) · ADS-B Exchange (even the private jets FR24 hides) · MarineTraffic (any ship) · Zoom.earth (live satellite)
A WEBSITE → every OTHER site the same person runs
DNSlytics — unmask a whole network by the Google-Analytics / AdSense ID they reuse across their sites
A CRYPTO WALLET → follow the money
Chainabuse (is it a reported scam?) · Breadcrumbs (trace where the coins went)
A PHONE → who owns it
UserSearch · Max Intel · Phone · Line Type Check (mobile, landline, or a disposable VOIP number)
A PHOTO, FILE or PDF → its hidden data
Jimpl (drop a photo → GPS pin on a map + camera model) · Metadata2Go (hidden data inside any file) · PDFCheck (catches an edited or backdated PDF)
A NAME → address, phone, relatives · US public records
TruePeopleSearch · FastPeopleSearch · ThatsThem — all free, no signup
A NAME → is there a court case on them
CourtListener (free, non-profit — millions of real US court filings and case law, just search a name)
A COMPANY → who really owns it, who really works there
OpenCorporates (150M+ companies + their officers) · OpenSanctions (sanctions / PEP check) · Aleph (OCCRP’s leaks + records archive) — for the team behind it, search site:linkedin.com/in "company name" on Google, no tool needed
GOOGLE DORKS → surface what’s hidden in plain sight
DorkSearch (pre-built Google dorks, click to run — exposed files, logins, documents)
TELEGRAM → search channels + people
Lyzem · TGStat (channel stats + search)
THE DARK WEB → search it without getting lost
Ahmia (searches .onion sites — needs Tor Browser to open a result, that’s it, nothing else technical)
SEE ANY PLACE — past + present + what changed
Google Earth (historical-imagery time slider) · Historic Aerials (aerial photos back to the 1930s) · archive.today (snapshot / read deleted pages) · GeoSentinel (draw a box, pick two dates, see exactly what changed)
AN IP ADDRESS → who, where + is it a VPN
ipinfo.io (geolocation, ISP, VPN/proxy flags — plain language)
🧠 10-second how-to — zero experience
- Pick the box that matches what you have — a name, email, username, photo, video, audio clip, or phone.
- Open a tool, paste your one thing, hit search.
- Each result is a public breadcrumb — one leads to the next (username → email → photo → place). The chaining is the whole skill; the tools do the work.
Everything here reads public info only — no hacking, no logins, no passwords.
⚠️ Use it right
Same tools journalists and security teams use to check who they’re dealing with — and to see your OWN exposure. Run your email through Have I Been Pwned right now; look yourself up first.
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reply with the newest working one. Kept current.
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