- SauceMatch
- Reverse video search
Reverse video search: find the source of a clip
Search by video instead of words or a single screenshot. Drop a clip and get the full video it was cut from, with its title, the site it is on and a link. The search runs on our own index of 5.2M videos, most of them from adult tube sites, so it is the wrong tool for films, TV and YouTube.
- Your file never leaves your device
- Every match is verified, with its proof
- Free, no account needed
Video, not a picture
Reverse video search vs reverse image search
A reverse image search answers one question: where else does this picture appear? It takes one image and compares it with pictures found on web pages. A reverse video search has a harder job. Your clip holds thousands of frames, the copy online may be longer, shorter, cropped or re-encoded, and someone has to decide which moments to compare.
Many tools that promise a video search grab a frame or two and pass them to an image engine. This one reads the clip itself. It picks up to 48 sharp, distinct frames, searches all of them against the stills stored for every indexed video, checks each candidate, and counts how many of your frames land in the same video. Every video that holds verified frames of your clip is listed, uploads of it on other sites included.
Tools compared by input
Which video source finder takes what
Each of these tools is good at something. They differ in what you can give them, what they have indexed, and whether they show you why a result matched. Checked in October 2026. These services change, so read this as a guide, not a promise.
| Tool | What you give it | What it searches | Adult video stills | Proof of a match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Lens and Google Images | One picture. The app can film a live clip to ask about what is in front of the camera, but it does not trace a saved video. | Pictures on web pages, products, places | Hidden or blurred while SafeSearch is on | No. Similar images, plus pages that show the same image |
| Bing Visual Search | One picture | Pictures on web pages, products | Filtered by SafeSearch, which is on by default | No |
| Yandex Images | One picture | Pictures on web pages, strong on faces and lookalikes | Some, but thin and unverified | No |
| TinEye | One picture, uploaded or by its address | Copies of images it found on web pages | Only when the same picture sits on a page it crawled | Lists copies of the same image, without showing why |
| Berify and other multi-engine services | A picture, with paid plans for full results and alerts | Asks several search engines at once, plus an index of its own | Whatever those engines return | No |
| Frame-grab sites | A video, cut into a few frames for you | Sends those frames to Google, Bing or Yandex. No index of their own | Whatever that engine returns, so mostly filtered | No |
| SauceMatch (this page) | A clip, a GIF, or up to 10 pictures | Our own index: preview stills and photo posts from adult video sites and selected NSFW Reddit communities | Nothing filtered. Thumbnails stay blurred until you choose to show them | Yes. The keypoints must fit one consistent transform, and your frame is shown next to the stored still, scored 0 to 100 |
Pick the right tool
When to use which
- A scene from a film, a series, an ad or a music video: take a screenshot of a distinctive moment and try Google Lens. Searching for a line of dialogue in quotes is often faster still.
- A product, a place, a plant or a painting: Google Lens or Bing Visual Search. They are built for exactly that.
- Where one of your own photos is used online: TinEye finds copies, and the multi-engine services can keep watching for new ones.
- A clip, a GIF or a screenshot from an adult site or an NSFW subreddit: drop it here. That is what this index holds.
- A copy of your own video posted without you: see how to check if your video was posted, which also covers getting it taken down.
- More videos of a performer you saw in a clip: that is a job for the face search, which compares faces instead of frames.
The odds
Why a whole clip finds more than one screenshot
The index does not store every frame of a video. For each one it keeps the preview stills the site publishes, usually 9 to 20, spread evenly over the running time. In a twenty-minute video with 16 stills, that is one stored moment about every 75 seconds.
A screenshot matches only when it shows one of those moments, or something very close to it. A clip that runs across several of them gives the search several chances, and the page scans it at the same kinds of evenly spaced points that sites use when they cut their previews. When a frame brings up a likely video without proof, the page samples your clip again a few seconds either side of that moment, to land on the still the index holds.
Match Same footage, proven
At least one of your frames and a stored still line up keypoint by keypoint under one consistent transform. The card shows the title, the site, a link to the video's page, its length when the site publishes it, a confidence from 0 to 100 and the frame pairs. Another upload of the same video on another site is a right answer too, and is listed with it.
Similar A lead, not an answer
The fingerprints were close, but the keypoint check did not pass. It may be the right video seen at a slightly different moment, or only the same room on another day. Open it and judge for yourself before you trust it.
Limits
Honest limits, and what to try when nothing matches
What it cannot find
- Films, TV, YouTube and other mainstream video. None of it is indexed.
- Videos from paid sites whose previews are not public, and private videos of any kind.
- Videos collected in the last half day or so, because the search index is rebuilt twice a day.
- Copies changed beyond recognition: a heavy zoom on a small part of the frame, strong colour filters, a scene too dark to show detail.
When nothing matches
- Search a longer stretch of the clip, or the whole file if you have it.
- Use the cleanest copy you can find. A screen recording with captions and stickers on top matches less often than the upload it was made from.
- Add a screenshot of the sharpest moment as a separate search.
- Come back in a day or two. New videos are added all the time.
FAQ
Questions
What is a reverse video search?
A search that starts from footage instead of words. You give it a clip and it looks for the videos that contain the same frames. Here the answer is the full video the clip was cut from: its title, the site it is on and a link to its page, with the matching frames side by side as proof.
How do I find the source of a video?
If it is an adult clip, drop it on this page: the frames are picked for you and every hit is checked. If it comes from a film, a show or YouTube, pause on a distinctive moment, take a screenshot and run it through Google Lens, or search for a line of dialogue or the channel name. This index does not hold that kind of video.
Can Google do a reverse video search?
Not with a saved clip. Google Lens searches with a picture. In the Google app it can also film a short video to answer a question about what is in front of the camera, but it does not take a video file and tell you where it was posted. While SafeSearch is on, it also hides explicit results.
Is there a free video source finder?
This one is free and needs no account. It covers adult video: tube sites and selected NSFW Reddit communities. For everything else, Google Lens, Bing Visual Search, Yandex and TinEye are free too, as long as you give them a screenshot.
Can it find movies, TV shows or YouTube videos?
No. Those are not in this index, so a search with them comes back empty. Use a general engine with a screenshot of a distinctive moment instead.
How long should the clip be?
Longer is better, up to any length your browser can play. The index keeps a handful of stills per video, spaced evenly over its running time, so a few seconds of footage may fall between two of them. The longer the clip, the more of those stored moments it is likely to contain. A two-hour file is fine too: the page visits at most 160 positions, whatever the length.
Does my video get uploaded?
No. The frames are chosen on your device and the video stays there. Most computers also turn them into fingerprints and send those numbers; phones and slower devices send the chosen frames to be searched on our server. A file your browser cannot play cannot be searched here: convert it to MP4, or search with a screenshot.