Search by Image Pro

About

Stop wasting time downloading, cropping, and manually uploading images to find their sources. Search by Image Pro is a fast, lightweight, and professional-grade reverse image search extension.
Whether you are a journalist verifying news authenticity, a photographer tracking copyright infringements, a shopper searching for products, or an anime fan identifying screenshots, Search by Image Pro puts the world’s most powerful visual search engines right in your browser's context menu.
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🌟 CORE FEATURES
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🆓 FREE TIER (Up to 10 searches per day)
• Multi-Engine Support: Search using Google Lens, Bing Visual Search, Yandex Images, and TinEye.
• Right-Click Context Menu: Right-click any image on a website and instantly send it to your default engine.
• Smart Submenus: Select alternative engines on the fly from a clean right-click submenu.
• Tab Preferences: Open search results in a background tab or update the current tab.
• Sleek Design: Modern, responsive popup UI supporting high-contrast Dark and Light modes.
👑 PREMIUM PRO FEATURES (One-Time Payment — Lifetime Access)
• Unlimited Queries: No daily search limits.
• Multi-Engine Search: Search Google, Bing, Yandex, TinEye, SauceNAO, and IQDB simultaneously in a single click.
• Screenshot Selection Tool: Crop and search any visible area on your screen. Ideal for video frames, PDF illustrations, or partial image details.
• Drag-and-Drop Upload: Drop an image from your desktop or another browser tab directly into the extension popup.
• Local File Uploads: Select and upload images directly from your computer.
• Clipboard Image Search: Copy an image to your clipboard and click "From Clipboard" to search instantly.
• CSS Background Extraction: Detect and search background images defined in website stylesheets that ordinary extensions miss.
• Anime & Art Special Engines: Search specialized manga, illustration, and anime databases using SauceNAO and IQDB.
• 50-Item Search History: Save your last 50 searches with image previews, dimensions, and resolution details.
• Custom Engine Reordering: Drag, drop, toggle, and manage engines in settings to match your exact workflow.
• Alt + Click Quick Search: Hold Alt and click any image on a page to search it in your default engine instantly.
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🛠️ HOW TO USE IT
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1. Context Menu: Right-click any image on a page, hover over "Search this image", and click an engine.
2. Extension Popup: Click the toolbar icon to upload a file, drag & drop, paste an image link, or search from your clipboard.
3. Screen Capture: Open the popup, click "Screenshot & Search", crop your selection, and find matches.
4. Quick Alt+Click: Hold your keyboard's "Alt" key and click any image to search immediately.
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🔒 SECURITY, PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED
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We believe in full transparency. We do not track your browsing history, monetize your visual searches, or sell your data. Here is why our extension requests its permissions:
• activeTab & scripting: Required to run the screenshot selection tool on your active tab and crop pages.
• storage: Required to save your settings preferences and keep your local search history (stored purely on your device).
• clipboardRead: Used exclusively when you trigger the "From Clipboard" search.
• contextMenus: Used to create the right-click menu items.
• host_permissions (<all_urls>): Allows the extension to extract background images and execute the screenshot capture overlay on any page.
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💎 TRANSPARENT PRICING
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Unlock all advanced search features and support indie development for a small, one-time lifetime payment. No subscription traps, no hidden fees, and no ads.