Retrace
Reverse video search you pay per search, not per month
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Details
- External ID
- 1276026
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- QRtracer
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Search, Video
Description
Upload a clip or paste a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or X link. Retrace samples up to 24 distinctive frames across the whole video, searches each one visually and groups the pages where the same footage appears. The scan and match count are free; unlocking a search's links costs $0.90. No subscription, balance never expires. Useful for finding a clip's original, spotting recycled news footage, catfish checks and creators finding reuploads.
Enrichment
- Niche
- social media scrapers and video downloaders
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- pay-per-use reverse video search engine
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Extracting frames and querying third-party reverse image APIs is simple, but conducting scalable visual index searches across the entire web requires either expensive enterprise search APIs or massive crawler infrastructure.
What it would actually take: A production version would use an FFmpeg worker pipeline to extract keyframes, but visual web search at scale relies on scraping or integration with specialized reverse search engines (like Google Lens, Bing Visual Search, or TinEye API). Indexing video web presence independently would require petabyte-scale crawlers and high-dimensional vector search (e.g., Milvus/Pinecone) across billions of web images.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 381 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #44 of 382 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 349 days after the earliest competitor.
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- ShortTranscript · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Content Rewardz · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ClipKoala · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ClarityRadar · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Tik-Iterate · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46