About TraceMyImage
TraceMyImage started from a simple annoyance: most tools that claim to "check" or "analyze" an image for you require uploading it to a server first. For something as personal as a photo — one that might carry your GPS coordinates, your face, or private text — that's a bad trade for a quick answer.
Every tool on this site runs entirely in JavaScript, in your browser. When you drop an image into the EXIF checker, the color extractor, the similarity comparator, or the OCR tool, that file is read, processed, and discarded locally on your device. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or stored — not by us, not by any third-party server, because there isn't one in the loop.
What we believe
Your file never leaves your device
Every tool processes images using JavaScript and WebAssembly running locally in your browser tab. There is no upload step, no image storage, and no server in the loop for any tool except the deliberate, explicit handoff on the reverse image search page.
No accounts, no tracking pixels on results
You don't need to sign up, log in, or hand over an email address to use any tool. We don't attach identifying information to the images you process.
Honest about limits
If a technique has real limitations — OCR struggling with handwriting, reverse search requiring a manual drop into a third-party site — the copy on that page says so plainly instead of overselling it.
Built for one job, done well
This isn't trying to be a general photo editor or a cloud storage product. It's a focused set of tools for understanding what's inside an image — metadata, similarity, color, text — nothing more.
How it actually works, technically
Each tool uses browser-native APIs and small, well-scoped open-source libraries — exifr for metadata parsing, the Canvas API for perceptual hashing and color sampling, and Tesseract.js (a WebAssembly build of the Tesseract OCR engine) for text extraction. These all run in the JavaScript execution context of the page you're already on. When you close the tab, any in-memory data from your image goes with it.
The one place this site talks to another server on your behalf is the reverse image search tool, and even there, it doesn't upload anything — it opens Google Lens, TinEye, Yandex, or Bing Visual Search in a new tab and lets you decide whether to drop your image into their upload box directly.
Who's behind this
This is a small, independently run project — one person's answer to "why does checking a photo's metadata require trusting a stranger's server?" It isn't backed by a company collecting your data to fund it; the tools are free because running them costs almost nothing when the actual computation happens on your machine, not ours.
You can read the specifics of what is and isn't collected in the privacy policy. If something is broken, missing, or unclear, get in touch — we read every message.