Has anyone found a good alternative to Google Lens for (reverse) image search?

Looking for a non-Google-based way to identify things from photos, like the species of a tree I’m looking at or the purpose of an object I’m not familiar with

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Scruffy1358@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 56d (3 replies)

I've used https://tineye.com/ for several years.

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 3 pts · 56d (1 reply)

and I'm sure I used it well before any other and near a decade before Google Lense / reverse image search...

flameleaf@ani.social · 1 pts · 55d

I was gonna say that. Memory's fuzzy, but I do remember using TinEye before Google added the reverse image search feature.

ladybugs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 55d

Thank you!

reddig33@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 56d (1 reply)

For identifying plants and animals, there’s an app called inaturalist. If you have an iPhone, supposedly you can use built-in tools in the photos app to analyze images in the current version of iOS.

https://www.inaturalist.org/

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/identify-objects-in-your-photos-and-videos-iph21c29a1cf/ios

ladybugs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 55d

Thanks!

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 56d (1 reply)

And the Google song recognition tbh

pishadoot@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 56d

Audire

Uses Shazam API if that matters to you

Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 56d (1 reply)

Imgops.com/upload

From there you can hit tineye, yandex, google, and 🤮bing simultaneously. The order I mentioned those in is the order in which I try them depending on whether I'm getting my results

ladybugs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 55d

Interesting, thanks!