An archiving tool that tracks online activities and preserves essential information about the web pages researchers visit.

A research project collecting and publishing legal takedown notices for online content transparency

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine lets users view and archive web pages, aiding in historical research and digital preservation.

A browser extension to view archived and cached versions of a website on multiple archiving sites.

A site dedicated to connect suppliers and buyers of goods from all over the world.

Gongsi Wang (formally known as Manshang Gongsi Wang 满商公司网) is a repository for information about Chinese companies.

A database providing otherwise secret information about more than 810k offshore companies, foundations, and trusts based on leaks like the Panama Papers or the Paradise Papers.

Commercial supplier of trade data for 23 countries. Paid service but journalists can ask for free access.

Search US customs inbound sea shipment records, find company suppliers.

Connects the dots between influential / wealthy individuals in (mostly US) politics and business.

A research project collecting and publishing legal takedown notices for online content transparency

Search for people and companies in EU corporate and trade registers + visualize relationships

Aleph offers a way to research sanctions lists, corporate registries, leaks, and more

Links to beneficial ownership registers.

Comprehensive repository of company registries around the world

Open-source international database of sanctions data, persons of interest and politically exposed persons.

Data on campaign finance, lobbying, and spending in U.S. politics

An interactive worldwide map, showcasing business registries, court records, and other publicly available information to aid OSINT investigations and research.

Online database of politically exposed persons in Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

A comprehensive database of current and historical OFAC/UN/EU sanctions

United Nations free database of global trade.

Wikipedia list of official business registers around the world.

LiveUAMap is a mapping tool that provides up-to-date information on global geopolitical events, conflicts, and crises.

A searchable library of verified images for researchers, journalists, and practitioners trying to learn more about munitions and their use and impact in conflict.

A database providing searchable access to California law enforcement records including police use-of-force incidents, shootings, and misconduct cases.

Open-source network analysis and visualization software

Logseq is an open-source knowledge management tool that enables users to organize their notes, tasks, and projects.

Maltego Graph is an investigation platform that combines two things at once: (1) It acts as a search tool, and (2) It creates a graph establishing links between data you uncover from your search.

An AI powered expansive research/learning tool

A knowledge management and note-taking app with extensive customization options.

A tool by Google to catalogue uploaded documents and files, providing OCR, indexing, and other services. Full access only granted to journalists, academic researchers and university students.

QGIS is a free Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS).

RAWGraphs is an open-source data visualization tool designed for non-technical users, enabling the creation of customizable, editable charts without coding skills.

A tool for creating, visualizing, and managing timelines online.

Uwazi is an open-source platform that simplifies the management of document collections, particularly for human rights documentation in the justice and advocacy fields.

A digital platform for investigating fishing activities and vessel movements worldwide by utilising satellite and AIS data.

Explore tree cover loss and gain data, recent deforestation and fire alerts, land use designations, carbon emissions, biodiversity metrics and more.

Illicit online wildlife markets data from Brazil, South Africa and Thailand.

A visual tool to monitor river levels and forecast floods based on AI models developed by Google Research.

A repository for desert locust data with maps and other resources for tracking movements, early detection and planning locust control interventions.

Identify birds (visually), through an app.

Platform for animal tracking data.

The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) is a resource of information for wild land ground fires.

View current and historic wind, weather, ocean and pollution conditions on an interactive animated map.

A free open-data platform that hosts 300+ datasets on different topics relating to the environment and human well-being, including real-time datasets.

Calculate which water stream a drop of rain will follow

Centralized website with vulnerable species information.

UNOSAT Analyses is a tool that maps humanitarian emergencies across the globe utilising United Nations Satellite Centre data.

Tracking tool for data on environmental and wildlife crime cases, including court cases and convictions, across the globe.

An open-source tool to search wildlife seizure data worldwide.

Open source pattern recognition software to identify unique whales, sharks, zebras, jaguars, skunks, fish and much more.

A comprehensive global database on terrestrial and marine protected areas.

Handy website to download public Facebook videos. Copy paste the URL of the video and download it in the available definition formats.

Check if a telephone number is present within the Facebook data breach.

Meta Content Library is a controlled-access tool that lets approved academic and non-profit researchers search the full public archive of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads posts, in near-real-time.

A tool that allows a keyword search on Facebook on a specific date or within a specific time frame.

Compares two human face photos to determine similarity.

A facial recognition search engine that tries to find photos of people that look similar to a person of interest.

Practical face restoration algorithm for old photos or AI-generated faces

An AI-powered facial recognition reverse image search tool.

Upload the picture of a face and find pictures of similar looking people on VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, TikTok and Clubhouse.

VGG Face Finder (VFF) Engine Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause. VFF is a web application that serves as a web engine to perform searches for faces over an user-defined image dataset. It is based on the original appli…

A user interface to search OpenStreetMap data for features in proximity to each other.

GeoHints is a website that provides information about things like traffic lights, utility poles, bollards etc. for different regions of the world to help geolocate a location.

The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million place names that are available for download free of charge Extremely useful in Geo Tagging, documentation, and data collection.

Search engine that lets users visually query images for similar geographic features. The platform from Descartes Labs is built on satellite imagery from Landsat, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and PlanetScope.

Geotagged VK posts.

ShadeMap is a global simulation of mountain, building & tree shadows for a given date & time. Base data is free, but users can buy 30cm accurate data per sq km for areas of special focus.

To analyse shadows in source imagery, Shadow Finder maps all points on the earth where a shadow of given length could occur at a given date & time, IF the height of the object casting it is known.

Tilting global map of 3D buildlings and the shadows they cast at a specific time of the day, but date fixed at “today” in free version. Paid versions allow date change and offer 3D models.

A natural language interface for querying the OpenStreetMap database to find locations which meet the search criteria described by the user.

Suncalc models the relationship between the date, time of day, the geographic location of a place, and the position of the sun in the sky, together with the length & direction of the shadows it casts.

Compares two human face photos to determine similarity.

A facial recognition search engine that tries to find photos of people that look similar to a person of interest.

Github – Locating exact matches of duplicate files.

A collection of web-based image forensics tools. Can identify fake or doctored images.

Image forensics tool.

Search engine that lets users visually query images for similar geographic features. The platform from Descartes Labs is built on satellite imagery from Landsat, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and PlanetScope.

Practical face restoration algorithm for old photos or AI-generated faces

Google Lens is an image recognition tool which can be used to identify locations or objects in photographs.

A tool for detecting audio deepfakes.

Hugin is a free and open-source panorama photo stitching and HDR (High Dynamic Range imaging) merging software that helps users create seamless panoramic images from multiple photographs.

A web-based tool for verifying the authenticity of images.

Open source software for processing and analyzing images.

A toolkit that supports the verification of videos and images.

Tool for simulating camera views (for geolocations).

Windows-based software to extract metadata.

Remove EXIF/metadata.

Online EXIF data viewer

Check metadata for both photos and videos online.

An AI-powered image geolocalization tool to determine where a photo was taken even if its EXIF metadata lacks GPS coordinates.

An AI-powered facial recognition reverse image search tool.

PixPlot is a tool that utilizes machine learning and WebGL to provide an interactive visualization of large image collections, allowing users to explore patterns and outliers within image datasets.

Image workspace; lets you arrange images in groups, organize them, etc.

Forensic providing eight filters to detect still images alterations. “Web-based image tool. Also available within InVID verification plugin.

RootAbout is a reverse image search tool that pulls indexed images from the Internet Archive.

A browser extension to reverse search an image on multiple search engines.

Upload the picture of a face and find pictures of similar looking people on VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, TikTok and Clubhouse.

TinEye is a search engine that allows the user to search using images (reverse image search).

VGG Face Finder (VFF) Engine Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause. VFF is a web application that serves as a web engine to perform searches for faces over an user-defined image dataset. It is based on the original appli…

The VGG Image Classification (VIC) Engine is an open source project developed at the Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause. VIC is a web application that serves as a web engine to perform image classification queries ove…

(VGG Image Search Engine) This standalone application can be used to do a reverse image search on a large collection of images.

A Firefox add-on for extracting EXIF metadata by right-clicking an image.

A command line tool that allows users to find location tags near a specified latitude and longitude.

Download pictures or videos (with metadata) from Instagram.

Download public Instagram Stories, Highlights and Videos.

A user interface to search OpenStreetMap data for features in proximity to each other.

F4Map is an interactive 3D map visualization tool that provides detailed rendering of urban landscapes and geographical features.

Gaode Maps (also known as AMap) is a mapping application and technology from the Chinese company Alibaba.

Geograph is a website that attempts to create a comprehensive collection of photographs of every part of given region.

Mapping service for Albania (specially Kosovo)

Explore tree cover loss and gain data, recent deforestation and fire alerts, land use designations, carbon emissions, biodiversity metrics and more.

Google Maps provides mapping information, satellite imagery and Google Street View imagery including historical Street View images.

GovMap provides an interactive map of Israel, offering users a wide range of data including property boundaries, planning information, and infrastructure details.

Mapping service that can serve as an alternative to Google Maps or Apple Maps.

Hitta.se is a comprehensive Swedish search engine and map that provides detailed information and contact details for businesses and individuals across Sweden.

A mapping application provided by South Korean technology company Kakao Corp.

This tool helps you estimate and fact-check the maximum number of people standing in a given area.

Mapillary is a crowdsourced street-level imagery platform.

Chrome extension switches between online map apps, maintaining (as far as possible) the map centre, zoom level, & directions of the source map.

Mapping service for Czechia

South China Sea maps with oil and gas fields, fishing areas, air defense zones and administrative, claimed, disputed zones, submarine data cables.

Displays a world map overlaid with infra-red data from one or more satellites, some, but not all of which may represent heat from fires and explosions.

Power lines, telecoms, solar, oil, gas & water infrastructure mapped globally.

Sea map of borders, special zones, shipping lanes, with overlays of MarineTraffic and other sources

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.

Overpass Turbo is a web-based tool for querying and visualizing OpenStreetMap crowd sourced data, aiding in extracting specific information like locations of amenities e.g.hospitals.

Dual window views for any global location: (1) a 2-D map & (2) a 3-D rendered terrain model, with photo fitting, shade/slope mapping, sun trails & weather data. In active development for OS research.

QGIS is a free Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS).

A tool that brings several maps into one place for easy location search.

Satellites.pro allows open source researchers to quickly switch between several free satellite imagery and mapping services.

ShadeMap is a global simulation of mountain, building & tree shadows for a given date & time. Base data is free, but users can buy 30cm accurate data per sq km for areas of special focus.

Tilting global map of 3D buildlings and the shadows they cast at a specific time of the day, but date fixed at “today” in free version. Paid versions allow date change and offer 3D models.

Social media fitness app with exercise map based on users’ GPS data.

Tencent Maps is a mapping service provided by the Chinese technology company Tencent. Tencent Maps provides maps, satellite imagery, and street view.

Over 200 years of maps and topography from the Netherlands.

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A proprietary geocode system which identifies any location on the surface of the earth to a resolution of 3 metres. The identifier is a unique combination of three words, available in 60 languagues.

Wikimapia was a long-running collaborative mapping project that remains partially accessible, providing open source researchers with a unique database of historical, user-generated content.

A platform offering detailed maps, satellite imagery, street views (static & sometimes dynamic imagery, including aerial views). Often the best available data on Russia & surrounding regions.

A user interface to search OpenStreetMap data for features in proximity to each other.

A free web-based platform for viewing, analyzing, and downloading satellite imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel missions, with data updated every 5-10 days.

F4Map is an interactive 3D map visualization tool that provides detailed rendering of urban landscapes and geographical features.

Gaode Maps (also known as AMap) is a mapping application and technology from the Chinese company Alibaba.

Geograph is a website that attempts to create a comprehensive collection of photographs of every part of given region.

GeoHints is a website that provides information about things like traffic lights, utility poles, bollards etc. for different regions of the world to help geolocate a location.

Search engine that lets users visually query images for similar geographic features. The platform from Descartes Labs is built on satellite imagery from Landsat, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and PlanetScope.

Mapping service for Albania (specially Kosovo)

Explore tree cover loss and gain data, recent deforestation and fire alerts, land use designations, carbon emissions, biodiversity metrics and more.

Google Earth Engine is a platform for environmental monitoring and analysis through satellite imagery and geospatial data.

Google Earth is a geospatial tool that provides detailed, global satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain models, and the ability to explore geographic data interactively.

Google Maps provides mapping information, satellite imagery and Google Street View imagery including historical Street View images.

GovMap provides an interactive map of Israel, offering users a wide range of data including property boundaries, planning information, and infrastructure details.

Mapping service that can serve as an alternative to Google Maps or Apple Maps.

Hitta.se is a comprehensive Swedish search engine and map that provides detailed information and contact details for businesses and individuals across Sweden.

A database of remote sensing indices and satellite imaging sensors

A mapping application provided by South Korean technology company Kakao Corp.

KartaView is a crowdsourced platform for street view imagery.

Mapping service for Slovakia

This tool helps you estimate and fact-check the maximum number of people standing in a given area.

Mapillary is a crowdsourced street-level imagery platform.

Mapping service (and streetview in a couple of French cities)

Chrome extension switches between online map apps, maintaining (as far as possible) the map centre, zoom level, & directions of the source map.

Mapping service for Czechia

South China Sea maps with oil and gas fields, fishing areas, air defense zones and administrative, claimed, disputed zones, submarine data cables.

Displays a world map overlaid with infra-red data from one or more satellites, some, but not all of which may represent heat from fires and explosions.

NASA Worldview is an online tool for visualizing and downloading near real-time satellite imagery and scientific data of Earth’s atmosphere, land, and oceans.

Platform for accessing open-licensed satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery

Power lines, telecoms, solar, oil, gas & water infrastructure mapped globally.

Sea map of borders, special zones, shipping lanes, with overlays of MarineTraffic and other sources

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.

Predicts & describes the position & path of 10K satellites in Earth orbit, relative to points on the earth’s surface input by the user, for 5 days ahead, + International Space Station video feed.

Overpass Turbo is a web-based tool for querying and visualizing OpenStreetMap crowd sourced data, aiding in extracting specific information like locations of amenities e.g.hospitals.

Dual window views for any global location: (1) a 2-D map & (2) a 3-D rendered terrain model, with photo fitting, shade/slope mapping, sun trails & weather data. In active development for OS research.

Geotagged VK posts.

Planet Labs PBC is an American optical satellite imagery company that sells access to imagery.

QGIS is a free Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS).

A tool that brings several maps into one place for easy location search.

Bellingcat’s radar interference tracker can be used to locate and monitor active military radar systems.

Real-time weather satellites of the entire globe

Satellites.pro allows open source researchers to quickly switch between several free satellite imagery and mapping services.

ShadeMap is a global simulation of mountain, building & tree shadows for a given date & time. Base data is free, but users can buy 30cm accurate data per sq km for areas of special focus.

Tilting global map of 3D buildlings and the shadows they cast at a specific time of the day, but date fixed at “today” in free version. Paid versions allow date change and offer 3D models.

SkyFi is used to purchase commercial satellite imagery and task (order the collection of images) satellites without a subscription.

Aerial, satellite and drone imagery on a global map.

Social media fitness app with exercise map based on users’ GPS data.

Tencent Maps is a mapping service provided by the Chinese technology company Tencent. Tencent Maps provides maps, satellite imagery, and street view.

Over 200 years of maps and topography from the Netherlands.

Umbra is an American synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging company that sells on-demand taskings for satellite imagery.

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A proprietary geocode system which identifies any location on the surface of the earth to a resolution of 3 metres. The identifier is a unique combination of three words, available in 60 languagues.

Wikimapia was a long-running collaborative mapping project that remains partially accessible, providing open source researchers with a unique database of historical, user-generated content.

A platform offering detailed maps, satellite imagery, street views (static & sometimes dynamic imagery, including aerial views). Often the best available data on Russia & surrounding regions.

A collection of web-based image forensics tools. Can identify fake or doctored images.

Image forensics tool.

A web-based tool for verifying the authenticity of images.

A toolkit that supports the verification of videos and images.

Windows-based software to extract metadata.

Remove EXIF/metadata.

Online EXIF data viewer

Check metadata for both photos and videos online.

An AI-powered image geolocalization tool to determine where a photo was taken even if its EXIF metadata lacks GPS coordinates.

Forensic providing eight filters to detect still images alterations. “Web-based image tool. Also available within InVID verification plugin.

A Firefox add-on for extracting EXIF metadata by right-clicking an image.

Github – Locating exact matches of duplicate files.

A collection of web-based image forensics tools. Can identify fake or doctored images.

A tool for detecting audio deepfakes.

Hugin is a free and open-source panorama photo stitching and HDR (High Dynamic Range imaging) merging software that helps users create seamless panoramic images from multiple photographs.

A web-based tool for verifying the authenticity of images.

Open source software for processing and analyzing images.

A toolkit that supports the verification of videos and images.

Tool for simulating camera views (for geolocations).

An AI-powered image geolocalization tool to determine where a photo was taken even if its EXIF metadata lacks GPS coordinates.

PixPlot is a tool that utilizes machine learning and WebGL to provide an interactive visualization of large image collections, allowing users to explore patterns and outliers within image datasets.

Image workspace; lets you arrange images in groups, organize them, etc.

The VGG Image Classification (VIC) Engine is an open source project developed at the Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause. VIC is a web application that serves as a web engine to perform image classification queries ove…

Does an email address appear in data breaches?

holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function.

Find user details in data breaches

A username and domain search tool that checks on which platforms or domain a given username is registered.

Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation.

Allows a user to search for the presence of specific usernames across more than 400 websites and social networks.

Social Media Investigations – name, phone, email, username searches

Search social media mentions and content across various platforms.

Search for usernames on several hundred platforms

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension for collecting social media posts that are visible in your web browser, enabling systematic analysis of content from platforms that are hard to scrape via APIs.

Simple tool to help search for different ways of writing a name.

A user interface to search OpenStreetMap data for features in proximity to each other.

Mostly good for US.

Nationwide Plane Registry. Search by N-Number (a.k.a. callsign). Comprehensive list of privately owned planes in the US.

FlightAware is a global flight-tracking platform that provides real-time data on aircraft movements. It offers live tracking, historical data, and predictive analytics via its website and apps.

Flightradar24, a real-time flight tracking service, that provides comprehensive information about aircraft positions, flight numbers, routes, historical data, detailed aircraft specifications.

IP geolocation service to identify the location and other technical information associated to IP addresses.

GeoHints is a website that provides information about things like traffic lights, utility poles, bollards etc. for different regions of the world to help geolocate a location.

The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million place names that are available for download free of charge Extremely useful in Geo Tagging, documentation, and data collection.

Search engine that lets users visually query images for similar geographic features. The platform from Descartes Labs is built on satellite imagery from Landsat, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and PlanetScope.

Open-source network analysis and visualization software

Phonenumber ID app – draws from crowdsourced contactbooks

A command line tool for obtaining information about Google accounts.

A digital platform for investigating fishing activities and vessel movements worldwide by utilising satellite and AIS data.

Explore tree cover loss and gain data, recent deforestation and fire alerts, land use designations, carbon emissions, biodiversity metrics and more.

Illicit online wildlife markets data from Brazil, South Africa and Thailand.

A site dedicated to connect suppliers and buyers of goods from all over the world.

Gongsi Wang (formally known as Manshang Gongsi Wang 满商公司网) is a repository for information about Chinese companies.

A visual tool to monitor river levels and forecast floods based on AI models developed by Google Research.

GPSJam.org is a daily map that visualizes the GPS/GNSS disruptions on aircraft worldwide. It collects and presents 24-hour data showing areas experiencing interference.

grep.app is a free web-based search engine that allows users to search the contents of public GitHub repositories.

Does an email address appear in data breaches?

Hitta.se is a comprehensive Swedish search engine and map that provides detailed information and contact details for businesses and individuals across Sweden.

An archiving tool that tracks online activities and preserves essential information about the web pages researchers visit.

This tool allows you to search for the current registration data of internet domain names.

A database providing otherwise secret information about more than 810k offshore companies, foundations, and trusts based on leaks like the Panama Papers or the Paradise Papers.

IDN Checker detects visually similar versions of a domain.

A combined list of known illegal, unreported, unregular fishing vessels

Ship/shipping-related information from the IMO

Commercial supplier of trade data for 23 countries. Paid service but journalists can ask for free access.

Search US customs inbound sea shipment records, find company suppliers.

Find user details in data breaches

Search over 750 million open source US court cases, patents and lawsuits.

An online tool that allows you to search across public data breaches to surface credentials that may have been compromised.

Collection of tools and maps for discerning license plates by country

Connects the dots between influential / wealthy individuals in (mostly US) politics and business.

Audio from air traffic control towers in the United States. Aircraft have to identify themselves to ATC towers, so in cases where aircraft are trying to obscure their information from other sites, it might be another way to grab tail number…

LiveUAMap is a mapping tool that provides up-to-date information on global geopolitical events, conflicts, and crises.

A repository for desert locust data with maps and other resources for tracking movements, early detection and planning locust control interventions.

Logseq is an open-source knowledge management tool that enables users to organize their notes, tasks, and projects.

A research project collecting and publishing legal takedown notices for online content transparency

Maigret is a Python script that retrieves user information by searching for usernames across various websites and social media platforms.

Maltego Graph is an investigation platform that combines two things at once: (1) It acts as a search tool, and (2) It creates a graph establishing links between data you uncover from your search.

An open, community-based project, providing (near) real-time information on the movements of ships and their locations in harbours and ports.

Identify birds (visually), through an app.

Platform for animal tracking data.

Analyse the links of any website.

A username and domain search tool that checks on which platforms or domain a given username is registered.

The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) is a resource of information for wild land ground fires.

A tool for investigating Proton Mail addresses.

Look up by name, state, and phone number. Last names are partially censored for free accounts.

Search for people and companies in EU corporate and trade registers + visualize relationships

An AI powered expansive research/learning tool

View current and historic wind, weather, ocean and pollution conditions on an interactive animated map.

A knowledge management and note-taking app with extensive customization options.

Aleph offers a way to research sanctions lists, corporate registries, leaks, and more

Links to beneficial ownership registers.

A searchable library of verified images for researchers, journalists, and practitioners trying to learn more about munitions and their use and impact in conflict.

Comprehensive repository of company registries around the world

a detailed online map of the world’s railway infrastructure

Open-source international database of sanctions data, persons of interest and politically exposed persons.

Data on campaign finance, lobbying, and spending in U.S. politics

Community, open source flight tracking network.

An interactive worldwide map, showcasing business registries, court records, and other publicly available information to aid OSINT investigations and research.

find individuals, phonenumbers, and adresses

Geotagged VK posts.

A tool by Google to catalogue uploaded documents and files, providing OCR, indexing, and other services. Full access only granted to journalists, academic researchers and university students.

Identity information for professionals

Live flight tracker.

A database providing searchable access to California law enforcement records including police use-of-force incidents, shootings, and misconduct cases.

PublicWWW is a source code search engine that allows you to search for any alphanumeric snippet, signature, or keyword within the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code of millions of web pages.

QGIS is a free Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS).

Look up phone numbers/names (Sweden)

RAWGraphs is an open-source data visualization tool designed for non-technical users, enabling the creation of customizable, editable charts without coding skills.

A free open-data platform that hosts 300+ datasets on different topics relating to the environment and human well-being, including real-time datasets.

Calculate which water stream a drop of rain will follow

Online database of politically exposed persons in Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

A comprehensive database of current and historical OFAC/UN/EU sanctions

Finding public record information online in over 70,000 databases organized by type and location to help you find property, criminal, court, birth, death, marriage, divorce records, licenses, deeds, mortgages, corporate records, business re…

ShadeMap is a global simulation of mountain, building & tree shadows for a given date & time. Base data is free, but users can buy 30cm accurate data per sq km for areas of special focus.

To analyse shadows in source imagery, Shadow Finder maps all points on the earth where a shadow of given length could occur at a given date & time, IF the height of the object casting it is known.

Tilting global map of 3D buildlings and the shadows they cast at a specific time of the day, but date fixed at “today” in free version. Paid versions allow date change and offer 3D models.

Allows a user to search for the presence of specific usernames across more than 400 websites and social networks.

ShipFinder is an application designed to track vessels in near real-time across the globe, available on iPhone and Android platforms (but no longer PC)

Community website for uploading pictures & details of vessels spotted around the world.

A search engine for internet-connected devices, from webcams to databases.

Social Media Investigations – name, phone, email, username searches

Centralized website with vulnerable species information.

People search through email, phone, name

A natural language interface for querying the OpenStreetMap database to find locations which meet the search criteria described by the user.

Suncalc models the relationship between the date, time of day, the geographic location of a place, and the position of the sun in the sky, together with the length & direction of the shadows it casts.

Find out how common a name is in Sweden based on census data

A tool for analyzing content replication and site architecture to detect information laundering.

Search criminal court case details in the UK, such as sentence, hearing, defendant, etc.

An international directory of white pages and yellow pages phone books, and online directory enquiries. It’s a free, independent and up-to-date guide to telephone directories on the web.

A tool for creating, visualizing, and managing timelines online.

Ship inspection/history database (PSC Database)

(public) transit routes visualized – near global

Truecaller is a caller ID app that identifies incoming calls, blocks unwanted numbers, and gathers phone numbers and names from contact lists. It also performs a reverse phone number search.

Find leaked credentials.

United Nations free database of global trade.

UNOSAT Analyses is a tool that maps humanitarian emergencies across the globe utilising United Nations Satellite Centre data.

urlscan.io is an online tool that allows investigators to analyse, monitor, and document websites in real time.

State-by-state guide for researching criminal and civil court cases

Uwazi is an open-source platform that simplifies the management of document collections, particularly for human rights documentation in the justice and advocacy fields.

Live marine vessel tracker

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine lets users view and archive web pages, aiding in historical research and digital preservation.

A browser extension to view archived and cached versions of a website on multiple archiving sites.

A tool that you can use to identify the technologies used to power a website.

Search for usernames on several hundred platforms

Whoxy is a domain search engine or “whois lookup” tool to find (the history of) registration information on a domain, such as the registrar, the status of the domain and the date of registration.

Wikipedia list of official business registers around the world.

Public transport database.

Tracking tool for data on environmental and wildlife crime cases, including court cases and convictions, across the globe.

An open-source tool to search wildlife seizure data worldwide.

Open source pattern recognition software to identify unique whales, sharks, zebras, jaguars, skunks, fish and much more.

Platform which combines maritime-related data.

A comprehensive global database on terrestrial and marine protected areas.

Global overview of yellow/white pages, court cases, business registries etc.

Sends you an email when a keyword is mentioned on Reddit.

Searches images from VK profiles (within certain limits)

Find the profile picture and public Google Map Reviews + Photos associated with a G-mail adress. Also checks for phone numbers, and checks for email addresses on social networks

Check if an email address has been used to comment on blogs and whether there is a profile image attached.

Build a clean timeline of any LinkedIn activity from a single URL or a whole list of links.

Find usernames, track username changes on minecraft

Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation.

Geotagged VK posts.

Search PlayStation username, see daily activity, games played, country, and profile pic

RedditMetis is an online tool that analyses any public Reddit profile and returns charts and statistics on the user’s activity, language, sentiment and favourite sub-communities.

Allows a user to search for the presence of specific usernames across more than 400 websites and social networks.

Searchable map of geotagged snaps.

Lookup player names, view (more) previously used names, and when accounts befriended eachother (Free). View screenshots of account, (bulk) seach based on previously used names (paid).

Social media fitness app with exercise map based on users’ GPS data.

See public comments left by an account, profile photos used, and very basic facial recognition

Search gamertags, see games played and recorded game clips

Simple tool to help search for different ways of writing a name.

Mostly good for US.

Phonenumber ID app – draws from crowdsourced contactbooks

A command line tool for obtaining information about Google accounts.

Does an email address appear in data breaches?

Hitta.se is a comprehensive Swedish search engine and map that provides detailed information and contact details for businesses and individuals across Sweden.

Find user details in data breaches

Search over 750 million open source US court cases, patents and lawsuits.

An online tool that allows you to search across public data breaches to surface credentials that may have been compromised.

Maigret is a Python script that retrieves user information by searching for usernames across various websites and social media platforms.

A username and domain search tool that checks on which platforms or domain a given username is registered.

A tool for investigating Proton Mail addresses.

Look up by name, state, and phone number. Last names are partially censored for free accounts.

find individuals, phonenumbers, and adresses

Identity information for professionals

Look up phone numbers/names (Sweden)

Finding public record information online in over 70,000 databases organized by type and location to help you find property, criminal, court, birth, death, marriage, divorce records, licenses, deeds, mortgages, corporate records, business re…

Allows a user to search for the presence of specific usernames across more than 400 websites and social networks.

Social Media Investigations – name, phone, email, username searches

People search through email, phone, name

Find out how common a name is in Sweden based on census data

Search criminal court case details in the UK, such as sentence, hearing, defendant, etc.

An international directory of white pages and yellow pages phone books, and online directory enquiries. It’s a free, independent and up-to-date guide to telephone directories on the web.

Truecaller is a caller ID app that identifies incoming calls, blocks unwanted numbers, and gathers phone numbers and names from contact lists. It also performs a reverse phone number search.

Find leaked credentials.

State-by-state guide for researching criminal and civil court cases

Search for usernames on several hundred platforms

Global overview of yellow/white pages, court cases, business registries etc.

Search engine that lets users visually query images for similar geographic features. The platform from Descartes Labs is built on satellite imagery from Landsat, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and PlanetScope.

Google Lens is an image recognition tool which can be used to identify locations or objects in photographs.

A web-based tool for verifying the authenticity of images.

A toolkit that supports the verification of videos and images.

RootAbout is a reverse image search tool that pulls indexed images from the Internet Archive.

A browser extension to reverse search an image on multiple search engines.

TinEye is a search engine that allows the user to search using images (reverse image search).

(VGG Image Search Engine) This standalone application can be used to do a reverse image search on a large collection of images.

A free web-based platform for viewing, analyzing, and downloading satellite imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel missions, with data updated every 5-10 days.

Search engine that lets users visually query images for similar geographic features. The platform from Descartes Labs is built on satellite imagery from Landsat, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and PlanetScope.

Google Earth Engine is a platform for environmental monitoring and analysis through satellite imagery and geospatial data.

Google Earth is a geospatial tool that provides detailed, global satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain models, and the ability to explore geographic data interactively.

Google Maps provides mapping information, satellite imagery and Google Street View imagery including historical Street View images.

GovMap provides an interactive map of Israel, offering users a wide range of data including property boundaries, planning information, and infrastructure details.

Mapping service that can serve as an alternative to Google Maps or Apple Maps.

A database of remote sensing indices and satellite imaging sensors

Mapping service for Slovakia

Mapping service (and streetview in a couple of French cities)

Chrome extension switches between online map apps, maintaining (as far as possible) the map centre, zoom level, & directions of the source map.

NASA Worldview is an online tool for visualizing and downloading near real-time satellite imagery and scientific data of Earth’s atmosphere, land, and oceans.

Platform for accessing open-licensed satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery

Predicts & describes the position & path of 10K satellites in Earth orbit, relative to points on the earth’s surface input by the user, for 5 days ahead, + International Space Station video feed.

Planet Labs PBC is an American optical satellite imagery company that sells access to imagery.

QGIS is a free Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS).

Bellingcat’s radar interference tracker can be used to locate and monitor active military radar systems.

Real-time weather satellites of the entire globe

Satellites.pro allows open source researchers to quickly switch between several free satellite imagery and mapping services.

SkyFi is used to purchase commercial satellite imagery and task (order the collection of images) satellites without a subscription.

Aerial, satellite and drone imagery on a global map.

Tencent Maps is a mapping service provided by the Chinese technology company Tencent. Tencent Maps provides maps, satellite imagery, and street view.

Umbra is an American synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging company that sells on-demand taskings for satellite imagery.

A proprietary geocode system which identifies any location on the surface of the earth to a resolution of 3 metres. The identifier is a unique combination of three words, available in 60 languagues.

A platform offering detailed maps, satellite imagery, street views (static & sometimes dynamic imagery, including aerial views). Often the best available data on Russia & surrounding regions.

Sends you an email when a keyword is mentioned on Reddit.

Handy website to download public Facebook videos. Copy paste the URL of the video and download it in the available definition formats.

Searches images from VK profiles (within certain limits)

A command line tool for obtaining information about Google accounts.

Find the profile picture and public Google Map Reviews + Photos associated with a G-mail adress. Also checks for phone numbers, and checks for email addresses on social networks

Check if an email address has been used to comment on blogs and whether there is a profile image attached.

Does an email address appear in data breaches?

Check if a telephone number is present within the Facebook data breach.

Hoaxy is a web-based search and visualization tool. It helps visualize the spread of information on Bluesky and X (Twitter).

holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function.

A command line tool that allows users to find location tags near a specified latitude and longitude.

Download pictures or videos (with metadata) from Instagram.

Google-based search engine for Telegram (includes Telegago)

Find user details in data breaches

Build a clean timeline of any LinkedIn activity from a single URL or a whole list of links.

Meta Content Library is a controlled-access tool that lets approved academic and non-profit researchers search the full public archive of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads posts, in near-real-time.

MW Geofind is a tool for finding geotagged YouTube videos.

A username and domain search tool that checks on which platforms or domain a given username is registered.

Find usernames, track username changes on minecraft

Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation.

Geotagged VK posts.

Search PlayStation username, see daily activity, games played, country, and profile pic

A search engine that searches the subtitles of about 380 (right/left) radical YouTube channels. You query for example for “q says” of “voter fraud” in 170,000 videos, and the search results will link you to the specific time-code in the vid…

RedditMetis is an online tool that analyses any public Reddit profile and returns charts and statistics on the user’s activity, language, sentiment and favourite sub-communities.

Allows a user to search for the presence of specific usernames across more than 400 websites and social networks.

Social Media Investigations – name, phone, email, username searches

Searchable map of geotagged snaps.

Search social media mentions and content across various platforms.

Lookup player names, view (more) previously used names, and when accounts befriended eachother (Free). View screenshots of account, (bulk) seach based on previously used names (paid).

Download public Instagram Stories, Highlights and Videos.

Social media fitness app with exercise map based on users’ GPS data.

Telegago is a Google Custom Search Engine tailored for searching public Telegram content for OSINT purposes.

Automate joining multiple Telegram groups and channels, ideal for researchers monitoring specific topics.

Command line tool for checking if phone numbers are connected to Telegram accounts and retrieving related information where available.

TelegramDB is a searchable database service that allows users to explore public Telegram groups and channels via a dedicated bot.

Telemetr.io offers a range of Telegram-related services based on a catalog of Telegram channels: country and category-specific rankings, curated collections, real-time event tracking, and an API.

An analytical search tool for Telegram groups and channels.

Telepathy is a versatile Telegram toolkit for OSINT analysts, enabling chat archiving, memberlist gathering, user location lookup, top poster analysis, message mapping, and more.

TGStat is a web-based analytics tool for Telegram that monitors active channels and provides profile analytics and statistics. It tracks channel subscribers’ growth rate, reach, and citation index.

Python – This is an unofficial api wrapper for TikTok.com in python. With this api you are able to call most trending and fetch specific user information as well as much more.

Search Telegram channels.

A website that estimates how many of an X/Twitter account’s followers are likely real or fake.

Download videos from X (formerly Twitter) by converting tweet URLs into downloadable video links.

Twitter/X Advanced Search is X’s own tool to help users find more precise information on the platform by filtering posts according to criteria such as location, user, date or popularity.

Discover real-time conversations and trends in any area with X’s built-in location search. Search by latitude and longitude coordinates or distance for targeted local content.

See public comments left by an account, profile photos used, and very basic facial recognition

Search for usernames on several hundred platforms

A tool that allows a keyword search on Facebook on a specific date or within a specific time frame.

Search gamertags, see games played and recorded game clips

An alternative to Amnesty’s YT viewer, with slightly more information.

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension for collecting social media posts that are visible in your web browser, enabling systematic analysis of content from platforms that are hard to scrape via APIs.

Geograph is a website that attempts to create a comprehensive collection of photographs of every part of given region.

GeoHints is a website that provides information about things like traffic lights, utility poles, bollards etc. for different regions of the world to help geolocate a location.

Google Earth is a geospatial tool that provides detailed, global satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain models, and the ability to explore geographic data interactively.

Google Maps provides mapping information, satellite imagery and Google Street View imagery including historical Street View images.

KartaView is a crowdsourced platform for street view imagery.

Mapillary is a crowdsourced street-level imagery platform.

Chrome extension switches between online map apps, maintaining (as far as possible) the map centre, zoom level, & directions of the source map.

Geotagged VK posts.

Tencent Maps is a mapping service provided by the Chinese technology company Tencent. Tencent Maps provides maps, satellite imagery, and street view.

A proprietary geocode system which identifies any location on the surface of the earth to a resolution of 3 metres. The identifier is a unique combination of three words, available in 60 languagues.

Wikimapia was a long-running collaborative mapping project that remains partially accessible, providing open source researchers with a unique database of historical, user-generated content.

A platform offering detailed maps, satellite imagery, street views (static & sometimes dynamic imagery, including aerial views). Often the best available data on Russia & surrounding regions.

Google-based search engine for Telegram (includes Telegago)

Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation.

Telegago is a Google Custom Search Engine tailored for searching public Telegram content for OSINT purposes.

Automate joining multiple Telegram groups and channels, ideal for researchers monitoring specific topics.

Command line tool for checking if phone numbers are connected to Telegram accounts and retrieving related information where available.

TelegramDB is a searchable database service that allows users to explore public Telegram groups and channels via a dedicated bot.

Telemetr.io offers a range of Telegram-related services based on a catalog of Telegram channels: country and category-specific rankings, curated collections, real-time event tracking, and an API.

An analytical search tool for Telegram groups and channels.

Telepathy is a versatile Telegram toolkit for OSINT analysts, enabling chat archiving, memberlist gathering, user location lookup, top poster analysis, message mapping, and more.

TGStat is a web-based analytics tool for Telegram that monitors active channels and provides profile analytics and statistics. It tracks channel subscribers’ growth rate, reach, and citation index.

Search Telegram channels.

Open Measures helps open source researchers investigate harmful online activity such as extremism and disinformation.

Python – This is an unofficial api wrapper for TikTok.com in python. With this api you are able to call most trending and fetch specific user information as well as much more.

Nationwide Plane Registry. Search by N-Number (a.k.a. callsign). Comprehensive list of privately owned planes in the US.

FlightAware is a global flight-tracking platform that provides real-time data on aircraft movements. It offers live tracking, historical data, and predictive analytics via its website and apps.

Flightradar24, a real-time flight tracking service, that provides comprehensive information about aircraft positions, flight numbers, routes, historical data, detailed aircraft specifications.

GPSJam.org is a daily map that visualizes the GPS/GNSS disruptions on aircraft worldwide. It collects and presents 24-hour data showing areas experiencing interference.

A combined list of known illegal, unreported, unregular fishing vessels

Ship/shipping-related information from the IMO

Collection of tools and maps for discerning license plates by country

Audio from air traffic control towers in the United States. Aircraft have to identify themselves to ATC towers, so in cases where aircraft are trying to obscure their information from other sites, it might be another way to grab tail number…

An open, community-based project, providing (near) real-time information on the movements of ships and their locations in harbours and ports.

a detailed online map of the world’s railway infrastructure

Community, open source flight tracking network.

Live flight tracker.

ShipFinder is an application designed to track vessels in near real-time across the globe, available on iPhone and Android platforms (but no longer PC)

Community website for uploading pictures & details of vessels spotted around the world.

Ship inspection/history database (PSC Database)

(public) transit routes visualized – near global

Live marine vessel tracker

Public transport database.

Platform which combines maritime-related data.

Hoaxy is a web-based search and visualization tool. It helps visualize the spread of information on Bluesky and X (Twitter).

A website that estimates how many of an X/Twitter account’s followers are likely real or fake.

Download videos from X (formerly Twitter) by converting tweet URLs into downloadable video links.

Twitter/X Advanced Search is X’s own tool to help users find more precise information on the platform by filtering posts according to criteria such as location, user, date or popularity.

Discover real-time conversations and trends in any area with X’s built-in location search. Search by latitude and longitude coordinates or distance for targeted local content.

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A global directory of online surveillance cameras which do not have password protection.

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A maritime tracking application designed to provide real-time information about vessels across the globe

A historical database providing vital navigational and meteorological warnings, forecasts, and urgent maritime safety information to ships.

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A map of the world’s electricity, gas, water, and other infrastructure, using data from OpenStreetMap (OSM).

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Soar is a platform sharing a growing database of over a million entries (maps, satellite, aerial & radar imagery), access to imagery from statellite providers, and tools to create geographic narrative

Live Satellite Monitoring and Centralized Data Access, providing seamless access the world of earth observation satellites.

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Search and review TikTok ads and related metadata for transparency and research.

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State-by-state guide for navigating custody databases

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A simple web‑based toolkit that lets you check whether a WhatsApp number is online, and track online activity patterns in real time.

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A tool for collecting, organizing, annotating, citing, and sharing research sources.

Compares two human face photos to determine similarity.

A facial recognition search engine that tries to find photos of people that look similar to a person of interest.

Github – Locating exact matches of duplicate files.

A collection of web-based image forensics tools. Can identify fake or doctored images.

Image forensics tool.

Search engine that lets users visually query images for similar geographic features. The platform from Descartes Labs is built on satellite imagery from Landsat, the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), and PlanetScope.

Practical face restoration algorithm for old photos or AI-generated faces

Google Lens is an image recognition tool which can be used to identify locations or objects in photographs.

A tool for detecting audio deepfakes.

Hugin is a free and open-source panorama photo stitching and HDR (High Dynamic Range imaging) merging software that helps users create seamless panoramic images from multiple photographs.

A web-based tool for verifying the authenticity of images.

Open source software for processing and analyzing images.

A toolkit that supports the verification of videos and images.

Tool for simulating camera views (for geolocations).

Windows-based software to extract metadata.

Remove EXIF/metadata.

Online EXIF data viewer

Check metadata for both photos and videos online.

An AI-powered image geolocalization tool to determine where a photo was taken even if its EXIF metadata lacks GPS coordinates.

An AI-powered facial recognition reverse image search tool.

PixPlot is a tool that utilizes machine learning and WebGL to provide an interactive visualization of large image collections, allowing users to explore patterns and outliers within image datasets.

Image workspace; lets you arrange images in groups, organize them, etc.

Forensic providing eight filters to detect still images alterations. “Web-based image tool. Also available within InVID verification plugin.

RootAbout is a reverse image search tool that pulls indexed images from the Internet Archive.

A browser extension to reverse search an image on multiple search engines.

Upload the picture of a face and find pictures of similar looking people on VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, TikTok and Clubhouse.

TinEye is a search engine that allows the user to search using images (reverse image search).

VGG Face Finder (VFF) Engine Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause. VFF is a web application that serves as a web engine to perform searches for faces over an user-defined image dataset. It is based on the original appli…

The VGG Image Classification (VIC) Engine is an open source project developed at the Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause. VIC is a web application that serves as a web engine to perform image classification queries ove…

(VGG Image Search Engine) This standalone application can be used to do a reverse image search on a large collection of images.

A Firefox add-on for extracting EXIF metadata by right-clicking an image.

IP geolocation service to identify the location and other technical information associated to IP addresses.

grep.app is a free web-based search engine that allows users to search the contents of public GitHub repositories.

This tool allows you to search for the current registration data of internet domain names.

IDN Checker detects visually similar versions of a domain.

Find user details in data breaches

Analyse the links of any website.

PublicWWW is a source code search engine that allows you to search for any alphanumeric snippet, signature, or keyword within the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code of millions of web pages.

A search engine for internet-connected devices, from webcams to databases.

A tool for analyzing content replication and site architecture to detect information laundering.

urlscan.io is an online tool that allows investigators to analyse, monitor, and document websites in real time.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine lets users view and archive web pages, aiding in historical research and digital preservation.

A browser extension to view archived and cached versions of a website on multiple archiving sites.

A tool that you can use to identify the technologies used to power a website.

Whoxy is a domain search engine or “whois lookup” tool to find (the history of) registration information on a domain, such as the registrar, the status of the domain and the date of registration.

Hoaxy is a web-based search and visualization tool. It helps visualize the spread of information on Bluesky and X (Twitter).

A website that estimates how many of an X/Twitter account’s followers are likely real or fake.

Download videos from X (formerly Twitter) by converting tweet URLs into downloadable video links.

Twitter/X Advanced Search is X’s own tool to help users find more precise information on the platform by filtering posts according to criteria such as location, user, date or popularity.

Discover real-time conversations and trends in any area with X’s built-in location search. Search by latitude and longitude coordinates or distance for targeted local content.

A command line tool for obtaining information about Google accounts.

MW Geofind is a tool for finding geotagged YouTube videos.

A search engine that searches the subtitles of about 380 (right/left) radical YouTube channels. You query for example for “q says” of “voter fraud” in 170,000 videos, and the search results will link you to the specific time-code in the vid…

An alternative to Amnesty’s YT viewer, with slightly more information.