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Is this photo real, or did AI make it?

Drop in a photo. We take the file apart, show you what we found, and say how much it actually proves.

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Upload the original file, not a screenshot. A screenshot is a new photograph of a screen. Everything that answers the question lives inside the original file, and the screenshot does not carry any of it, so the answer will always be “cannot tell”. Ask whoever sent the picture for the file itself, as a document or an attachment rather than as a photo. Which files work, and which never will →

No image handy? Run an example

The file is read on your device and never uploaded. No account, no limit. It still works with the internet switched off, which is the easiest way to check that first claim.

Who needs this

You can no longer tell by looking. That is the whole problem, and it lands on different people in different ways.

Someone made a fake of you

A picture of you is going around and you never took it. To get it removed you need something you can show a platform, a school or a lawyer, not a feeling. Drop the file in and you get what is actually written inside it.

You report, moderate or fact-check

You have to decide whether to publish, and the file came from someone you cannot expose. Nothing is uploaded here, so a sensitive image never leaves your device, no server sees it, including ours, because there isn’t one.

You are about to trust a stranger

A rental listing, a dating profile, a marketplace photo, proof that a job was done. Generated pictures cost nothing to make, which makes them the cheapest part of a scam.

You teach, or you are a parent

Children are shown pictures and asked to believe them, and increasingly they are put into pictures too. Showing a young person how to check a file themselves lasts longer than telling them what to believe.

Every one of these used to be answered by looking closely. That stopped working. What is left is what the file itself can be made to say, and that is what this reads back to you.

How the check works

Nothing is uploaded. Your own browser does all of it, in four passes.

  1. First. We open the file up
  2. Second. We check what the file claims
  3. Third, what the AI left behind
  4. Fourth. The shape of the file itself

How the check works, in full →

The one thing worth remembering

A clean file is not a real photo. Metadata is trivial to remove. A screenshot does it by accident. Absence of an AI marker is never proof of authenticity.

Markers are strong evidence in one direction and none at all in the other. Any tool that treats silence as innocence is selling certainty it does not have.

Compared with other detectors → What it can and cannot prove → Why this suddenly matters →