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OSINT Framework

73 curated OSINT tools and sources across 15 categories. Filter by category, by pricing tier (free / free-with-account / freemium / paid), or full-text search.

Hand-picked subset of osintframework.com — every entry was reachable when added. Pairs with Username Pivot, Wayback Machine Pivot, and SOCMINT Pivots.

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DuckDuckGo free

Search engines

Privacy-respecting search; useful for second-opinion queries against Google's personalised results.

Yandex free

Search engines

Strong on RU/CIS content + reverse image search that often finds matches Google misses.

Baidu free

Search engines

Primary search index for the China region; complements Google when investigating PRC targets.

Million Short free

Search engines

Search excluding the most-popular sites — surfaces long-tail / niche pages.

X / Twitter Advanced Search free w/ account

Social media

Date-bounded, account-bounded, language-filtered tweet search. Login wall increasingly restrictive.

Social Bearing freemium

Social media

Twitter analytics, hashtag search, location-bounded queries.

Bluesky search free w/ account

Social media

Native Bluesky search — author + keyword + date filters.

Reddit advanced search free

Social media

Subreddit-bounded keyword search; pair with site: dorks for archived comments.

Sherlock free

Username search

CLI tool that hunts a username across 400+ services. The reference implementation.

WhatsMyName.app free

Username search

Web-based username search across hundreds of sites with categorised filters.

Namechk free

Username search

Quick brand-availability scan across ~100 social/domain destinations.

Have I Been Pwned free

Email recon

Authoritative breach-disclosure database; check email and password exposure.

EmailRep freemium

Email recon

Reputation lookup for an email address — domain age, SMTP signals, social presence.

Hunter.io freemium

Email recon

Email finder + verifier; surfaces patterns and known emails for a given domain.

Epieos freemium

Email recon

Email lookup pivoting to Google account ID, public reviews, reverse phone-to-email.

Gravatar free

Email recon

Public Gravatar profile by MD5 of an email — confirms registration + sometimes reveals real name.

Truecaller free w/ account

Phone-number recon

Crowdsourced caller-ID; useful when the number is in their database.

NumLookup free

Phone-number recon

Phone-number validation, carrier, location.

libphonenumber demo free

Phone-number recon

Google's libphonenumber demo — country, region, carrier, line type.

WhoisXML freemium

Domain / IP / network

Domain registration data, historical WHOIS, reverse-WHOIS pivots.

ViewDNS.info free

Domain / IP / network

Aggregate of WHOIS, DNS, port scan, IP history, reverse IP, MX.

Censys Search freemium

Domain / IP / network

Internet-wide scan data — hosts, certificates, services. Strong CT-log-based pivots.

Shodan freemium

Domain / IP / network

Service-banner search engine; classic for finding exposed devices and services.

urlscan.io free w/ account

Domain / IP / network

Sandboxed URL submission with screenshot, DOM, network calls. Public corpus is searchable.

crt.sh free

Domain / IP / network

Certificate Transparency log search — find subdomains via cert issuance.

DNSdumpster free

Domain / IP / network

Quick subdomain + DNS-record visualisation for a domain.

BGP.tools free

Domain / IP / network

ASN / prefix / peering visualisations for incident-network attribution.

spur.us paid

Domain / IP / network

Anonymous-traffic intelligence (residential proxies, VPN, Tor, infrastructure tagging).

TinEye freemium

Image & video

Reverse image search; strong on first-known-occurrence + crop-tolerance.

Google Lens free

Image & video

Largest reverse-image index. Drop an image to find similar across the web.

Yandex Images free

Image & video

Best-in-class for face matching — finds matches Google routinely misses.

InVID Verification Plugin free

Image & video

Browser extension for video / image verification — keyframe extraction, EXIF, reverse search.

Forensically free

Image & video

In-browser image-forensics suite — ELA, clone detection, magnifier, geo metadata.

GeoSpy.ai freemium

Geolocation

AI-driven photo geolocation — guesses location from visual cues.

OpenStreetMap (Overpass) free

Geolocation

Query OpenStreetMap with Overpass QL — find every petrol station within X metres of a coord.

MapChecking free

Geolocation

Crowd-density estimation for events / protests / footage.

SunCalc free

Geolocation

Sun azimuth + elevation by location and time — confirm a photo's claimed time/place by shadow direction.

Pipl paid

People search

Identity-resolution database; fee but high-quality cross-source pivots.

ThatsThem free

People search

US-focused free people-search — name → phone, address, family.

FastPeopleSearch free

People search

US directory aggregator; has opt-out for the privacy-conscious.

OpenCorporates free

Company / corporate

Largest open registry of companies — ownership, filings, jurisdiction crossover.

GLEIF / LEI Search free

Company / corporate

Global Legal Entity Identifier registry — verify legal-entity identity across borders.

SEC EDGAR free

Company / corporate

Public company filings (US). 8-K incident disclosures land here.

MCA India free w/ account

Company / corporate

Indian Ministry of Corporate Affairs — directors, ROC filings, charges.

archive.today free

Archive / Wayback

On-demand snapshot service that tends to capture pages Wayback declines.

CachedView free

Archive / Wayback

Aggregator for cached versions across Google, Bing, archive.today, Wayback.

Ransomlook.io free

Dark web / CTI

Active leak-site tracker with API + RSS. See also /threatintel/darkweb on this site.

IntelligenceX freemium

Dark web / CTI

Search engine across darknet, leaks, paste sites. Limited free tier.

deepdarkCTI free

Dark web / CTI

Continuously updated repository of dark web and CTI sources, by fastfire.

MalShare free w/ account

Dark web / CTI

Free malware repository; researcher-oriented sample sharing.

OXT (Bitcoin) free

Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin transaction graph + entity clustering — strong for tracing flows.

Arkham Intelligence free w/ account

Cryptocurrency

On-chain analytics + entity attribution across BTC, ETH, and many EVM chains.

Breadcrumbs.app freemium

Cryptocurrency

Visual crypto-flow tracing across multiple chains.

Flightradar24 freemium

Transport / tracking

Live flight tracking + historical playback (paid for full history).

ADS-B Exchange free

Transport / tracking

Unfiltered ADS-B feed including aircraft other trackers redact.

MarineTraffic freemium

Transport / tracking

AIS-based vessel tracking — port calls, voyages, ownership.

CourtListener free

Public records

Free index of US federal and many state court filings (RECAP archive).

PACER paid

Public records

Official US federal court records — pay-per-page, but authoritative.

judyrecords free

Public records

Free US case-law / case-record search across many state systems.

DeepFind.Me freemium

Search engines

Comprehensive OSINT platform — username search (50+ platforms), geolocation, email/domain recon, metadata extraction, dark-web link checking, and crypto wallet tracking.

OSINT Tools free

Search engines

Curated OSINT tools directory with community collections, featured tools, and new-tool discovery feed.

Ghostint Tools free

Search engines

Curated OSINT and cybersecurity tools directory — categorized tools for reconnaissance, social media investigation, and digital forensics.

Orca OSINT/CTI free

Dark web / CTI

OSINT and threat intelligence search platform — unified queries across data sources for indicator lookups and infrastructure discovery.

Web Check free

Domain / IP / network

All-in-one website analysis — DNS, SSL/TLS, security headers, WHOIS, tech stack, and performance audit from a single URL.

DataBreach.com free

Email recon

Breach search platform — check if credentials or personal data have been exposed in known data breaches.

Digital Defense free

Search engines

OPSEC and privacy toolkit — operational security guides, digital footprint reduction checklists, and secure communications reference.

Awesome Privacy free

Search engines

Curated list of privacy-focused tools — VPNs, encrypted messaging, password managers, and privacy-first software alternatives.