Sherlock Alternatives

Apps similar to Sherlock include SearXNG, which is free and open source. Other options are Blackbird OSINT, SpiderFoot, Intelligence X and OSINT-tool. Web Search Engines like Sherlock are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for the web, Linux, Mac, Windows and self-hosting.

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  1. OSINTsearch icon
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    OSINTsearch is a live username search engine for investigators and researchers. Type a handle and get matching public profiles as sources respond, including former usernames and traces of deleted accounts where sources still return them.

    20 OSINTsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    A Python package and command-line interface (CLI) tool for asynchronous OSINT username enumeration using the WhatsMyName dataset.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
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  3. Castrick icon
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    An #OSINT platform to discover valuable insights about anyone through reverse email, username, and phone number lookups, leaving no trace behind.

    8 Castrick alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Behind the Email is an identity intelligence and OSINT platform that turns an email address into a detailed digital profile by correlating public records, social accounts, professional history, and breach exposure data.

    9 Behind the Email alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Hudson Rock icon
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    With expertise developed at the cybercrime intelligence division at the prestigious 8200 cyber unit at the IDF, Hudson Rock’s powerful cybercrime threat intelligence feed provides invaluable data for infrastructure protection, end-user protection, and supply chain risk...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. eTools.ch icon
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    A so-called metasearch engine or federated search, that simultaneously searches major Swiss and international search engines, merges their results and shows them relevance-sorted in a concise form.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. Reverse email lookup (OSINT) tool that finds the online accounts registered to any email address across 800+ social, dating, gaming, finance, and professional services, grouping the results by category with per-match confidence scores.

    25 CheckMate.bio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Good alternative?
     
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    Bulk Instagram, Threads, Facebook and Gmail account checker: see which accounts are alive or banned and the country each one is based in.

    7 Scrynx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    Good alternative?
     
  9. Tookie-osint has a simple-to-use UI and is really straightforward. The main idea of Tookie-osint is to discover usernames that are requested from an input. Tookie-osint is similar to the tool called Sherlock.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    Good alternative?
     
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