about
OSINT Verified is a curated directory of 247 open-source intelligence tools and 13 investigation playbooks. Most tool lists are long, stale and unstructured. This one aims to be the list you actually reach for mid-investigation: organised by the identifier you hold, with honest metadata on every entry.
how to read an entry
- free
- Core functionality costs nothing.
- freemium
- Useful free tier, with limits or paid upgrades.
- paid
- Subscription or per-query pricing to do anything meaningful.
- active
- Touches the target's own infrastructure (scanning, crawling, visiting) or may otherwise alert them, e.g. profile-view notifications or password-reset emails. Unlabelled tools are passive: they query third-party data only.
- acct req
- You need an account to use it. Plan for sock puppets where needed.
- oss
- Open source. You can self-host and audit it.
- cli
- Platform: cli, desktop, extension, mobile, dataset. Web is the default and isn't shown.
- degraded
- Known to be partially broken or unreliable. Still listed because it's sometimes useful; see the tip.
An amber // comment on a card is our own verdict from using the tool. ★1 marks our top picks for a selector, in order.
Selectors are the identifiers a tool accepts as input. Verified is the date someone last confirmed the tool is up and does what the entry says.
keyboard
- Ctrl K / ⌘ K: jump to any tool, selector or playbook
- /: focus search
- j k or arrow keys: move through results · ↵ open the tool · i details
contributing
Everything lives as YAML in src/data/. To add a tool, append an entry to the matching file in src/data/tools/ and open a pull request. npm run validate checks the schema, duplicate IDs and URLs, and that playbook references point at real tools. Inclusion criteria:
- It works today, and you've used it.
- It does something the existing entries don't, or does it notably better.
- The metadata is honest, especially pricing and opsec.
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use responsibly
These tools are listed for lawful research: journalism, security research, due diligence, fraud investigation, missing-persons work, and protecting yourself. Laws on data collection, data brokers and facial recognition differ by country. You are responsible for knowing yours. Don't stalk, harass or dox people. Treat information about private individuals with care, minimise what you collect, and remember the person on the other end.
Listing a tool isn't an endorsement. No tool here pays to be listed.