R/OSINT: A Cyberstalker's Review

On August 9th 2025 I bought a piece of shit Subaru from a scammer. The car is a nightmare and I'm suing the scammer. I'm able to sue the scammer because there is something broken in my brain and I have unearthed every piece of scam bullshit in his scam life. In the process of finding his home address and childrens' school, I ended up glancing off of r/OSINT several times and finding myself frustrated by some of the shit recs in their 'wiki' (c'mon guys use some bullet points, have some self respect).

As such, I'm here to review their recs from the perspective of an insane person who is hunting down the object of their obsession like a jealous ex rather than someone trying to put together a serious OSINT profile.

Review Standards

• Accessibility - I looked primarily at browser-based sites that could be used effectively in Firefox Mobile, nothing that I had to run locally.
• Is the rec pure shit? Is the site exploitative, expensive, and does the site owner think you're so, so fucking stupid?
• Is it multi-useless or a multi-tool?
• Do you need to register/create an account?

The Good

Not garbage! Worthwhile to use, would rec to a tech-clueless friend and not worry about them getting ripped off.

Whatsmyname.app

• Searches 600+ sites for instances for a username.
• Provides a printable report and links back to findings
• Is missing some social sites
• Requires that cookies be enabled

Instantusername.com

• Checks availability of usernames on a number of social sites
• Moderate error rate
• Doesn't tell you a lot but is extremely easy to use
• Makes it very easy to search multiple permutations of usernames

ViewDNS.info

• Multi-tool - many options for DNS/whois/registration/IP info lookup on a single page
• Extremely easy to use
• Fast lookup for reverse whois
• Good for tech-y people to get a lot of info, good for non-tech-y people to find basic info.

Mever Image Verification Assistant

• Photo editing artifact analysis
• Helps identify splicing, filtering, and image degradation

ImgOps

• Multitool!
• Exif data quickviewer
• One-click rehosting
• OCR
• QR Decode
• Specialized reverse search links

The Meh

Somewhat inaccessible, not particularly useful to crazed people searching on their phone at 4AM, but totally functional for broader research.

OSINTCombine free tools

• Multiple free social media and data visualization tools
• Handy curated bookmarks for OSINT geeks
• For people who actually want to report on disinfo or find groyper hangouts, not for people driven to ruin one particular person's life.

Broadcastify

• Online fire and police scanners
• Fiddly, hard to find very specific dispatch groups
• Free for HTML Web Player, paid for better listening options

Wayback Living Atlas

• Historical satellite photos
• Pain in the ass to see on mobile
• Variable history of images based on location