Movie clip finder

Movie clip finder: what movie is this clip from?

A movie clip finder takes a short piece of video and tells you what it came from. Trace is a free one. Share a clip from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or X, paste its link on this page, or upload a video from your phone in the app. Trace comes back with the title of the film or show, the exact moment the clip was taken from when it can find it, and the services streaming it in your country. For a TV clip you get the season and episode, not only the show name. You do not need to describe the scene, remember a line or make an account.

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Free. Share a clip from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or X straight to Trace, or upload one saved on your phone. The box below takes links; uploads need the app.

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How to find a movie from a clip

1

Copy or share the clip

In TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or X, tap Share. Choose Trace if you have the app, or copy the link.
2

Give it to Trace

The app picks the clip up from the share sheet. Without the app, paste the link in the box on this page.
3

Get the answer

Trace names the film or show, the moment the clip comes from, and where it is streaming where you live.

An example

Say a Reel shows thirty seconds of a car chase and a caption that just says "this movie is so underrated". Nobody in the comments names it. Copy the Reel link and paste it into the box above, or share it to Trace from Instagram.

What comes back is the film title and year, the point in the film the chase starts, and the services carrying it in your country. If the clip turns out to be from a series, you get the show plus the season and episode instead. If Trace cannot place it, it says so rather than guessing.

What a good clip finder has to handle

Clips on social apps are rarely clean. They are cropped to vertical, carry captions and stickers, and run faster or slower than the original. A finder that only works on clean footage fails on exactly the clips people ask about. Trace is built for clips as they are actually shared.

It also has to cover more than Hollywood. About 1 in 3 titles Trace finds is not in English, so a scene from a Korean, Spanish or Indian film is not a dead end.

Clip finder or the comments?

Asking "what movie is this" in the comments works sometimes, and slowly. Reverse image search on a screenshot works for famous stills and struggles with everything else. A clip finder answers from the clip you have, in one step, and adds the two things a comment rarely does: where in the film the clip is, and where you can watch it.

Questions

Is the Trace movie clip finder free?

Yes. Trace is free on iOS and Android, and you can try it on this page by pasting a link, with no account.

Which apps does it work with?

TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X. In the app you can also upload a video saved on your phone.

Does it find TV shows as well as movies?

Yes. For a TV clip Trace names the show and the season and episode the clip comes from.

Does it tell me where to watch?

Yes. Each answer lists the services streaming the title in your country.

What if the clip is not from a movie at all?

Trace tells you it could not find a match instead of guessing. You can try another clip straight away.

Get Trace, free

With the app installed, Trace sits in the share sheet of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X, and keeps everything you find in one library.