Is there a Shazam for movies?
Yes, for clips. Shazam listens to a few seconds of a song and names it. Trace takes a video clip from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or X, or one saved on your phone, and names the film or TV show it comes from, the moment inside it when it can, and where it is streaming.
It is free on iOS and Android, and you can try it on this page.
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.
Free: 3 traces a week on the webUnlimited in the appNo signupUsually under a minute
How to use Trace like Shazam
- 1
Find the clip
Any short video of a film or TV scene, the way it turns up in your feed.
- 2
Hand it over
Share it to Trace from the app you are in, or paste its link in the box on this page.
- 3
Read the answer
The title and year, the season and episode for a series, the moment, and the streamers near you.
Where the comparison holds, and where it does not
Like Shazam, Trace answers from the thing itself. You do not type a description, guess a genre or remember an actor's name, and the clip can be cropped, captioned or reposted many times over.
Unlike Shazam, Trace does not listen to the room. It needs a video: a link to a post, or a clip saved on your phone.
What Trace cannot do
It does not identify songs; that is still Shazam's job. It cannot name a film from a description, a single photo or a poster. It works on films and TV shows, so a clip from a game, an advert or a creator's own sketch comes back as no match, and Trace says so instead of guessing.
If a film is playing in front of you, a short video of the screen, uploaded in the app, is worth a try, but a clean clip from a post works best.
Questions
Is there an app like Shazam for movies?
Yes. Trace names the film or TV show behind a video clip, the way Shazam names a song.
Can Trace identify the song in a clip?
No. Trace names films and TV shows. Use Shazam for the music.
Does Trace work from a description of a movie?
No. It needs the clip itself, as a link or a video saved on your phone.
Is it free like Shazam?
Yes. Trace is free on iOS and Android, and you can paste a link here to try it.
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.
More ways to find what you saw
- What movie is this?: The three ways that work, and the fastest one.
- Movie finder: Name the film or show behind any video clip.
- From a screenshot: What works when all you have is a still.
- Movie scene finder: Find the film and the exact moment a scene happens.
- Find a TV show from a clip: Name the series, the season and the episode.
- TikTok movie finder: Find the movie behind a TikTok clip or edit.
- Identify a movie from a clip: What a clip finder needs from you, and what you get back.
- Find a movie by a quote: Search the line the right way, then what to do when it fails.
- What scene is this from?: The exact moment in the film, not only the title.
- How to find a movie from a video clip: every way people try, and the quickest.
- Popular films and popular TV shows, with where to watch each.
- Often traced: Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Avengers, Interstellar, Pulp Fiction, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Stranger Things