Question 1

How do I check if a photo is AI-generated?

Accepted Answer

Upload the photo to Popped! (or paste it with Ctrl/⌘+V). In about a second you get one of three answers — Original, Photoshopped or AI = Popped! — with plain-English reasons, a tamper heatmap and a list of every check we ran. It's free on the website.

Question 2

Can Popped! detect ChatGPT, Gemini (Nano Banana) and Midjourney images?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Three deep-learning detectors trained on 2025–26 generators — including GPT-Image, Gemini / Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney 7, Seedream, FLUX and Grok — work together, and Popped! also reads AI tags, Content Credentials (C2PA) and Gemini's visible sparkle watermark. In our evaluation the ensemble caught 87% of AI images at a 1% false-alarm rate.

Question 3

How to check if a photo is original or not?

Accepted Answer

Drop it into Popped! — it's a free real or fake photo checker. It reads the hidden metadata, compares compression across the picture (Error Level Analysis), looks for cloned areas and runs AI image detection, then tells you Original, Photoshopped or AI = Popped! with the reasons. For important decisions, also zoom into text and shadows and reverse-search the image.

Question 4

Is there a free photoshop detector app?

Accepted Answer

Popped! works as a photoshop detector and fake image detector right in your phone's browser — Android or iPhone, nothing to install. Add popped.info to your home screen and it opens like an app. It's free for everyone on the website.

Question 5

How does Popped! know a photo was Photoshopped?

Accepted Answer

It looks for editing-app signatures (Photoshop, PicsArt, Canva, Snapseed, PixelLab and 40+ more), Error Level Analysis anomalies where text or seals were pasted, clone-stamped regions that duplicate camera noise, and camera thumbnails that no longer match the photo.

Question 6

Will a WhatsApp-forwarded photo be marked fake?

Accepted Answer

No. WhatsApp strips metadata and re-compresses every photo, so Popped! treats missing EXIF and WhatsApp compression as neutral. On 142 real smartphone photos, also re-sent through WhatsApp-style compression, only 1 was flagged.

Question 7

Is my photo stored or used for training?

Accepted Answer

No. Photos are analysed only in memory and discarded as soon as the answer is sent. They are never written to disk, logged, shared or used to train models.

Question 8

Is the AI detector 100% accurate?

Accepted Answer

No detector is. Popped! is a fast screening tool: treat an AI = Popped! or Photoshopped result as a reason for a closer human look, not as proof on its own.

Question 9

Is there an API for businesses?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Food-delivery, e-commerce, quick-commerce, insurance and HR platforms can call POST /api/v1/check from their refund or onboarding flow at ₹1 per photo, with monthly plans for high volume.

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