Second screen, first question
Photograph your paused screen. We’ll tell you who that is — and where you know them from.
Nothing we say happens after the scene you paused on. That is the spoiler ceiling, and it is the product.
Not live yet — this page is the trailer.
3 IDs a day will be free, with no account.
The four lost minutes
Somebody says “I know him from somewhere”. Then the phones come out, and the episode sits there, frozen, while four minutes go missing.
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Nothing. Or the cast page, which tells you who dies in episode 6.
You already need the title, the season and roughly where you are.
If you had all that, you would not be asking.
Prime Video only. Some titles.
Nothing for the nine other services you actually watch.
Ask whoever is sitting nearest.
Four minutes gone. The show is still paused. Nobody knows.
One frame in, one card out
Nothing here happens after this scene
I’ve finished it — show everything
as Inspector Roux in Cold Harbour·S2 E5
You know them from
“She learned to gut a fish on camera for the pilot, and asked to keep the knife.”
The anecdote
An example card, with an invented actor and title. We would rather show you the shape of the answer than put a real name in your mouth before we launch.
The Déjà-vu
Knowing the name rarely settles it. What settles it is the three to five roles you would actually recognise them from — the ones that make somebody in the room say it out loud.
So the card lands the name first, then unfurls the row, one still at a time. That small delay is deliberate. It reproduces recognition instead of reporting it.
The spoiler ceiling
Nothing after the scene you paused on.
Cast pages punish you for asking. We work out where you are in the story and stop there — no later seasons, no who-turns-out-to-be-what, no trivia from the finale.
When you have finished it, one control lifts the ceiling. Until then it stays down.
It opens in a browser. There is no app to install at the worst possible moment.
01
You already did. That is the whole trigger — a face, and the itch.
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In the browser, in one tap. No store, no install, no account. A photo of your TV is fine.
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The name, the role, the episode, and the roles you would actually recognise them from.
Public figures only
Who-is-it starts from the film or the series in your frame — the set, the costume, the light, the framing — works out the title and the character, and takes the cast from there. Everything on the card is then checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia.
We identify actors, presenters and people who are publicly known. Photographs of private people are refused, by design. That boundary is not a line at the bottom of a page. It is how the thing is built.
Free
3 IDs a day
Forever, with no account. A refused or failed ID never counts against the 3.
Lifetime Pass
€14.99
Paid once, not monthly. It removes the counter on every device where you enter the purchase email, under a published fair-use ceiling of 200 IDs a day.
It is not on sale yet. When it is, a refund will be one reply away for 30 days.
The next pause is already coming
Who-is-it launches in English and French, in the browser, free for the first 3 faces of every day. Send the link to whoever always argues with you about it.
Copies this page’s address. Nothing signs you up, and we ask for no email.