November 8, 2026
- The Privacy Policy and the Data Processing Agreement add Sentry, which receives error reports from our server and our pages so we can fix what breaks. Email addresses, cookies, form contents and query strings are removed before a report is sent.
October 30, 2026
- A free report on 5 pictures, no DNS record. The free Where are my images? report now has a second way in: create a free account (no card) and upload up to 5 pictures, and we search the web for copies straight away. The report on your whole website, with the DNS record, is still there. One of each per account or site.
- The Privacy Policy says what we keep for a report on uploaded pictures: a reduced copy of each, deleted with the report.
October 25, 2026
- Lower prices and a new Lite plan. Lite is $5 a month ($50 a year) for 5,000 real-image views, 200 images and 3 patrols a month. Starter is now $9 a month ($90 a year) and Studio $25 a month ($250 a year). Business stays at $99. See Pricing.
October 23, 2026
- A safety check for your own site. On the Your site tab, a safety check reads your website, including a WordPress media library, and lists any file that shows one of your protected pictures without protection, usually an original left behind after you protected it. It also finds pages missing the loader and share images that will look scrambled. You prove the site is yours with a DNS record, and it’s included with every plan and the free trial.
- A demo site. demo.pixelsentinel.net is a gallery of AI-made photos, art and graphics built on Pixel Sentinel, with unprotected pictures beside the protected ones for comparison, a patrol that searches for both, a read-only look at its dashboard, and the code behind it in seven languages.
- 14-day free trial, no card needed. Every new account starts with 5,000 real-image views, up to 100 images stored and 2 patrols, to try Pixel Sentinel on your own site. Choose a plan before the 14 days are up to keep your real images showing. See Pricing.
- Traffic by country, on a map, again. The Traffic tab once more breaks requests down by network (a shortened address), country, browser or bot, operating system and device, with a world map of where views come from. Click a country to see only its requests.
- Watermarks point to the view again. Each viewer gets a watermark of their own, so “Trace a leaked copy” and patrol reports show the page, network, browser and time of the view a copy was taken from, not just the site and day. Marks made between October 21 and 23 still give the site and day only.
- Only for you. We keep these details only to give you your traffic report and leak tracing. We never use them for advertising or marketing, and never sell them. The Privacy Policy, Data Processing Agreement and Terms of Service say so.
October 21, 2026
- Checkout through Stripe. Choose a plan in your dashboard and pay on Stripe’s secure checkout, by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Link. Stripe’s Link is the merchant of record: it works out sales tax or VAT and sends your receipts. Manage billing opens Stripe’s portal to update your card, see invoices or cancel. The Terms, Refund Policy and Privacy Policy say so.
- Nothing about your visitors is kept any more. We no longer store anything about the people who view your images: no network address, country, browser, operating system or device. The Traffic tab now counts requests by image, site and what happened, and its map of requests is gone. What we already held about visitors has been deleted from our database, and older copies in backups and logs expire on their own within 90 days.
- Watermarks stand for a site and a day. The invisible watermark in a large view now says which image, which site and which day a copy came from, the same for everyone viewing it there that day. “Trace a leaked copy” and patrol reports show those, and no longer a viewer’s network or browser. Each download link and each copy for social media still carries a mark of its own.
- The Privacy Policy, Data Processing Agreement and Terms of Service say so.
October 20, 2026
- Maps of where your images go. The Traffic tab now has a world map of where requests for your images come from. Hover a country for its real views, scrambled copies, blocked requests and downloads; click it to see only that country’s traffic. Traffic can also be broken down by country.
- Patrol reports show where copies are hosted, on a map and in a new “Hosted in” column, with the company that runs each site’s network. Click a country to list only the copies there. The free Where are my images? report has the same map.
- The Privacy Policy says we look up the country of each visitor’s shortened network, on our own servers.
October 19, 2026
- Unused views roll over. Views you don’t use now carry over, month to month and year to year, for as long as your account is active and in good standing. You paid for them, so they stay with you as your audience grows. They expire when your plan ends. The Terms of Service say so.
October 16, 2026
- Where are my images? A free report. Anyone with a website can now find out where its photos and artwork have been copied or hotlinked, and which countries the copies are hosted in, without an account. Add a DNS record to show the site is yours, and we search for up to 50 of your pictures. One per site: try it.
- The Privacy Policy says what we keep for a free report and for how long, and lists Cloudflare, which runs the bot check on our forms.
October 13, 2026
- Copies for social media. Facebook, Instagram and marketplaces keep their own copy of what you post, where our protection can’t follow. Copy for social media, beside each image, makes a copy to post instead of your original: only as large as the platform shows, with your copyright notice inside and an invisible watermark for that platform. A trace or a patrol then tells you which post a copy was taken from.
- Takedown notices. Each copy in a patrol report has a Takedown notice button. It writes the notice for you and opens the right copyright form for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X, TikTok, YouTube, Etsy, Amazon, eBay and others. You check it and send it.
- Upload records. Every new upload gets a fingerprint of your file and a timestamp signed by an independent authority: evidence of when you had it. See it with Upload record, beside the image.
October 10, 2026
- Very large files count for more. A picture is still 1 view and a full-size download 10. A file over 512 KB now counts 1 view for each 512 KB, and each plan stores up to a number of images. See Pricing and the Terms of Service.
- Trace a leak for longer. The records behind Trace a leaked copy are now kept for two years after a view, up from 180 days, so a copy you find later can still be traced. Traffic reports stay at 180 days. The Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement say so, and customers are emailed about the change.
- Help articles. The Help button now opens a knowledge base: setup guides for WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Wix and Webflow, troubleshooting, billing, API guides, and how your data is kept.
- The Help window opens faster. It no longer waits several seconds before loading.
- Deleting your account cancels your plan. You no longer need to cancel it separately first.
- A plain-language summary now opens the Acceptable Use Policy.
- New pages: About, Service status, Security and this one.
October 8, 2026
- Help button. Ask a question from any page. If you’re signed in, you can see your earlier requests and our replies.
October 7, 2026
- An API for your own server. Upload and delete images, create download links, manage your approved sites and read your traffic report. Create a client under API access in your dashboard.
- API reference for signed-in customers.
- Images are now served from
argus.pixelsentinel.net.
October 6, 2026
- Content review. Uploads are checked automatically against the Acceptable Use Policy, on our own servers. Artists and journalists can ask for approval to publish artistic nudity or conflict imagery under Content approvals.
- More from a trace. Tracing a leaked copy now also shows what the file says about itself, such as the camera and the date.
- Terms you agree to, and notice when they change. Sign-up records your agreement, and we email you at least 14 days before a significant change.
October 5, 2026
- Plans. Starter, Studio and Business, monthly or yearly, bought online from your dashboard.
- Uploads accept JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF.
October 4, 2026
- Your data, in your hands. Download everything we hold about your account, or delete your account and every image, from Your data in the dashboard.
- Sign in with Google. Use your Google account instead of a password.
- Analytics only with your consent. Our public pages ask before loading Google Analytics.
October 2, 2026
- The dashboard moved to pixelsentinel.net.
- Traffic report. See every request for your images: real views, scrambled copies and blocked attempts, by site, network, browser and image.
- A clearer banner on scrambled copies, with your name and copyright notice.
- Live demo on the home page.