TWILOX vs Sherlock
The classic username-search CLI from sherlock-project.
What is Sherlock?
Sherlock is a free, open-source command-line tool that takes a username and checks roughly 400 platforms to see where the handle is in use. It produces raw JSON or a printed list; correlation, evidence storage, and a narrative are up to you.
How TWILOX compares
TWILOX runs Sherlock alongside Maigret (the deeper, harder-to-tune alternative), Holehe for email-to-platform mapping, PhoneInfoga for phone, ExifTool for images, SpiderFoot for domain / IP / company, TorBot for dark-web, FaceCheck.ID and PimEyes for face recognition, and a Playwright headless-browser worker for Google Lens / Bing Visual Search / Surfface. The findings stream into a Neo4j identity graph, an AI layer writes the executive summary, and the result is a cinematic, citable dossier with PDF export.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Sherlock | TWILOX |
|---|---|---|
| Username search (400+ sites) | Yes | Yes (Sherlock + Maigret) |
| Email exposure | No | Yes (Holehe + breach corpora) |
| Phone intelligence | No | Yes (PhoneInfoga + 16-country directories) |
| Dark-web monitoring | No | Yes (TorBot via Tor SOCKS) |
| Face recognition | No | Yes (FaceCheck.ID + PimEyes) |
| Reverse-image (Lens/Bing) | No | Yes (Playwright worker) |
| Identity graph | No | Yes (Neo4j AuraDB) |
| AI executive narrative | No | Yes (Claude / GPT / Gemini fallback) |
| PDF export | No | Yes |
| Hosted (no install) | No (install) | Yes (web app) |
| Price | Free | $4.99 per dossier |