Comparison

Get Sauce vs Advanced Search Smart Options

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Get Sauce

Easily find the original source of any image, including anime artwork and screenshots, using 13 different search engines. Supports share sheet integration and basic image editing before searching.

Highlights
  • 13 search engines
  • Anime artwork search
  • Screenshot search
  • Share sheet integration
  • Image editing (crop, rotate)
  • Find original sources
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Reverse Image Search with 13 Different Search Engines. Also best for anime artworks and screenshots! Get Sauce makes it easy to find the source (original articles, artwork pages, user posts, etc.) of your images. It also supports searching on the share sheet, so you don’t have to open the app every time! Supported Search Engines: • Google Images • Google Lens • Bing Visual Search • Baidu Image Recognition • Yandex Images • Lenso.ai • TinEye • Pinterest Lens • Reddit Repost Sleuth • SauceNAO • IQDB • Ascii2d • WAIT: What Anime Is This? You can make simple edits to the image, such as cropping and rotating, before searching. -- Privacy Policy: https://get.sauce.jp/ios/privacy.html License Agreement: https://get.sauce.jp/ios/tos.html

About

Advanced Search Smart Options

Simplify complex web searches by inputting keywords. This tool automatically generates advanced search queries with operators for precise results. Explore options like exact matches, date ranges, and specific file types.

Highlights
  • Keyword-based advanced search
  • Automatic search operator generation
  • AND, OR, and exclusion searches
  • Numerical and date range filtering
  • Specify site, domain, and file type
  • Search scope selection (title, content, URL)
Features
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This app allows you to perform advanced web searches with just inputting keywords. Web searches can be conducted using search operators, enabling various search options. However, using search operators often requires combining alphabets and symbols with spaces, which can become cumbersome. For instance, When you want to search for "Apple Inc." articles within Wikipedia's page content, you would need to input the following: allintext: apple -fruit site:wikipedia.org The app automatically generates such commands, enabling you to perform advanced searches by just inputting keywords. The search engine used is Google. Available Search Criteria ・AND search, including all keywords ・Exact match search for keywords ・OR search, including any of the keywords ・Exclusion search, excluding certain keywords from results ・Numerical ranges (e.g., from $1,000 to $5,000, from 3kg to 10kg) ・Range of update dates ・Language ・Region ・Specific sites or domains ・Related sites ・File formats (pdf, doc, xls, ppt, etc.) ・Search scope (page title only, page content only, page URL only, etc.)

Screenshots

Get Sauce4 screens
Advanced Search Smart Options4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Get Sauce at 4.6 against Advanced Search Smart Options's 4.4. Get Sauce also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (5 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Get Sauce sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Advanced Search Smart Options sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Get Sauce holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 29 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Get Sauce's written reviews are positive against 71% of Advanced Search Smart Options's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Get Sauce ships an update every 2 weeks, Advanced Search Smart Options every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Get Sauce versus Advanced Search Smart Options: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGet SauceAdvanced Search Smart Options
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (25 ratings) — better4.4 (29 ratings)
Positive reviews74.2% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings2529 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB7 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperYusuke Yamadamanabu ueda

Customer experience

Get Sauce

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive74.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative22.6%

Advanced Search Smart Options

All ratings30 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Get Sauce

One-time4
  • Bronze Tip$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Silver Tip$2.99
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  • Gold Tip$9.99
1 purchases

Advanced Search Smart Options

One-time1
  • Ad-Free Plan$3.99

Questions

Is Get Sauce free?
Get Sauce is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Advanced Search Smart Options free?
Advanced Search Smart Options is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Get Sauce or Advanced Search Smart Options?
Get Sauce is rated higher. Get Sauce averages 4.6 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Advanced Search Smart Options averages 4.4 from 29 ratings.
Do Get Sauce or Advanced Search Smart Options have ads?
Both Get Sauce and Advanced Search Smart Options show ads.
Which is updated more often, Get Sauce or Advanced Search Smart Options?
Get Sauce ships an update every 2 weeks, and Advanced Search Smart Options every 2 months. Most recently, Get Sauce was updated on October 30, 2026 and Advanced Search Smart Options on October 25, 2026.

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