About howtofindtheip.com
A free, fast and privacy-friendly toolkit for one deceptively simple question: where am I on the internet? — your IP address, what it reveals, your DNS footprint, your QR codes, and your device's real GPS position.
Why we built this
Checking your IP address shouldn't require an account, an app, or a page buried under ads and pop-ups. howtofindtheip.com does one job the moment it loads: it shows your public IPv4 or IPv6 address, plus the country, city and Internet Service Provider (ISP) behind it — and then explains, in plain language, what those numbers actually mean.
Along the way it has grown into a small toolkit for everything location-adjacent: mapping your IP, checking its reputation and its DNS footprint, and — with your permission — pinpointing your device's actual GPS position and translating any coordinates on Earth into an address. More recently it gained a complete, fully private QR toolkit: generate codes, scan them with your camera, or decode them from an image.
How it works (and why that's good for privacy)
This site is fully static. There is no backend server, no database and no analytics profile being built about you. When you open the site, your own browser queries independent public services directly to fetch the details you see:
- ipwho.is, ipify, ipquery.io and proxycheck.io — IP address, connectivity and proxy/VPN detection;
- Google DNS and Cloudflare DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS) — blacklist, reverse DNS, DNS records and domain-to-IP lookups;
- OpenStreetMap and Esri — map tiles and satellite imagery;
- your device's Geolocation API and camera — your GPS position on Where Am I and the QR scanner's video feed, used only after you allow it;
- Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) and BigDataCloud — turning coordinates into addresses on the GPS tools;
- jsDelivr CDN — the small open-source QR libraries (jsQR, qrcode-generator) your browser downloads.
Those requests go directly from your device to those providers under their own privacy policies; nothing passes through us, and nothing is stored by us. GPS coordinates never leave your device at all — only the anonymous coordinate pair is sent for the address lookup. The QR tools are even stricter: camera frames, images you drop and the codes you generate are processed entirely inside your browser — nothing about them is sent anywhere.
What the site offers
- Instant IP lookup — public IP, IPv4/IPv6 connectivity, ISP, ASN, timezone and approximate location.
- IP location on a map — for your own address or any address you enter.
- Where Am I (GPS) — your device's precise coordinates, accuracy radius and full address, with satellite view.
- GPS Coordinates — enter coordinates or click the map to get the address of any point on Earth.
- Blacklist check — live DNSBL spam/abuse lookups.
- Proxy & VPN check — detect anonymising networks and risk scores.
- Reverse IP (PTR) lookup — resolve an address back to its hostname.
- DNS checker — every DNS record of any domain: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, SOA and CAA.
- Domain to IP — resolve a domain to its IPv4/IPv6 addresses, with hosting network and location.
- QR code generator — create QR codes for links, Wi-Fi, email, phone and SMS, downloadable as PNG.
- QR code scanner — scan with your camera or decode a picture, entirely in your browser.
- QR code reader — decode a QR code from any image on your device.
- Traceroute guide — trace a connection's route from any OS.
- Step-by-step guides — find IPs, hostnames and MAC addresses on every platform.
Our promise
- Free forever for the core tools — no paywalls, no accounts.
- Privacy by design — no storage, no profiling, minimal third-party calls, and GPS data that stays on your device.
- Honest answers — including what IP and GPS data can't tell you.
Contact
Found a bug, an inaccurate result, or want to suggest a feature? Get in touch — we read everything.