Comparison · jewellery
QuickLens vs mirrAR: which visual search fits a jewellery manufacturer's own catalogue?
QuickLens is for the salespeople and counter staff at jewellery manufacturers, wholesalers and retail chains. A buyer's photo goes in through WhatsApp, the web app or the API, and the closest designs come back from your own catalogue with SKU, weight and purity. mirrAR's visual search lets online shoppers search a brand's catalogue with a photo, screenshot or social media look, and its visual search site also has a section for B2B manufacturers. mirrAR also offers virtual try-on, which QuickLens does not.
Pranshu Jain · founder · IIT Bombay
Comparison checked on 2 November 2026 from each company's own website.
QuickLens and mirrAR side by side
| QuickLens | mirrAR | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Jewellery manufacturers, wholesalers and retail chains first; also packaging, textiles and auto components | Brands and retailers in jewellery, eyewear, watches, bags, makeup and more. Its visual search site has sections for B2B manufacturers, retail stores, ecommerce and franchise staff |
| Who does the searching | Your salespeople and counter staff, answering a buyer | Your online shoppers. Its visual search site adds: "Let your team or customers search your product catalog visually" |
| What it searches | Your own SKU master and product images | Your brand's catalogue ("Let shoppers search your catalog"), or "your existing inventory" on its visual search site |
| What goes in | A buyer's photo, or, with plain-words search, a request in trade language such as "letter P pendant with stones under 5 grams" | "photos, screenshots, or social media looks"; its visual search site also lists "Customer photos, sketches, or reference images". mirrAR's blog describes "Multi-Search", which combines image search with natural-language text search |
| What comes back | Ranked SKUs with a match score, weight, purity and tag price | Visually similar products from the brand's catalogue, ranked by similarity |
| Where it runs | WhatsApp, the QuickLens web app, and a REST API for ERPs, portals and partner platforms | Web, mobile apps and marketplaces, through a widget or a REST API |
| Search runs in WhatsApp, where most enquiries arrive | Not stated on mirrAR's visual search page or site. mirrAR's CRM handles WhatsApp chats and campaigns | |
| Online storefront | Possible through our REST API. Our site lists no Shopify, Magento or WooCommerce plug-in for QuickLens | "Works with Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, and more", on product pages, collection pages, a homepage widget or "no results" pages |
| ERP | Reads the item master over an API, database views or scheduled files. Search never writes to the ERP. Orders and quotations are written back after a person approves them | Its visual search site lists "ERP connect" ("Direct integration with your existing systems"). Its CRM page says it "integrates with most POS and website platforms to sync leads, appointments, and inventory" |
| Pricing | QuickLens plans start at $675 a year plus taxes, with no charge per search. See QuickLens pricing | Its visual search site lists plans by catalogue size and search volume. Its pricing page lists try-on plans by number of try-ons |
| Virtual try-on | Not offered | Yes: necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets, on websites, in apps, on in-store screens and in social media filters |
| Other products | AI order assistant (voice notes, chats, emails and PDFs, in English or Hindi) and AI sales copilot (quotations on your live rates) | Jewellery CRM, AI voice calling, glasses try-on, and try-on for beauty, watches, eyewear and handbags |
| How to start | Book a free 15-minute AI audit, or upload a photo in the QuickLens app at app.quicklens.org | Book a demo, or use the "Try Visual Search" button on mirrAR's visual search page |
How each one handles a jewellery enquiry
On a jewellery sales desk, the question often arrives as a forwarded photo: "do you have something like this, around 20 grams?" With QuickLens, the salesperson sends in that photo, gets ranked designs from the company's own catalogue with SKU, weight and purity, and replies on WhatsApp. With plain-words search, the same index also answers plain-language requests, so "letter P pendant" finds pendants nobody tagged as "letter P". Search runs on catalogue images as they are, and we tell you where photo quality limits matching. The AI sales copilot can turn the chosen design into a quotation at the day's rate.
On mirrAR's AI Visual Search page, the shopper comes first. The search sits on a brand's website or app: the shopper uploads a photo, screenshot or social media look and sees similar products from that brand's catalogue, including when the original item is sold out. mirrAR says its image search is "trained specifically on jewelry design elements", and its virtual try-on lets shoppers see a piece on themselves before they buy. mirrAR's visual search site also speaks to businesses. It has a "B2B Manufacturers" section ("Match client photos to your inventory") and a "Franchise Staff" section for finding "product variants across your entire catalog", and it takes catalogues "via CSV, API, or bulk upload".
Choose QuickLens if
- Your buyers are retailers and wholesale clients who send design photos on WhatsApp, and your desk replies there.
- The reply needs SKU, weight and purity from your SKU master.
- You also want orders captured from voice notes and PDFs, or quotations at the day's rate, from the same team.
Choose mirrAR if
- You sell to consumers online and want shoppers to search your catalogue with a photo, screenshot or social media look.
- You want virtual try-on for necklaces, earrings, rings or bracelets on your website, app, store screens or social media.
- Your store runs on Shopify, Magento or WooCommerce and you want visual search on product pages, collection pages or "no results" pages.
- You want one visual search for online shoppers and for staff: mirrAR's visual search site has sections for ecommerce, retail stores, franchise staff and B2B manufacturers.
- You sell fashion, beauty, eyewear, watches or handbags as well as jewellery.
- You also want a jewellery retail CRM with WhatsApp reminders and campaigns.
If you sell to shoppers online and to trade buyers on WhatsApp, the two can sit side by side, with mirrAR on the storefront and QuickLens on the sales desk. Ask every vendor, us included, to show the search working on a sample of your own designs before you decide.
QuickLens vs mirrAR: common questions
What is the difference between QuickLens and mirrAR?
QuickLens is AI visual search for the people who sell. A salesperson sends in a buyer's photo through WhatsApp, the web app or the API and gets the closest designs from the company's own catalogue, with SKU, weight and purity, and search never writes to the ERP. mirrAR describes its visual search as built for e-commerce: shoppers search a brand's catalogue with a photo, screenshot or social media look, and its visual search site also has sections for B2B manufacturers and franchise staff. mirrAR also offers virtual try-on and a jewellery CRM.
Which is better for a jewellery manufacturer or wholesaler?
It depends on who is searching and where the enquiry arrives. If your buyers are retailers and wholesale clients who send design photos on WhatsApp, and your team answers from its own stock with SKU, weight and purity, QuickLens fits that work: it searches your own catalogue and runs alongside your ERP without writing to it. mirrAR's visual search site also has a section for B2B manufacturers, and mirrAR adds storefront visual search and virtual try-on if you sell to consumers online. Ask every vendor, us included, to show the search working on a sample of your own designs before you decide.
Does QuickLens offer virtual try-on like mirrAR?
No. QuickLens finds designs in your own catalogue and does not offer virtual try-on. mirrAR's website lists virtual try-on for necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets, on websites, in apps, on in-store screens and in social media filters.
Does QuickLens work with my ERP?
Yes. QuickLens sits alongside the ERP you already run and connects over whatever it exposes: an API, database views or scheduled files. Search reads from your ERP and never writes to it, and the records written back are orders and quotations a person has approved. If you switched QuickLens off tomorrow, your ERP would carry on exactly as it does today.
How much does QuickLens cost?
QuickLens plans start at $675 a year plus taxes, with no charge per search. There are three packages, Core, Teams and Commerce, and the yearly fee depends on the package and the size of your catalogue. A one-time fee of around $560 applies if you need ERP integration or custom requirements, and not otherwise. We give an exact quote after a free 15-minute AI audit.
Can QuickLens run on our own servers?
Yes. QuickLens can run fully on-premise, in your own environment, instead of the hosted setup on AWS in the Mumbai region. Either way, your designs are never used to train QuickLens's AI models.
How can I try QuickLens on my own catalogue?
Book a free 15-minute AI audit and we'll map how photo search can work on your SKUs. To see it running first, upload a photo and search a live catalogue in the QuickLens app at app.quicklens.org.
Where these facts come from
Every statement about mirrAR on this page comes from mirrAR's own website, read on 2 November 2026: its AI Visual Search page, visual search site, jewellery try-on page, jewellery CRM page, pricing page and home page, and two mirrAR blog posts, on image search (6 August 2025) and Multi-Search (8 August 2025). Statements about QuickLens come from this website. If something here is out of date, write to pranshu@quicklens.org and we will correct it.
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