View Image Metadata

See the camera, the exposure, the date and the GPS location stored inside a photo. It is read in this tab, never uploaded.

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.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp, .heic, .heif, .tif, .tiff, .avif · up to 100 MB

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How to Read Metadata

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Drop your photo
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF and AVIF are all read here, up to twenty files at a time. The file is opened by this browser tab and goes nowhere else.
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Read camera, date and GPS data
Sections appear for the camera and lens, the exposure settings, the dates, the location, and any caption or keywords a photo editor left behind.
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Download the metadata as JSON
Every value that was found is saved to a plain JSON file next to your photo. Several photos come back together in one ZIP archive.

What a photo carries besides the picture

A camera writes far more into a file than the image itself. EXIF holds the make and model of the body, the lens, the shutter speed, the aperture, the ISO, the exact second the shutter opened, and on a phone the latitude and longitude of where you stood. IPTC is the newsroom format layered on top: caption, keywords, the photographer's name, a copyright line, a city and a country. XMP is Adobe's version, which usually carries a star rating, a colour label and the name of the program that last touched the file. This tool reads all three, plus the embedded colour profile, and shows them section by section rather than as one undifferentiated wall of tags.

The map link is a link, not a map

When a photo has coordinates, you get two links: one to Google Maps and one to OpenStreetMap. Neither is an embedded map, and that is deliberate. An embedded map has to fetch tiles from a mapping service, and fetching a tile means telling that service which square of the world you are looking at. In other words, it quietly sends your photo's location to a third party the moment the page loads. A link does nothing until you click it, and clicking is a decision you make rather than one made for you. The hide-coordinates toggle goes one step further, keeping the numbers behind a button so you can screenshot or screen-record this page without leaking your own address.

Why some photos have nothing at all

Screenshots have no EXIF, because no camera was involved. Photos saved from most social networks have none either: the platform strips metadata on upload, which is good for the people who posted them and unhelpful when you are trying to establish where a picture came from. Images exported for the web are often stripped by the export tool to save a few kilobytes. An empty result is therefore normal and not a sign that anything failed. The file dimensions and format still tell you something, and they are shown regardless.

Reading is not the same as changing

Nothing here re-encodes your photo. The file is parsed as a structure (markers in a JPEG, chunks in a PNG, boxes in a HEIC) and not a single pixel is decoded, which is why even a hundred-megabyte file is read in a fraction of a second. If what you actually want is to get rid of what you just found, that is the neighbouring tool: Remove Image Metadata cuts the same segments out and proves afterwards that they are gone.

Your photo never leaves this tab

Parsing happens in your browser, in a worker, on the bytes your file already contains. There is no upload, no queue and no server copy. The only network request this page could ever make about your photo is a map link, and only if you click it yourself.

Frequently asked questions

How do I see EXIF data without installing anything?

Drop the photo onto this page. The camera, lens, exposure, date and GPS sections appear straight away, and the whole set can be saved as a JSON file. No account, no install and no upload; the parsing runs inside your browser.

Why does the map not open automatically?

Because loading a map means asking a mapping service for tiles, and that request would tell them where your photo was taken before you had decided to share it. Instead you get Google Maps and OpenStreetMap links that stay inert until you click one.

What is the difference between IPTC and EXIF?

EXIF is written by the camera and describes the shot: body, lens, exposure, time, location. IPTC is written by people afterwards and describes the content and its rights: caption, keywords, photographer, copyright, city. A file can have either, both or neither.

Why does my screenshot have no metadata?

No camera took it, so there is no EXIF to write. The same applies to images downloaded from most social platforms, which strip metadata during upload, and to pictures exported for the web by an editor that removes tags to save space.

Is it safe to open a personal photo here?

Yes. The file is read by JavaScript running in your own tab, and its bytes are never sent anywhere. Closing the tab leaves nothing behind, on this site or anywhere else.

Are HEIC and RAW files supported?

HEIC and HEIF from iPhones are supported, as are TIFF and AVIF. Proprietary RAW formats such as CR2, NEF and ARW are not read here yet. They are TIFF-based, but each manufacturer stores the interesting tags in its own private block.

How do I remove the location from a photo?

Use Remove Image Metadata, the companion tool. It cuts EXIF, GPS, IPTC and XMP out of the file without touching a single pixel, then re-reads the result to confirm that nothing was left behind.

Does the raw tag list decode everything?

Almost. Text and numeric tags are shown as they are stored, but binary blobs, meaning the embedded thumbnail and the manufacturer's MakerNote, are reported as a size in bytes rather than decoded, because their layout is undocumented and different for every vendor.