Image Metadata Viewer
Read the EXIF, GPS, comments and colour data hidden inside a photo, without uploading it.
File
Drop a file here, or choose one. JPEG, PNG, GIF and WebP. The file is read in this page and is never uploaded — which matters here, because the question the tool answers is what a file carries besides the picture.
What is in the file
Photos from a phone usually carry EXIF: the camera, the exposure, the software that touched it, and often the GPS position. Photos that came from a screenshot, a chat app or an export for the web usually carry none of it — a missing block is not a hidden block.
Raw JSON
Save what you type here, on this device? Your work would go into this browser's local storage, so a refresh or a trip to another tool does not wipe it. It is never uploaded, and there is no account.
Being straight about the trade-off: anything kept there can be read by anyone who can use this browser profile, and by any script that later runs on this site. A tool page can hold a private key, a password or a signed token. Saving is convenient; it is not private.
Saved on this device.
Not saved — this page forgets your work when you leave it.
About this tool
Drop in a JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP and read the metadata the file actually carries: camera make and model, exposure settings, orientation, dimensions, colour profile, PNG text chunks and, where present, GPS coordinates with a link that opens the location on OpenStreetMap. The parsing happens in the page, so the picture is never uploaded. A raw JSON panel shows every tag that was read, which is what you want when a field looks wrong.
Questions
- Why does my image show no EXIF at all?
- Because most images no longer have any. Messaging apps, social networks and screenshot tools strip metadata on purpose, and any image that has been through an editor and re-exported usually loses it too. "Read, but there is no EXIF in this file" is a normal result, not an error — it does not mean the file carries nothing.
- Is the GPS location exact?
- It is exactly what the file says, to as many decimal places as the file stores. Many cameras write a rounded position, and some write a position that was never fixed at all, so a coordinate in a file is a claim by the camera rather than a measurement you can rely on. The page shows the degrees, minutes and seconds it read alongside the decimal pair so you can check the conversion yourself.
- Can it remove metadata?
- No. It only reads. Stripping metadata means re-encoding the image, which is a different tool and a lossy one — and it is worth knowing that the reliable way to remove EXIF is to re-export the picture from an editor, or to use a dedicated metadata stripper, rather than to trust a viewer.
- Which formats are supported, and why those four?
- JPEG, PNG, GIF and WebP — the four whose metadata can be read from the file structure alone without a decoder. TIFF shares EXIF's structure with JPEG and is read where it appears inside one of these, but a standalone .tif is not accepted, because supporting it properly means supporting every TIFF variant including the ones that are not images at all.