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Image Metadata Viewer

See the camera, the settings, the exact moment — and whether the photo is quietly carrying the coordinates of where you took it. Free, and read in your browser, so the file is never uploaded.

Drop an image here

or choose one from your device. JPG, PNG and WebP — nothing is uploaded.

The file is read in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, including any location it contains.

A photograph is not only a picture. Cameras and phones write a block of information into the file beside it: which camera, which lens, the shutter speed and aperture, the date and time to the second, and — if location services were on — the latitude and longitude of where you were standing. None of that shows when you look at the image, which is precisely why it is worth looking at directly before you send a photo to someone or post it publicly.

The location field is the one that surprises people. It is accurate to a few metres, it is written by default on most phones, and it travels with the original file — so a photo taken at home and emailed to a stranger tells them where home is. Most social platforms strip it on upload, which is why images saved from the web usually come back clean, but a file sent directly by email, message or cloud link is normally untouched.

This reads the file in your browser and sends nothing anywhere — which for this tool in particular is the whole point. Uploading a photo to someone else's server in order to be told it contains your home coordinates would be a strange bargain, and it is what a good number of online EXIF viewers quietly ask you to make.

How to view an image’s metadata

  1. 1. Add your image

    Drag it onto the drop zone or choose it from your device. Add several and switch between them. Nothing is uploaded — the file is read in your browser.

  2. 2. Read what it found

    Fields are grouped into File, Image, Camera, Exposure and Location. If the photo records where it was taken, that appears on its own, highlighted.

  3. 3. Search or dig deeper

    Filter by field name or value, and switch on unrecognised tags to see numeric ids that have no standard name.

  4. 4. Export or strip it

    Copy everything as JSON or download it. If you would rather the data were gone, converting the image removes it.

What a photo can be carrying

Frequently asked questions

What is EXIF data? +

EXIF is a block of information cameras and phones write into a photo file alongside the picture itself. It typically records the camera make and model, the lens, the exposure settings, the date and time to the second, and — if location services were on — the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. None of it is visible in the image, which is why most people have no idea it is there.

How do I check whether my photo contains my location? +

Drop it above. If the file carries GPS coordinates they are shown immediately in a highlighted panel, with a link you can choose to open on a map. If nothing appears there, the photo has no location recorded — either the camera never wrote it, or it has already been stripped.

Is my photo uploaded to check it? +

No, and for this tool in particular that matters. The file is read entirely inside your browser using its raw bytes. Nothing is transmitted. Uploading a photo to a stranger's server in order to be told it contains your home address would be a poor bargain, and plenty of online EXIF viewers do exactly that. Once this page has loaded it works with the network off.

Does viewing the location send it anywhere? +

Not unless you choose to. The coordinates are decoded and shown locally. The map link is an ordinary link — nothing is sent until you click it, and clicking does share those coordinates with the map provider, which is why it is labelled rather than embedded. An embedded map would have transmitted your location the moment the page rendered.

How do I remove metadata from a photo? +

Convert it. Re-encoding an image from its raw pixels does not carry EXIF across, so the output has no camera details, timestamps or coordinates. Any of the converters here will do it as a side effect — there is a link to the image converter once a file with EXIF is loaded. Note that this strips everything, including copyright and author fields you may want to keep.

Why does my photo have no metadata at all? +

Several ordinary reasons. Screenshots normally have none. Most social platforms strip EXIF when you upload, so anything saved from the web usually arrives clean. Images that have been edited and re-exported often lose it. And PNG files rarely carry EXIF in the first place, since it is not the format's usual home for that information.

Which formats can it read? +

JPEG, which is where EXIF is most common and most complete. PNG, where it reads text chunks, pixel density and the newer eXIf block if present. And WebP, which can carry the same EXIF structure a JPEG does. Some formats — notably HEIC from iPhones — cannot be read in a browser at all.

What do the unrecognised tags mean? +

They are real fields whose numeric ids have no widely agreed name, usually manufacturer-specific ones that only the camera maker's own software interprets. They are hidden by default because they are noise for most people, and shown by a checkbox when you want everything.

Can I export what it finds? +

Yes. Copy the whole set to your clipboard as JSON, or download it as a .json file — useful for keeping a record before stripping the original, or for comparing several photos.

Can this change or fake the metadata? +

No. This tool only reads; it never writes back to the file. If you want to remove metadata, convert the image. If you need to edit specific fields rather than remove them, that needs dedicated desktop software such as ExifTool.

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