Free EXIF Viewer — Photo Metadata Reader
Upload any JPEG photo to view its embedded EXIF metadata. See camera make and model, lens information, exposure settings, GPS coordinates, date/time stamps, and file properties — all processed locally in your browser.
What EXIF Data Can You See?
Camera & Lens — Make, model, lens model, serial number, and software used. Exposure Settings — Aperture (f-stop), shutter speed, ISO, focal length, metering mode, flash status, white balance, and exposure compensation. GPS Location — Latitude, longitude, and altitude with a direct link to Google Maps. Date & Time — When the photo was taken, digitized, and last modified. File Info — Dimensions, file size, color space, resolution, and orientation.
How to Use
- Upload a photo — Drag and drop or click to browse. JPEG files contain the richest EXIF data.
- Browse metadata sections — Camera info, exposure settings, GPS location, dates, and file properties are organized in collapsible sections.
- Copy or explore — Click "Copy Metadata" to get all data as text. If GPS is available, click the map link to see where the photo was taken.
To read the equivalent metadata from a Word document instead of an image, the DOCX Metadata Inspector extracts title, author, revision count, and edit minutes from a .docx without uploading.
Privacy Note
- → EXIF data can reveal your location. If you share photos with GPS metadata, anyone can see exactly where you were. Most social media platforms strip EXIF before publishing, but direct file sharing does not.
- → This tool reads metadata locally. Your photos are processed entirely in your browser. No data is ever sent to any server.
Common Use Cases
Auditing what a JPEG carries before posting it publicly — GPS coordinates, camera serial numbers, and timestamps are commonly embedded and easy to overlook. Forensic curiosity about a photo's provenance: which device shot it, with which lens, at which exposure settings, and (sometimes) where. Confirming that a photo you stripped metadata from is actually clean before sharing it.
Building a workflow check for journalists, real estate agents, or activists where location data must not leak alongside the published image. Verifying that a supplier-provided product photo carries the expected color profile and was shot on the agreed-upon camera body. Diagnosing why a printer-bureau's automatic rendering looks wrong by inspecting the embedded ICC profile and white balance tags.
How We Compare
ExifTool by Phil Harvey is the gold-standard command-line utility for reading and writing every metadata standard a JPEG, TIFF, PSD, or RAW file can carry. It's the right tool for power users and reproducible scripts. For a quick "what does this photo know about itself" check on one or two images, installing ExifTool is overkill, and Windows / macOS built-in "Get Info" panes show only a subset.
This viewer parses the EXIF, IPTC, and XMP blocks in your browser and presents the common fields in plain language, with the GPS coordinates rendered as a map pin if present. Files never leave your device, which matters because metadata is exactly the kind of content you don't want to round-trip through a server. For stripping the metadata you found and didn't want, see export options in our image watermark tool, which optionally re-encodes images with clean metadata.
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