EXIF Viewer

See the data hidden inside your photo

This EXIF viewer reads the metadata stored inside a photo file and shows it in plain groups: camera and lens, exposure settings, the date the shot was taken, and the location if the camera saved one. A full tag table lists everything the file carries, GPS coordinates come with a map link when they exist, and the whole report can be downloaded as a text file. The reading happens on your device, with a browser EXIF library doing the parsing locally.

Most photos from phones and cameras carry more than people expect. Along with the camera model, a single shot can hold the lens, the focal length, the shutter speed, the ISO, the software that last edited the file and the exact coordinates of the place it was taken. Knowing what your files say about you is the first step before sharing them.

How to view a photo’s EXIF data

1. Add one photo to the box above. Original files from a phone or camera carry the most data.
2. Read the summary cards for the headline facts: camera, lens, exposure, date and location.
3. Open the full tag table when you want every stored value, including the odd ones editors leave behind.
4. If GPS coordinates appear, use the map link to see the spot, and think hard before sharing that file as it is.
5. Download the text report if you need the record for a client, a listing or your own files.

What the data is good for

Photographers mine their own files to learn. The settings on your best shot of the year tell you what to repeat, and the settings on the blurred ones tell you what went wrong. Sellers and support teams use the date and device fields to check that a photo is what a customer claims it is. And anyone who posts photos in public can check for GPS data first, which is the one field with real privacy weight.

When the check turns up data you want gone, the remove EXIF data tool strips it from a copy while leaving the picture itself untouched. Checking first and stripping second is the order that keeps you in control.

What this viewer can and cannot tell you

The viewer reports what this copy of the file carries, and copies differ. A screenshot or a photo saved from a messaging app often carries almost nothing, because apps strip metadata when they re-encode images for sending. A file with no GPS field may come from an original that had one, so finding no location here never proves the original photo had none.

EXIF values are also just text a device or an editor wrote into the file. They can be wrong, incomplete or deliberately faked with free tools in under a minute. Treat them as a clue that points somewhere, not as proof that settles an argument. A date in the table is a claim by the file, not a fact about the world. The rest of the image tools category covers editing and converting the photos themselves.

Your photos stay on your device

Checking a photo for location data by uploading it to a stranger’s server would defeat the point. Here the file is parsed in your browser and never transmitted. The report you download is generated locally too.