Image Metadata (EXIF) Viewer

Choose the JPG file and the viewer lists its EXIF data right away: camera make and model, lens, the date taken, software and orientation. A summary comes first, followed by the complete tag table, a GPS table if location tags exist, any IPTC records and the XMP text. Use copy or download to keep the whole report as JSON.

No. The photo is parsed by code running inside your browser tab, so its bytes are not sent anywhere while the metadata is read and displayed. Because nothing is transmitted, private pictures such as ID scans or family photos can be checked without handing them to a third party, and the original file on your disk is left untouched.

Copy the HEIC file to the computer and open it here in any current browser; the viewer reads the Exif and XMP items inside the HEIC container directly. No HEIC codec or Photos extension is needed on Windows because the picture itself is not decoded. If your transfer turned the photo into a JPG, that JPG carries its own EXIF and can be read the same way.

It means the EXIF block points to a directory or value that lies beyond the end of the data actually stored, which usually happens after an interrupted download, a cut-off transfer or a faulty editing app. Rather than show a partial and possibly wrong report, the tool stops with this error. Try the original file from the camera or phone.

It reads JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP and HEIC files up to 20 MB, identified by their internal signature rather than by the extension. AVIF, GIF, BMP and raw camera formats are refused as unsupported. Inside a file, the first EXIF, XMP and IPTC block is decoded and further blocks are counted in a warning. Decoded EXIF and IPTC values share a budget of 4 million characters; values past it are marked omitted with a warning, and the XMP text does not count toward that budget.

Yes, if the camera or phone stored GPS tags, the photo carries latitude and longitude that anyone receiving the original file can read. This viewer shows a location warning before any coordinate, then lists the GPS tags as recorded fractions without looking up a place or a map. It cannot delete them, so remove location with another app before sharing.

The date taken is shown exactly as the camera wrote it, and EXIF dates carry no time zone unless an offset tag such as OffsetTimeOriginal was also recorded. The viewer never guesses one from GPS or your computer clock. Any editor can rewrite these fields, so treat a date as a claim made by the file, not as proof of when a picture was taken.

EXIF is the binary tag set cameras write for settings, dates and GPS; IPTC holds editorial fields like captions, keywords and credit; XMP is an XML packet that editing software uses for both. The viewer shows each in its own panel and never merges them, so you can spot when, for example, the XMP copyright differs from the EXIF copyright.

Values appear as hex when they cannot be decoded safely: maker notes, unknown tags, undefined-type fields, text with non-ASCII bytes in an ASCII field, or a UserComment in JIS or an undeclared encoding. Showing bytes avoids garbled characters. Very long values are cut after 1,024 bytes with a count of the remaining bytes.

Yes. The viewer runs in a normal web browser with no download, plug-in or account, which suits locked-down work computers and quick checks. It covers the standard EXIF, GPS, IPTC and XMP fields; if you need maker notes decoded into named settings, a dedicated desktop tool such as ExifTool remains more complete.