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EXIF viewer

Read the EXIF, XMP and IPTC metadata of a photo in your browser. Camera names, capture times, captions and GPS coordinates stay on this device. The file is not uploaded.

17 October 2026 · Check AI Free

What an online EXIF viewer is actually reading

A photo file is a container plus compressed pixels. EXIF is a small TIFF directory, usually in a JPEG APP1 segment that begins with the bytes Exif. That directory can name the camera make and model, the software that last saved the file, the orientation, the exposure, and a nested GPS directory. XMP is a different APP1 segment: an XML packet whose header is the Adobe XMP namespace. IPTC, when a desk or an export still uses it, sits in a Photoshop APP13 resource rather than in EXIF. PNG can carry the same TIFF block in an eXIf chunk, and WebP can carry it in an EXIF chunk. This viewer walks those containers. It does not guess a camera from the way the picture looks.

Read the field name before the story you want it to tell. “Camera make: Canon” means the directory contains that string. It does not mean a Canon body was pointed at the scene, and it does not mean the pixels are free of later editing. “Date taken” is DateTimeOriginal when the Exif sub-directory has it. Editors can rewrite it. GPS is a set of rationals plus a north/south and east/west reference. The position line formats those numbers, including a decimal form. It is not a map lookup, and it is not proof the photographer was standing there.

How to use the result

Start with the original file if you can still get it. A download from a camera roll, a card reader, or the app that created the picture is a different object from a screenshot, a messaging-app forward, or a “save image as” from a web page. Open that original here. If the table lists a make, a model and a capture time, write those down as properties of this file. If the table is empty, write that down too. Empty is a result. It is the usual result after a screenshot, and our metadata survival report found the same pattern in a small local test: camera fields present in the originals were absent from both a metadata-free JPEG export and a browser screenshot.

Keep three questions apart. “What does this file claim?” is the table. “Did a platform strip the claim?” belongs in the guide to metadata after sharing, which does not add platform measurements of its own. “Do the pixels look generated?” is the image checker, which may send a smaller copy to a detection provider when the clues do not decide. This viewer does not. A signed history, when the file still has one, is the C2PA checker. An XMP packet is not a verified Content Credential. This page reports that a packet is present. It does not check a signature.

PNG files from Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI often store a prompt in a text chunk rather than in EXIF. Those keywords are listed here with their length, not pasted in full, because a workflow can be large and can contain private paths. Open the PNG info reader or the ComfyUI workflow reader when the keyword is parameters, prompt or workflow. Caption, author, copyright and similar short PNG text fields are shown on this page.

Maker notes are reported as present and are not expanded. The reader stops at 20 MB and skips a directory that is truncated or unusually large rather than inventing the missing half. Unknown tags are omitted. A damaged container is reported as damaged, which is not the same result as a file with no metadata.