EXIF Viewer

How to use

1. 1Drop a JPG or PNG onto the upload area, or click to choose a file. Up to 25 MB. Files stay in your browser.
2. 2Read the parsed metadata: image-level tags, EXIF subIFD, GPS, and thumbnail IFD. A yellow GPS card flags photos that contain a precise location.
3. 3Switch between Table view and Plain text view. Use Copy JSON or Copy text to grab the metadata for a report, ticket, or audit log.
4. 4If the photo has GPS, click Open in Google Maps or Open in OpenStreetMap to see exactly where it was taken before you share it.
5. 5Click Remove all metadata to re-encode the photo without EXIF, IPTC, or XMP, then download the cleaned copy ready to share.

About this tool

EXIF Viewer reads the metadata baked into JPG and PNG photos and shows it as a clean grouped table with a one-click option to strip every metadata block before you share the file. Drop a photo onto the page and a FileReader pulls the bytes into your browser, where a JPEG segment walker scans for the APP1 marker carrying the standard 'Exif\0\0' identifier or a PNG chunk reader looks for the eXIf chunk that the W3C added to PNG in 2017. The TIFF tree inside is parsed by hand: byte-order detection (Intel little-endian or Motorola big-endian), 0th IFD with image-level tags (Make, Model, Orientation, DateTime, Software, Resolution), the EXIF subIFD reached through tag 0x8769 (DateTimeOriginal, DateTimeDigitized, ExposureTime, FNumber, ISO, FocalLength, FocalLengthIn35mmFilm, LensModel, LensSpecification, ExposureMode, WhiteBalance, Flash, ColorSpace), the GPS IFD reached through tag 0x8825 (latitude, longitude, altitude, GPSDateStamp, GPSTimeStamp), and the 1st IFD that holds the embedded thumbnail. Every common type is handled (BYTE, ASCII, SHORT, LONG, RATIONAL, UNDEFINED, SLONG, SRATIONAL), and rationals are pretty-printed (1/250 s exposure, f/2.8, 50 mm, ISO 400, +0.33 EV) so the table reads like a camera's info screen rather than raw numbers. GPS coordinates are decoded from the deg/min/sec triple back into decimal degrees and shown in both human form and 6-decimal form, with one-click Open in Google Maps and Open in OpenStreetMap links so you can see exactly where a photo was taken before you publish it. The Remove all metadata button decodes the photo to an HTMLImageElement, draws it on a canvas at full native resolution, and re-encodes it through canvas.toBlob (PNG stays lossless; JPEG is encoded at quality 0.95). The browser canvas pipeline does not preserve EXIF, IPTC, or XMP metadata, so the resulting download is a clean copy that no longer leaks the camera you used, the lens, the timestamp, your editing software, or your GPS location. Useful for journalists protecting sources, second-hand sellers cleaning product photos, parents posting kid photos, real-estate agents listing homes, dating-app users, anyone forwarding a screenshot, and OSINT teams who need to see what a photo reveals before publishing. Reading and stripping both run entirely on your device, so the photos you check here never leave your browser.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.