Drop a photo and read every field stored in it: the camera and lens, the exposure, the exact second it was taken, and the coordinates where you were standing. Reads JPEG, HEIC, PNG, WebP and TIFF. Nothing is uploaded.
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Drop photos to read their EXIF
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What you're looking at
What an EXIF viewer shows you
EXIF — Exchangeable Image File Format — is a block of data your camera or phone writes inside the photo file at the moment you press the shutter. It sits alongside the image, invisible in the picture, and travels with the file wherever it goes.
The readout above groups what it finds:
Camera — make, model, lens, the software that last touched the file, and often the body's serial number.
Exposure — aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focal length, shown the way a photographer reads them rather than as raw decimals.
Time — the date and time of capture, to the second.
Location — decimal coordinates with a map link, plus the raw GPS fields exactly as stored.
Image — dimensions, orientation, colour space, and any description, copyright or author fields.
Fields that identify you or place you somewhere are flagged sensitive, so a long readout doesn't bury the two lines that actually matter.
Every field is named twice: in plain English, and with the raw EXIF tag underneath it. FNumber is the tag your file stores and the name every other tool uses — but "Aperture" is the thing you were looking for. You get both, so the readout is readable without becoming useless the moment you need to cross-reference it against exiftool or a camera manual.
Detail
Three things most EXIF viewers get wrong
Timestamps aren't UTC
An EXIF capture time carries no timezone. It's the camera's own wall clock, exactly as it was set. Viewers that hand that value to a date library and print the result as UTC shift it by whatever offset the reader's computer happens to be in — so the same photo appears to have been taken at different times in different countries, and none of them match the file. This viewer shows the stored value, unmodified.
Exposure isn't a decimal
A shutter speed stored as 0.004 is correct and unreadable. It's 1/250 s, and that's how it's shown here — along with f/2.8 rather than 2.8, and 50 mm rather than 50. The exported JSON and CSV keep the raw stored numbers, because an export is a record rather than a display.
EXIF isn't the only metadata
Editing software writes XMP and IPTC blocks that a strictly-EXIF reader never shows: author and copyright fields, captions, keywords, edit history, and in some workflows contact details. They're parsed and displayed here too. It's also why removing metadata properly means removing more than EXIF — a tool that strips only the EXIF segment can leave your name in the file.
Reading the result
Why a photo might show nothing at all
An empty readout is a result, not a failure. Usually it means something already stripped the file:
It came off a social platform. Most strip EXIF from the copies they serve — so a photo saved from a feed has already been cleaned, even though the platform still received the original.
It's a screenshot. Screenshots and screen recordings never carry camera metadata.
It arrived through a messaging app that strips metadata in transit.
It was exported or re-saved by software set to discard metadata.
Location services were off when it was taken, so there are camera fields but no coordinates.
If no fields are found, the data isn't in the file and no tool can recover it. Anything claiming to "restore" EXIF from a stripped photo is guessing.
Beyond viewing
Once you've seen it
Reading metadata is usually the first half of the question. If the readout showed something you'd rather not hand out with the file, the main tool removes it — losslessly for JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC, so the picture itself is untouched. iPhone photos are covered in detail, since HEIC is where most tools force a quality-costing conversion. If you need to add or correct coordinates rather than remove them, see add GPS to a photo.
Working through a batch? Drop in as many photos as you like — each gets its own readout, and one click exports a combined JSON or CSV report covering all of them.
FAQ
EXIF viewer questions
What is an EXIF viewer?
A tool that reads the hidden metadata block inside a photo — camera, lens, exposure, timestamps, GPS — and shows it in readable form.
Which formats can it read?
JPEG, HEIC and HEIF, PNG, WebP and TIFF, including their XMP and IPTC blocks as well as EXIF.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Files are read inside your browser and never leave your device — the viewer works with no network connection at all.
Can I see where a photo was taken?
Yes, when it carries coordinates: they're shown in decimal with a link to the exact spot on a map.
Can I save the readout?
Yes — copy it as text, or download it as JSON or CSV. Exports carry the raw stored values, which is what you want for documentation or evidence.
Does viewing metadata change the photo?
No. Viewing only reads the file. Nothing is written unless you explicitly download an edited or cleaned copy, and the original on your disk is never modified.