Image Metadata
Viewer
Drop a JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, or HEIC.
The tool reads every EXIF tag it knows and groups them by camera, capture settings, image properties, and GPS, with a map link if there are coordinates.
The image is read in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop Image
Drop an image here, or click to choose
JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF (incl. CR2/NEF/ARW raw), and HEIC (iPhone) supported.
Stays on your device · never uploaded
Metadata
Want to remove all of this?
This viewer is read-only. If you want a clean copy of the image with the metadata stripped, use the EXIF Scrubber. Same browser-only handling, one-click download.
About image metadata
EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is the standard digital cameras and phones use to embed information about a photo into the photo itself. When you press the shutter, the device writes the camera make and model, lens, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, the exact timestamp, and — if location services are on — the GPS coordinates of where you stood. That data travels with the file until something explicitly removes it.
This viewer reads it directly out of the file in your browser and groups what it finds. There are five image formats it understands: JPEG (the default for most cameras and phones up to 2017), PNG (common for screenshots and graphics), WebP (Google's web-first format), TIFF (used by scanners and as the container for most camera RAW files like CR2, NEF, ARW), and HEIC / HEIF (the format iPhones have used since iOS 11).
All five share the same EXIF tag schema internally; the difference is the wrapper around it. The viewer detects the format by the file's magic bytes (not the extension) and walks straight to the EXIF block.
Common questions
Does PNG actually have EXIF?
Yes, since the PNG spec added the eXIf chunk type in 2017. Before that, PNG carried metadata through tEXt, iTXt, and zTXt chunks instead — the viewer surfaces all of these.
Why are my iPhone photos HEIC?
Apple switched the default from JPEG to HEIC in iOS 11 because it stores comparable image quality in roughly half the size. The EXIF is still there — it lives inside an ISO Base Media File Format container that the viewer walks to extract it.
Why doesn't my HEIC photo preview in the viewer?
Safari decodes HEIC; Chrome and Firefox don't. The metadata parses fine in any browser, so the table on the right fills in. The image preview box just shows a placeholder when the browser can't render the pixels.
Where do the GPS coordinates come from?
The phone or camera reads its current location at capture time and writes it as separate latitude, longitude, and altitude tags inside the EXIF GPS sub-IFD. iPhones and most Android phones do this by default unless you disable it in camera settings. The viewer converts the raw degrees-minutes-seconds values into decimal coordinates and renders an OpenStreetMap link.
Are RAW files supported?
Most RAW formats are TIFF underneath — Canon CR2, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Olympus ORF, Pentax PEF, Fuji RAF. The viewer reads them the same way it reads regular TIFF. Vendor-specific MakerNote sub-IFDs (the proprietary tags each manufacturer adds) aren't decoded, but they're listed under "Other tags" with their hex IDs.